Tag Archives: Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary

How would Microsoft have fared in a Bungie-free world? A world where its masterful space opera hadn’t greased the Xbox slip road with high-grade Warthog engine oil? The system’s first and biggest star has flared brighter still since its appearance, two console generations ago, but on launch day it was …

Famously, Halo: Combat Evolved – the game that changed the landscape of first-person shooters on console forever – began life neither as a first-person shooter, nor on console. I do not consider this a coincidence. But before we get into that, a brief history lesson. The world’s first glimpse of …

343 Industries is the Microsoft-owned development house of the Halo series, and it’s darn proud of it. Regardless of where or when they signed on, employees need to appreciate where the franchise came from and how it’s grown. That’s why 343 dedicated a space in its Redmond, WA headquarters to …

The Facehuggers from the Alien films are the archetypal enemies that scuttle and jump at your face. If these scuttling, jumping-at-your-face enemies had never been invented, video games would probably have 100% less scuttling enemies launching themselves in the general direction of your face area. Thankfully, not all the gaming …