Halo 4 came out 10 years ago today. What happened?
]]>It's an end of an era for older generation Halo games.
]]>2012's Halo 4 is finally making the leap to PC.
]]>Before developer 343 Industries was a thing, Microsoft considered letting Gearbox Software develop the next Halo game.
]]>Halo: The Master Chief Collection is four games in one, so coming up with an adequate ranking system for multiplayer is a challenge. Fortunately, developer 343 Industries is up to the task and has come up with the perfect system.
]]>There is nothing like watching a whole package come together. We've got videos showing complete levels from each of the Halo games in The Master Chief Collection.
]]>Amazon is currently hosting a sale where various titles such as The Last of Us, Call of Duty: Ghosts, and Battlefield 4 are getting massively discounted for multiple platforms. Not only that, but limited editions are also on sale.
]]>Halo: The Master Chief Collection is out November 11 on Xbox One, and will deliver the first four titles as you remember them, along with new changes and features. 343 Industries has shared many new details on what's in the collection. Fans will want to check this out.
]]>Master Chief may be gracing your TV screens much sooner than 2015 if the latest rumors are accurate.
]]>A new Halo matchmaking update has revealed that Halo 4 will soon receive a Ninja Assassin playlist.
]]>This article first appeared on USgamer, a partner publication of VG247. Some content, such as this article, has been migrated to VG247 for posterity after USgamer's closure - but it has not been edited or further vetted by the VG247 team.
]]>Halo 4 developer 343 Industries has gone a bit nuts with its latest playlist update, adding some truly mad, but very fun-sounding game modes into rotation.
]]>Halo 4's art director has transitioned to a new role at 343 Industries, two months after his partner jumped ship.
]]>Halo 5 hasn't been formally announced yet, but 343 Industries' design director Brad Welch has engaged fans in a Twitter discussion about where he felt things went wrong, and how the next game will look to address concerns.
]]>Halo could have made it to the Xbox One at launch, but only if Microsoft had cancelled Halo 4, disappointing Xbox 360 fans in the process.
]]>Halo 4 Game of the Year Edition has been given a trailer by Microsoft. Watch below.
]]>Microsoft has confirmed that a new Halo 4 SKU bundled with all DLC is on the way to retail.
]]>Halo 4 will receive a new title update on Monday ahead of Tuesday's Champions Bundle launch.
]]>Halo 4 developer 343 Industries has released a batch of images showing off new armour types in its incoming Champions DLC pack.
]]>343 Industries and the Arena Gaming League are hosting a Halo tournament this weekend in Knoxville, TN where competitors will be battling for $10,000 in prize money.
]]>Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn, the live-action series, has been nominated for an Emmy by the Academy of Television Art & Sciences. It's been nominated for Outstanding Main Title Design, and will go up against HBO's Newsroom, FX's American Horror Story: Asylum, Starz' Da Vinci Demons (what?), CBS' Elementary, the Sherlock Holmes series set in a modern-day with Lucy Liu, and History Channel's Vikings. The 2013 Emmy Awards will air on Sunday, September 22 at 8pm EST on CBS. Thanks, D'toid.
]]>Halo is being given the comic treatment courtesy of Dark Horse, according to Halo 4 director Frank O'Connor.
]]>343 Industries has released a trailer for the it's upcoming Champions Bundle DLC. The pack was announced recently at the Rooster Teeth Expo and you can watch the trailer below.
]]>At the Rooster Teeth Expo in Texas this weekend 343 announced new downloadable content for Halo 4, which consists of a few different items that you can buy individually or in what is called the Champions Bundle. This content will hit August 20.
]]>Halo 4 Global Championship has been announced by Microsoft in conjunction with Virgin Gaming.
]]>Halo 4 is the best-selling Microsoft Studios title ever in the US, according to Microsoft. The firm said the 343 Industries title has surpassed its predecessor Halo 3 "for sales during each respective launch year." In other words, it bested Halo 3's launch year but not total sales - yet. The firm didn't release figures to go along with the announcement. Thanks, Neowin.
]]>Halo 4 developer 343 Industries has published details of its next Monday update, including the new Hivemind mode, as well as four maps created by the game's Forge community. get the details here.
]]>343 Industries has issued a balancing update to Halo 4, with the result that multiplayer just got significantly more lethal.
]]>Halo 4 developer 343 Industries is hiring for a multiplayer designer for a new Halo game.
]]>Halo 4 developer 343 Industries has announced a new wave of action figures, each including DLC codes for new multiplayer weapon and armour skins.
]]>Halo 4 developer has been working on a large weapon re-balancing update that will level the playing field. The patch will drop this Monday, June 3 and we've got all the changes listed here.
]]>Halo 4 developer 343 Industries has released details of its next title update, which will add a new Forge Island playlist to multiplayer, and has called on players to submit their own creations for its consideration.
]]>Halo 4 developer 343 Industries has laid bare the contents of its next Monday update, which will add new Forge maps into playlists and implement further gameplay tweaks. The studio will also be livestreaming work-in-progress weapon balancing fixes on its Twitch channel throughout May.
]]>Halo 4 developer 343 Industries has outlined its plans to tweak the balancing of the game's weapon set and vehicles in a new blog post. Find out if your favourite gun is about to be nuked.
]]>Mircrosoft has published the final nominees for its fan-voted Xbox Entertainment Awards. The competition - which suffered a security breach early on - includes a shortlist made up of Halo 4, The Walking Dead, Far Cry 3 and more.
]]>Halo 4 developer 343 Industries feels that there could be space for micro-payment items in its shooter franchise. However, Dan Ayoub has stressed that nothing has been discussed on the matter yet.
]]>343 Industries is offering an advance preview of the upcoming Castle multiplayer map via a livestream today. The broadcast begins at 5:00PM PDT; check it out on 343 Industries' Twitch channel or via the embed through the break. The DLC map launches on April 8, US time, and will set you back 800 MS points if you don't have a season pass. Certain Affinity seemed pretty proud of it when Dave spoke to the DLC developer recently.
]]>Halo 4's Castle Map Pack DLC is out April 8, and VG247's Dave Cook has spoken with 343 Industries and Certain Affinity about what it takes to make the perfect map.
]]>McFarlane toys will release a 9" figure of the Didact, Halo 4's villain, in September. GameInformer reports the oversized-foe comes with a bundled code to unlock exclusive content in the Xbox 360 exclusive, but there's no word on what kind of material it provides. However, if you need something to put the fear into your GI Joes, this seems a safe bet.
]]>Halo franchise creative director Josh Holmes told GDC audiences that 343 Industries toyed with the idea of a stasis gun or grapple harpoon for Halo 4. As reported by Shack News, Holmes said he was very keen to explore and elaborate on Halo's science fiction themes, but testing revealed players didin't respond to kooky weapons and enemies, preferring the more familiar toolbox of shotgun (scattershot), assault rifle and sniper rifle. This helped flatten Halo 4's learning curve and make it more accessible to the mass market is commands despite being an Xbox 360 exclusive.
]]>343 Industries hosted a Halo 4 panel at PAX East yesterday, during which the developer revealed new content for April, and the fact the game has seen 11.6 million unique users connected to Xbox Live who have played in any mode - not just multiplayer. This figure also includes guest accounts.
]]>Halo 4 developer 343 Industries has released a new update for its shooter, enabling them to tweak gun balancing in the background. It means that players won't have to download a new patch each time. the studio changes something slightly.
]]>Halo 4's Castle Map Pack DLC is dropping April 8, and 343 Industries posted a new batch of locale screens last week, as well as new information about each locale. We've got the goods here.
]]>Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn is being released as a rather neat Blu-Ray and DVD bundle, releasing May 27.
]]>Halo 4's Castle Map Pack DLC will hit Xbox Live on April 8, bringing three new maps and a 6v6 playlist into the mix.
]]>Here's another little tidbit form the PAX East schedule which is sure to delight. If you're heading down to the Boston show, be sure to sotp by Microsoft's booth and check out the upcoming Castle Map Pack for Halo 4, which will apparently be playable. 343 Industries staffers will be on hand for a panel on the shooter's multiplayer future, too. PAX East runs March 22 through 24.
]]>Halo 4 players can soon loo forward to community created amps for Forge mode as well as a playlist for Extraction. The later, currently available in Team Throwdown and Majestic Team DLC, will soon provide you with the opportunity to extract "all day, every day." Settings included in the new playlist consist of 5v5, rnabled motion tracking, disabling respawn, death cam enabling, and much, much more. The new Forge maps include the area-centric Simplex and Settler. Spawn times will also be worked on for the Majestic Team DLC playlist, and more all set to launch on March 4. Hit up Halo Waypoint for all the information you will ever need on the matter.
]]>Halo's new guardians 343 Industries hope they can tell stories which don't necessarily centre on franchise poster boy Master Chief.
]]>Halo 4 and its predecessors are now on sale as part of Microsoft's Games on Demand sale.
]]>Halo 4's Majestic Map pack is now available. The pack adds three new maps - Landfall, Monolith and Skyline - and is available either as part of your War Games Map Pass or for 800 Microsoft Points.
]]>Halo 4 is receiving a sizeable update this week, courtesy of developer 343 Industries. No specific time for the update has been given, but we've got the patch notes here.
]]>Halo 4's Majestic Map pack DLC will release on February 25th. Developer 343 Industries has released a new trailer for the content, showing off the maps Landfall, Monolith and Skyline in action. There's also ten new achievements, and a new free-for-all playlist called Infinity Rumble.
]]>Halo 4's Majestic Map Pack DLC has been detailed further in a batch of leaked screens showing off three new maps, Landfall, Monolith & Skyline. The pack is due to launch this month, according to a recent Halo Waypoint blog post.
]]>343 Industries has released a trailer for Halo 4:Spartan Ops- Episode 10. In the "Exodus" trailer, Jul ‘Mdama’s "final plan is set in motion," and Spartan Palmer and other members of Fireteam Majestic are dispatched on a "do or die mission". Spartan Ops: Episode 10 comes with new CG cinematics and five new gameplay chapters. It will be made available on Xbox Live Monday, February 18. Video and shots are below.
]]>Halo 4's string of Monday updates continues with the re-addition of Team Snipers and Team Objective playlists. There's even a new Team Throwdown playlist on the cards.
]]>Halo 4 houses many secrets - what with the terminals and all that - but developer 343 has revealed that gamers haven't found everything. The studio has dropped clues as to where gamers can find the unearthed Easter eggs. The hunt is on!
]]>The latest episode in Conan O'Brien's popular Clueless Gamer series has the late night host tackling Halo 4. The shooter made an early media appearance on O'Brien's show, so things have kind of come full circle with 343 Industries' effort finally getting its turn.
]]>Halo 4: Spartan Ops - Episode 9 goes live on Monday, February 11, and to get you caught up, 343 has released a new video. Spoilers may be below, etc.
]]>Halo 4 developer 343 Industries has posted details of its incoming update, which will go live Monday February 4th. Top of the list are a new Team Doubles playlist and two new specialisations - Rogue and Tracker.
]]>Halo 4: Spartan Ops Episode 8 will feature five new missions when it releases next week. It will also include a Team Doubles playlist, and Rogue and Tracker specializations will be unlocked for all players. The episode drops on February 4, and you can get an idea of what to expect through the screenshots and trailer below.
]]>Bungie has kicked off its Community Theater with Act One, in which host Deej addresses a complaint from the owner of a faulty copy of Halo 4.
]]>GDC 2013 organizers have announced new lectures for the conference which include talks on Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn, Hitman: Absolution, Lichdom, and games development through the BBC.
]]>Halo 4: Spartan Ops episode 7 goes live on Monday, and Halo Waypoint has posted up the official trailer. We've got it below the cut.
]]>Halo 4 developer 343 Industries has run down a list of new additions coming in its next multilayer update, which drops Monday, January 28th. The studio is adding Spartan Ops episode seven, a Griffball-only playlist and two new specialisations into the mix.
]]>Halo 4 developer 343 Industries should be adding the best of the Forge community's creations across a range of multiplayer playlists within the fortnight, according to Halo Waypoint head Jessica Shea.
]]>Halo 4: Spartan Ops - Season One returns next week, and to whet your appetite, Microsoft has released the launch trailer and screenshots for Episode 6.
]]>Halo 4 may have only just come out in November, but 343 Industries is already looking at ways it can improve its handling of Bungie's franchise going forward with Halo 5 development. Studio head Frank O'Connor has laid bare his vision and ambition for what comes next.
]]>Halo 4's Crimson Map Pack expansion saw some players banned from accessing several components of the game's online play. Microsoft has stepped forward to downplay the spread of the issue, stating that no more than 200 people were affected globally. Get the details below.
]]>Halo 4's first DLC expansion the Crimson Map Pack is causing some players to have their accounts banned, following a workaround for War Games pass players who were supposed to get the content for free. Get the details below.
]]>Halo 4 is on sale for $39.99 on Amazon today, conveniently timed for tomorrow's release of the Crimson Map Pack, and the Halo 4: Infinity Challenge kicking off next week. The purchase comes with $10 Amazon Instant Video credit as well.
]]>Halo 4: Spartan Ops, the episodic co-op campaign for the shooter, will resume on January 21 according to a video shown at the VGAs. The January episodes will conclude the season with five entries. 343 Industries has hinted around that there may be a second season in the works, and it wouldn't shock us whatsoever if it were announced sometime after the last episode is released. The trailer shown during the VGAs has been pulled off YouTube by Viacom, which owns Spike TV and the VGAs. When the video becomes available again, we'll let you know.
]]>NPD has shed some light on sales figures for November releases such as Black Ops 2, Assassin's Creed 3, and Halo 4.
]]>Halo 4's Spartan Ops will be entering a mid-season break between December 10-17th to make way for the new Crimson Map Pack's release, and the newly-announced Halo 4: Infinity Challenge. During that week however, 343 Industries will release a 'Best-of' playlist for Spartan Ops, and a new title update. Get the details below.
]]>Microsoft and Virgin Gaming are giving Halo 4 players the chance to win a UNSC-themed truck and or a cameo in a future Halo game.
]]>Microsoft has announced that the Halo series has moved 50 million since its inception in 2001. It has also been confirmed by 343 Industries that the next titles in the series is also "in early stages of development."
]]>Halo 4's first DLC expansion the 'Crimson Map Pack' comes with a batch of fresh achievements for you to hunt. You're going to have to pull off some mad stunts to earn them all too. Get the full list below.
]]>Halo 4's fifth Spartan Ops episode is live for download now. It's called "Memento Mori" and it features four missions - Gate, the Cauldron, the Refuge and Quarry - and it's received a launch trailer. Check it out below.
]]>Halo 4 fans who jumped on board the game's multiplayer before November 20 have reportedly earned a special reward.
]]>The Halo 4 Crimson Map Pack has been dated and priced by Microsoft.
]]>Black Ops 2 was the most played game on Xbox Live for the week of November 19, according to Major Nelson's figures. Halo 4 came in second, with Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition, Modern Warfare 3 and FIFA 13 rounding out the top five, respectively. Full chart listings are below.
]]>Halo 4 will receive three DLC packs from now until April 1st 2013, according to leaked dates that appeared on the German Xbox 360 dashboard. Get the details below.
]]>The next episode of Halo 4's Spartan Ops series is due in just a few hours.
]]>Halo 4 developer 343 has confirmed that it is adding new multiplayer modes to its shooter next week. Check out the details below.
]]>Halo 4's Spartan Ops season of co-op episodes was originally coined as a slant on Halo: ODST's Firefight mode, developer 343 Industries has revealed.
]]>Halo 4 fans, you can either fire up your Xbox 360 right now and play the latest episode of Spartan Ops, or you can sit glumly wherever it is that you are prevented from Xbox-ing and what this four minute trailer for it.
]]>A really short video for Halo 4: Spartan Ops Episode 3 has been released by Microsoft. It's below courtesy of Gamespot's Youtube channel. The Episode is expected to land on Monday, November 19 continues the storyline associated with Dr. Catherine Halsey.
]]>Halo 4's campaign isn't the longest the series has to offer, but it uses its time well. Developer 343 Industries has revealed that over a million players in the game's first five days on sale. Get the stats below.
]]>This week, the universe failed to split in two allowing the ingress of the All Devourer, whose eternal hunger swallows and extinguishes the stars one by one until all life, warmth and energy is merely a flicker of memory in the annals of the multiverse. This was the only event that might have prevented Halo 4 topping the Xbox Live activity charts during its launch week.
]]>Halo 4 has done what only Call of Duty has managed over the past few years: taken out this year's entertainment launch sales records.
]]>Halo 4's co-op mode Spartan Ops has received its second episode, available on Xbox Live now. Microsoft's Major Nelson has revealed that the five-level pack can be downloaded in game.
]]>Halo 4 has stormed to the top of the UK charts, fighting off the competition and toppling Assassin's Creed 3 after just one week at the top.
]]>Halo 4: Spartan Ops Episode 2 is out next week, and in it, the "mysterious artifact recovered" from Requiem takes over the vital systems on the UNSC Infinity. This forces the Spartans of Crimson and Majestic back down to the planet to "look for a way to free the ship." Have a look at the video teaser below. The downloadable co-op campaign is free, and 343 Industries has said new missions will be released every week for 10 weeks, totaling 50 in all. Thanks, OXM.
]]>Halo 4 won't be heading to PC, a Microsoft rep has revealed. It comes as fans called for a port to 343's mega shooter, following an absence of the series on PC since Halo 2.
]]>Microsoft's Xbox Live Rewards scheme is offering free Microsoft Points to those who spend time with Halo 4's multiplayer - that is, pretty much everyone on Xbox Live right now.
]]>Breaking news: the latest Halo, one of the most popular multiplayer franchises in the world, is being played by a lot of people in its launch week.
]]>Halo 4 executive producer Kiki Wolfkill has shed light on how 343 Industries took on the challenge of such a large franchise after being handed the keys by Bungie.
]]>Halo 4 is out now, and last night's midnight launch in London was an extravagant affair, including something rather odd flying across the city. Check out the launch mini-doc below.
]]>Halo 4 is out tomorrow and to save you the madness of trying to figure out who's selling it cheapest, we've done all the hard work for you. Get all of the prices below.
]]>Future updates to the forthcoming Halo 4 may add clan and Theater Mode campaign support, among other things, according to the most recent post on The Halo Bulletin.
]]>Halo 4 multiplayer is big. As in so big you may well be playing it this time next year - especially once all the inevitable Spartan Ops and PvP DLC launches. Watch VG247's Sam Clay play a few games in our live stream below. No pressure Sam, give 'em hell! We believe in you!
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