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Halo: Reach’s First TV Spot Shows How Spartans Are Made
In the ongoing tradition of beautifully filmed, high-class live action Halo commercials comes “Birth of a Spartan,” Microsoft and Bungie’s promotional short for the Halo: Reach beta. That’s right. We’re doing beta commercials now. The 60-second spot features the Spartan-izing of Carter 259, who you’ll soon better know as the future leader of Noble Team…
By Michael McWhertor Published April 27, 2010 -
How Conan Got Over The Loss Of His Talk Show
As seen on G4
By Luke Plunkett Published April 27, 2010 -
Now Halo: Reach Has A Live Action Thing As Well
What is it with live-action trailers these days? Ghost Recon: Future Soldier has one, Alan Wake has one, Assassin’s Creed II had some, and now Halo: Reach, following in the footsteps of its predecessor Halo 3: ODST, has one too. It’ll debut later tomorrow night (2100 PST), and has been directed by Noam Murro, a…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 27, 2010 -
Visualize the Halo: Reach Beta With 13 Minutes of Video
Today was video day for Bungie and the Halo: Reach multiplayer beta, which begins in a week. The studio dropped 13 minutes of raw footage showing several of the available modes. Yeah, I probably should chop it up, but believe me, technical difficulties on my end are why this thing is so late in the…
By Owen Good Published April 26, 2010 -
Halo: Reach Multiplayer: Playing a Role in a First-Person Shooter
The loadouts have names like Operator, Airborne, Grenadier, indicating their main weapon and a unique battlefield talent. I suggest that Bungie’s bringing a touch of class-based combat to Halo, and the designer winces, then chooses his words. “I don’t want to call it class-based, but we do want people to be able to fill a…
By Owen Good Published April 21, 2010 -
Halo: Reach Multiplayer Preview: A New Game, But Not Unfamiliar
In 10 days, Halo: Reach gets its multiplayer beta – and consider that last word. With four different game types, new abilities and weapons, this isn’t some preview of the rest of a new game. It is a new game. Yes, the Halo: Reach beta will deliver another four maps and the standard game modes,…
By Owen Good Published April 21, 2010 -
Halo 3 Now Downloadable To Xbox 360, But With An Asterisk
Back in 2008, the people who made Halo 3 had a warning for fans: Play the game from the disc; not from a harddrive. Today, Microsoft has a seeming contradictory sales pitch. [UPDATED: Microsoft comments] Today, Microsoft, the company that owns Halo revealed that Halo 3 is available for purchase and download onto the Xbox…
By Stephen Totilo Published April 20, 2010 -
This Is A Nice, Nice Xbox 360
When a Hollywood special effects master sits down and whips up a custom Xbox 360 console, this is the end result. Designed by Richard Taylor from WETA Workshop (ie the Lord of the Rings special effects guys, who were also down to work on the aborted Halo movie), the one-of-a-kind console – which is part…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 19, 2010 -
The Original Xbox Live…LIVES! (For Now, At Least)
The original Xbox Live service was supposed to have been shut down at midnight. But midnight has now passed, and the people playing Halo 2 online in anticipation of its demise are…still playing Halo 2. We don’t yet know whether this is a last-minute hiccup or whether Bungie and Microsoft have made a deal with…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 15, 2010 -
Why The Halo MMO Was Cancelled
A few years ago, Microsoft-owned Ensemble Studios, the team behind Age of Empires, was working on a Halo massively-multiplayer online game, code-named Titan. That project ended up a bust, and was cancelled by Microsoft. Here’s why. “We had all this incredible talent, we had the right people, the right passion, we had a phenomenally successful…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 13, 2010 -
Sci-Fi Author: Halo Full of “Bull**** Archetypal Characters”
You might like Halo. You might not. Crysis 2 lead writer and sci-fi novelist Richard Morgan says he doesn’t like Halo at all “I don’t like the Halo series at all,” says Morgan, best known for his dystopian novel Altered Carbon. “Okay Halo is not actually bad, it’s just, you know, average.” Average? Do explain!…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 12, 2010 -
Microsoft Hasn’t Given Up On The Halo Movie
Once upon a time, Microsoft was going to make a big budget Hollywood version of the Halo franchise. Until it spectacularly fell apart. That doesn’t mean it won’t ever happen, says the company. Back in 2005, a film version of Halo was first penned by Alex Garland, writer of The Beach novel and 28 Days…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 9, 2010 -
Halo Reach’s Gun Porn (And Vehicle Porn, Too)
Halo creators Bungie love guns. Love big, bulky space vehicles,too. Love ’em so much they’ve released a ton of renders showing how both will appear in the upcoming Halo: Reach. Alongside those mechanical moneyshots we’ve also included some older shots of the game’s cast of Spartans, Covenant and cannon fodder Marines. Halo Reach’s beta kicks…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 7, 2010 -
New Halo Toys Feature Retro Master Chief, Cannon Fodder
McFarlane toys has released images of their eights series of Halo action figures, due in June. Continuing a pleasant trend, some are all-new figures, including ones from Halo: ODST. The Halo 3 expansion’s Captain Dare and Buck are both present, the latter looking eerily like a gun-toting David Duchovny. Also featured is a Halo 2…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 29, 2010 -
Halo Creators Have Been Hitting The Mountain Dew
It’s understandable that game creators hold their franchises dear, and think the world of them. But Bungie’s hopes for the upcoming Halo: Reach might be going a little too far. Speaking with Industrygamers, Bungie’s Brian Jarrard has revealed he has some high hopes for the latest Halo game. High hopes indeed “Are there more stories…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 25, 2010 -
When Halo Meets Gundam: The Master Chief Zaku
Model hobbyist and Gundam fan Angelo Guibone’s custom Master Chief Zaku crossover not only appeals to two camps, its will probably appear in a proposal for Microsoft Tecmo Koei’s Halo: Dynasty Warriors: Gundam: Combat Evolved at some point. In more serious matters—this hasn’t happened yet? I see more than one Master Chief custom Transformer out…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 22, 2010 -
What Are Halo Creators Making With ‘Bungie Aerospace’?
Halo creators Bungie are cooking up something new, something that, despite its new name, may not actually follow in the trail blazed by id Software’s John Carmack and involve shooting rockets into space. So what is Bungie Aerospace? Well, it’s not much more than a trademark spotted by Attack of the Fanboy while many of…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 15, 2010 -
Bungie Promises Teabagging Support for Halo: Reach
In its current alpha state, the camera for Halo: Reach immediately flies back to the deceased’s respawn location, rather than lingering while his victorious assailant squats over his face. A bug fix has been submitted. Yes, really. Bungie acknowledged the flaw in its weekly update on Friday. Here it is: Title: Teabagging / humiliation moves…
By Owen Good Published March 8, 2010 -
This Week In Comics
The “This Week In Comics” effort here at Kotaku weathers a rough February. But here’s a second installment (late!), showcasing a couple of gaming comic books, a couple of others, in shops in the U.S., this week. Mega Man Megamix Vol.1 Written and drawn by Hitoshi Ariga. Summary Via Udon Entertainment: Written and drawn by…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 26, 2010