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This Week In Video Game Comics
This week, Kotaku brings you not only the current week’s worth of new gaming-based comics hitting shops… but last week’s too. Double the comics for no extra price. Click the thumbnails for more details. Halo Helljumper #3… Written by Peter David. Drawn by Eric Nguyen Summary Via Publisher Marvel Comics: Mysteries deepen as the Helljumpers’…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 30, 2009 -
Halo Hoodie Practically Begs to be Teabagged
Without getting close enough to see the UNSC sleeve patch (or the obnoxious “NOOBS GET PWN3D” crest) , I’m not sure this $88 Marc Ecko-designed Halo-themed hoodie really says “Master Chief” to me. I suppose you can cinch up the hood and create a semi-Spartan helmet visor look with it. Still, this garment seems to…
By Owen Good Published September 26, 2009 -
ODST Sees Nearly One Million Players its First Day
According to a widget box at the front of Bungie.net, close to 950,000 people had played Halo 3: ODST on its first day of release, logging more than 5 million games. Yes, those are impressive numbers. As of the time this post was written, ODST’s 24 hour figure for total players was 949,306; the 24-hour…
By Owen Good Published September 23, 2009 -
Reviews
Halo 3: ODST Review: The More Vulnerable Edition
Halo games are mighty productions, but Bungie’s latest offers intentional and unintentional weaknesses, allowing the studio to experiment and excel. All this while showing rare vulnerability. Bungie’s fourth Halo game, Halo 3: ODST, will officially be released for the Xbox 360 this week. A side story of a campaign that leads into the events of…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 22, 2009 -
Halo Composer Wrote Jingles for Flintstones Vitamins, Tidy Cats
A profile by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, calling Marty O’Donnell the John Williams of the Halo series, turns up this tidbit: He wrote the Flintstones Vitamins jingle (which you now have stuck in your head) and his kids sang the chorus. That’s not news to hardcore fans (it’s all over the Halo wikis), but O’Donnell’s past…
By Owen Good Published September 22, 2009 -
Halo Anime: Watch Some Now
On Friday night, Spike TV showed, amongst a ton of Halo 3: ODST coverage, a preview of the upcoming Halo anime project, Halo Legends. Here’s just the anime stuff. Looks…better than I was expecting, actually. Nice blend of ham-it-up chit-chat and some more serious, knife-in-the-neck kind of stuff.
By Luke Plunkett Published September 21, 2009 -
Blomkamp: Master Chief Is A Victim Of The Military-Industrial Complex
You may be as sick as we are of hearing how the Blomkamp/Jackson Halo movie is dead. For all that chatter, however, you probably never heard what it was about Halo that got Blomkamp interested in the first place. Sure, there are lasers and aliens and intergalactic fighting. If you were born with a penis…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 21, 2009 -
Scrapped Halo MMO’s title: ‘Halo Universe’?
Dylan Cole, an artist formerly with Ensemble Studios, has on his personal Web site some concept pieces for a canceled Halo project that may or may not have been called “Halo Universe.” Ensemble of course was the muscle behind a Halo MMO that was greenlighted and then scrapped sometime last year. Cole’s pictures (two are…
By Owen Good Published September 20, 2009 -
Walking the High Iron with Halo 3: ODST
These two minutes of gameplay show you the enemy aircraft in Halo 3: ODST are not only polite enough not to knock you off the top of a construction site, they’ll hover around and wait to be blasticated. Rooftop Gameplay [GameTrailers]
By Owen Good Published September 19, 2009 -
Hello, Giant Master Chief Bust
Collectibles company One2One Collectibles have announced they’ll be releasing a line of 1:2 scale busts from the Halo universe. That’s a big bust. First off the blocks is, of course, the Master Chief. It’ll be out towards the end of the year, and being so damn huge, carries a damn huge price tag, at $225.…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 18, 2009 -
Spike Showing Halo Legends Anime Clips Tonight
The Halo Legends won’t be out for months. Spike will be airing up to seven minutes of it tonight. The shot above is clipped from that clip. Spike’s Halo 3 ODST Countdown To Launch special airs at midnight tonight, Eastern and Pacific, featuring host Geoff Keighley and a trio of Halo-minded experts, Bungie’s Joe Staten…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 17, 2009 -
Halo 3: ODST Gets A 360 Bundle
Not a Modern Warfare man? Maybe you’re a Halo man. Or lady! If so, you might be interested in this Halo 3: ODST hardware bundle. It contains a 120GB Xbox 360 Elite, controller (curiously, not an ODST controller), a copy of Halo 3: ODST, a copy of Halo 3 and access to the Halo: Reach…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 16, 2009 -
Producer: Halo Natal will be Done ‘When It Makes Sense’
For those wondering if Microsoft’s Project Natal motion control automatically means they’re working on Natal-enabled Halo titles, Halo 3: ODST producer’s says, not necessarily. “We are committing to only doing it when it makes sense,” Alex Cutting told VideoGamer.com. “We are not going to produce a gimmicky feature that just takes advantage of motion controls…
By Owen Good Published September 11, 2009 -
Halo’s Xbox Live Section Opens In November
Microsoft announced today that Halo Waypoint – a section of Xbox Live devoted entirely to all things Halo – will be out in the first week of November. “Nov 5”, says the project’s official Twitter page. “Mark it on your calendar”. We won’t, thanks. We are, however, curious to see how the whole thing works,…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 11, 2009 -
Notebook Dump: Halo Bible Height, Cave Story And Xbox Champagne
There comes a time in the week to reflect on what got into my reporter’s notebook but didn’t turn into Kotaku blog posts. Shall we? I haven’t been able to write one of these Notebook Dumps in a couple of weeks and am now giving you one a day early. Tomorrow is a rest day…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 10, 2009 -
Kotaku’s Fall Fashion Special
Fall is here and that means two things: Prices are rising and temperatures are dropping. But you can still score a nerd-tinged wardrobe without breaking the bank, thanks to this handy save-splurge gamer apparel guide. We tracked down gamer-made gamer apparel from all across the Internet, some with game publisher licenses and some without. Between…
By AJ Glasser Published September 9, 2009 -
Halo: ODST Live-Action Trailer Gets An Extended Cut
Halo fan or not, you gotta admit that the ODST live-action trailer was an amazing piece of work for what is, essentially, a video game commercial. The original ran for 1:30; this extended cut runs for a whole extra minute. .html
By Luke Plunkett Published September 8, 2009 -
Guy Busted for Stealing WiFi at NYC Library — to Play Halo
In a public library, a dude sitting at a monitor with his hands in his lap, covered by a newspaper, implicitly means bad things. Fear not, he’s only sneaked in an Xbox to steal the free WiFi and play Halo. The tumbelog teendrama picked this up – the writer’s pal spied the multiplayer shenanigans in…
By Owen Good Published August 26, 2009