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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

Jilted Boyfriend Hocks Engagement Ring for Halo Armor

When his fiancée suddenly dumped him, Eric Smith of Geekadelphia decided that simply selling off the engagement ring he bought her wasn’t good enough. The cash from that transaction also had to be expurgated as well. Thus Smith used it to acquire a suit of badass Spartan MJOLNIR armor to shield his heart from the…

By Owen Good Published November 16, 2011

How Do Game Reviewers Feel About Playing Halo: Combat Evolved All Over Again?

Before the folks at 343 Industries can prove to us they are a worthy successor to the Halo development throne, they must first show us that they respect the franchise’s roots. This has been accomplished by dying those roots to make them a little less gray. Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary has just hit store shelves,…

By Mike Fahey Published November 15, 2011

Let’s Look at the Facelift Halo Gets for Its Anniversary

Ico and Shadow of the Colossus, Metal Gear Solid HD Collection, Splinter Cell Trilogy … there’ve been plenty of HD re-issues for beloved games over the last few months. But, in the video above, I’ll show you why the work that 343 Industries and Saber Interactive has done on Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary outclasses all…

By Evan Narcisse Published November 14, 2011

Should You Buy Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary ? No.

It’s been ten years since Bungie gave Xbox gamers the first Halo game, a console first-person shooter that didn’t feel like the weak sister to the genre’s PC alpha dogs. From that single title grew blossomed one of video game’s most successful franchises, one which reshaped what it meant to play video games with other…

By Evan Narcisse Published November 14, 2011

Claim Your Rightful Place on the Halo Living Monument

Master Chief would be nothing without the millions of players that have taken control of him over the past decade. Microsoft and 343 Industries recognize your heroic sacrifices with the Halo Living Monument, an interactive memorial that will honor you as long as it makes financial sense to keep the website running. With Halo: Combat…

By Mike Fahey Published November 14, 2011

Halo Jumps into Hell in This Web Series

Halo: Helljumper is one of many Halo fan films, but it doesn’t look like any old Halo fan project. It looks fantastic The Halo: Helljumper web series kicks off next January. More info at Helljumper‘s Facebook page Halo: Helljumper Official Trailer [YouTube] You can contact Brian Ashcraft, the author of this post, at [email protected]. You…

By Brian Ashcraft Published November 14, 2011

Finally, The Glorious 27-Minute Stop-Motion LEGO Halo Film You’ve Been Waiting For

We’ve been eagerly anticipating this unofficial mash-up of LEGO and Halo for more than two years Initially promised for an early 2010, the Battle of the Brick, a 27-minute LEGO Halo movie, finally premiered today on Gametrailers We’ve been following Alex Kobbs, and his impressive LEGO Halo works, for nearly half a decade. So grab…

By Brian Crecente Published November 11, 2011

For $850, You Can Make Halo Movies Like This

There are tons of Halo fan films. Tons. Here’s another, but what sets it apart is how the filmmakers were able to squeeze blood from stones. Shot for only US$850, Halo: Faith is a short film that was born out of an “simple conversation” between filmmakers back in Oct. 2010. The effects aren’t as good…

By Brian Ashcraft Published November 11, 2011

Halo: Reach Picks Up Anniversary‘s Maps Next Week

If you have last year’s Halo: Reach and aren’t interested in the Halo: Anniversary high-definition remastering of the original game, you still can get up the four classic multiplayer maps shipping with it. The “Anniversary Map Pack” will include six multiplayer stages—Battle Canyon, Breakneck, High Noon, Penance, Ridgeline and Solitary—plus Installation 04, as a Firefight…

By Owen Good Published November 10, 2011

The Halo Remake’s Kinect Features Aren’t On the Disc, For Quality Reasons

There is no mention of Kinect support on the box of next week’s HD 10th-anniversary remake of Halo: Combat Evolved. That doesn’t mean the features were cut. They weren’t. They’re mentioned in the manual, which states that the game’s optional Kinect support isn’t on the disc. It will be added, on November 15, the day…

By Stephen Totilo Published November 10, 2011

Microsoft Stores Becoming Competitive Multiplayer Hubs for Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary Launch

If you’re like me, you’ve yet to step into one of Microsoft’s fine, fine retail emporiums. Nothing against ‘em, it’s just that you can get everything online nowadays. Pizza. Liquid refreshment. That goes from online competition, too, but, Microsoft’s going to be stocking its stores full of all three to commemorate the impending release of…

By Evan Narcisse Published November 9, 2011

Culture

Halo Anniversary Edition Pizza Unboxed, Eaten, and Unappreciated

Why thank you, internet, for bridging the gap between two countries and giving those of us confined to the states a delicious look at the UK-exclusive Halo Anniversary Edition pizza from Pizza Hut. YouTube user Shadders1 spices up this pepperoni chicken monstrosity of a pizza with some appropriate music to create an unboxing far more…

By Mike Fahey Published November 9, 2011

Halo Pizza is Here, Fortunately Restricted to the U.K.

Never renowned for fine cuisine, the U.K. is probably the perfect market in which to launch an official Halo pizza from Pizza Hut. Details are scarce but GamePro reports the Halo: Anniversary pizza will be available from next Monday through Dec. 19. Get one, get a promo code for two free days of Xbox Live…

By Owen Good Published November 2, 2011