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You Can’t Watch Halo 4‘s Intro Right Now [Update]
The leak, and subsequent piracy of (and perma-bannings for playing) Halo 4 resulted in a flurry of videos such as this one, uploaded by the YouTube user Madchinima. [Update] Microsoft is officially not screwing around with this leak. This video was taken down inside of 20 minutes. This is the opening of the game, not…
By Owen Good Published October 16, 2012 -
Play Halo 4 Early, Get Banned From Xbox Live. Forever.
With Halo 4 not out until the first week of November, the fact people are playing it now—and getting banned from Xbox Live for doing so—all but confirms the suspicion that copies of the game have been leaked According to a report on MCV, Xbox Live users found playing the game are being given permanent…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 15, 2012 -
Spoiler Alert: Halo 4‘s Out in the Wild, So Be Careful What You Read for the Next 3 Weeks
Yesterday brought word that Halo 4‘s discs had leaked out, three weeks ahead of the game’s street date, which is a common claim for a major franchise and a highly anticipated game. Still, Microsoft’s security division is looking into the matter, which lends a little more credence to the report. And now, this appeal from…
By Owen Good Published October 13, 2012 -
Microsoft Investigating Purported Halo 4 Leaks
That image of Halo 4‘s two discs popped up on NeoGAF earlier today. Some in the forum shrugged it off, saying that reviewers must be getting their copies, to which I chuckle heartily. I can’t remember the last time, if ever, consumer codes being sent out for review three weeks before release. Please. What really…
By Owen Good Published October 12, 2012 -
You Can Keep Making Halo Videos, You Just Can’t Make Money From Them (Except When You Can)
Fans really like making stuff based on the games they love. We feature fan-made videos, costumes, artwork, and more here at Kotaku pretty much every day. The companies that make the games that fans love, though, are not exactly always eager to see third parties profiting off of their copyrighted work. Microsoft has a lengthy…
By Kate Cox Published October 10, 2012 -
This Dog Is a Cooler Video Game Hero Than Master Chief
What makes a game character cool? Is it their arsenal? Is it how people treat them? Or is it something totally different? Can a Pomeranian puppy be a cooler game character than even a go-to gaming badass like Master Chief? In the video above, I talk about the fantastic PSN title Tokyo Jungle, the definition…
By Chris Person Published October 10, 2012 -
Making Gorgeous Maps In Halo 4‘s Forge Mode
Via GameSpot, here’s a great ten-minute video showing off some of the cool things you can make in Halo 4‘s version of Forge, the map editor first seen in Halo 3. Enjoy! Exclusive Halo 4 Forge Mode Details [GameSpot]
By Jason Schreier Published October 9, 2012 -
Director Says Halo Webseries Isn’t “the Definitive Master Chief Story”
What would a Halo movie look like? For years, that’s been a question that Hollywood and Microsoft have been trying to answer to no avail. The long and winding road of making a live-action Master Chief adaption is full of stumbles but, today, Microsoft’s 343 Industries begins the rollout of a new webseries set in…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 8, 2012 -
I Hope Master Chief Doesn’t Blow up This Halo Ringworld
Kotaku reader Catsy has spent the last three years (on and off) working on this behemoth of a tribute to the Halo universe, rendered entirely in LEGO. It’s a Halo Ringworld, and was shown off over the weekend at BrickCon 2012, where it won “Best Large Planetary Structure in the Space”. Congrats, Catsy! The outer…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 8, 2012 -
You Must Watch This Amazing Marching Band Perform Video Game Music
Featuring music from Zelda, Halo, and quite a few other games, this performance by The Ohio State University’s marching band is something that must be seen. Just wait til you get to the horse. (Thanks to everyone who sent this in!)
By Jason Schreier Published October 7, 2012 -
Yup, the Flood Will Look Really Gross in Halo 4
We’ve already seen how the creepy cosmic symbiotes from the Halo games will come back in 343 Industries’ upcoming release. These new screenshots offer added detail as to how they engage with Spartan soldiers in Halo 4‘s multiplayer Flood mode. Previous visual interpretations of the Flood never really gave me the shivers but this new…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 4, 2012 -
Halo 4’s Action Figures Are Looking Blue
Much like the game’s new guns, many of the new Halo game’s action figures have also ditched the trademark purple. For orange, yes, but also for a whole lot of blue I took a look at the first series of Halo 4 figures from McFarlane a few weeks back, but the second wave is due…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 4, 2012 -
The New Mech In Halo 4 Can Teabag The Opposition. Of Course.
Meet the Mantis, a new a vehicle/mech in Halo 4. Your best Spartan soldier can get in it, step on enemies and, when he or she has them down, commence with the teabagging (you know, the, uh, victory crouches). It’s all in the official trailer. This is Microsoft knowing its Halo audience. HALO 4: MANTIS…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 1, 2012 -
Xbox Live Wants You to Be a Better Citizen So It’s Giving You an Avatar Costume if You Watch the Presidential Debates
As someone who gets hit all the time with the “HEY I COME HERE FOR GAMES NOT POLITICS SO KEEP THAT TO YOURSELF,” comments, I’m going to straight-up be a hypocrite and say to Xbox Live that, hey, I come here for games and not politics and so keep all this presidential election coverage off…
By Owen Good Published September 29, 2012 -
Halo 4’s New Guns Aren’t Purple, They’re Orange!
Halo 4 has new bad guys, and those new bad guys have new guns. Here are those new guns in action. I’m still unsure whether Halo 4’s marketing is just lying to us, or whether 343 has performed some kind of dark magic on the Xbox 360. Those are the only two explanations as to…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 26, 2012 -
The Flood Return In Halo 4
Halo Waypoint released a massive amount of new Halo 4 screenshots for us to feast our eyes on. These include campaign shots (beware that spoilers might follow in several of those in reference to the Dawn and Infinity missions), multiplayer mode War Games and cooperative mode Spartan Ops. War Games includes a Flood “simulation,” where…
By Tina Amini Published September 26, 2012 -
From Mass Effect to Metal Gear, This is a Symphony in Plastic
Square Enix doesn’t just make video games. It also makes figures. And it doesn’t only make Final Fantasy figures, it makes figures from numerous other games. Square Enix’s Play Arts Kai line features a whole slew of characters from games like Street Fighter, Tekken, Medal of Honor, Metal Gear, Halo, and Dead Space as well…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 22, 2012 -
Halo 4 Looks Like a Big Leap Forward for Master Chief
I always felt like Microsoft’s mega-hit Halo franchise let me travel, taking me to thrilling, never-before-seen vistas at crucial moments. Adventure-as-travel is a standard conceit within genre fiction but the imposing beauty of Combat Evolved‘s battlegrounds, the horror of various Flood-infested environments and shock of a ravaged, futuristic Earth stood out as high points on…
By Evan Narcisse Published September 21, 2012 -
Lots of Fresh Halo 4 Footage For You To Watch
Today’s sort of a Halo 4 news day, as Microsoft unleashes the press to talk a lot more about November’s big, exclusive Xbox 360 first-person-shooter. The fresh looks began with last night’s episode of GTTV. The episode is embedded below. Here are the times you want to jump to in order to see the good…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 21, 2012 -
Some Halo 4 Campaign Screens to Start Your Friday
We’ll have more on Halo 4‘s campaign mode later in the day, but for now, here’s a collection of screenshots from the game, some in first-person, others not, all of them looking very purple Good to see 343 have at least stayed faithful to that particular aspect of the Bungie legacy.
By Luke Plunkett Published September 21, 2012