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News

They Will Rip Your Head Off With Their Tiny Little Hands

We got our grubby little hands on the latest Halo Minimate sets that hit Toys ‘R’ Us in the US this month.

July 10, 2011
News

Bungie Says ‘Halo Is Now Yours’ As It Prepares The Handoff To Microsoft

As it did a year before, on Bungie Day (July 7), the Halo creators made available to the public the Bungie armour and Nameplate in multiplayer, and prepared to wind down its stewardship of the Halo franchise it created with a sentimental note that hinted at future projects.

June 25, 2011
Mobile

Bungie Returns To Apple Platforms With Bungie Mobile

Once upon a time, Halo was supposed to be a Mac game, but – to make a long story too short – Bungie Studio’s legendary first-person shooter wound up on Microsoft’s Xbox in 2001.

June 22, 2011
In Real Life

Well Of Course Halo: Reach Can Play Pinball

Using the game’s in-built level creation tools, Halo: Reach player Pete_the_duck has been able to construct a working pinball game within the Xbox 360 shooter that uses sniper rifles and land mines to get the job done.

June 15, 2011
In Real Life

Bungie Will Buy You A Steak Dinner

Kotaku AU

July 7 is a special date for Bungie – it’s Bungie Day, a Bungie holiday where they celebrate their bizarre love of the number seven and reward the community that has built up around the studio. This year Bungie has made a promise – if you get matched up against the Bungie team, and beat them by more than 20 kills, they will buy you a steak dinner.

May 25, 2011
Xbox

One Year Later, Did Microsoft Keep Their E3 2010 Promises?

Can you believe the hype you hear from Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo at each year’s big E3 circus of video games? Year after year, the big three make promises about their consoles and their games. Do they deliver?

Xbox

If You’ve Never Played Halo: Reach, Now’s Your Chance

There’s a new Halo: Reach single and multiplayer demo available on Xbox Live today, coinciding with a week-long $US39.99 sale on the Games on Demand version. If you’ve been waiting eight months for a price drop, your time is now.

May 12, 2011
News

Are Foreign Games Losing Their Stigma In Japan?

For decades, the term “youge” (洋ゲー) or “Western game” was pejorative. In Japanese, “you” (洋) is used to denote Western things, whether that be “Western music” (洋楽) or “Western clothes” (洋服). These words are not pejorative—not like youge has been.

May 9, 2011
In Real Life

Stephen Colbert Joins Noble Team (Well, Not Really)

After Stephen Colbert joked this week that Master Chief must have been one of the members of SEAL Team Six, which took out Osama bin Laden, Bungie dusted off that image, which it had whipped up a while back in an attempt to get a mention on the show.

May 4, 2011
In Real Life

This Year’s PAX Prime Is Also One Big Halo Fest

The annual Penny Arcade Expo, the one that takes place in Seattle, will also be home to a Microsoft-sponsored festival geared for the Halo fan. The appropriately named Halo Fest, Microsoft says, is “the largest and most expansive live Halo experience ever.”

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