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Lets Watch Classic Halo Map Hang ‘Em High in Action Using Halo Reach Graphics and Gameplay

The classic Halo: Combat Evolved multiplayer map Hang Em’ High is getting a stunning remake when it returns to players in Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary Renamed High Noon, this map and five other remakes will all also be available for Halo Reach players as a download pack, Microsoft told me over the weekend. In this…

By Brian Crecente Published October 17, 2011

Throw Grenades by Voice with Halo: Anniversary‘s Kinect Functionality

You can shout “grenade!” and see Master Chief sling one with the Kinect functionality 343 Industries has added to Halo: Anniversary, the high-definition remake coming Nov. 15. Other voice commands include “reload!” the studio revealed yesterday at Comic-Con. Kinect will also support the spoken command “analyze,” which allows players to capture specific items from the…

By Owen Good Published October 16, 2011

A Sexy Silver Spartan Will be At the New York Comic Con

Square Enix’s classy Play Arts line of action figures will get a little longer at the New York Comic Con later this week with the release of a new piece (and re-release of two old favourites). The new figure is a very shiny, very silver Spartan Mk. V who comes packing a sniper rifle. There…

By Luke Plunkett Published October 12, 2011

Neal Stephenson Plays Halo 3 on Legendary to Avoid Getting Fat

Science fiction author Neal Stephenson plays Halo on its hardest difficulty setting, Legendary, while using an elliptical exercise machine, the writer of Snow Crash told an audience in Austin today. He tried the same thing with Rockstar’s Western Red Dead Redemption, but it hasn’t worked. Why would a man exercise like this? “My relationship to…

By Stephen Totilo Published October 11, 2011

Six Seconds of a Halo Fan Film

Did you blink? Well, you missed it. Halo: Helljumper is an upcoming fan-made web series that is slated to premiere next January. Hopefully each episode is longer than six seconds. To learn more about the web series and to see production stills, check out Halo: Helljumpers‘s Facebook page You can contact Brian Ashcraft, the author…

By Brian Ashcraft Published October 11, 2011

Wait, There’s a Halo Movie Planned for 2012?

Here’s an odd thing. The French press kit for the Halo novel Cryptum mentions a Halo movie. Involving Steven Spielberg. With vague words that it’s due in 2012. That’s…not far away. You can see it at the foot of this press handout, also mentioning the involvement of Spielberg’s Dreamworks studios. It’s not the first time…

By Luke Plunkett Published October 6, 2011

Invasion of the Stop-Motion Halo Toys

Voting is currently open in the Mega Bloks Halo Toymation Contest, where the best and brightest stop-motion toy animators vie for fabulous prizes. It’s too late to enter, but there’s plenty of time to influence the winner. With more than 1,400 entries to the contest, the Mega Bloks folks are in for a hell of…

By Mike Fahey Published October 5, 2011

An Advanced Class in How to be a Giant Dickbag in Halo: Reach

I’m not above a good multiplayer betrayal every now and then. I use my color-blindness as an excuse the way a good forum troll uses Asperger’s or agoraphobia. But this guy, UnstoppableLuck, takes it to the next level. If you see that Gamertag in your party, I’d advise leaving. Otherwise the one guy with no…

By Owen Good Published September 30, 2011

Ever see a Halo ODST Drive Through McDonalds In a Go-Kart Before?

They may have helped save the Earth in the Halo series, but the UNSC’s ODST forces seem to be having a little trouble adjusting to civilian life now that the war’s over. Case in point: you don’t need armour to go to McDonalds. The drive-thru at McDonalds. Unless you’re Fahey, that is And you, uh,…

By Luke Plunkett Published September 28, 2011

How To Spell Mario’s Jump (And Other Famous Video Game Sound Effects)

Video games have so many iconic sound effects—hearing the simple “ga-ling!” of the Nintendo coin can invoke a nostalgia as powerful as any memory of actually playing a game. From the Mario’s three-note warp-pipe descent to Simon Belmont’s famous whip, all games feature sounds that players will hear over and over and over again until…

By Kirk Hamilton Published September 27, 2011

Dashboard Beta Testers Get Free Digital Halo: Reach to Replace Borked Disc

The recent title update to Halo: Reach has rendered unplayable the free disc version of the game given to Xbox Live dashboard beta participants earlier this year. Rather than say tough luck, Microsoft is giving all of them a free digital copy of the game. An email to dashboard beta participants today advised them of…

By Owen Good Published September 24, 2011

The Worst Fan-Made Halo Song We’ve Ever Heard

This fan-made song is dedicated to the singer’s desire to attain a copy of Halo. A worthy goal for most, I should think. It is titled “I Throw My Xbox at the Bungie Guys”. The lyrics and vocal performance are downright awful. And I mean that in the best way possible! He also manages to…

By Matthew Buzzi Published September 22, 2011

Halo Anniversary Minimates Put Cortana in Your Pocket

All I ever wanted was a clear blue curvy woman to call my own, and that’s exactly what we’re getting in Diamond Select Toys’ commemorative Halo Anniversary Minimates set. Coming this winter to a specialty toy seller near you, the Halo Anniversary Minimates set marks the debut of Cortana, Master Chief’s A.I. love interest, in…

By Mike Fahey Published September 21, 2011

Halo, Mass Effect 2, DC #1s and — New Wolfman/Perez Teen Titans Top This Week’s New Comics

Each Wednesday brings new comics worth reading. Some of them are about video games. This month, a lot of them are new DC super-hero comics, since that company is re-launching everything. Read on for recommendations of this week’s best stuff and for my capsule reviews of DC’s second wave of new books… Comics You Should…

By Stephen Totilo Published September 21, 2011

Halo: Anniversary‘s Kinect Support Involves Voice-Switching the Graphics

When word spread this summer that Halo: Anniversary would include Kinect support, gamers fidgeted nervously, wondering just what the hell 343 Industries had in mind for the franchise. Calm down, they’re not introducing motion control to the HD remake. They’re letting you switch between the game’s high-definition and standard-definition graphics using your voice. 343 was…

By Owen Good Published September 16, 2011

Halo Anniversary is Exactly how I Like my HD Remakes

It’s the flavour of the show at this year’s TGS. It seems everywhere you turn there are HD remakes of old games, just waiting for the chance to get you to pay for the same game twice. As I’ve said with one such remake, MGS2, each is taking a slightly different approach to renovating an…

By Luke Plunkett Published September 16, 2011

Halo 2‘s “Headlong” Gets a Stunning Anniversary Makeover

With excellent sniping spots and what amounts to a vehicular combat arena at the bottom, Halo 2‘s “Headlong” multiplayer map is reborn as “Breakneck” in Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary. Bask in the glorious gameplay footage and screens, plus get a peek at the very first Halo campaign level in all its remastered glory. Making its…

By Mike Fahey Published September 14, 2011

Halo Creative Director Leaving Halo 4 [Update]

Halo 4 is the first title in a new trilogy of Halo games. The previous three titles were developed by Bungie, but the next three are being made in-house by Microsoft’s own Halo studio. Halo 4 won’t be out until late 2012, and today, one of the game’s creative directors, Ryan Payton, is not only…

By Brian Ashcraft Published September 6, 2011

Halo, BioShock, Dead Space as 16-bit Heroes

Artist Michael Myers was brought in by t-shirt team High Score Society to design a range of gear in which modern video game heroes were rendered in a stylised 16-bit-ish form. The results? Wonderful. He did five designs in all, one each for BioShock, Gears of War, Killzone, Dead Space and Halo. You can check…

By Luke Plunkett Published September 5, 2011

This Halo Helmet Looks Good Enough for the Movie They’ll Never Make

The way it’s looking there’ll never be a Halo movie. Ah well! So long as regular humans keep making killer props like this, we’re free to imagine our own. Which is always for the best, because then, they never end up sucking. This helmet was submitted to MAKE magazine by creator Tsabo Tsaboc over the…

By Luke Plunkett Published September 5, 2011