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There Are At Least 4,294 People Playing Halo 4 Multiplayer Right Now, Three Days Before Launch
We’re up to 4,294 people playing Halo 4 online right now-at least. We can’t co-op, but we do have the breakdowns for competitive multiplayer and the story based Spartan Ops. Yesterday, there were at least 495 people playing the game online. This is a nine-fold increase. Halo 4 will be officially released on November 6.…
By Stephen Totilo Published November 3, 2012 -
Halo 4 Reviewers All Glad That The Fight’s Not Finished Yet
Players jumped in by the millions to finish the fight in Halo 3, back in 2007. And yet, like many a franchise before it, the one-time trilogy of Halo games finds itself with a new fourth sibling, years later. This year, the old franchise-Halo first launched in 2001-found itself in new hands, no longer developed…
By Kate Cox Published November 2, 2012 -
There Are 489 People Playing Competitive Halo 4 Multiplayer Right Now, Up From 145 Yesterday
There are 495 people playing Halo 4‘s multiplayer, if you count the cooperate Spartan Ops mode. That’s over three times more than the amount of people that were playing just yesterday, and the game still has four more days before its November 6 release. Maybe more people are logging on as the weekend nears? Power…
By Tina Amini Published November 2, 2012 -
Now THIS is the Halo 4 Unboxing You’ve Been Waiting For
Now THIS is the Halo 4 Unboxing You’ve Been Waiting For [youtube.com]
Kotaku Published November 2, 2012 -
Four Minutes of Halo 4’s Multiplayer Madness
I’m so busy with the game’s singleplayer campaign I haven’t even touched Halo 4’s multiplayer yet. Which is a shame, because I’m sure it’s a blast turning those terrific new guns (and most of them are super satisfying) on actual humans. Halo 4 – First Ever Montage: “In with the New” [Bravo]
By Luke Plunkett Published November 1, 2012 -
Beat Halo 4 and Take $25 Off Your American Express Bill
Finishing Halo 4 will give you cash back on your credit card. And it’s not like it’s some $1.52 bullshit you get back from Discover either, it’s $25 off (or £25 in the UK) your American Express bill, provided you link the thing through a promo site. Linking your card and collecting the “Wake Up,…
By Owen Good Published November 1, 2012 -
The Ten-Year Evolution of Halo’s Master Chief
It’s been over ten years since the first Halo game was released, and even longer since we first laid eyes on the Master Chief. A lot has changed since then. Like, ten years of combat has literally sucked all the colour out of him. More seriously, I’m slowly coming around to appreciate his armour in…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 1, 2012 -
Reviews
How It Feels To Review Halo 4 On Microsoft’s Turf
When I’ve got a game to review, you’ll often find me in my tiny studio apartment, sprawled out on my bed with controller in hand and laptop to my side for note-taking. I’ll take breaks here and there to flesh out thoughts or grab some food. The most recent game I reviewed was Halo 4.…
By Tina Amini Published November 1, 2012 -
There Are 145 People Playing Competitive Halo 4 Multiplayer Right Now
Call it the calm before the storm. (And the calm after the Superstorm.) Only 145 people are playing competitive games of Halo 4 online right now-a fraction of the number that will be playing next week. Microsoft’s sci-fi shooter leaked on the Internet a while ago. A great deal of people have pirated and started…
By Jason Schreier Published November 1, 2012 -
This Halo iPhone Game Feels Like A Parody Of Itself
There are tacky advertisements. And then there’s Halo 4: King of the Hill Fueled by Mountain Dew (actual name), a new promotional iOS game that asks you to go to the store and scan in bags of Doritos and bottles of Mountain Dew in order to play. Let me repeat that. You have to scan…
By Jason Schreier Published October 31, 2012 -
Minecraft Dethrones Call of Duty as the Xbox 360’s Most-Played Game
Death, taxes and a shooter atop the chart of Xbox Live’s top activity. Since Major Nelson has publicized the numbers, the most popular game on Xbox Live—this is according to unique users playing the game while logging into the service, not just those playing multiplayer—has always been a shooter. Gears of War. Halo. And, for…
By Owen Good Published October 28, 2012 -
Last Night’s Jeopardy Contestants Sure Did Not Know Much About Video Games
I’ll take, “Things I don’t know the first thing about” for a thousand, Alex. On Friday’s Jeopardy, the Final Jeopardy written question was: “The villains in this game were inspired by the swine flu epidemic scare.” The three contestants’ guesses were… not close to the actual right answer. You can see it go down in…
By Kirk Hamilton Published October 27, 2012 -
Someone Put Portal‘s Wheatley In Halo And Now I Can’t Stop Laughing
Cortana bickering with Wheatley: think about it. The two are strong personalities in their own rights, but put together they make for some hilarious banter. I would never have imagined Wheatley’s deadpan humor to work so well under the seriousness of Halo‘s plotline, but apparently Toadking07 did and I’m all the happier for it. Wheatley…
By Tina Amini Published October 24, 2012 -
Check Out Halo 4’s New “Gameplay” Launch Trailer
Putting aside the fancy live-action stuff for a day, Microsoft tonight released this “gameplay” launch trailer for Halo 4. As pretty as it looks, “In-game cinematics interspersed with brief staged moments of gameplay from a third-person perspective” might have been a more accurate title. Though, admittedly, a little less snappy.
By Luke Plunkett Published October 23, 2012 -
We Just Unboxed $500 Worth of Halo 4 Stuff to Help You Decide If It’s Worth It
We got Halo 4 in the office today. The $100 Limited Edition… plus the $400 special edition 320GB Xbox 360 that comes with the game packed in. So what’s the deal with these things? We put our unboxing committee on the case. The console is partially see-through, makes Halo 4 sounds and has cool blue…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 22, 2012 -
Who Is Stealing Halo 4?
Halo 4 doesn’t come out until November 6th. Millions of people are eagerly awaiting the highly anticipated next chapter in the Master Chief saga, poring over every bit of info released about the game. But some others aren’t waiting at all. They’re already playing and selling Halo 4. As of this week, half a dozen…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 19, 2012 -
Watch The Continuing Drama Of Halo Soldiers-In-Training
The Forward Unto Dawn live action webseries continues with this week’s installment. In Episode 3, personal drama of every sort comes to a head—but a poorly-timed (or well-timed?) invasion will change everything. How does teenage angst fare against an alien invasion? Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn-Part 3 [Halo Waypoint]
By Kate Cox Published October 19, 2012 -
There’s Five Spots We Get THIS Close to Seeing Master Chief’s Face in the New Halo 4 Trailer
The Halo 4 launch trailer was predictably big budget, but what I found most interesting was how human they made Master Chief look. We usually just see him as a giant hulking killing machine, all armour and visor, but Tim Miller and David Fincher’s clip goes right ahead and actually takes the mask off the…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 19, 2012 -
Here’s Halo 4’s Launch Trailer, Produced by David Fincher
I started in this job nearly six years ago. If you’d told me back then I’d be writing a headline like that in 2012, I’d have either laughed or given you a real strange look. Not to give Fincher all the credit, it was actually directed by Tim Miller, normally a visual effects man (Scott…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 19, 2012