Halo

Borderlands, Assassin’s Creed and Tons More Coming to Minecraft‘s Next Xbox 360 Skin Pack

Minecraft Xbox 360 Edition is pouring on the fan service with this week’s release of Skin Pack 4—providing delightfully low-res interpretations of Claptrap from Borderlands, Klei’s Mark of the Ninja and The Behemoth’s Castle Crashers, plus a whole lot more. Images of all 28 skins can be seen at this link. Here’s what you’ll get…

Here’s a trailer for the next Halo 4 map pack, Castle, which releases April 8.

No Shame In Being Slightly Afraid Of A Gaming Room Full Of Giant Space Guns (And Swords)

Props builder and Kotaku reader Andrew Cook just put the finishing touches on his new gaming room. Those touches were mostly “hanging up his terrific and enormous replica video game weapons on the wall.” Taken mostly from Halo and Mass Effect, they’re certainly a cut above your standard “free posters from GameStop” style of room…

Concept Art That Goes From Halo 4 To Guild Wars 2 And Back Again

Dave Bolton is a concept artist who has worked for 343 Studios, ArenaNet and Hourglass Studios. So we’re about to get a look at some fantastic art from, among other things, Halo 4 and Guild Wars If you like what you see, you can check out loads more at Dave’s personal site and CGHub page…

A Halo Easter Egg That Took Years To Discover

The people at Bungie are famous for putting obscure Easter Eggs into their games. Halo‘s creators have packed the massive sci-fi shooter franchise with all sorts of references and secrets, and fans love finding them But sometimes, Halo‘s little secrets are so obscure, nobody ever sees them. A tipster—who asked that we not use his…

Let This Halo, Mega Man and Metroid Stained Glass Turn Your Home Into a Video Game House of Worship

If you grew up Catholic like me, you can only have one response to seeing the creation above: “Holy Samus, Mother of Metroid, hallowed be thy name.” Hang these translucent beauties where they can catch some sun and you might see people genuflecting. Those glowing renditions are the work of Evan Daniels, who sells his…

Halo 4‘s Next Map Pack Arrives on Tuesday

A poorly kept secret since November is official now: the Majestic Map Pack, the latest series of multiplayer maps in Halo 4, will indeed be available on Feb. 25 for 800 Microsoft Points ($10). The maps, consistent with a leak earlier this weekend, are Landfall, Monolith and Skyline (above). Longer descriptions may be seen here,…

Here’s a Peek at Halo 4‘s Next Map Pack—Before Bungie’s Date with Destiny

Today’s the big day for Halo‘s ex, Bungie, which will soon tell all about its new affair, Destiny. That makes the discovery of these four images for Halo 4‘s forthcoming Majestic Map Pack quite a coincidence, indeed. It’s probably not as nefarious as it sounds, actually. NeoGAF user Wifiplayer13 found them by altering the URL…

Halo 2‘s PC multiplayer is shutting down on Friday so, yeah, there’s an Internet petition to stop that.

Anti-Gun People Who Cluelessly Mocked Me Still Live in Fantasy Land, Still Don’t Know How To Apologize

The popular, left-leaning Facebook group that mistook me for a gun nut last month has pulled the image of me that they put on their site. They actually pulled it on Monday, shortly after I ran an article illustrating the hilarious cluelessness of many of the Facebook page’s users—many of whom thought I was holding…

Conan O’Brien Also Thinks Halo 4‘s Cortana Is Pretty Hot

Watching someone who isn’t too familiar with video games try their hand at Halo 4 can be pretty hilarious. But when it’s Conan O’Brien testing out 343’s first entry in the series, it’s that much funnier. Even if he does roll his eyes a little too much at the storyline. I mean, I get it.…

The Most Amazing Snow Levels And Zones In Video Games

Barring timed underwater escort missions, snow levels, with all their slippery ice and falling rocks (not to mention the fog), are probably the deadliest. Yet it’s easy to find enjoyable—or at least memorable—ones, even if we disregard games where the entire setting is snowy (We’re looking at you, Skyrim). Assault On The Control Room (Halo:…

Yep, Bungie’s Still Answering Halo Fan Mail

Though Bungie no longer is the steward of the Halo franchise, after five games and a dozen years, it’s hard for some to let go. Or, well, if your Halo gaming career begins with ODST, perhaps you’re not that plugged-in to begin with. But the guy did draw an awesome picture, and Bungie does promise…

Get Ready For Some Serious Halo Parkour

Watching this video by ReiKo, you have to wonder if the people who made Halo 4 intended for players to be able to pull off some of the insane trick-jumps that they do. The spacing is just right, the trajectories lead perfectly from point to point… maybe they planned it this way? Hard to say.…

Real-Life Parasites That Behave Remarkably Like Halo‘s Most Disgusting Enemy

With the recent release of Halo 4, players have once again been thrust into the space boots of Master Chief Petty Officer John-117. Master Chief has faced a wide variety of enemies since the 2001 release of Halo: Combat Evolved that have been both impressive and terrifying. The mere sight of a particular foe, however,…

Responding To Rumors, Microsoft Says Halo Isn’t Coming To Steam

This weekend, many noticed something curious: some Halo titles were listed in the Steam registry. Some assumed this meant that these titles were coming to Steam. According to a Microsoft spokesperson, that’s not the case. “We currently do not have plans to release any ‘Halo‘ titles on Steam,” said a Microsoft spokesperson to Kotaku. Skeptical?…

Hundreds of Confused Anti-Gun People Think I’m a Gun Nut—And That This Is My Gun

There are people on both sides of the gun debate who make good points. And then there are people who have absolutely no clue. In that latter camp we might include Senator Lamar Alexander, who thinks that, when it comes to people getting shot to death, “video games are a bigger problem than guns.” We…

A Very Animated Look At Halo 4

This clip, seemingly done for Spartan Ops, was done by Planet Jump animation studio for the launch of Halo 4 last year. Part-animated clip, part-motion comic, its got an anime style and helps explain, at least partially, why the Covenant are hanging around the game. Better than the game manages, anyway. The short was directed…

Bungie Replaces a Defective Disc It Didn’t Manufacture of a Game It Didn’t Make

The secret to good customer service is not necessarily that the customer is always right. It’s in pretending he is always right. While, of course, pointing out he may, in fact, be wrong. Politely. Here, Bungie takes one for the Halo team, despite the fact it parted ways in 2011 with the franchise it created.…

Bungie Uses Halo Helmet To Cheer Up Sick Child

Two weeks ago, Redditor fiscal_ asked if anyone knew how to get in touch with Bungie, the creators of Halo. His son, a big Halo fan, had just received a liver transplant, and fiscal_ wanted to cheer him up with some sort of Halo-themed gift. It worked. Yesterday, fiscal_ came back to the Halo Reddit…