Halo

Come Chat with Microsoft’s Aaron Greenberg on Kotaku Talk Radio Today

Join us live today on CBS Radio for our latest episode of Kotaku Talk Radio with the Xbox 360’s director of product management. Hot off his appearance at last week’s big Xbox 360 showcase event in San Francisco, Aaron Greenberg joins us live to chat about the console, gaming in general and to take your…

Halo Legends Hits Blu-ray, DVD Today… Who’s Getting It?

Microsoft’s foray into the animated adventures of Halo is now officially available at your local retailer of fine DVDs and Blu-rays, offering Master Chief fans seven short films based on the popular Xbox shooter. Anyone getting it? If you have plans to do so, Halo Legends should be available now in physical format on DVD…

Halo: The Mega Bloks Toys

The Master Chief posing at Toy Fair was made up of about 500,000 Mega Bloks, a representative for the company behind the Lego-like toys told me yesterday. Behind him was Iron Man. Behind that, new Halo Mega Bloks toys. The first images below are of Master Chief and Iron Man outside the booth. The others…

Beyond Halo, Marathon, Myth, Oni, What’s Next For Bungie

As Bungie works to finish up what they say will be the best Halo game ever produced they’re also hard at work at something else, their first non-Halo game in more than ten years. “For all intents and purposes this will be Bungie’s final Halo game,” said Brian Jarrard, Bungie’s community director. “I don’t think…

Halo Reach, Reaches For the Stars

We see a desert plain, distant mountains and a sky so light blue it’s almost white. The ground too fades to white, from a dusty light brown. In the distance there are mountains and what appears to be mining equipment. Everything we see is real terrain. That means if you drive, walk or fly long…

Married By Master Chief, One Year Later

A year ago, I attended a Halo wedding. It was in Orlando. The bride entered to a live rendition of the Halo 3 menu music. A man dressed as Master Chief married bride and groom. Here’s what happened next. A year past their wedding, Desirai Labrada and John Henry have become an inspiration to the…

Master Mario Mashup

Mario/Master Chief tattoo, now on an unknown fan for life. As seen at Hawty McBloggy.

This Week In Video Game Comics

Halo and Sonic comics this week. And a question for you folks: Would you be interested in this weekly round-up covering more than just video game comics but other interesting, new comics too? (Click each thumbnail for more info.) Sonic The Hedgehog Archives Vol. 12 Written by Angelo DeCesare, Ken Penders, and Kent Taylor. Drawn…

The Art Of Halo: Reach

Bungie this week released a large batch of concept art for the upcoming Halo: Reach, showing some soldiers, some Covenant, some trees, some snow and a Spartan with a little robot T-Rex arm. Some of this was featured in the latest issue of Game Informer, but since most of you wouldn’t have seen that, enjoy.

Some More Halo: Reach Screenshots

EB Games gave us an inadvertent taste of Halo: Reach the other day. Cover blown, Bungie has now decided to let loose the rest of the game’s first batch of proper screenshots. Some of these will look familiar to anyone picking up the latest issue of Game Informer, but others – particularly the environment shots…

Halo Legends’ “Homecoming” Is Having A Bad Day

Hey Halo fans, were you totally pumped after seeing that preview clip for “The Package” the other day? You were. Totally. Well, ere’s another preview, this one for “Homecoming”. It’s…yeah. Any of you see Gotham Knight? Same deal as Halo Legends; a bunch of Japanese studios put together a collection of animated shorts, all based…

Cameron Calls Firsties in Halo-Avatar Comparisons

James Cameron, the director of James Cameron’s Avatar, has a rebuttal for Halo fanboys criticizing his film for its resemblance to their favorite game. In a nutshell, Cameron reminds everyone that Halo’s borrowing from him, remember? “The funniest thing is when some of the so-called fanboys get up trashing Avatar for looking too much like…

Halo: Reach Boasts New Tech, Bigger Battles

It’s easy to think of Halo: Reach and yawn, imagining yet another Halo game using the same old Halo formula and the same old Halo tech. Listen to Bungie detail Halo: Reach, though, and your optimism may come sneaking back. Reach is the cover feature in the latest issue of Game Informer, and the piece…

Neill Blomkamp “Stressed Out” By Idea of District 9 Game

At one time, director Neill Blomkamp was just the guy who was going to helm the now-on-ice Halo Hollywood flick. That movie never happened. Sci-fi hit District 9 did, and Blompkamp’s career took off. In the short time since District 9 has hit theaters (and taken off), Blomkamp has shown street smarts about the Hollywood…

Master Chief’s Dancing Spartan Parade

This was from Philadelphia’s 2010 Mummers Parade. We post it not because we’ve developed a sudden interest in choreographed parade dance routines, but because we have an interest in 17 Spartans from Halo performing a choreographed parade dance routine. Reader Justin was on the scene to capture the moment with his camera. Thanks Justin! Click…

Halo Legends: Origins Rings In New Year With Final Preview

The final episode of 343 Industries’ series of animated shorts set in the Halo universe will get its showing next week. Studio 4oC’s Halo Legends “Origins” wraps up the preview program on Halo Waypoint on Saturday, January 2. “Origins” highlights Forerunner battles with the Flood and “shed light on some of the main events of…

Halo Wars…Clay

Microsoft’s Halo Wars is popular enough to merit its own line of toys — official toys. It also is popular enough to merit a line of rip off toys that come packed in clay. Because if you are going to rip someone off, do it with clay. “It’s one of those kits where you get…

It’s The Mr. Potato Head Of Halo Figures

It can be said McFarlane make too many Halo figures. A Spartan with a blue helmet, a Spartan with a blue helmet and a slightly different gun…it’s a nickel and dime show. If only you could just buy one figure, and customise it yourself…oh, like you can with this new “Halo Rogue Deluxe Armour Pack”,…

Halo: Reach Trailer Dates Multiplayer Beta for Spring

These two minutes come from the opening cinematic of Halo: Reach, establishing the story of Noble Team, assigned to defend the planet. An accompanying press release announced the multiplayer beta – invitations included in Halo 3:ODST – begins Spring 2010.

Metal Gear Solid 4 Music Man Joins The New Halo Team

Microsoft’s internal Halo team, 343 Industries, has a new member. Sotaro Tojima, formerly of Kojima Productions and credited with Metal Gear Solid 4‘s sound direction, has joined the Halo publisher. The official Halo Waypoint Twitter account brings word of Tojima’s hire, the second—that we know of—former Kojiima Productions staffer to join Microsoft in its Halo-expanding…