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New Xbox One bundle packs in Halo: The Master Chief Collection

Microsoft is offering a new Xbox One bundle, including Halo: The Master Chief Collection. It's the same price as other bundles it has offered before, $349. Only the console is packaged goods; H...

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Twitch is playing Halo and it is so painful to watch

Halo: Combat Evolved is now the latest game to join the ranks of the Twitch Plays phenomenon, and it's absolutely painful to watch. Previous Twitch Plays entries, including Pokemon and Legend of...

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Team effort obliterates Halo speedrun world record

A group effort took down the world record for a speed run at Halo: Combat Evolved on Legendary difficulty, beating the old mark by almost 23 minutes. This is a segmented run — which means rather...

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Halo 5 brings back Halo: CE's best grenade trick

Halo: Combat Evolved included a feature called "weapon launching" that allowed you to use the blast from a carefully thrown grenade to cause a weapon to fly towards you. With a bit of practice, and...

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Timeline: The evolution of Halo

On November 11, Halo: The Master Chief Collection releases for Xbox One. It's a compilation of the numbered Halo games to date, or as Microsoft refers to them, the games starring Master Chief. In...

Opinion
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Sharing history with your son ... when your history is Halo

"This doesn't look like a new game," my son said. This is his first time seeing the remastered version of the first Halo game. He's right, of course. Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary in 2014...

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Halo: The Master Chief Collection up for digital preload, Spartan Ops delayed to December

You can now pre-order and preload Halo: The Master Chief Collection from the Xbox Games Store, developer 343 Industries announced today — and you might want to go digital in order to save yourself...

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Halo: The Master Chief collection will include old PC-exclusive maps and weapons

Maps that were once exclusive to the Windows PC version of Halo: Combat Evolved and Halo 2 will appear in the HD anthology Halo: The Master Chief Collection when it launches for Xbox One on Nov....

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Microsoft's checkered history of gaming acquisitions, from Bungie to Minecraft

Microsoft has just generated the biggest gaming story of the year, buying indie behemoth Minecraft (and its accompanying developer Mojang) for $2.5 billion. To try to put this purchase in...

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Here's how Halo looked back in 1999

Bungie's biggest bet yet, Destiny, is coming out next week. So here's a trip down memory lane back to when the studio was independent, just like it is today. In July 1999 at the Macworld...