Halo 4 Developer: 343 Industries Price: $60 Platform: Xbox 360 The Halo series has always been engaging and unique among other first person shooters, and Halo 4 keeps the tradition going with interesting combat and rewarding multiplayer. ...

PAX is full of Indie games. The focus isn’t usually heavy on triple-A titles. Big games from big studios like to save announcements and new features for the bigger shows. 343 industries however, made sure to deliver some new information for Halo 4 during their PAX 2012 panel, keeping the hype train running at full speed. ...

Halo 4 is my personal game of show for E3 2012. While the core of the game is the same, 343 Industries has changed so much of the game it feels like playing Halo for the first time. At the show we were able to get hands on the redesigned competitive multiplayer called War Games. The the first thing that struck me when playing the Infinity...

This morning, the Microsoft press conference began with a live-action trailer for Halo 4, switching to in-game cinematics, and a gameplay demonstration. The trailer followed the exploits of Master Chief going after the downed USMC Infinity, running into a new enemy. ...

The Halo: Combat Evolved remake, titled Halo Anniversary, has finished up shop at 343 Industries and is rapidly being manufactured for its November 15th release date.

New to the Halo series, Halo Anniversary adds Kinect support with voice commands so that shouting “Reload” and “Grenade” will pull the same effect as if you had bothered to lift a finger to press the actual button. The most exciting addition may be its encyclopedic “Libary” feature accessed by saying “Analyze” which pulls up visor to “capture” things in the environment and becomes viewable as a 3D model in a gallery. The latest Halo Anniversary trailer is available below. (more…)

On this edition of the MonsterVine podcast, we wrap up our coverage of San Diego Comic Con 2011. William Saw and Austin Adamason ( Hardtoast.com) join me in our discussion of some of the titles we saw at the show, including: GoldenEye 007: Reloaded, Mass Effect 3 and more.