Halo 4

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Til Death Do We Part – The Halo: Reach Challenge Initiative Closes Its Doors

Three years ago, I found out about an idea. A genius idea that I was surprised no one had thought of yet: a website that allows you to view and help people with Halo: Reach’s in game challenges. Designed, coded, and made completely from the ground up the Halo: Reach Challenge Initiative, or HRCI for short, is just that. A service that allows you to comment on different strategies for honing in on each days daily challenges. Two years ago, HRCI opened up from its public...

Editorials • Features

Why the Next Xbox Won’t Have Always On DRM

I’m tired, guys. I’m dead tired of these rumors. I love rumors just as much as you. I like to know what’s happening next before it’s happening – that’s what my career is based around – but damn it guys, I’m tired. I’m tired of all these rumors around the next Xbox. Sure, I want to know what’s coming next and I want to know when it’s coming, but stop! Every day it seems that something new is coming out. Just today, The Verge proclaimed that the next Xbox...

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Halo 4 is Down

As of  5:44 EST, Halo 4’s servers are down. All players are being shown as a level 1 SR and all players are being pushed to a “Fallback” hopper of the default playlists. Looks like 343 is well aware of the problem, stating they have no estimate on when they’ll be back up. @sangheili1085 No estimate yet, but we are investigating as quickly as possible. Watch this thread for more info: forums.halowaypoint.com/yaf_postsm2254… — Halo Waypoint...

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LevelSave Game of the Year 2012

So we finally did it. After scheduling conflicts, a botched Mayan apocalypse, and what can only be described as the worst water polo accident of 2012, we finally have our Game of the Year list. We at LevelSave have done our best to bring you our list with as much transparency and balance among the team as we could. Several team members (see: almost all) live in separate parts of the country(s) and so coming together to argue about videogames is not as simple as one might...

Giveaway

Want Some Halo 4 2XP? Of Course You Do (GIVEAWAY) – *Ended

I’ve gotten a metric butt-ton of Halo 4 Dew XP from our good friend Halo2Freek, and now I’m passing it on to you! Follow the widget below to enter to win. 5 Winners will be selected and 1 runner up. In order to win you must friend request me on Facebook, that is the only way to send DewXP between accounts. I will accept the winners friend requests at the end of the competition and send them the XP. a Rafflecopter giveaway  

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Halo 4, 343 Industries, API’s, and the Greater Good of the Community

Halo 4 is the first Halo game that Bungie hasn’t had some say in, and it shows a little, but I’ll get to that in my upcoming review of the game. There’s one glaring problem with Halo 4 that cannot be overlooked as it affects thousands of people who may not even realise it: The API. An API or “Application Programming Interface” is the thing that allows sites like HaloCharts.com and The Halo: Reach Challenge Initiative to collect information about...

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How to Get Your Halo 4 Screenshots Off Your Xbox

Halo 4 is an excellent game, but that’s not to say its without its flaws (which ill be outlining in my upcoming review). One of these flaws is the fileshare system. It’s broke. It can’t be accessed or uploaded to the Internet at time of writing. Thankfully, your screenshots are safe. Our good friend and creator of the Halo: Reach Challenge Initiative has created a nice little tool to extract all of your Halo screenshots right off your Xbox’s hard...

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Halo 4, Mtn Dew, Doritos; An Interview with Geoff Keighley

I recently had the amazing opportunity to sit down with industry leading journalist Geoff Keighley and talk about the upcoming blockbuster hit Halo 4 and it’s double XP program that is partnered through Mtn Dew and Doritos. In this exclusive interview we chat Halo 4, Mtn Dew, Islands, and of course Comic-Con. Be sure to hit the video below and subscribe to us on YouTube for more information. If you haven’t already, be sure to pre order Halo 4 and then pick up...

Exclusives • PAX Prime 2012 • Previews

PAX: Hands On With Halo 4’s Multiplayer

Leading up to PAX, there were a few games I had written down as must-plays. Among them were Gears of War Judgement, Dishonored, and at the top of the list: Halo 4. Ever since I got an Xbox for the release of Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts-N-Bolts, I’ve always been a huge Halo fan, and according to game-tracking service Raptr, I’ve sunk a combined total of 673 hours into Halo: Reach, ODST, and 3. Like I said, I like Halo. As I began my Sunday, my only plan was “play...

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Halo 4’s Gone Gold, to be 2 Discs

Halo 4 has officially gone gold. 343’s first foray into the Halo world has been completed and is now in certification, and soon to be printed onto millions of discs just in time for it’s November 6th release when we can all get our grubby little Halo-lovin’ hands on the Chief again. Frank O’ Connor, Halo’s Franchis Development Director was quoted saying “We had a big piece of news yesterday back in the office, which is that the game is...