News

Major League Gaming’s Grand Finale

Kotaku AU

For fans of console pro gaming, the MLG National Championships is the culmination of a season full of events, and the chance for the best pro players to compete against one another for enormous cash prizes, not to mention the bragging rights of being the best in the world.


October 21, 2010
In Real Life

Master Chief, The Declining Years

Wondering what happens to Master Chief after the events of Halo 3? He got old. And sick.


October 15, 2010
News

Halo: Major League Gaming

Kotaku AU

If you happen to be a fan of the Halo series and, more specifically, Halo multiplayer, you might want to check out Major League Gaming, who are hosting one of their major events this weekend in Washington DC.


September 17, 2010
News

Master Chief In Halo: Reach After All

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September 15, 2010
In Real Life

A Metal Goodbye To Halo 3

Halo: Reach, as much as I loved it, also brings with it some bad tidings. Eventually, one day, the success of Reach will mean the death of Halo 3.


July 8, 2010
In Real Life

The Flags Of Master Chief’s Fathers

As seen on Wonderland via Hawty McBloggy.


News

Who’s Australia’s Best Halo 3 Team?

Kotaku AU

Australian Cyber League have just put up a new online tracking system for Halo 3 players. It’s easy. It’s functional. And it’s pretty much undisputed who the champ is.


June 27, 2010
News

Bungie Briefly Considered A Halo 4 With Master Chief

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Bungie’s writers considered extending the saga of Master Chief beyond Halo 3 – whose ending certainly left an opening for it – before settling on the prequel story of the Fall of Reach, the studio’s community manager said.


June 10, 2010
News

Microsoft: Halo 3 Outsells Uncharted, Killzone & Resistance Combined

The public relations war we sometimes call E3 has begun a few days early, it seems, with Microsoft’s Aaron Greenberg taking to Twitter to fire a shot across Sony’s bow in the leadup to the big trade show.


May 13, 2010

Hell Is Other Players

Part of the reason games make such an interesting topic is because they are so multifaceted. You can talk about a game as an abstract design, as an individual experience, as a part of a broader culture, as an economic product, as a technical showpiece and many other things besides.