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Here’s How Halo 4‘s Multiplayer Is Changing
When Bungie was at the helm, multiplayer in the Halo games was mostly a team-oriented affair. Sure, you’d have personal stats that you could be proud of but it was the glory of a Red or Blue victory that motivated you. But, 343 Industries is making the newest Halo and things are going to be…
By Evan Narcisse Published July 6, 2012 -
Halo 4‘s Multiplayer Requires At Least 8 GBs of Space
Halo 4 is going to be huge. I’m not talking about critical success or sales or anything like that. No, I’m talking about memory storage. In order to play the online multiplayer portion of Master Chief’s next outing, players will have to free up at least 8 GB of space. There are whole games taht…
By Evan Narcisse Published July 3, 2012 -
Get Your First, Brief Look at Halo 4’s Live-Action Series
Microsoft has tonight released this teaser trailer for Forward Unto Dawn, its series of live-action shorts set in the Halo 4 universe Not that there’s much live action here, but then, that’s why they call it a teaser trailer. In May, we brought you some set pics from Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada, where…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 2, 2012 -
Tiny Halo Figures Designed For Giant Adult Hands
Harking back to the late-80s glory days of the style, McFarlane is next month releasing a line of Halo toys called “Micro Ops”, tiny little 1:100 (or around 15mm each) figures designed to let you recreate actual Halo battles, and not just actual heroic poses. The first series includes several different figures, vehicles and even…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 2, 2012 -
Boy-Band Tribute to Halo Writes Master Chief’s Name All Over the Back of a Notebook
Be prepared, this is an excellent send-up of One Direction’s earworm pop-hit “What Makes You Beautiful,” but that means you hear the chorus once and it’ll be stuck in your head for the rest of the day. It comes to you from The Warp Zone, who gave us the smash hit The Day Guitar Hero…
By Owen Good Published June 23, 2012 -
Master Chief Needs Groceries, Too, You Know
What, you think he doesn’t eat? When Master Chief is back home, propping his feet up on his coffee table and playing rounds of Halo, he needs to munch on some Doritos, too. Master Chief IRL: The Grocery Store [YouTube via Reddit]
By Tina Amini Published June 18, 2012 -
Reggie Shows Jimmy Fallon How to Flick Throwing Stars with the Wii U Controller
This week, Jimmy Fallon’s Late Night provided a kind of victory lap for video gaming’s heavy-hitting brands coming out of E3. “Video Game Week” on the show wrapped up last night with Reggie Fils-Aime, the boss of Nintendo of America, giving Fallon some hands-on time with the Wii U. Sure, it’s a hype appearance, but…
By Owen Good Published June 16, 2012 -
Lessons in Double-Speak, from Native Speakers
The major controversies, disappointments and outrages of the preceding week all seemed to share one trait: They contained some eye-rolling levels of double-speak and ulterior meanings. The issues themselves have been gummed to death, and I really don’t wish to rehash those arguments. But we’re talking about debates that could have been better served, and…
By Owen Good Published June 15, 2012 -
“There Was No Face Anywhere”: Why One Movie Producer Chose Uncharted over Halo
Not to knock on the PS3’s signature action franchise, but the Uncharted games never sparked the kind of cultural fascination that the Halo franchise did under Bungie’s tenure. So, if you had to make a movie of one series, you’d pick Master Chief over Nathan Drake, right? Not if you’re Avi Arad, you wouldn’t. With…
By Evan Narcisse Published June 12, 2012 -
Teabagging Returns in Halo 4
Master Chief is back in Halo 4. So is the needler. And so is teabagging. The most famous and notorious act in Halo multiplayer, the crouching of one player onto a defeated player to simulate a simulated sex act, is back. But the people at 343 Industries who are making Halo 4 don’t call it…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 11, 2012 -
This Guy’s Halo 4 Mohawk Should Win ‘Best Hair of E3’
Meet Ryan Hakik, freelance video game tester and Halo fan. He’s got something on his head. I shot this quick interview with him yesterday at E3, just outside of the Halo 4 part of Microsoft’s Xbox 360 booth. It’s a little hard to tell in the video, but that 4 lights up. Best hair-do of…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 8, 2012 -
Halo 4 Creators are Prepping for a Halo Comeback
Halo used to the biggest thing in multiplayer Xbox gaming. It’s still a big deal, but for the last half-decade, Call of Duty has been the Xbox’s main event. At E3 this year, new Microsoft-owned development studio 343 Industries is making an interactive case that Halo is ready for top status again. They’re not saying…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 6, 2012 -
Slayer Multiplayer in Halo 4 Feels Familiar, With Better-Sounding Pew Pews
“Slayer.” You read it in the announcer’s voice, didn’t you? It’s a mode all Halo veterans are familiar with. It’s a mode that has seen your most vicious killing sprees and caused your most tempered tantrums. And it’s a mode in the upcoming Halo 4‘s multiplayer, known as War Games. Since Bungie is no longer…
By Tina Amini Published June 6, 2012 -
I’m Knee-Deep In Synthetic Bad Guys in Halo 4’s Bold new Multiplayer
When Halo 4 launches on November 6th later this year, it will ship with a full season of a multiplayer mode called Spartan Ops I got to check out a quick chapter of said episodic content today on the E3 showfloor, where the Majestic Spartan team met those red-laced synthetic enemies from the demo that…
By Tina Amini Published June 5, 2012 -
Five Minutes of Impressive Halo 4 Gameplay Footage
Forget shaky-cam beta stuff, here’s five minutes of direct-feed, singleplayer gameplay footage of Halo 4, direct from Microsoft’s E3 press conference earlier today. I don’t know whether it’s the improved visuals or the new developer (or both!), but for the first time in a long time this looks almost as though it’s a truly new…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 4, 2012 -
Cortana Is Angry, But Halo 4 Looks Incredible
The new footage from Halo 4 shows us both the sweeping theatrical introduction as well as the first-person gameplay action. Master Chief is heading toward a downed UNSC ship. On the way there, he shows off his new weapons and tech. Halo 4 is being developed by 343 Studios and is due out on November…
By Kate Cox Published June 4, 2012 -
Hey, More (Awful) Halo 4 Gameplay Footage [Update]
So, there’s a very private Halo 4 beta going on right now. Some terrible footage leaked out a few days ago, and today, there’s some more for you to take a look at. On the plus side, this clip is almost watchable! In the first video, the users were so paranoid of Microsoft spotting their…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 1, 2012 -
There’s No Question. This Is The Best Master Chief Cosplay There Is.
Don’t argue with it. Just let the beauty of this amazingly hilarious Master Chief cosplay sink in to your memory, to be recalled at a really inappropriate moment when you should not be laughing. The professor/your boss will understand. The dog might, too. Photographer David Ngo stumbled on this lovely being on Sunday of this…
By Tina Amini Published May 31, 2012 -
Meet the Best Halo Figure I’ve Ever Seen, and it was Made by Magic
Well, it was made by a 3D printer, but I refuse to call them “machines”. If you can put materials into something, press a button and out the other end comes entire things, that to me is magic. Dark magic. This Halo figure is being shown off on the webpage of the Objet Connex500, a…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 31, 2012