Category: Halo News Items

Ouch! The Verge has looked at the first of Halo: Nightfall’s five episodes… and came away underwhelmed. Give it a read, unless you want to judge for yourself first.(Louis Wu 22:45:32 UTC)

The latest Campaign Level poll from GameVGame focuses on Halo 3: ODST – go pick your favorite!(Louis Wu 22:42:33 UTC)

Earlier today, Bravo announced the ‘Halo Championship Series’, which is 343i’s plan to help get Halo back into the competitive and eSports scene. 343i is teaming up with ESL and Twitch to help host online and LAN tournaments that run under a unified pl…

Project Triforce listed H2A full scale plasma rifle replicas for pre-order. These seem to be officially endorsed by 343i and they do look quite nice. There are two versions, a blue one that runs $150 and a red one that costs $162.50. Thanks, Mid7Night….

The Xbox YouTube channel also released a Master Chief Collection launch trailer – check it out!(mastrbiggy 00:20:56 UTC)

The Xbox YouTube channel released a TV ad for The Master Chief Collection. It’s a montage of Halo footage paired with the song “We Will Rock You”. The song was recreated with Halo weapons sounds – awesome!(mastrbiggy 00:17:31 UTC)

Just a quick note about our 343 Guilt O’ Lantern contest – if all goes well, I should have all the entries up for voting either tomorrow or Friday. Get ready to pick your faves – there are some awesome ones this year!(Louis Wu 23:40:28 UTC)

Another day, another GameVGame poll… today’s wants to know, what’s your favorite Halo 3 Campaign level? Go vote!(Louis Wu 23:39:21 UTC)

A couple of days ago, we mentioned a fan-written article that suggested that Halo 3 Campaign Theater was being downgraded in the Master Chief Collection. That seems to be a premature conclusion – check out this tweet from Frankie confirming that they’r…

GameVGame’s Halo Campaign polls continue – today they’re looking at your favorite Halo 2 level. What kept you coming back? Go vote! (Louis Wu 21:40:57 UTC)

Eurogamer took the Master Chief Collection for a serious spin in their Digital Foundry labs – go see what they found! (Louis Wu 23:34:39 UTC)

MacGyver10 was looking for artwork recently, and stumbled across a lithograph for sale that looks pretty interesting! Check it out.(Louis Wu 23:34:13 UTC)

The Lionheart stopped in with an interesting writing sample; he created it as part of the interview process for a 343 writing position. He didn’t get the job, but he did get pretty far along – go check it out! (Louis Wu 23:32:50 UTC)

Gamecheat13 used his moddling skills to show you what Halo 4 assassinations would have looked like in a first-person view (instead of the third-person view we drop into now). These look BRUTAL! (Of course, they’re slowed down so you can see this – it w…

Andy, from GVG, sent us a note that they’ve kicked off another series of polls, this time based on campaign levels. They’re counting down to the Master Chief Collection! First up – what was your favorite Campaign level in the first Halo? Go vote!(Louis…

asa stopped by with a link to a video released this summer, after Brickworld 2014 – Lee Jones created a 100+ kg replica of the Pillar of Autumn, complete with realized engines! He declined to mention the total cost of the included LEGOs, but he said it…

Team Beyond has gone through the recently uploaded Master Chief Collection manual, and the wording for Theater modes suggests that some functionality that DID exist in Halo 3 (when it launched in 2007) has been removed in the Master Chief Collection. 3…

MixMaker1 let us know that he put together a new comparison video, showing off the latest Halo 2 Anniversary Launch Trailer, matched up with the corresponding shots from the original game. Pretty interesting!(Louis Wu 17:19:35 UTC)