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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 -
CultureWatch 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 -
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 -
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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 -
He Made Halo‘s Energy Sword, and It Looks Really Awkward to Use
Master Chief makes it look easy, doesn’t he? But, it turns out that wielding the famous bladed Covenant weapon from the Xbox sci-fi FPS isn’t all that graceful. Watch yourself, dude. You ain’t no Spartan! In the latest segment of the Man At Arms webseries, Tony Swatton and crew craft one of a video game…
By Evan Narcisse Published February 10, 2014 -
LEGO Spaceship Is Seven Feet Long, Took Four Years To Build
The UNSC Spirit Of Fire, a ship from the Halo series, would be 2.5km long if it were a real thing. But it’s not. So all we’ve got instead is this “tiny” model. Mark Kelso spent four years building this monstrosity, which is based off 3D models and had the insane goal of not just…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 4, 2014 -
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The Man Who Helped Change The Look Of Halo
It’s not often that video game artists make the headlines, but Kenneth Scott made a few this week when he left his post as art director at 343 studios. That’s kind of a big deal for fans because he was in charge of shaping the series’ visual identity. It’s far from terrible news – his…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 10, 2014