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Halo 3 inside Fallout: New Vegas is the latest entry in gaming’s “nothing makes sense anymore” era
Halo 3 and Fallout: New Vegas have been integrated into a single project, allowing Master Chief to explore the Mojave Wasteland with Halo weapons, vehicles, and gameplay. Creator Reveries says the project remains in active development and is planned for release on GitHub.
Xbox had much bigger plans for Halo 2 and 3 remakes before layoffs canceled them
Halo Studios reportedly explored ambitious plans for Halo 2 and Halo 3 remakes under “Project Manihi,” with surveys asking community members about multiplayer, Forge, Firefight, Theater, dual wielding, bonus missions, and more. The reported projects were being considered alongside a new mainline...
Halo 3 Returns With Massive 128-Player Multiplayer Mayhem
Halo 3 has always been regarded as the pinnacle of multiplayer excellence within the first-person shooter space, and it's not hard to see why. While the game's narrative is certainly one to be remembered, the game's defining feature was its brilliant multiplayer mode, a facet of its design that...
Halo 3 gets 128-player multiplayer with 'Project Reclaimer' (but there’s a catch)
Project Reclaimer is an ambitious community-built Halo 3 launcher for PC that adds support for 128-player multiplayer, 16-player campaign co-op, four-player online split-screen, expanded Forge tools, dedicated servers, automatic mod downloads, and more.
Halo 3 mod quadruples multiplayer matches with 64-player battles
Halo 3’s multiplayer battles just got a lot more crowded, thanks to a free fan mod that quadruples its usual player limit.
Gears of War: E-Day review-in-progress: "Gears is finally back firing on cylinders – this is its Halo 3 ODST moment"
As Gears of War: E-Day's launches, developer The Coalition is being thinned by more Xbox layoffs. It's a heartbreaking circumstance by any metric, but the timing feels crueler since rolling credits on E-Day's campaign and seeing the extent of their triumph – an ode to big-screen action that...
Gears of War: E-Day review-in-progress: "Gears is finally back firing on cylinders – this is its Halo 3 ODST moment"
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Halo 2 and Halo 3 Remakes reportedly cancelled
Following on from the recent announcement that Halo is being moved over to Activision and Halo Studios is winding down into a maintenance team, new rumours suggest several previously planned Halo projects have now been shelved, including the Halo 2 remake teased at the end of Halo Campaign Evolved....
New reporting suggests Halo Studios had early plans for Halo novel tie‑ins that never materialized
Halo Studios reportedly planned Halo 2 and Halo 3 remakes, Halo 7, and a standalone Halo: First Strike spin-off before the studio’s recent changes.
Crackdown Was So Much More Than Just the Halo 3 Beta’s Pack-In Game
The original Crackdown turned out to be a really terrific comic-book power fantasy brought to life. Or, put another way, a game very worthy of any Xbox 360 owner’s attention, regardless of the fact that it was a surrogate for the public’s first taste of Halo 3.
Wardogs presents a different kind of FPS power fantasy: making fat stacks as a pacifist rideshare driver
Because no-one entirely likes their job, I should be upfront about my issues with newly launched Early Access darling Wardogs, the mass-scale multiplayer shooter in which I’ve just found employment. Its "Play like to you used to" tagline and Halo 3-aping trailer smell a bit of reactionary,...
Halo co-creator praises Witcher 3 Songs of the Past, wonders "what it would have been like if we’d kept building on Halo 3 with ODST-like expansions"
Former Halo series lead and Halo 3 ODST creative director Joseph Staten has praised The Witcher 3's new expansion, reflecting on what the team could've done with more expansions for Halo games. Over on Twitter, Staten posted the Songs of the Past trailer, saying that it's "super inspiring to see CD...
Halo co-creator praises Witcher 3 Songs of the Past, wonders "what it would have been like if we’d kept building on Halo 3 with ODST-like expansions"
"Super inspiring to see CD Projekt Red deliver new Witcher 3 adventures"
"CoD got it. Halo didn't" – Black Ops 1 and 2 ports battered Halo Campaign Evolved on PlayStation last month, analyst says, because $60 for a "graphical touch-up" is a rough sell
"One can’t help wondering what could have been if Halo had kept the trajectory it had around Halo 3 and Reach."
It looks like we're getting a Halo 2 remake next, but is that really a surprise?
Halo has a proud history of smuggling secret endings into its campaigns. In the very first 2001 game, there is a hidden (non-canon) ending featuring Sgt. Avery Johnson fighting and hugging an Elite. In Halo 2, there's a mid-credits scene that teases the beginning of Halo 3. In Halo 3, we get a full...
Secret Halo: Campaign Evolved ending strongly hints that another Halo 2 remake is in the works – "See you in the sequel"
Halo: Campaign Evolved strongly hints that another Halo remake could be on the way. Rumors have been swirling for a while that Halo Studios is planning to remake Master Chief's entire original trilogy – Halo CE, Halo 2, and Halo 3 – in the same style as its newly-released revamp, Halo: Campaign...
One talented modder spent 6 months building the biggest Halo 3 multiplayer mod ever, and it's absolutely incredible on PC
Halo modder RejectedShotgun has released Permafrost after six months of development, introducing one of the most ambitious Halo 3 multiplayer mods ever made. The 16-player experience features AI allies, evolving objectives, resource progression, and dynamic battles inspired by Halo 5's Warzone.
Halo 3's final mission could have been a flying banshee scene inspired by Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
Halo 3's final Warthog Run is one of the iconic FPS series' most memorable finale set-pieces ever, a thrilling and theatrical conclusion paying homage to Master Chief and Cortana's desperate escape from the exploding ringworld in the original Halo, Combat Evolved. It might surprise you to hear then...
Halo 3's final mission could have been a flying banshee scene inspired by Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
"There was a bit of a battle over the finale"
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