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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.…
By Nathan Grayson Published July 23, 2014 -
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.
By John Struan Published July 22, 2014 -
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…
By Patricia Hernandez Published July 21, 2014 -
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…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 10, 2014 -
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…
By Evan Narcisse Published July 9, 2014 -
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…
By Mike Fahey Published July 5, 2014 -
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…
By Yannick LeJacq Published June 25, 2014 -
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…
By Tina Amini Published June 20, 2014 -
A Halo Motorcycle Helmet And More Brand New Video Game Goods
Today was a good day if you like video game merchandise. Newly-revealed products include a Diablo action figure, Destiny and Dragon Age tees, and a Halo motorcycle helmet: Union Aerospace tee (Doom). Dragon Age Inquisition heraldry tees and mug Shadow of Diablo action figure by NECA Destiny tees Master Chief motorcycle helmet also by NECA…
By John Struan Published June 19, 2014 -
New Dishonored Art Book And Mass Effect Models By Dark Horse
Dark Horse’s just-revealed goods include new Halo and Tom Raider comics, a Dishonored art book, and laser-cut Mass Effect models: Dishonored: The Dunwall Archives HC Arkane Studios On sale Nov 12 FC, 184 pages $39.99 HC, 7″ x 9″ The artwork, manuscripts, and scraps of information gathered throughout Dunwall are collected at last. It has…
By John Struan Published June 16, 2014 -
Everything We Know About the Halo Master Chief Collection
News of the Halo: Master Chief Collection already leaked a few weeks ago, but Microsoft and developer 343 Industries officially announced its existence today. It’ll be out on November 11 this year, in tandem with Halo 2‘s 10-year anniversary, and it’ll come with access to the beta for Halo 5: Guardians One Disc In a…
By Tina Amini Published June 9, 2014 -
Halo Theme Composer Sues Bungie Boss
Composer Marty O’Donnell, the man responsible for Halo‘s iconic theme song, is suing the head of his former company Bungie for not paying benefits he claims he is owed. In the lawsuit, O’Donnell alleges that when he was terminated, he had accrued vacation time, sabbatical time, and paid time off, which Bungie has not paid…
By Jason Schreier Published June 6, 2014 -
Being a Next-Gen Video Game Hero Means Having Glowing Blue Eyes
Batman’s armored look and glowing blue eyes in Arkham Knight seems fresh…until you realize that seemingly every next-gen sci-fi hero is sporting the same look: Arkham Knight, Shadow of Mordor, Mortal Kombat, and Halo V are all pushing heroes with glowing blue eyes Via Mike McWhertor and Adam Saltsman. You are now looking at Screenburn,…
By John Struan Published June 3, 2014 -
The Minecraft Halo Mash-Up Pack Visits Familiar Places
The upcoming Halo Mash-Up pack for Minecraft isn’t just about 40 character skins, a texture pack and music from Microsoft’s popular first-person shooter series. It’s also got an entire pre-made world, packed with iconic Halo haunts. Recognize this place? Why, it’s Blood Gulch, perhaps the best-known Halo multiplayer map of them all, thanks to it…
By Mike Fahey Published May 24, 2014 -
Master Chief Looks So Much Cuter In Minecraft
Further confirming the adage that if something exists, it will eventually be in Minecraft, here’s a newly-announced Halo skin pack. It’ll include a bunch of character skins and music tracks from Microsoft’s sci-fi shooter series. More details to come
By Jason Schreier Published May 19, 2014 -
Report: Halos 1-4 Coming To Xbox One This Year In HD
We may not be getting Halo 5 until 2015, but the games’ developers were careful to say that the Halo “journey” will continue this year some way or another. According to a new report at Engadget, that’s because this fall, the Xbox One will get remastered versions of the first four main Halo games. Citing…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 16, 2014
