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New in Halo 4

7:30 PM on 06.04.2013

PSA: Halo 4 weapons and playlist updates now live

Yesterday's Halo 4 War Games update has brought more than a few new additions. From weapons, maps, and gametypes, there's a good amount of tweaking here. Chief among them has to be the laundry list of overhauls to the weapon ...

Abel Girmay

2:30 PM on 05.24.2013

Impressions: Awakening: The Art of Halo 4

Art books have been around for a long time, and they take on many different styles and formats. Titan Books, in conjunction with Microsoft Studios and 343 Industries, has put together a fantastic addition to any Halo fans&rsq...

Jason Cabral

2:00 PM on 03.27.2013

GDC: Voltron, T1000 major inspirations for Halo 4 enemies

If there's been on criticism of Halo over the years, it's the relative sameness of the experience. Earlier today during a discuss of the new enemy designs in Halo 4, Scott Warner of 343 industries mentioned that some of their main inspirations for the development of the Promethean units were highly advanced, amorphous foes.

Daniel Starkey

5:00 PM on 03.11.2013

Halo 4's 'Castle Map Pack' is all about vehicular combat

The next set of maps for Halo 4 is less than a month away. The Castle Map Pack will be dropping on April 8, which should be plenty of time to continue playing the recent Majestic Map Pack. This third add-on emphasizes vehicl...

Jordan Devore

7:00 PM on 03.01.2013

Come play Halo 4 with the Dtoid staff and community

[Update: We're live right now! Send us a PM on Xbox LIVE if you want to join, or watch the stream over on Streamtoid (streaming now) and Dtoid TV (taking over in about an hour)!] This Friday, March 1, Destructoid will be taki...

Mr Andy Dixon

3:30 PM on 03.01.2013

Friday Night Fights: Another Halo 4 community playdate!

Welcome to another edition of Destructoid's Friday Night Fights! Tonight we have a very special treat for you in the form of another Xbox LIVE Community Playdate! Destructoid staff and community members will be playing Halo 4...

Mr Andy Dixon

5:00 PM on 02.27.2013

Impressions: Halo 4: Majestic Map Pack

In many ways, the Crimson Map Pack was a bit of a letdown for Halo 4 fans. The over-emphasis on vehicles and the concept of giant new maps on top of over-saturated giant maps from the base game was really frustrating, and did...

Chris Carter

4:00 PM on 02.27.2013

I know what a game is

A lot of people have been running around attacking games like Proteus or The Walking Dead; claiming that they aren’t, in fact, games. Generally speaking these people spout off random things about requiring “win st...

Daniel Starkey

1:00 PM on 02.25.2013

New releases: Brutal Legend makes PCs metal

Monday has once again snuck up on us like an unfortunate rash you got from a really good weekend. Don't worry, there's cream for that! And much like a soothing medicinal balm, the new releases of the week are here to cure wh...

Fraser Brown

10:00 AM on 02.17.2013

Halo 4 Majestic Map Pack screens leaked

We're nearly ten days away from the supposed launch of Halo 4's second DLC offering, the "Majestic Map Pack," and a savvy NeoGAF user has uncovered some screenshots through editing URLs on the Halo website. Just like the Crim...

Chris Carter

5:00 AM on 02.07.2013

Cortana can update Conan O'Brien's 'firmware' any day

Conan O'Brien is back with another episode of Clueless Gamer, wherein he plays videogames and exhibits no signs whatsoever that he knows what he's doing. Today's game: Halo 4. First he learns that the Covenant worship Theo H...

Tony Ponce

10:45 AM on 02.04.2013

Team Doubles coming to Halo 4 matchmaking

This week's Halo 4 matchmaking update will include the long-awaited Team Doubles playlist, 343 Industries revealed on Halo Waypoint, and with it, three match variants. First up, Infinity Doubles offers up the standard Infinit...

Keith Swiader

3:30 PM on 01.17.2013

Halo 2 PC servers will officially shut down next month

The blowout post goes through quite a bit of Halo 4 info, from Spartan Ops play stats, to complete summaries of the episodic stories so far, to a teaser for Episode 6. On Monday, January 21, Episode 6 will drop, as will the "...

Chris Carter

7:30 AM on 01.10.2013

Here's what's on the horizon for Halo 4

The folks over at 343 Industries have posted a fireside chat of sorts, explaining the state of Halo 4, and what they intend to do with it in the months to come. In addition to a nice little note about the launch of Halo 4, 34...

Chris Carter

11:00 AM on 01.07.2013

Get in the Halo mood with this trick jumping video

If there's one thing I love, it's Halo trick jump videos. The creator, ReiKo from Jumprs.org, takes on some really cool jumps from the original maps and the ones included in the Crimson map pack. Not only are the jumps actua...

Chris Carter

5:00 PM on 12.31.2012

The Halo 4 Mythbusters video series has some neat tips

Halo 4 has been out for nearly two months now, which means people have had a sufficient amount of time to f*ck with it. As the community suggests more and more crazy things to mess around with, the folks at Defend the House ...

Chris Carter