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Halo, A Backstreet Boy, A Naked Woman, And A Madman

Artist Tyler Shields brings together the Backstreet Boys’ Aj McLean, Madmen’s Michael Gladis, an attractive naked woman, and Halo in a twisted tale of love, friendship, betrayal, and murder. Check out Shield’s website for some NSFW stills from the shoot. Gameface is a visual celebration of the people who make, play and love video games.

By Mike Fahey Published December 9, 2010

Halo Wars’ Leaderboards Saved

Responding to outcry from the game’s close-knit community, Microsoft has about-faced on its decision to end leaderboard and stat-tracking support for Halo Wars on Dec. 15. While the Halo Wars forums will still be merged into the Halo Waypoint forums, ending their presence on HaloWars.com, leaderboards and online statistics will remain active. Dedicated Halo Wars…

By Owen Good Published December 8, 2010

When Mega Man Meets Halo

Mega Man fan and Capcom community member Jin Saotome delivers a close approximation of what Mega Man characters sculpted by Halo action figure company McFarlane Toys would look like. As seen on Capcom Unity

By Mike Fahey Published December 6, 2010

A Great New Way To Make A Halo Movie

What if the Halo movie was like Who Framed Roger Rabbit starring Master Chief and some real actors? Wonder no more. This is it. It’s called “You Will Never Get the Power Core.” The film popped up on Vimeo today. It was made by Alan Marsala and Chance McManus, using Halo Reach for the video…

By Stephen Totilo Published December 2, 2010

When Spartans Die, They Go Here

College Humor’s latest animated short makes me feel a little less bad about all the times I get killed in Halo. I’m just letting my Spartan see the Spartan afterlife. It’s intentional. Halo Spartan Heaven [YouTube’s CollegeHumor.com channel]

By Stephen Totilo Published December 1, 2010

Go Out Of Bounds With Halo: Reach’s Noble Map Pack

Halo: Reach got a fresh injection of new maps earlier today courtesy of the Noble Map Pack. Why many of us are content to play within the confines of Bungie’s three new maps, others would prefer to explore. YouTube user and Halo: Reach superfan TheMightyPnut takes us on a trip beyond the bounds of normal…

By Michael McWhertor Published November 30, 2010

Halo: Reach Could Have Had A Lot More Spaceships Blowin’ Each Other Up

One of the best parts about Halo: Reach was that, for the game’s all-important change of pace, the developers swapped out the awful Flood and replaced them with an enjoyable space battle sequence. So it’s a shame to hear that there was an original – if half-baked – plan to have a lot more space…

By Luke Plunkett Published November 30, 2010

Microsoft: There Will Be A Halo Movie

At the Future of Television East conference last week, Microsoft’s Frank O’Connor sat on a panel that focused on the grail of transmedia. Halo’s franchise development director is a shortish, stocky guy who looks like a feisty boxer. And he’s proud bordering on arrogant about the lauded series of games that sold so many Xboxes.…

Harold Goldberg Published November 22, 2010

You Could Play Bungie’s Next Game Before Anyone Else

Bungie wants you to shape its future. It’s putting out the call for hundreds of thousands of committed, Halo and Marathon-loving Bungie fans to be a part of its focus testing group, a group that could become beta testers for its unannounced game. Signing up to be a Bungie beta tester may be the easiest…

By Michael McWhertor Published November 18, 2010

Great Shot Kid, That Was One In A Million

There are one-in-a-million kills, and then there are one-in-a-gazillion-million-billion kills. Or, in this case, suicides. Reader Adam sends us this clip of a game of Halo: Reach, in which he fires off a shot that misses its target. He does, however, manage to hit first the ground and then a distant mountain, which results in…

By Luke Plunkett Published November 18, 2010

How Video Games Changed Our Science Fiction Fantasy

Roger Ebert has said that video games cannot be art. Similar judgments have been made over the decades and centuries about novels, plays, movies, television, comic books, and of course science fiction. Now, videogames are up in front of the Supreme Court. Once again a new and innovative form of art and entertainment is being…

Greg Bear Published November 5, 2010

Halo’s Spartans Are Not Made, They Are…OK, They’re Made

Popular Halo web series Red vs Blue just got a little more real, with this veritable army of real-life Spartan suits built to honour the machinima Back in 2007, Shawn Thorsson and his friends thought it’d be a hoot if thy could go trick-or-treating dressed as the characters from Red vs Blue. Now, in 2010,…

By Luke Plunkett Published November 5, 2010

This Kinect Game Has Halo Surprises

The Halo franchise has infiltrated a Kinect launch game. What kind of gesture-controlled Halo are we talking about? Video spoilers below. The video here is from Kinectimals. It shows two of what I believe are three unlockable Halo elements in the game. Both the Warthog and the Ghost you see in the clip are iconic…

By Stephen Totilo Published November 4, 2010

Apple Tried To Buy Halo’s Creators

Guess Apple boss Steve Jobs had a very good reason for being upset at Microsoft’s purchase of Halo creators Bungie: according to a former Bungie staffer, Apple had itself been on the verge of buying the now-famous developer. Former project lead Tuncer Deniz has told Develop that Bungie’s big cheese had, around the turn of…

By Luke Plunkett Published October 27, 2010

Steve Jobs Went Bananas When Microsoft Bought Halo’s Creators

Before Halo, Bungie had made a name for itself developing the Marathon series of shooters on the Mac. So when the studio was bought by Microsoft to make games for the Xbox, Apple boss Steve Jobs was pissed “As soon as we announced we bought Bungie, Steve Jobs called,” former Microsoft VP of game publishing…

By Luke Plunkett Published October 26, 2010

Microsoft Not So Keen On HD Re-Releases For The Xbox 360

From Ico to God of War to Sly to Beyond Good & Evil, the PlayStation 3 is currently being inundated by high definition ports of classic PS2 games. The Xbox 360? Notsomuch. “I don’t think it’s necessarily a bad idea,” Microsoft Game Studios Corporate Vice President Phil Spencer told IGN. “I’m going to think about…

By Luke Plunkett Published October 26, 2010

Master Chief, The Declining Years

Wondering what happens to Master Chief after the events of Halo 3? He got old. And sick This great piece of fan art by Chris Pollitt, put together for a Comicon concept art challenge, shows the star of the Halo series in his declining years, decades of battle having taken their toll on his spirts…

By Luke Plunkett Published October 21, 2010

These Halo: Reach Figures Don’t Know The Battle Is Already Lost

The first series of Halo: Reach action figures was missing a few key characters. Who are, of course, included in the second series from toy company McFarlane. Spartan 259, Carter, is the leader of Noble Team, and was missing from the game’s first wave of figures. He’s joined in this “advance wave” of series 2…

By Luke Plunkett Published October 18, 2010

Halo: Reach Rank Cap Should Be Lifted In November

The latest update from the minds behind Halo: Reach says the game’s rank cap, currently limited to Lieutenant Colonel Grade C, will be lifted once the game’s community completes 117 million daily and weekly challenges. That is quite a lot, but then, quite a lot of people play Halo: Reach, and so Bungie expects that…

By Owen Good Published October 16, 2010

Halo: Reach Sells Over 3 Million Copies

For a game where you know how it ends before you even fire it up, the fact Halo: Reach has sold over 3 million copies since its release a month ago is some tidy work on the part of Bungie. Microsoft’s Aaron Greenberg took to Twitter earlier today to reveal that the game, the fourth…

By Luke Plunkett Published October 15, 2010