Over the last decade, professional gaming has grown ever further and the Halo franchise played a big role in that expansion. To help with the currently unnamed Halo game for the Xbox One, 343 Industries has recently hired a professional Halo player. Professional Halo player Eric "GH057ayame"...

343 Industries has lost a good one, as the senior art director for Halo 4, Kenneth Scott, has announced that he is stepping down from his position at 343 Industries to be with his family. He will still be working in a remote capacity with 343 Industries in a new position they have made called...

A leaked image on Monday that IGN uncovered showed that a Halo 4 Game of the Year Edition would be coming to Xbox 360 this October. The image stated that the new release of the 343 Industries game would be released for available for $49.99 rather than the original's cost of $59.99. The...

Halo 4 will receive a new title update from 343 Industries on Monday, the day before the release of the new Champions Bundle DLC. The patch for the game will end the current Global Championship Online Qualifier. However, that is not all as it will also include a couple new Support Upgrades, as...

Fans of Halo 4 that are still playing the multiplayer portion of the game will be pleased to hear that its fourth expansion pack called Champions Bundle, where it includes three DLC packs that can be purchased separately, will be available this August 20th for 800 Microsoft Points. In the...

Microsoft is proud to announce that Halo 4 has now become the best selling Microsoft Studios video game in the USA. Here's the official announcement: "Exciting news for the Halo team at 343 Industries and Microsoft Studios – critically acclaimed, “Halo 4” is now the best-selling...

343 Industries has posted a job vacancy looking for a Creative Director that can "deliver a groundbreaking new AAA entertainment experience set in the Halo universe". It's possible the vacancy is for someone to work on Halo 5 since the studio worked on Halo 4 and is expected to work on...

One Halo 4 owner, Timothy, sent a complaint regarding a faulty copy of Halo 4 to Bungie. However, Timothy was unaware of Bungie's lack of involvement in the development of Halo 4. Sure, Bungie could have simply wrote off this complaint and gone about their day while the distraught customer...

Loving the multiplayer portion of Halo 4? If so, a new map pack is now available for download over at the Xbox Live Marketplace. For 800 Microsoft Points, or free to Season Pass holders, the newest content called Crimson Map Pack is now available for download. If you are a season pass...

Announced during the VGA event last night, 343 Industries revealed that more episodes are coming to Halo 4's Spartan Ops mode starting next month. On January 21st, fans can look forward for several new episodes and the conclusion to its first season. There are talks that they may be a...

Microsoft has announced that the Halo franchise has reached a monumental milestone today. The series in total has sold over 50 million units. This is quite an achievement, considering the franchise was mainly released only for the Xbox and Xbox 360 consoles (although Halo and Halo 2 were...

If you are still playing Halo 4's Spartan Ops with friends, you may want to download the episode 5 as it is now available. Simply go to the Infinity mode and from there, download the fifth episode. Based on what was revealed today, the fifth episode is supposed to have a 'secret' being...

Halo Council is reporting that there is an ad currently up on the German Xbox 360 Dashboard advertising the upcoming DLC for Halo 4. Given the news, it would seem that the first map pack, titled Crimson, is set to arrive on December 10th. This Monday release seems a bit more credible as the...

According to early sales estimates from VGChartz, Halo 4 sold a very huge 3.8 million copies worldwide in its first week on sale. The game sold 3.1 million copies in its first 24 hours earning $300 million in the process. To be exact with the numbers, Halo 4 sold 3,798,209 units in its...

343 Industries released a new trailer for Episode 3 of the Spartan Ops cooperative mode in Halo 4. The trailer shows the return of Dr. Halsey and picks up right after the events of last week's episode. The Forerunner artifact that was found continues to give the crew of the UNSC Infinity...

Since it came out last week, Halo 4 has been breaking sales records around the world including Australia. In its first week, Halo 4 is the biggest Halo launch ever in Australia. Not only was it the biggest launch for a Halo game in that country ever, but the biggest launch in 2012 so thus...

Microsoft has revealed that Halo 4 broke Xbox 360 sales records and amassed a huge $220 million worth of sales in its first 24 hours. Although movie tickets cost a lot less than video games, this didn't stop Microsoft from touting that the game earned more money in one day than The Avengers...

343 Industries has announced that the next episode of Halo 4's Spartan Ops mode will release on Monday. Episode 2 will include 5 new Spartan Ops missions as well as a new CG cinematic and will be free via Xbox Live at 11am GMT on Monday. A teaser trailer was released as well as a blurb...

Halo 4 came out earlier this week and it's no surprise that millions of Xbox 360 gamers were excited for its release. According to data from VGChartz, opening day sales for the game have set a new record for the Halo franchise. Estimates are that Halo 4 sold an impressive 3.1 million units...

With Halo 4 now available worldwide, Microsoft is holding a limited-time only promotion where you will get free Microsoft points, by simply putting playing multiplayer for a number of hours. Starting today through the rest of November, every hour that you spend the multiplayer portion of...

Halo 4 was released at midnight in New Zealand and avid Halo fan Jerina Grewar was the first person in the world to purchase a copy of the game. Jerina Grewar queued up for 12 hours waiting in line to purchase the first copy of Halo 4. The Halo 4 launch party was the biggest launch...

Anticipation for Halo 4 is at a fever pitch with the game due be released in a few day's time on November 6th. Gamestop is planning to launch the game is 4,400 stores across the USA. If you cannot wait to get your hands on Halo 4 the minute it goes on sale, it's likely your local Gamestop...

Not only has Halo 4 been getting universal praise from reviewers everywhere, it's soundtrack is also making history with a place in the Billboard charts. No other video game music soundtrack has ever booked a spot on the Billboard music charts before. The soundtrack managed to sell 9000...

Microsoft Game Studios head Phil Phencer mentioned in an interview with Polygon that Halo 4 is the most expensive video game Microsoft has ever made. Although no specific numbers were specified, Phencer did say that "nothing's come close" in terms of development costs. Halo as a frachise is...