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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

Life After People (On Halo’s Reach)

When sci-fi shooter Halo: Reach ends, so too does humanity’s presence on the planet. This gallery of environment art for the game shows what the place would look like with everyone gone. That’s not its point, of course; it’s just a collection of in-game art showcasing the talents of Bungie level artist Anthony Vaccaro (with…

By Luke Plunkett Published October 12, 2010

Halo: Reach Gets Campaign Matchmaking Oct. 19

Campaign matchmaking playlists will come to Halo: Reach on Oct. 19, and the game’s rank cap should get raised sometime in the month or so, Bungie said yesterday in its weekly update. Noting that playlist updates are typically on a monthly schedule, Bungie’s been doing mid-month updates as well and says the next mid-month edition…

By Owen Good Published October 9, 2010

Halo Waypoint Spawns ‘Apt. 117,’ A Cartoon About Bores & Idiots

The current home of all things Halo, 343 Industries, is working with Powerhouse Animation Studios—responsible for the animation in Risk: Factions—on a new, ongoing Halo-themed animated series dubbed Apt. 117. Maybe you’ll think it’s funny? Maybe not, because Apt. 117 is pitched as “an underwhelming animated series” about “a boring, average guy who lives with…

By Michael McWhertor Published October 7, 2010

Report: Halo Movie Might Happen With Spielberg, But In An Unexpected Way

Microsoft’s “on hold” plans for a Halo film series may be back on again, with Steven Spielberg’s DreamWorks Pictures “renewing its efforts to obtain the rights and revive the project,” according to a new report. NY Mag’s entertainment column, Vulture, cites “insiders” in a report that claims DreamWorks is “focusing on using novelizations of the…

By Michael McWhertor Published October 6, 2010

All The Ranks Of Reach

Slowly but surely the Halo: Reach community has been filling in the ranks and credit requirements in the game’s single- and multiplayer progessions. They’ve all been uncovered now. Forum member DtownGamer has been supplying the ranks and screenshot confirmations of them; Halopedia just added the full roster to its page, where you may also see…

By Owen Good Published October 2, 2010

Bungie Glasses 15,000 Halo: Reach Cheaters

Shortly after Halo: Reach was released, users found a way to earn cheap, easy in-game credits via an exploit. Some people, though, had to take it too far. Now, the exploit itself, if you’ve got the patience for it, that’s fine. But 15,000 players have been found to have gone overboard on the exploit via…

By Luke Plunkett Published October 2, 2010

Get In The (R/C) Warthog!

Reader Dan S. noticed that the MacFarlane Toys’ Halo: Reach Warthog perfectly matched the chassis of one of his R/C vehicles. “The wheels started turning in my head,” Dan says, “pardon the pun.” “So I acquired said Warthog toy and promptly Frankensteined the two items together,” he told Kotaku, “added some hi-intensity LEDs and came…

By Owen Good Published October 1, 2010

Gears of War 3 Delayed At Least Five Months

It looks like Epic’s Cliff Bleszinski was more than just three days off when he told Jimmy Fallon on national TV that Gears of War 3 was hitting on April 8. The next day Microsoft shifted the date a bit, saying the game would actually be hitting on April 5, 2011. Today the publisher is…

By Brian Crecente Published October 1, 2010

Spartans Are Not Born, They Are Made

The Spartans of the Halo universe are capable of some pretty incredible stuff, but so they should: they’re soldiers in fancy robot suits from the 26th century. In the 21st century, it’s all about the baby steps. This is the XOS 2, or as we’re calling it, Spartan Armour Test Suit v1.0. It’s basically an…

By Luke Plunkett Published September 28, 2010