Halo

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

Halo 5: Guardians Announced For 2015

Today Microsoft and 343 announced the next installment in the Halo universe. It’s called Halo 5: Guardians, it’s all about Master Chief’s journey in moving on from the events of Halo 4, and it’ll be out in the fall of 2015 on Xbox One. “Halo 5: Guardians is a bigger effort than Halo 4,” 343…

By Tina Amini Published May 16, 2014

Microsoft Pokes Halo Fans With Xbox One “Trailer”

Today, Microsoft released a trailer that, at first glance, may seem like it’s simply a video that showcases the slick design of the Xbox One hardware and interface. And really, that’s mostly what it is. But if you pay attention at the :51 second mark, you catch a quick nod to Halo 5: It’s just text.…

By Patricia Hernandez Published May 8, 2014

Culture

Watch The New World Record For Beating Halo on Legendary

As of a few days ago, the fastest anyone has beat the original Halo: Combat Evolved is in one hour and thirty eight minutes—it’s a new world record held by Andrew “goatrope” Halabourda, and you can watch him nail it here. To be exact, the run takes 1:38:57. The previous world record for this run…

By Patricia Hernandez Published May 5, 2014

3D-Printed Minecraft Castle

MrHox shared this 3D-printed Minecraft castle. Read on to see more photos, as well as photos of a 3D-printed ODST soldier and The One Ring. You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

By John Struan Published April 30, 2014

The Evolution Of Halo’s Cortana

The evolution of Cortana. Click through for her most recent form and her appearance in Halo: Reach. Via R/Gaming UPDATE: Here’s an updated image: You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

By John Struan Published April 30, 2014

These Are the TV Shows That Microsoft Is Creating for Xbox

Oscar-winning documentary filmmakers. Legendary soccer players. The guys who make Robot Chicken. These are the people that Microsoft’s throwing money at to help them make TV shows. Despite the fact that their plans to create all-new filmed entertainment have long been rumored and confirmed, it’s kind of weird to think that the same company that…

By Evan Narcisse Published April 28, 2014

New Tomb Raider, Mass Effect, And Halo Comics

Lara Croft headlines today’s selection of brand new Dark Horse solicitations for July 2014. (One of the covers below might qualify as NSFW.) Tom Raider #6 cover by Dan Scott. Halo: Escalation #8 cover by Anthony Palumbo. Mass Effect: Foundation #13 cover by Benjamin Carre. Terminator: Enemy of My Enemy #6 cover by Wes Dzioba.…

By John Struan Published April 17, 2014

Halo Theme’s Composer Fired, Says Move Was “Without Cause”

Marty O’Donnell, Bungie’s in-house composer and the man responsible for Halo’s iconic theme song, says he has been “terminated…without cause” by the studio. We’re contacting Bungie for comment, and will update if we hear back. O’Donnell was one of the last employees still working at Bungie from its days prior to Microsoft’s purchase of the…

By Luke Plunkett Published April 16, 2014

Microsoft’s Big Plans for Xbox TV

Remember the Xbox One reveal? There was a lot of talk about TV, wasn’t there? Now Microsoft’s new console is out and all that TV-centric chatter has died down. But there’s a lot of work happening to produce and deliver original shows directly to Xbox users. Microsoft clearly wants Xbox Live to become the next…

By Evan Narcisse Published April 7, 2014

A Halo Movie Is Getting Made (Sort Of)

Microsoft just announced a Halo “digital feature project”. Ridley Scott and David Zucker (Naked Gun, Scary Movie) are involved as executive producers, while Sergio Mimica-Gezzan (who has directed some episodes of Heroes and Battlestar) will direct. This isn’t a BIG movie, in the sense that this won’t go to theatres in the summer and cost…

By Luke Plunkett Published April 2, 2014

Lego Warthog

Lego Warthog by Legohaulic. Below, a few more of his recent creations, including Blade Runner’s Chinatown: He has many more on display at Flickr, and accepts commissions.

By John Struan Published March 31, 2014

The Assassin’s Creed character design even works well in the world of Halo

Assassin’s Creed + Halo

By John Struan Published March 31, 2014

Thirteen Years Of Halo Nostalgia In Six Perfect Posters

Deviant Artist and Halo fan Scourge07 combined his penchant for art with his passion for Bungie shooters to create a series of wonderful minimalist posters, one for each game in the series. Well, each core game at least. I do not see a Halo Wars entry, nor do I see one for Spartan Assault, the…

By Mike Fahey Published March 22, 2014

Wacky Titanfall News Report Has Halo, Call of Duty Shooting Each Other

Look, we can’t say that Next Media Animation’s segment on today’s hot release actually, y’know, makes sense, as far what the moving images signify. But it’s fun to watch. And, hey, it’s Francis! Think he knows he’s in this? The best part of NMA’s take on Titanfall has to be its terrible approximation of the…

By Evan Narcisse Published March 11, 2014

Cortana has a Different Look on the Windows Phone

Cortana, the digital consigliere coming to Windows Phone 8.1, won’t be represented by the light blue apparition of a woman. Cortana will, appropriately enough, be a halo. It, uh, she? will be represented by a blue ring that animates whenever she’s speaking or thinking, says The Verge, citing sources inside Microsoft and providing some screenshots…

By Owen Good Published March 3, 2014

Culture

Halo, Destiny Artist Sure Knows How To Draw Cool Stuff

So, Isaac Hannaford is an artist who was featuredhere before this concept art feature even had a name. So we’re about overdue for a second, proper look at his work. As Lead Concept Artist at Destiny and former Halo developers Bungie, Hanneford is the man in charge of shaping the studio’s output. Which is one…

By Luke Plunkett Published February 11, 2014