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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…

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…

The Halo 5 beta promises a whole damn lot. Getting to test out the evolution of Spartan multiplayer is a real good reason to buy four games you may already own

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…

Microsoft just officially announced The Master Chief Collection, which collects four blockbuster Halo games in one package.

Hints About The Future Of Halo That You May Have Missed

Those who love Halo but only play Halo video games may be oblivious to some of the big developments going on in the series lately. There are big things happening, particularly in the Halo comics, that any Halo fan should know about. The extended literature around Halo isn’t required knowledge in order to follow the…

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…

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,…

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…

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

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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.

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.

​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…

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.…

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…

​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…