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Here’s Why Master Chief’s Going to Look Different in Halo 4

343 Industries, you so sneaky. We’ve already noticed that the Microsoft division tasked with the future of all things Halo debuted the new look of the sci-fi shooter series’ hero at Toy Fair 2012. And the Chief’s new duds are quite different. Leaner, meaner and perhaps more aerodynamic. Since we’ve gotten a good look at…

By Evan Narcisse Published February 16, 2012

A Shrunken Cortana and Master Chief Wage War Against Halo’s Bad Guys

The newest Halo Minimates aren’t going to offer up any clues to Halo 4, but they’re still worthy additions to the collections of fans who’ve been following the sci-fi series. First announced last September, the Series 4 set will mark the first time that Cortana’s been a bite-sized plaything. The UNSC vs. Covenant battles will…

By Evan Narcisse Published February 13, 2012

Your First Good Look at Halo 4’s Master Chief Comes From…an Action Figure

Halo 4 will be the first game in the main series to have not been developed by Bungie. If you think that means the new studio at the helm would want to tinker with the design of the game’s hero, you are dead right. McFarlane toys have released the first images of their Halo 4…

By Luke Plunkett Published February 12, 2012

Watch a Spartan Take Down a Banshee in this Fan-Made Halo Trailer

Take a look at yet another Halo-centric fan film, made in mid-January by a team of three dedicated members on zero budget. Last week saw the release of the first episode of Halo: Helljumper, a series focused on ODST culture, and its first encounter with the hostile Covenant. Here, Halo: Archetype goes straight to the…

By Pierre Bienaimé Published February 8, 2012

Hear Five Minutes of the Latest Halo Novel, Narrated by Guilty Spark

Halo: Primordium, by Greg Bear, released just after the new year, and if you’re curious what the book’s all about, Macmillan has provided Kotaku with this five minute clip from the novel’s audiobook version. Narrating this clip is Tim Dadabo, the voice of 343 Guilty Spark.

By Owen Good Published February 3, 2012

The Well-Spoken Horror of Video Game Novel Audiobooks

If you need help sleeping tonight, why not curl up and listen to a man with a very proper accent read you a novel based on a video game about men with giant necks shooting monsters in the face. If Gears of Wars’ Jacinto’s Remnant doesn’t do it for you, you could try Halo: Cryptum,…

By Luke Plunkett Published February 2, 2012

Halo’s Creators Pass the Bungie.net Baton to 343 Industries on March 31st

Bungie’s not making Halo games anymore. That’s not news. But they’ve still been administering the servers which hold all that precious multiplayer data. Y’know, the place where all your Forge maps and deathmatch stats live. However, the studio just announced that their stewardship of Halo data will end on March 31st, as the final part…

By Evan Narcisse Published February 1, 2012

Microsoft Moves to Seize Fake Halo 4 Beta’s Domain

Whether motivated by trolling or delusional wish fulfillment, some guy tossed up a page pretending to be a registration site for a Halo 4 multiplayer beta last week. 343 Industries, the game’s developer, quickly branded that as a fake, and the site was taken offline. That’s not good enough for Microsoft. The company has filed…

By Owen Good Published January 28, 2012

Anyone Can Sing the Halo Theme Underground. And Sing it Damn Well.

Welshman Jonny Mason was exploring some abandoned oil chambers with pals when one of them thought, yes, these acoustics are just perfect for a rendition of the Halo theme. And what do you know. They totally were. Underground Halo Theme Performance of the Day [TDW]

By Luke Plunkett Published January 11, 2012

How Halo has Spawned a “Type of Animated Pornography”

It’s called “Machinera”. And it’s just the tip of the iceberg of yet another painfully funny post over on parody site Christwire By the end, you’ll see Halo revealed for what it is: a “Nietzschean New World Order” recruitment tool, played by dehumanised robots on their Xbox shooting consoles. You’ll also see how the Covenant…

By Luke Plunkett Published January 10, 2012

Greet the Morning With Fantastic Blizzard, Halo Fan Art

Artist Toby Lewin, who took third place in 2011’s Blizzard fan art contest, wondered if we’d like to share some of his other work. Sure Toby. We’d love to. While he does his own proper concept art and design work, it’s his fan art we’ll be look at this morning, which in addition to Blizzard…

By Luke Plunkett Published January 4, 2012

New Halo: Reach Figures Capture Tiny Little Flags

Next month, McFarlane will release what feels like the 117th series of Halo toys, this time based on the characters and bad guys from Halo: Reach There are Spartans with multiplayer colour schemes, actual character Spartans from the game with no helmets on, giant aliens, human pilots and, my favourite, a pack containing multiplayer accessories…

By Luke Plunkett Published January 2, 2012

Halo‘s Graphics Guru Talks The Problems of the Future

Way before you pick up a controller, the first thing lots of folks think about when they think video games is how it’s going to look. This generation of gamers isn’t so enlightened that they’ll overlook shitty graphics in lieu of anything a game presents. Yet, graphics need to be balanced against various systems’ processing…

By Evan Narcisse Published December 27, 2011

Copying Your Character and Following You Around is the Sincerest Form of Creepy Flattery

Commenter KingKellogg the Waffle Haggler encountered a Single White Female situation while playing online the other day, and wonders if you’ve ever had the pleasure of attracting creepy online dopplegangers in today’s Speak Up on Kotaku. So here I was playing Halo when one of the people who added me as a friend requested I…

By Mike Fahey Published December 23, 2011

Watch the Epic Halo Film That Was Made in the Game’s Single-Player

It seems like everyone’s making machinima, right? Recent riffs on BioShock, Super Mario Brothers and GTA IV might even make the act of making original narratives from pre-built video game engines look easy. You just need to capture some footage and invite some buds talk over it, no? It’s a lot tougher than that. How…

By Evan Narcisse Published December 20, 2011

Master Chief is an Asshole

Bungie and Microsoft may have led you to believe that Halo’s Master Chief is a paragon of virtue, but that’s a lie told only on storyboards and over-wrought cinematic cutscenes. A man can only be judged by his actions, and in most people’s experience, Master Chief is a dick.

By Luke Plunkett Published December 15, 2011

Video Game Awards Show Host Gets Teabagged. This Ain’t the Oscars.

If you win an Oscar and ramble through your acceptance speech, the orchestra will drown you out and the cameras will cut away. But, if you’re a game developer and you prattle too much at the Spike Video Game Awards, you might have a man drop his crotch on our face. It’s called teabagging. It’s…

By Stephen Totilo Published December 10, 2011

Halo Goes 2D Not With a Bang, But With a Whimper

In development since 2010, Halo: Out With a Whimper is a fan-made project looking to take the franchise’s frantic 3D gameplay and transfer it to the world of 2D platformers. Going a little beyond your standard demake—of which there’s been plenty of Halo offerings previously—this is going all out, promising a “story driven campaign”, “the…

By Luke Plunkett Published December 5, 2011

Reviews

Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary: The Kotaku Review

Despite only visiting it once in my adolescent years, I’ve never forgotten the Cradle of Aviation Museum in the suburb of Garden City. Row after row of majestic aircraft stood next to each other, shiny but defunct evidence to the pivotal role that Long Island played to the science and practice of aeronautics in the…

By Evan Narcisse Published November 21, 2011

The Voice Commands of Halo: Anniversary Fail at the Wrong Times

“I’m sorry Chris, I’m afraid I can’t let you do that” Until I hear those words coming out of my Xbox, (preferably right before it tries to kill me or something) I’ll be resistant to believing claims of voice functionality working with games. Halo:Anniversary tries it’s damnedest to make voice commands work. It’s not a…

By Chris Carolan Published November 17, 2011