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Reach Cracks Billboard’s Top 200
Per its name, The Billboard 200 is a weekly list of the 200 highest-selling albums in the U.S. The official soundtrack for Halo: Reach debuted at No. 157 for the past week, the best mark ever for the franchise. Past Halo soundtracks have also hit Billboard’s 200 – Halo 2 got up to 162 in…
By Owen Good Published September 23, 2010 -
Halo: Reach Was Second-Most Popular Xbox Live Game In Its Launch Week [Corrected]
Xbox Live’s Major Nelson released data on Thursday showing that Halo: Reach was the No. 2 game on Xbox Live in its launch week, trailing only Modern Warfare 2. It had four times as many players as Halo 3. Hyrb notes that Halo: Reach, which released on Sept. 14, was available only six of the…
By Owen Good Published September 23, 2010 -
A New Halo Game Every Three Years Is Not Enough
Microsoft wants key entries in the Halo series to make their way to your Xbox 360 a little faster, increasing the frequency of the standard three year cycle developer Bungie was known for. But just how frequent? Phil Spencer, VP at Microsoft Game Studios, tells IGN that “one Halo game every three years – which…
By Michael McWhertor Published September 23, 2010 -
Weta Is Making Halo: Reach ATVs (And You Can Have One)
Weta Workship, the New Zealand studio that specializes in fantastical concept design and manufacturing, the team responsible for making a drivable Halo Warthog, is making more Halo vehicles. Exactly two Mongoose-style ATVs. And you can win one. Microsoft has tapped Weta to make a pair of working Halo: Reach Mongoose ATVs that “look and sound”…
By Michael McWhertor Published September 21, 2010 -
Is The Age Of Exclusives Over?
Not first party exclusives like Mario, Halo and God of War. Those will live on as long as there are console platform holders. Rather, is the age of big third-party exclusives finished? The last big third-party exclusive was Metal Gear Solid 4, and that was in 2008. Before the game’s release, a great deal of…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 20, 2010 -
Halo: Reach Campaign Matchmaking To Begin Early Next Month
Halo: Reach will support co-operative campaign matchmaking, you just haven’t seen the feature yet because Bungie doesn’t want people getting the story spoiled on the first mission they play. But in a couple of weeks, there should be enough of a gap since release that most folks will have seen the campaign plot points on…
By Owen Good Published September 19, 2010 -
Does Halo Even Need A Movie? Nah
At one time, Microsoft was in Hollywood, meeting with movie producers and trying to make a Halo movie. It didn’t happen. And while Microsoft hasn’t given up, the question remains: Does Microsoft even need to make a Halo film? “I don’t know if we need a Halo movie”, Microsoft Game Studios exec Phil Spencer told…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 18, 2010 -
The Master Chief Is in Halo: Reach After All
Color me surprised, especially since I played through the game twice and didn’t notice him, but the Master Chief does appear to make a quick cameo in the end of Halo: Reach. Be warned if you don’t want the game SPOILED for you, don’t watch the above video. If you don’t care, press play and…
By Brian Crecente Published September 16, 2010 -
A Video Tour Of A Halo Fan’s ‘UNSC Man Cave’
One man is taking the impending launch of Halo: Reach very, very seriously, building a high tech, Halo-themed hovel full of cheaply acquired home theater equipment and shelves stuffed with female repellent. This is the “UNSC Man Cave.” In addition to a 150″ projector screen, a 7.1 surround sound system and custom artwork all over…
By Michael McWhertor Published September 8, 2010 -
Halo Movie Lives On, Well, Sorta
In August 2009, Microsoft said that its plans for a big-screen version of Halo were “on hold”. This past spring, Microsoft expressed interest in doing a Halo flick “when the time is right”. Is the time right yet? “We’re still interested in making an excellent ‘Halo’ movie,” Frank O’Connor from Micrsoft’s Halo branch, 343 Industries,…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 6, 2010 -
Our Video Game Gun Rack
So many games, so many guns. Most are good, but some have to be the best, and it’s only the best that we’ve decided to hang on our Kotaku Gun Rack. Keep the crows off our porch. There’s no room for funny guns here. Nothing stupid, or novel, or unique. No, only guns that do…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 2, 2010 -
If Only There Was Official Halo LEGO
There is no official Halo LEGO. Instead, there is only Halo Mega Bloks, and no amount of fancy stop-motion animation will make that any easier to deal with. I mean, look at this! It looks…OK, which for Mega Bloks, the poor man’s LEGO, is a big deal! [thanks John!]
By Luke Plunkett Published September 1, 2010 -
Hit The Campaign Trail With Halo: Reach
Earlier this week, Stephen Totilo spent a day with Halo: Reach‘s singleplayer and brought back loads of impressions and details. But no video. That was for Gametrailers, which made the game’s campaign the centerpiece of its latest episode. We’ve embedded the entire episode because the Halo-specific chapters haven’t been broken out. There’s a bunch of…
By Owen Good Published August 28, 2010 -
It’s Not 2001, It’s Halo: Reach
Reader Sean was strolling down the street in his native Toronto when he spotted this monolithic hulk, which is one of the more unique game advertisements we’ve ever seen. It’s a 2001-esque cylinder that seems to exist solely to pulse a red light and point people towards Halo: Reach’s web portals. It might succeed at…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 27, 2010 -
The Day Before Halo: Reach’s Invasion
The Halo universe is famous for explosions and the colour purple. But pregnant British women? Never seen one of them in a Halo game before. This is yet another live-action trailer for Halo: Reach, showing the lives of some of the citizens of Reach the day before the Covenant invasion. They’re OK, but Microsoft, the…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 25, 2010 -
Microsoft: Eerily Familiar “Space Marine” Ad Not Connected to Halo
Samsung’s television commercial for its new Galaxy S phone has a lot of people thinking Halo when they watch it. The armor seems very similar and the look of the action also has a taste of Halo about it. Of course the flying crayfish starship is about as far off as you can get. So…
By Brian Crecente Published August 24, 2010 -
See “Master Chief’s” Face In A…Mobile Phone Commercial
In this commercial for Samsung’s new Galaxy S phone, a guy who looks a lot like Halo’s Master Chief runs like a scared little girl, then jumps in a flying crayfish and takes his helmet off. Sounds bizarre, and it is, but watch the commercial and everything written above actually happens. This isn’t an ad…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 24, 2010 -
Halo: Reach To Support Campaign Matchmaking
Buried in Bungie’s weekly update is a terse confirmation of an unprecedented feature for the series: Campaign matchmaking. Players now will be able to find friends or link up with strangers and fight cooperatively through the game’s campaign mode. “Totally Unrelated Question 4: Can I haz Campaign Matchmaking?” writes Bungie. “Totally Related Answer: Yes.” No…
By Owen Good Published August 22, 2010