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Due to the functionality missing from a website listing, some are speculating that Halo: Infinite won't be coming to Xbox Play Anywhere and thus PC. credit//343 Industries Microsoft made a big song and dance about Xbox Play Anywhere, and it's not hard to see why The program brings all of Microsoft's first party games to Xbox as[...]

343 writer Jeff Easterlings has laughed off the possibility of Halo Infinite having a battle royale mode. credit//343 Industries The turn on battle royale games seems to have come very quick Just a few months ago, it seemed sky was the limit for the genre, but alas, it now seems, unless your name is PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds or Fortnite,[...]

Halo: Collateral Damage finds Master Chief and Blue Team attacking a Covenant battalion from behind to save a capital city. Is it a good read?

343 are hinting that we probably shouldn't be expecting to see the next chapter of Halo's mainline story in 2018, albeit pretty vaguely. Halo 5 is now getting on a bit and it is beginning to feel like time might be right for the franchise to start turning its head towards the future There have been[...]

Video game ads have gotten a bit stagnant for the most part. Mostly just explosions and guns either set to fast paced action soundtracks, or melancholic,

While it might be an unpopular opinion, I've really, really enjoyed 343 Industries tenure in charge of Halo The series is on a good path, and while it may not be a juggernaut like it once was, I still believe it has a ton of quality to it. The franchise has just lost a key voice[...]

The feature was also confirmed by 343 Head Josh Holmes with a post on TeamBeyond. I really think this is pretty huge news Halo on PC has long been asked after, and it seems we soon will be able to jump in and out of matches with relative ease on the platform I have to imagine this[...]

Since Halo 2, the franchise has been absent from PC (excluding Halo Online). This isn't do to lack of asking though, as getting Halo back onto the

Halo 5 is getting a massive update next week titled the Cartographer's Gift. Building the multiplayer experience, this will add a ton of new content to

The HoloLens is still somewhat of an unknown quantity in terms of...well, a great many things. What will the moment to moment of using it be like? How big

Add in a controversial cliff hanger ending, and we are really in the weeds here. Honestly though, and yes this is my opinion, and yes, I'm a huge fan of what 343 have done to the series since taking over, I think this is one of the very best campaign's in the Halo canon I really[...]

Cortana is a very interesting case study when it comes to character design. Her evolution throughout the series has certainly become more sexualised. If

The music of Halo is some of the best of any game franchise. I'm always interested to take a listen to the OST that accompanies a new release. This time

Halo 5 is just around the corner, and I'm sure there is at least a few of you who are looking to get into it, but you haven't yet played the other games.

Nathan Fillion is going to be returning to the Haloverse very soon, when Halo 5 launches. Reprising his role of Buck, Fillion looks like he is going to

The action is on point, the story teases are there, but it also really doesn't tell us too much about what's going on. Take a look: https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=152&v=Rh_NXwqFvHcVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Halo 5: Launch Gameplay Trailer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=152&v=Rh_NXwqFvHc) I think 343's work on Halo 4 was stellar, and this looks particularly interesting[...]

Console hard drive size has been a real sticking point for early adopters. The size of modern games is massive, and 500GB just isn't enough in a lot of

Warzone is the new multiplayer mode in Halo 5: Guardians that 343 are really trying to push It's a huge 12 v 12 game mode that has Spartans squaring off against each other while NPC enemies get in on the action too It looks neat and is taking a few ideas from MOBAs and applying[...]

Halo: The Fall of Reach is one of the most praised game novels, if not just in the Halo universe, but ever. It's one of the first things I hear

Halo 5 is just around the corner now. What will likely be the Xbox One's biggest exclusive this year, is just over two weeks away now after taking three

This new video shows the work that has been done, in what 343 is saying was built from the ground up It adds a few key features two, maybe most importantly, 'grouping' which lets you tie a few object together and move them as if they were one Take a look in this new video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=4&v=oDltTQiZMmwVideo[...]

I love what 343 have done with the soundtrack since the massive loss of Marty O'Donnell to the series It's different, with its own identity, while still calling back to its predecessors I can't wait to hear more. The Sprint has been a very interesting little series surrounding the creation of Halo 5: Guardians. It actually[...]

In a new post at Halo Waypoint, 343 show off the new designs and how the Banshee, Ghost, Wraith and Phantom are different Their designs seem a little more stunted, with more curvature and less size given in the design Take a look: Banshee Combat flyers has been a staple in the Elite warfare for millennia, and[...]

343 seems to know what they want to do with the Halo franchise I really can't wait to see what they do with the series going forward too, as it is quite well documented that I adore their work on Halo 4. Halo 5: Guardians is on the horizon too, and it seems there are serious[...]

The lore was certainly messy, but its central thesis was sound. That is why I'm so excited to see what 343 bring to the table with Halo 5 Telling the story about two teams of four people means the focus is going to be much broader across more characters It's pretty experimental for the franchise and[...]

By the end of our first meeting with 343 it had evolved into a full season; 13-weekly episodes, A-list cast It was incredible. When you sat down to write season one, how much were you given to use? Were there parameters that meant you had to hit 'this, this and this' beat? Which is to say,[...]

343 head Josh Holmes confirmed over Twitter that instead everything will run from a rotation. @GDO_TWITS No voting or veto, just straight rotation. — Josh Holmes (@JoshingtonState) September 7, 2015 I think this is a good move Halo multiplayer has always devolved a list of a few favorites that you play over and over This way, we will get[...]

The franchise remains one of my most beloved, and I can't wait to see what 343 do with the power of the Xbox One. This little delight really helped cement that the Xbox One exclusive is pretty close now too Last night, Microsoft, released the opening cinematic for the game and it's really quite spectacular Don't[...]

One of the biggest mysteries in the Halo lore, which is a universe surrounded in mystery, is what does John 117 look like? The Master Chief has always

The huge firefights can get pretty crazy, and you are never wanting for someone to shoot. Well, unfortunately, 343 have made the call to not include the game mode at launch Via GameSpot, producer Josh Holmes explained that the new mode Warzone should take it's place though The 12v12 mode has AI and tons of vehicles[...]