Halo

‘Flinch’ Is Going Away For Halo 5, Developers Say

“Flinch,” or the penalty of your aiming reticle getting moved up when shot, has long been a controversial feature in the Halo games. But that flinch animation that players have been noticing in Halo 5‘s beta will soon be removed, according to 343’s Josh Holmes. The flinch feature appeared most notoriously in Halo 4, which…

Halo 5‘s Aiming Has Changed, And Not Everyone Likes It

If you’re a longtime Halo fan, you know that a good amount of the weapons in your arsenal would only fire from the hip. That is, compared to most popular first-person shooters, they had no scope system. But in Halo 5, developers 343 are implementing something they call smart-link—which is essentially an aiming-down-the-sights scoping feature—and…

It Only Took $7,000 To Build This LEGO Halo Spaceship

The iconic “Pillar of Autumn” from Halo, now in LEGO form. And it’s damn huge—not exactly minifigure-scale, needing more than one person to move it. According to its builder, Lee Jones, it took 3.5 years to complete it and it weighs a massive 220 pounds (100 kg). It’s around 7 feet (2.15 meters) in length…

Microsoft Sorry For Broken Halo Games, Giving Away Free Stuff

In an effort to make good on the troubled launch of the Xbox One’s Halo: The Master Chief Collection, Microsoft announced today that they’re giving anyone who played the game some free stuff, including a copy of an upcoming remastered version of Halo 3: ODST. In a letter posted to the Xbox website, 343 Industries…

How To ‘Ground Pound’ And Other New Moves In Halo 5‘s Multiplayer Beta

Now that the Halo 5 multiplayer is officially in session, you might want to pull off one of those new movement abilities you may have heard of. You can see them all in action in HaloFollower’s video above—with details explaining things like how your shield won’t recharge if you’re sprinting. But what about their basic…

Listen to some Halo 5 music, if you’d like. We captured it from the upcoming game’s multiplayer beta, which just started for some Xbox One gamers and will launch wider later this month.

​Halo Is Getting Remade On PC, And It (Still) Looks Pretty

Yeah, there’s a HD remake of Halo on the Xbox, but let’s not forget, Bungie’s classic shooter was also released on the PC. So fans have stepped in to do what Microsoft won’t, and update the game with more contemporary visuals. We first wrote about this mod/overhaul over a yearago (which is transferring the game…

Halo 3 Animation Mod Is The Stupidest/Best Thing To Happen To Chief

Master Chief riding in a Warthog? Usually pretty awesome. A Scarab-skinned Chief riding in a Warthog? Possibly the most ridiculous thing I’ve seen today. YouTuber and Halo gamer Lord Zedd, known for modding and tinkering around with the Halo games, has done a number on Master Chief in Halo 3 in the video above. It…

The Halo Collection Is Getting Better, But Still Not Fixed After A Month

There are tons of updates in development studio 343’s latest patch for the buggy multiplayer modes in the Xbox One’s month-old Halo: The Master Chief Collection. Just how effective those are, however, is a bit hit or miss, according to my and some other players’ experiences. Here’s the full list of fixes, according to 343:…

Hitchhiking Can Be A Headache In GTA V

In today’s Highlight Reel we have some unusual deaths, a few new takes on hitchhiking, and as much perpetual falling as you can handle. Watch the video above, then link any of your favorite highlights in the comments, and be sure to check out, like and subscribe the original videos via the links below. Can’t…

Two Weeks Later, Halo Multiplayer Is Still A Mess

Welcome to 2014, where it is apparently unreasonable to buy a video game and expect it to work properly. One of this month’s biggest culprits has been Halo: The Master Chief Collection, a compilation of Halo remakes that’s been infested with bugs since it came out two weeks ago, with the most prominent problems surrounding…

That’s One Way To Kill Someone With A GTA Tank

In today’s Highlight Reel we have some more GTA V moments, some of Far Cry 4‘s deadliest animals, a singing marine and more! Watch the video above, then link any of your favorite highlights in the comments, and be sure to check out, like and subscribe the original videos via the links below. Far Cry…

The Folks Behind Halo Say They’re Fixing Matchmaking Today

As has become something of a tradition in the world of video games, Halo: The Master Chief Collection launched with some serious problems—after it came out last week, players struggled with matchmaking and online play in the collection of Halo ports ad remakes. Today, hopefully, things will get at least a little better. After some…

Someone Remade A Bunch Of Classic Custom Halo 3 Maps In The New Halo

The ability to create and tinker with custom maps in the Halo series was first introduced in Halo 3‘s Forge mode. Players went wild with it, creating all sorts of maps and introducing new gameplay rules to go along with it. Take, for instance, Duck Hunt, where the objective isn’t exactly a team versus team…

Nothing Can Improve The Halo Theme Song… Except Cowboys

It’s one of the most iconic theme songs in video games. It’s been performed by everything from high school bands to world-renowned orchestras. And yet, I feel like something has always been… missing. That thing? Cowboys. Definitely cowboys. Warp Zone‘s cowboy shtick is fun, but this is also a damn good acoustic rendition of Halo‘s…

Master Chief’s Suit Is Made Of…Paper?

Photographer Sid Caesar took these photos of his buddy Phillip Friel wearing his Master Chief suit, and thought we’d like them because the suit is made out of paper Is it still papercraft if it’s life-size and wearable? Maybe it’s cospaper. Yeah, that’ll work.

Here’s How Humanity Could Build Halo‘s Ringworlds

Here’s a scary thought: a creepy, parasitic alien race like the Flood could be out there, waiting for us to stumble upon them. How would we theoretically build one of the gigantic, Flood-killing Halo arrays from the Xbox series of the same name? With super-science, of course. A new video over at Nerdist breaks down…

New Halo Toy Is Crazy Realistic

3A, masters of detailed (and precariously fragile) action figures, are putting out a Master Chief. He looks amazing All that amazement comes at a price, though: he’ll be $240 when he goes on sale on November 20

There’s Actually A Point To Halo‘s Dumbest Achievement

Halo: The Master Chief Collection has a so-called “mystery” achievement, whose description is simply “inscrutable, mysterious.” The way to unlock it might seem totally arbitrary (and kinda lame), but it actually ties into a story from Halo‘s distant past. As seen in videos like this one from OneTickShaka, unlocking the achievement is as simple as…

The Master Chief Collection‘s Multiplayer May Be Getting Better Soon

Been frustrated with the multiplayer matchmaking in Halo: The Master Chief Collection? Microsoft knows it’s a problem and is working to fix it. A big part of the appeal of the Master Chief Collection was getting to experience re-mastered versions of Lockout, Blood Gulch and other classic maps from older Halo games. But finding and…