Frank O’Conner is currently Franchise Development Director for Halo at 343 Industries, working closely with Microsoft and 343 with everything that has to do with Halo, and implicitly the Halo Master Chief Collection. Originally he was a big gamer, and started writing for various video game magazines such as Ultimate Future Magazine and Official Xbox Magazine. O’Conner was picked up by ...
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Mike Colter Talks Halo Nightfall and Agent Locke
This week not only saw the release of Halo The Master Chief Collection but also of Halo Nightfall, a television series being partly produced by Ridley Scott. The series is accessible through the Halo Channel that is available in the Master Chief Collection. The program is only five episodes long and will be released weekly. Halo Nightfall chronicles the adventures ...
Read More »Halo is not ready to return to eSports just yet, but it will be soon
Halo will have to wait a bit longer before it will be able to step back onto the eSports scene as 343 Industries announced that the Championship Series has been delayed. The Halo Championship Series is a new league created with the release of the Master Chief Collection and was supposed to kick off today, November 16th. However, matchmaking issues with ...
Read More »Halo is stepping back into the eSports limelight this weekend
Before Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and various Call of Duty titles there was yet another FPS that dominated the eSports shooter scene. That game is Halo and it will be returning in style this weekend with the ESL The Master Chief Collection tournament. As you might imagine, this tournament aims to celebrate the upcoming Halo: the Master Chief Collection, which includes the ...
Read More »Halo: The Master Chief collection is now available for pre-download
Halo: The Master Chief Collection, the highly anticipated pack which brings the series’ classics to Xbox One, is now available for pre-order and pre-download on Xbox Live, according to Microsoft. Through The Master Chief Collection, for only $59.99, you will get four past Halo games, the Halo: Nightfall miniseries and the Multiplayer Beta for Halo 5: Guardians. The Halo games ...
Read More »Destiny’s soundtrack is now available
Destiny’s soundtrack is now available for purchase on iTunes. It contains 44 songs, credited to Michael Salvatori, C. Paul Johnson, Martin O’ Donnell and Paul McCartney as a collective. The full album costs $9.99, while individually, the songs cost $0.99 each. Paul McCartney’s “Hope for the future” song is not included in the album, as it will be released as ...
Read More »Why Halo is not coming to PC
Bad news for Halo PC fans. Microsoft’s latest announcement surrounding their ten year anniversary edition of the game, Halo: Master Chief Collection is that they do not have any plans regarding a PC release in the near future. While Halo 1 and 2 had their own PC versions along with the most recent Spartan Assault, the developers’ focus seems to ...
Read More »Twitch was purchased by Amazon for $1 billion
Amazon purchased Twitch for nearly $1 billion after it was speculated that the live-streaming website will be acquired by Google. Initially, Twitch started off as a game streaming platform. Nowadays, it became the largest live-streaming site in the United States, expanding outside the gaming domain. Since it is a large competitor to YouTube, it’s not a surprise that everyone was ...
Read More »New details on Halo: The Master Chief Collection arriving at Comic-Con 2014
343 Industries announced in a blog post that Halo: The Master Chief Collection as well as Halo: Nightfall will each have their own dedicated panel at Comic-Con 2014. “Over the past two months, we’ve begun to share our plans for the current year and beyond,” the post reads. “We started to announce new characters, vehicles, and re-mastered maps. In the near future, ...
Read More »343 Industries hiring producer and concept artist for new Halo title
With Halo 5 Guardians, Halo: The Master Chief Collection and Halo: Nightfall on the way you would think that there’s enough of that franchise to go around as is it, but apparently 343 Industries already has another project in the works. According to the Microsoft careers website, a Senior Producer position for “a new project line in the Halo universe” ...
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