Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary

Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary headlines

• Halo Infinity domains snapped up by Microsoft registrant

  MarkMonitor, a company Microsoft regularly employs to make domain name registrations, has gone on a slightly mental shopping spree to try and secure the name Halo Infinity.

• Halo Waypoint, ATLAS real-time map app headed to mobiles

  An official Halo Waypoint app, showing Halo: Reach stats, service records and custom challenges, is set to launch alongside an map strategy app called ATLAS.

• First 20 minutes of Halo CE Anniversary get online

  With Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary releasing worldwide today, Ve3tro‘s gone live with the first 20 minutes of the 343 remake of Bungie’s classic, which celebrates its tenth birthday alongside the release of the original Xbox. Get to it double time below the break.

• Turn 10 explain why you can't drive the Warthog in Forza 4

  Turn 10’s Creative Director Dan Greenwalt has gone on the record explaing why you can look at a very pretty version of Halo’s Warthog in Forza Motorsport 4 but not actually drive it.

• Halo mini-book available exclusively through pre-order at GAME

  Microsoft and Titan Publishing will include a mini-book with pre-orders of Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary through retailer GAME, according to an announcement.

• 343 sometimes had to do more than just tweak Halo: Anniversary's visuals

  343 Industries’s Frank O’Connor has said the team did a bit of tweaking tot he visuals in Halo: Anniversary, and not just when it came to enhancements.

• Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary - Off-screen footage from MS Play Day

  Another of our videos from the Microsoft Play Day, this time showing footage of Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary Edition.

• Halo Anniversary Maps to be exportable, available separately as DLC

  343 Industries has said folks will be able to switch easily between Halo Anniversary and Reach thanks to both games using the same image.

• 343: Players shouldn't be "hyper-excited" over Halo Anniversary Kinect support

  Those straws? Over there? As far as Kinect support for Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary goes, 343 Industries’ Frankie O’Connor has said you should be clutching them.

• Halo soundtrack recreated for Anniversary release

  Halo: Combat Evolved’s iconic soundtrack has been fully re-recorded for the Anniversary edition. Naturally, they’re not messing with it in any way.

• Halo 4 to revisit series' roots

  Halo 4 will channel “amazing” aspects of the original game, Microsoft has said.

• MS: Halo: CE Anniversary Kinect support won't "affect the core gameplay experience"

  Microsoft’s told VG247 that Kinect support for Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary is only “additive,” but that it won’t take hold of the “core gameplay experience.”

• Microsoft has "great optimism" for post-Bungie Halo

  Microsoft corporate VP of its interactive business, Dennis Durkin, has said the company feels “great” in regards to the post-Bungie future of Halo.

• Spencer confirms Kinect support for Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary

  Microsoft Game Studios boss Phil Spencer has confirmed in a GameSpot interview that Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary Edition will have some sort of Kinect support.

• Halo: Combat Evolved HD priced at £35 in UK

  Microsoft’s confirmed to Videogamer that the HD re-release of Halo: Combat Evolved will launch in the UK at a price of £35. It’s £15 less than the RRP of a standard 360 game, but £5 less than a title priced by retail at £40. Halo: CE HD, which will celebrate the series’ tenth anniversary, will […]

• Original Xbox controllers to guest star at Halo Fest

  If you have enormous hands and a love for all things Halo, boy, has Halo Fest got a treat for you.

• Halo Anniversary to run two engines side by side

  Halo Anniversary will allow players to switch back and forth between classic and updated graphics in real time, because the game is essentially running two engines simultaneously.

• Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary announced for November

  Microsoft has announced a remastered version of Halo: Combat Evolved. It will contain co-op, remastered looks. Seven of the most popular multiplayer maps and more.

• Xbox E3 US site outs Halo 4, Halo HD, Dance Central 2

  Big oops. Xbox US’s E3 site just outed Halo 4, as well as a ton of other titles.