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Personally, I trust 343i to make the right call here, and I do think they believe this choice is for the artistic integrity of the game Still doesn't mean it hurts any less for those who wanted to play together, mind. There has been a big hubbub recently surrounding the news that Halo 5 wasn't[...]

The music of Halo has always been a huge part of the universe. We all know the iconic sounds of Marty O'Donnel's classic soundtrack, and last time around,

To me, Halo has always felt like a T rated series what with the mild fantasy warfare, but in fact, every title up until this point (besides Halo Wars),

As we're learning about the universe, we've been working closely with 343 Industries, and that's been a really interesting learning experience. While I don't have many particularly fond memories of Halo Wars, I think it is good to see Creative Assembly adopt the original game more than their own Total War games If for no other[...]

What's even crazier is the fact that the game was originally longer than it is now, before 343 scaled back. To me, this news actually makes me a little more nervous than happy I really do enjoy a nice, condensed single player experience around the 10 hour mark It's not like the multiplayer won't tack on[...]

Another Microsoft Conference can only mean one thing. More Halo 5. At E3 in June, we saw how the co-op work in the story mode will work, as well as the

I know, like I said, this is all very weird. It was announced that Total War's Creative Assembly are working on it in conjunction with 343, and that is great news The developer has shown it has great skill in this genre and bringing that to Halo Wars is certainly interesting Colour me interested. Here is the[...]

In a Halo Waypoint post, 343 let on that the mode would be added soon saying: The playlist team continues to work on future updates, and it's quite likely that we'll be talking more about things like Infection in the coming weeks. This will be welcome news in my circle of regular Halo players There is nothing quite[...]

343 announced that if you do want a physical copy of the game, you can go to your closest game retailer and trade in your code This won't cost you anything extra. This is a good example of a developer understanding the concerns of their fans and acting Some people still just love having a disc they[...]

I think 343 are taking the narrative in incredibly interesting places, and I seriously hope Halo 5 builds on that good work. Speaking at a panel today down in San Diego, narrative designer on the game Morgan Lockhart talked about how that story is currently being structured and it sounds interesting She encourages fans to take their[...]

In an interview with Kotaku, 343 head Josh Holmes said: There's a part in the game where I have teared up On top of that creative director on the project, Tim Longo added: We have a lot of surprises in the campaign when it comes to that side of things and we've tried hard to instill those kind of[...]

I loved 4 a whole lot, so seeing where the next goes is high on my list of priorities this fall. If you are a mega -an though, there are a few special editions you can pick up whose content The limited edition which runs you $100 contains: Warzone REQ Bundle: 14 Premium Requisition packs Halo: The Fall[...]

Halo 5 is probably Xbox's most prestigious and important title this year, So it's fitting that they opened theie E3 Press Conference with gameplay. And

As explained by 343 head Josh Holmes, this felt like something that needed to happen: When you have paid map packs and content, you divide the player base into two groups: the haves and the have-nots. The people that have the map pack can play together but the people who don't cannot That to us is a[...]

It wasn't pretty and it means that Halo 5 is under a very watchful eye now because of it. In the new GameInformer (via Gamespot), 343 head Bonnie Ross has talked about the collection and how the developer is going to combat similar issues happening in the future She said that originally the plan was to ship[...]

Alas though, you'll have to slum the 360 version to see this Easter egg in the future. Side note: Could 343 be pulling a fast one on us again and talking about details of Halo 5? Who is her? Could it be Cortana, who was (SPOILERS) sort of killed off at the end of Halo 4?[...]

It's been a few weeks since I've sung the praises of Hunt the Truth, the podcast that follows fiction journalist, Benjamin Giroud, as he uncovers a

This whole story is giving me whiplash. All week, the release of Halo 3: ODST for the Master Chief Collection has been an on and off affair. It seems that

Yesterday, I reported that Halo 3: ODST might be getting added to the Master Chief Collection tomorrow as per a listing that turned up on Microsoft's

This is in part due to the game's notorious connection issues, as the Halo 3 spin-off will be free to people who played the game before December 18th as that is when issues were at their worst. Well 343 are going to make good on the promise now, as a listing seems to have outed that[...]

However, I will say that the nature of The Master Chief Collection – you've got five different game engines, you've got five different studios working on it, you've got 343 working on putting it all together – the footprint and complexity was outrageous. To be perfectly honest, there were a lot of things that happened when[...]

Halo 5's launch is going to be very interesting. The game's online needs to be immaculate after the bungles of The Master Chief Collection. Also, despite

It's that time of week again. The latest Hunt the Truth podcast has hit, continuing to build the Halo universe. In case you haven't been following, this

Look, I'm going to keep harping on about Hunt the Truth until everyone is talking about it. I'm in love with this Halo marketing campaign, which has a new

The current rumor is that Agent Locke will be playable in the upcoming Halo 5 campaign. We don't know for how long or in what capacity, but from what we

Hunt the Truth is really going from strength to strength. The fictional podcast about a war journalist digging into the past of Master Chief really has

Halo Online was announced a few weeks ago, leaving a lot of people excited about the prospect of Halo on a PC again. At least they were until they read

Hey, remember that Halo 5 podcast that was announced last week? Well, it's time to dive in. The fictional story following war journalist Benjamin Giraud