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Alex Kobbs really likes Halo. He's also pretty good with Legos, as you've likely seen in the past. Today, it appears he can add "accomplished stop-motion film creator" to his resume. His 27 minute stop-motion opus, Battle of the Brick, is well worth the your time.

Today 343 Industries clarified that Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary and the Anniversary Map Pack are two separate entities. Next week players can nab Halo: CE Anniversary for $39.99 or simply buy the multiplayer component, the Anniversary Map Pack, for 1200 Microsoft Points ($15)...

#halo If you're like me, you've yet to step into one of Microsoft's fine, fine retail emporiums. Nothing against ‘em, it's just that you can get everything online nowadays. Pizza. Liquid refreshment. That goes from online competition, too, but, Microsoft's going to be stocking its stores full of all three to commemorate the impending release of Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary, a.ka. the re-master of the first Halo game More »

Remember when Halo: Reach launched -- all the way way back in 2010 -- and Microsoft asked us to visit a special website and contribute to a "living monument?" You may better recall the marketing that went along with it, but it would seem Microsoft is prepping a similar campaign for Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary.

Fusible claims to have stumbled upon Halo Living Monument, a site Microsoft seemingly set up and registered only weeks ago, and took the above screen cap. And, sure enough, a month ago, Fusible caught the registration. A quick who.is search shows the domain in question is registered to Microsoft.

With Combat Evolved Anniversary only a few weeks out, we anticipate we'll be seeing the site launch soon. Like, now. Now? How about now?

#halo This new clip for the 10 anniversary re-mastering of the first Halo game takes a narrative approach to the lore of the sci-fi shooter. The decades-long war with the alien Covenant collective has humanity pushed to the brink of total defeat More »

After ten years, it's easy to forget details in both life and games. So when I drove a Warthog up to the first light bridge in Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary, in all its updated HD glory, I forgot where the switch was to turn it on. The funny thing is, the first time I ever turned on Halo when it came out, I had the exact same problem. That narrow passageway remains as elusive to me as ever, and that's what made me realize this remake is doing exactly what it set out to do...

At a recent multiplayer event, I got my hands on Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary's multiplayer to see what it had to offer fans of the franchise...

Halo: Combat Evolved was essentially the entry point into the world of first-person shooters for hundreds of thousands of console gamers. It's been documented countless times over how Bungie's genre-refining masterpiece was single-handedly responsible for establishing the original Xbox console as a ...

343 Industries is giving Halo Waypoint a massive overhaul this fall. Aiming for a deeper integration with Halo: Reach and Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary, the news and community hub will see a substantial interface redesign on Xbox 360, a new Windows Phone update and application, and the addition of Custom Challenges...

#halo The classic Halo: Combat Evolved multiplayer map Hang Em' High is getting a stunning remake when it returns to players in Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary. More »

343 Industries confirmed today that High Noon, a remake of the classic Halo: Combat Evolved multiplayer map Hang Em' High, will be the final multiplayer map to ship with Halo: Anniversary. The news came out of a lively Halo: Anniversary discussion at New York Comic Con 2011. First spotted in the...

343 Industries detailed how Kinect integration will figure into the Halo Universe, including voice commands to reload weapons and throw grenades, and a gesture-based system to access an item database. Three specific features were announced: Analyze Mode, The Library and Voice Commands...

In honor of Halo Anniversary, Master Chief and friends are being remastered again, this time as a new series of Minimates toys. The new "Series 4" includes Cortana, Master Chief, Jacob Keys, and the Prophet of Truth. The Master Chief toy even comes with an even mini-er Cortana!

Switching between visual styles is as simple as clicking a button or talking to your Kinect.

The mere mention of Kinect will cause some people to twitch. When 343 Industries and Microsoft started mentioning Halo and Kinect in the same sentence, the response was appropriately hyperbolic.

Almost immediately, the line from Microsoft was that Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary's Kinect hooks would have nothing to do with waving your hand around and shooting Covenant.

We don't know all of the Kinect features in the high-definition update, but 1UP spoke to franchise development director Frank O'Connor, who revealed one that makes some sense: switching visuals.

By saying "classic" or "remastered," you'll be able to swap between the two versions of the game.

We should know the rest of the Kinect features soon enough, sometime next month.

"We don't want to oversell it," said O'Connor. "It's not something that radically changes the gameplay; it's just another additive bonus on top of the other stuff we've added. We think of it like the 3D: something that makes the experience better, but doesn't change it."

#halo With excellent sniping spots and what amounts to a vehicular combat arena at the bottom, Halo 2's "Headlong" multiplayer map is reborn as "Breakneck" in Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary. Bask in the glorious gameplay footage and screens, plus get a peek at the very first Halo campaign level in all its remastered glory. More »

"Hey, me from ten years ago! Check out how awesome our Halo looks in 2011!"

"We're still playing the same games ten years from now? Good job."

"Well ... uh ... it's in 3D, you know. There's 3D in your house now."

At 343i's "Halo Anniversary Campaign" panel at this year's Halo Fest, the developer confirmed the return of "skulls" in the remake launching later this year. Previous Halo titles have allowed users to find hidden skulls that could be activated in order to trigger additional effects within the game, ...

#halo Sure, PAX 2011 is taking place in Seattle right now, but let's not forget that right across the street is Halo Fest. This expo celebrates the game's 10th anniversary with a look to the future (Halo 4) a nod to the past (Halo: Anniversary), and all sorts of stuff in between. And The Duke. Who could forget The Duke? It and Halo: CE go together like Starsky & Hutch. Here's everything we've seen from Halo Fest. More »

I haven't been particularly skillful at any of the Halo games that succeeded Halo -- a direct result of the fact that the original game possesses a language that the rest of the series eschewed. Perhaps it was a language of simplicity; after all, true success only demanded proficiency with one weapon, the pistol, which could take enemies down in a handful of well-placed headshots. Forget armor abilities, dual wielding and deployable items: There was only gun, and the manner in which you used gun.

While playing Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary earlier this week -- in its single-player, multiplayer and multi-dimensional varieties -- I was struck by how quickly that language came sailing back to me. I probably didn't realize it until that moment, but in the ten years that have passed since the original launch of Halo, I've really come to miss Halo.

#halo Confession: I wasn't all that excited about the E3 announcement of Halo: Anniversary. I think it was some combination of remake-fatigue, the fact that Tomb Raider had already snagged the Anniversary title for their remake… all that top of the fact that the grand Halo Reach went so far beyond the original that an up-res'd remake seemed like a step backwards. More »

Halo Fest has officially kicked off, and we're neck deep in Halo: CE Anniversary multiplayer. We got our hands good and bloody playing across four Halo: CE Anniversary multiplayer maps - Timberland (aka Ridgeline), Prisoner (aka Solitary), Damnation (aka Pennance), Battle Canyon (aka Beaver Cree...

After 10 years of Halo, the original isn't the challenge it used to be. We've all become better killers behind the Master Chief's helmet, and the Covenant in Halo CE Anniversary haven't evolved to cope...

Reports from the frontlines of Halo Fest, as relayed by Major Nelson, have revealed three new multiplayer maps for the upcoming Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary. The highlight of the bunch is probably Timberland, the pine-studded arena from the PC version of Halo (original version pictured), suitable for 8 to 16 players. Next up is Prisoner, a symmetrical map with bridges designed for 2-8 players.

Finally, a new Firefight map has been announced. Titled Installation 04, the map is based on the level "Halo" from the original game, which you might remember as the first level in which Master Chief set foot on the ring world (after crash landing).

Halo: CE Anniversary is getting a lot of upgrades in the visual department, but if you're at Halo Fest this weekend there's a pretty major one you can see for yourself: stereoscopic 3D...

Microsoft has announced that Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary will have a 3D display mode. This confirms another piece of information from the report we gave you in February.

Demonstrated to us at the recent Gamescom event in Germany, Halo's 3D intensity is scalable and only works in the game's updated graphics mode. Producer Dan Ayoub claims the framerate will stay "consistent" with 3D activated, even when things get hectic.

The 3D experience will not be available in splitscreen co-op, nor when shifting over to Halo's original graphics engine. Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary will be available on November 15.

Ever wanted to know the deep lore behind and automotive specs inside Halo's most abundant form of military transportation? You can and you will, provided you pick up Turn 10's upcoming racer, Forza Motorsport 4. At last night's Halo Fest event, the studio announced that the new, Halo 4 model of the ubiquitous Warthog would be featured as an easter egg in the game's spectatorial "Auto Vista" mode.

This means that you'll be able to sail around the new iteration of the car (using either a controller or Kinect-based gestures), manipulating its every feature and learning more about its backstory thanks to some 343-penned narration. The best part? Those voiceovers are performed by Jen Taylor, the actor behind Halo's luminous guide, Cortana.

The worst part? The Warthog's only viewable in Auto Vista mode, and won't be driveable in actual races. We suppose that would be unfair, because, you know, chaingun.

We're one day away from IGN's exclusive livestreaming coverage of Halo Fest, the first ever Halo-con, happening at PAX 2011 in scenic downtown Seattle...

#halo Just because we love you at Kotaku, we're giving you videos of two classic multiplayer maps, Beaver Creek and Damnation, for free! Enjoy the nostalgia of blasting your friends with a plasma rifle. More »

The first ever Halo fest is taking place in conjunction with this year's PAX Prime. From August 26th through the 28th, IGN and Microsoft will be working together to give attendees a look at the new Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversay Edition, as well as a host of tournaments to play. Details for the competition are below, and stay tuned to our exclusive Halofest Hub page for hot newness leading up to the event! Friday 10am-12pm: Anniversary 4v4 Team Slayer Single elimination brackets...

LEGO Halo is, unfortunately, still an April Fool's joke. But if Bungie or Microsoft ever do want to put it together, maybe Benny Brickster can help. He's modeled a number of different Halo vehicles, from the Covenant's Ghost all the way up to the gigantic Pelican, in the excellent and versatile LEGO medium.

The Pelican is quite a feat in itself, sitting over 26 inches long, with wings so heavy they need their own stands. The back door even opens and closes. Next up, Brickster plans to expand the Covenant forces, building a Wraith, a Phantom, and possibly even a seven-foot long full-scale Assault Carrier. We won't lie: Building something like that would make him a real master, chief.