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Halo EXPAND STORY TEXTSSubscribe to this tag Halo: Reach to be shown off at the Spike VGAs 40 Still fired up from those leaked Halo: Reach images? Then sit down, and prepare to immediately stand up in just a second. Probably. Along with the list of nominees for the Spike Video Game Awards... Watch the first episode of Halo Legends right now 54 The first episode of Halo Legends, The Babysitter, was released earlier this week on Halo Waypoint. It was only up for 24 hours for whatever reason but now you can check it out on YouTube before... Rumor: Halo: Reach weapon pics leaked 58 The first Halo: Reach images might have been leaked this afternoon via the MLG message board. User “Tom Morello,” recently created a thread showing a blurry, perhaps camera-phone-snat... This Spartan Life needs some support for next season 12 Have you checked out This Spartan Life? It's a talk show -- in Halo. It was started in 2005 and they basically do all the interviews while shooting at each other and launching rockets with massi... Halo Waypoint now on the Dashboard preview 15 People who are in the Xbox 360 Dashboard preview can now check out Halo Waypoint. Waypoint is going to be your one-stop destination for all things Halo-related. You'll get to see movies, get news... Game SERIES Debate to the Death! Halo VS Half-Life 244 Last week I introduced a new format for these weekly game debates, and it went great! I used two of the most loved series in the game industry of all time, and the result was just as vicious... Molyneux names his top five most revolutionary games 62 Peter Molyneux may be a hype producing blow hard all the time sometimes, but the games he and Lionhead Studios have put out over the years are nothing if they aren't innovative. While they may no... Custom Halo Elite Halloween costume is pretty rad 10 YouTuber petemander1 is going to be the talk of his Halloween party as he's going to have the best Halloween costume of the night. petemander1 is working on a Covenant Elite costume based on the ... A Halo virgin does it for the first time 162 For a hardcore retro fan, Halo is the enemy.And not the oh-I-am-just-not-a-big-fan-of-that-game kind of enemy. No, retro fans think Halo actually is the devil and the main thing that is wrong wit... Power Wheels car modded into the Warthog car from Halo 20 Okay, first of all, there's a community devoted to modifying Power Wheels. That's just awesome. Anyway, user flux83 over on the Modified Power Wheels Forums took a Street Scene Silverado Power Wh... Halo to stick around, 343 has a plan that spans 44 343 Industries plans to keep the Halo IP around for a while. Speaking to USA Today about the proliferation of Halo across various mediums, 343 Industries creative director Frank O’Connor sa... Ben Heck makes Halo 3 controller for Tucker Max movie 23 It's funny how you often meet people on the Internet through unusual and fleeting circumstances.  For example, weeks ago I'd heard that they were making a Tucker Max movie so I checked out t... Behind the scenes of the Halo 3: ODST ad 22 I really appreciate behind the scenes look at how videos are made. I was super impressed by the Halo 3: ODST short and couldn’t imagine all the work that went behind it. This making of vide... Microsoft is aware of ODST unreadable disc issues 44 Microsoft has responded to the Halo: ODST disc-reading issues. In a statement given to Eurogamer, the hardware publisher as well as Halo-keeper said that it was aware people were having problems ... TGS 09: People are waiting 150 minutes to play Halo: ODST 22 The first public day of Tokyo Game Show 2009 has opened, and as expected, it's packed. While we haven't taken an exact head count, we can confirm that at least 15 people showed up. The reason the... Some Halo: ODST owners receiving unreadable disc errors 30 Some Halo 3: ODST owners are having trouble finishing the search. In a recent thread on the official ODST message board, a fair few players have been reporting that they are receiving read errors... Halo 3: ODST gets free Premium Theme for limited time 21 Microsoft is generous ... I mean, if you can call giving away a free picture that costs nothing to make generous, of course. To celebrate the launch of Halo 3: ODST, a free Premium Theme has been... Bethesda: Halo 3: ODST backlash is Microsoft's fault 100 One of the major problems people have of Halo 3: ODST is that its campaign is incredibly short. However, apparently our perception is at fault here, not the game itself. Bethesda's production dir... Mega64: Bungie hurts Cabela ... AGAIN! 23 Remember when Cabela's Trophy Bucks came out in 2007? If you say yes, then you're a f**king liar. It was the same week that Halo 3 came out, so of course you don't remember. The Cabela guys found... Buy Halo 3: ODST at Toys R Us, get toy + gift card 37 By now you've surely read our hot review of Halo 3: ODST and are either thinking, "Man I want to buy that," or "Pfft, Uncharted 2 will be better because BIAS!" If you're think... Some fresh Halo 3: ODST images for your eyes to consume 48 Late last night, we brought you a review and a video review of Halo 3: ODST. It's one of year's most anticipated titles and it takes the Halo series in a slightly new direction with all of its ne... Review: Halo 3: ODST 125 The Halo series is one of gaming’s biggest franchises to date. From videogames, books, comics, toys, to clothes -- Halo was even almost turned into (and could very well still be) a Hollywoo... This sexy Halo Master Chief bust is very sexy and busty 16 In this life, you're nobody unless you have a ludicrously expensive bust, and Master Chief is far from nobody. One2One Collectibles is working on a new range of 1:2 scale Halo busts, the first of... Latest Halo: ODST video discusses everything ODST 11 Developer Bungie retains its streak of awesome video documentaries in their latest dubbed “Terra Icognita.” In the mini-documentary -- the third released for Halo: ODST -- several mem... Microsoft reckons Halo: Reach beta will help sell ODST 37 Microsoft knows that the Halo 3 beta sold copies of Crackdown, and at least one company representative believes that the Halo: Reach beta -- a thing that is packed in with every copy of Halo: ODS... Halo 3: ODST getting an Xbox 360 bundle 19 It's tempting to label this with a Captain Obvious tag since it's a major Microsoft first party game, and major Microsoft first party games get Xbox 360 bundles. If you love Halo and for some wei... Wanna play Halo 3: ODST? Hit up next week's launch party 7 Halo 3: ODST, that one game that's totally been completed since May, is launching soon. Tuesday of next week, to be exact. As is the case for most big-name games with a sizable marketing budget, ... Halo 3: ODST has been finished since May 25 In the latest episode of Bonus Round over on GameTrailers, Brian Jarrard of Bungie revealed that Halo 3: ODST has been completed since May. It could have been released at any point now, but it&rs... Halo 3: ODST two-disc soundtrack coming next week 18 Martin O'Donnell and Michael Salvatori have teamed up to follow up on the notable scores of both Halo and Halo 2 in Halo 3: ODST. The official soundtrack will be available from Sumthing Else Musi... Halo Waypoint launches November 5 11 Remember, remember, the fifth of November, at least if you're a Halo fan. Xbox Live's ultimate Halo destination, Halo Waypoint, launches on the anniversary of Britain's most famous political assa... No 'gimmicky' motion control features for Halo 18 How long has it been since someone last talked about Microsoft's upcoming Natal? Too long! VideoGamer has kept the conversation alive by having a discussion with Halo 3: ODST producer Alex Cuttin... Idiot sues Bungie and Microsoft over Halo 3 46 Randy Nunez is a man on a mission. A mission to make Microsoft and Bungie pay for their crimes against gamers. Despite Halo 3 being a relatively well polished, complaint-free game, Nunez claims t... Microsoft: Halo is our bread and butter 49 Halo 3: ODST is almost upon us, and Microsoft has reiterated how important the series is for the Xbox 360, promising that even though Bungie is done with the universe, the universe is not done wi... Microsoft's love of Bungie is vaguely creepy 37 With Halo 3: ODST coming to blow the minds of Xbox 360 fans, Microsoft has been kissing Bungie's arse like you wouldn't believe. ODST producer Alex Cutting is the one with the brownest nose, decl... No downloadable content planned for Halo: ODST 19 Bungie recently reiterated plans to not support Halo: ODST with post-launch downloadable content. Speaking to Eurogamer at PAX 2009, Bungie community head honcho Brian Jarrard confirmed that the ... ODST's Firefight may be included in Halo: Reach 34 Firefight, Bungie’s answer to Horde -- a mode in Gears of War 2 that pits four players against waves and waves of AI-controlled Locusts -- could make its from Halo: ODST to Halo: Reach. Spe... PAX 09: ODST features an expansive secondary story 15 I think it's a safe bet to say that we all have heard about Halo 3: ODST. We know about its story, its background and its gameplay. In fact I'm pretty sure since it's a Halo game that there are p... 90-second live-action ODST ad spot hits, is beautiful 61 A few hours ago, Microsoft released a live-action ad -- a short film, really -- for Halo: ODST. It boils down the life of an ODST in the Halo universe in 90 seconds, and, as you’ll see belo... Checking out Halo 3: ODST through the ODST tour 24 [Editor's note: Community member Dexter345 went out to the Pasadena stop of the Halo 3: ODST tour to check out Firefight mode. -- CTZ] Here in Pasadena today, we hit the triple digits in temperat... Microsoft investigating French Halo: ODST leak 18 Pro-tip: Microsoft isn’t keen on leaks, especially Halo-related ones. CVG is reporting that a handful of French people have Halo: ODST in advance of its September release date. Some of thes... Bungie might not be done with Halo after Halo: Reach 45 Bungie’s Lars Bakken crushed hearts and set the Internet on fire when he told IGN that Halo: Reach would be the studio’s last Halo title. His July statement lacked optimism, which is ... Engineer class Covenant finally makes it into a Halo game 29 The Engineers have long been talked about in the Halo novels. They're a class of super smart aliens that can fix anything they touch. For whatever reason, the Engineers were never in an actual Ha... Halo ODST video gives details on Firefight 16 Halo 3: ODST drops in just under a month from now, forcing Microsoft's hand in finally beginning to promote and hype this thing up. Seriously, what makes these people think that they can wait unt... Man steals Wi-Fi to play Halo in a library 55 The above picture shows a genius. A criminal mastermind so brilliant it's amazing that he was ever caught. Sitting in a library, with headphones on, a mysterious big bag under his desk, and a new... Halo 3: ODST going on tour, coming to a GameStop near you 13 Starting this Saturday in Redmond Washington, Bungie will be driving to various GameStops around the nation to give people a chance to play Halo 3: ODST before it’s dropped into stores on S... Here's a ridiculously expensive Master Chief ring 18 Ask yourself the following question: Do I love Master Chief? Have an answer yet? Good. Now, if you answered yes, I want you to think really hard about exactly how much you love Master Chief. Is i... Halo still has a lot of players, you're probably one of them 71 I don't think anyone is ever going to say that what Halo has done for online gaming is anything short of epic or that the game's multiplayer is bad in any way. No, in fact it is good mutliplayer,... Gameplay footage of the three new Halo 3 multiplayer maps 10 The new Halo 3 maps coming with Halo 3: ODST look pretty great. Midship was definitely a map worth getting remade and LongShore looks like a great open area. I’m on the fence about Citade... Preview: Halo 3: ODST Firefight 23 If you've been following, you know that Halo: ODST ships on September 22nd, and with it comes a brand new gameplay experience. " Firefight" is a multiplayer cooperative that is complete... Rev Rant: empowerment 82 Every Thursdayish, Anthony Burch discusses some aspect of the gaming industry or game design in his weekly Rev Rant.I'm not actually onscreen for this one (for the best, probably, as my beard wo... Preview: Halo 3's Mythic Map Pack 2 25 Bungie invited Destructoid out for a glimpse of some new hot Halo action this week. Of course, being close to Seattle and an unabashed Halo fangirl, I answered the call with the enthusiasm reserv... Even more Halo novels are on the way 16 A few months back, Tor Books announced a new trilogy in the Halo universe that would be set on the ancient Forerunner race. You know, the race that killed themselves off with the Halos after they... Even more Halo novels are on the way 16 A few months back, Tor Books announced a new trilogy in the Halo universe that would be set on the ancient Forerunner race. You know, the race that killed themselves off with the Halos after they... Rumortoid: Steven Spielberg wants to produce Halo movie 35 IESB is reporting that Steven Spielberg is in negotiations to develop a Halo movie. Spielberg was "blown away” by Stuart Beattie’s script for the Halo movie, which is based on th... 343 Industries: 'Gearbox is NOT working on a Halo title' 10 For awhile, rumors have been kicking around that Gearbox Software was working on an upcoming Halo title for Microsoft. While both Microsoft and Gearbox have been relatively quiet on the matter, a... Halo ODST: learn about the crew, mission and weapons 38 Halo: ODST is a new Halo experience. You play as an Orbital trooper, a human who hasn’t been injected with the special sauce that Master Chief has. You’re weaker, less combat adept an... Halo Wars leaderboard reset following technical glitch 16 Those of you who have spent every hour of your waking day climbing the Halo Wars leaderboard (although why you'd want to lay claim to such an honor is beyond me), then some absolutely devastating... Bethesda man: Only a few publishers could afford Bungie 33 With Bungie soon able to cast off the shackles of Halo and pursue fresh IP, Bethesda's Ashley Cheng has been talking about the studio's future, and positing that only a very small number of publi... SDCC: Would be Halo movie director ain't coming back 16 If I had to choose one word to describe the whole Halo movie debacle it would be drama. The movie has been killed and brought back more times than Freddy Kruger. As of right now the movie has bee... Bungie's new IP close to having a publisher 38 Bungie is finally leaving the Halo franchise after Halo Reach. They have been committed to the series for many years now and ODST sort of blew up into something bigger than they ever expected if ... « NEXT « next - expanded blog view		Save cash!   See "Black Friday" video game deals New on Destructoid.TV play all videos Loading Destructoid Videos Win this! 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