Halo

Oh No, Someone Put Nic Cage’s Face All Over Halo

Fun fact: Nic Cage’s face can improve everything—including, yes, Halo. Just don’t expect things to feel as dramatic when you see Nic-Cage-Cortana talking to Nic-Cage-Master-Chief. This mod, which replaces all textures with Nic Cage’s face, is pretty hilarious—as you can see in this video by Gunner: The thing that happens around the three minute mark?…

Lego Life-Sized Hemlock Rifle From Titanfall

Life-sized Hemlock rifle with removable ammo counter by Nick Brick, who has also made a Lego Cortana and Destiny Sparrows: You can see more of his creations at Flickr Via TBB You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

Microsoft Announces The ‘Halo Channel’

Microsoft just announced that it’s making a special channel for all things Halo related for the Xbox One. It’s known simply as “The Halo Channel,” and looks like it will have lots of stuff to make fans of the shooter happy. Microsoft described it as an “interactive digital network that provides unprecedented, personalized access to…

It Took Seven Years To Find 400 Stunts In Halo

The Ultimate Stunting Tutorial is a tremendous effort by dozens of people who came together in the name of doing awesome stuff in the original Halo. Flips. Explosions. Balancing acts. Vehicle launches. Defying physics. UST has it all. Best of all, as the name implies, the video series—which takes place entirely in Blood Gulch—teaches you…

One Dude Sings Halo Theme In A Church, Sounds Like The Real Deal

I can’t remember the last time there was a greater disconnect between what I was looking at and what I was hearing. This is…just some dude! Looks like he’s on holiday! Only, he can sing. And he’s singing in a church in Switzerland where the acoustics are just right. I’m pretty much head-to-toe with goosebumps…

Much Debate At Kotaku Today…

…about whether videos like these are 1) played out or 2) sometimes hoaxes/pranks. Some staffers were impressed. Others, not so much.

Halo As A Little Golden Book

Halo as a Little Golden Book from Joey Spiotto’s solo show opening tomorrow night at Gallery 1988. See many more inappropriate Little Golden Book covers below: Via /Film You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

One Man’s Acapella Tour Through Video Game History

One man. 21 video game theme songs. A whole lot of really, really silly costumes. Yeah, so this is pretty intense. Man of a thousand vocal pitches “MrDooves” has traveled through video game history on a harmonious time magic carpet of song. From Pac-Man to Tetris to Doom to Final Fantasy VII to Metal Gear…

Someone Beat Halo In Under 97 Minutes for New World Record

And the guy playing only died seven times. Masterful! Speedrunner Andrew Halabourda set a world record for a few months ago when he beat the PC version of the first Halo game on Legendary difficulty in 1:38:57. Last night, he managed to shave off even more time with a run that clocked in at 1:36:40.…

Remastered Cutscenes Get Me Excited For Halo 2 All Over Again

Halo 2 has never been as appealing to me as it is right now, thanks to the newly-released Halo 2: Anniversary cinematic trailer. So many feelings in such a small place. To be honest, my original excitement for Halo 2 was more me getting caught up in the tidal wave of hype than any personal…

Our First Look At The Halo Live-Action Series

Microsoft just showed off this teaser for the Ridley Scott-produced Halo live-action series, which will start airing this November on Xbox platforms. There’s no word on whether Halo: Nightfall will be televised, too, but we did just learn that series protagonist Agent Locke will be a playable character in Halo 5: Guardians, which will be…

A Shooter Where You Have To Cheat To Win

“Hey, stop looking at my screen!” is a pretty common refrain when people are playing competitive multiplayer games in the same room. In Screencheat, it’s the only way to win. The competitive multiplayer shooter may, at first glance, look like any other (albeit 17 million times more colorful), but there’s a twist: everybody is invisible.…

A Better Look At Halo: Nightfall’s Hero​

Mike Colter is Agent Jameson Locke in Ridley Scott’s upcoming series Halo: Nightfall: Via Halo Waypoint and Variety You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

Here’s Halo‘s newest character. Played by actor Mike Colter, Agent Locke will be showing up in the live-action Halo: Nightfall series being produced by Ridley Scott. The character will then appear in next year’s Halo 5: Guardians. Variety has more details.

Eleven Years Later, Modders Are Still Making The Original Halo Better

Halo: Combat Evolved released in fall 2003 for PC. Bungie has moved on—but the community keeps the game alive through mods. Take SPV3, for example. SPV3 is an ongoing mod that not only enhances the graphics of the original Halo, it also adds new weapons, new enemies, new vehicles, revised and extended levels/environments, and even…

Halo 3 Easter Egg Found After Seven Years

And you thought it was neat that there’d been a long-hidden Easter Egg in Halo: Reach. Whatever. One that’s been hiding inside Halo 3 – for seven long years – has finally been found. And it’s pretty sweet. Not sweet in a “whoah, that’s sweet!” kind of way. In a “awww, that’s sweet” kind of…

​Watch Halo: The Master Chief Collection In Action

This past E3, Microsoft announced that four games from their blockbuster Halo franchise would be getting collected as The Master Chief Collection. Here’s the first taste of how the anthology will look when it comes out this fall. Members of Microsoft’s 343 Industries team and dev studio Certain Affinity showed the Master Chief Collection at…

Halo Collection “Terminal” Trailer Brings More Arbiter Love

Debuting during a panel at this weekend’s Rooster Teeth Expo in Austin, Texas, the “Terminal” trailer for the Halo: Master Chief Collection gives Keith David’s Arbiter even more words to say, so it wins. The enemy gone good (or did he?) will play a big role in Halo 5: Guardians, to the point where Keith…

Heads Up, Bikers: A Master Chief Motorcycle Helmet Is On Its Way

Before he let himself go, Marlon Brando was pretty much the pinnacle of American masculinity. Too bad that Halo didn’t come out until a few months after the actor already finished his final role in the 2001 thriller The Score, then. Because you know what he could’ve used 48 years earlier on the set for…

The Next Seven Shooters I’m Excited About

Just another bland, brown shooter, right? I’ve always been a fan of shooters—and it’s not like they’re unsung heroes by any means—but there’s this misconception out there that they’re all the same carbon copies of one another. The misconception reasons that all shooters are boring military shooters with the same characters and roughly the same…