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Halo 3's new "alternate universe" armour skins spark realism debate - and the memes have begun
This week, Halo developer 343 began testing Halo: The Master Chief Collection Season 8 content for Halo 3 and Reach, giving players their first taste of new "alternate universe" armour skins - and it's fair to say they've sparked quite the debate within the community.Season 8 of MCC is called Myt...
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Halo 3 is getting a remake of Halo 2 map Turf
343 has outlined a number of new features coming to Halo: The Master Chief Collection.Chief among them is a new map for Halo 3 called Icebox, which is a remake of the classic Halo 2 map, Turf.Icebox was originally a multiplayer map from the cancelled Halo Online (343 has added Halo Online maps to Halo 3 before). Unlike the original, which is set in Mombasa, Icebox is set in the Russian city of ...
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13 years after it came out, Halo 3 has a new map
13 years after it came out, Halo 3 has a new map.Season six of Halo: The Master Chief Collection launched last night, and it brought with it Waterfall, a Halo Online map now playable in custom games for Halo 3. Waterfall is a snow and ice-themed map with a silenced SMG and Brute plasma rifle placed natively on the map. The trailer below shows it off:Halo Online was the free-to-play PC Halo game...
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Halo 3 is getting back bling
14 years after it came out, Halo 3 is getting back bling.Taking a page out of the Fortnite playbook, Halo 3 is getting a raft of new customisation options, including what are called back accessories.These new customisation options, which do not affect gameplay, are live now in the Halo: The Master Chief Collection flight (the version of the game where upcoming features are tested).Read more
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I adore every last one of Low Poly Animals' tragically blocky critters
Say what you want about modern games, but they’ve gotten pretty good at rendering fauna. If Red Dead Redemption 2 wants to show you a goose, it’ll damn well show you a goose. Last month, a new Twitter account popped up to remind us that this is a fairly recent development, cataloguing the smart, ...

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What if Halo 3's multiplayer was flooded with rats, though?
343 are finally getting weird with Halo: The Master Chief Collection, and that’s great. But they were never going to hold a candle against the game’s modders, who’ve lately decided what Halo 3 really needs is to turn everyone into a rat. That’s exactly the premise behind Rat Slayer, an upcoming mod that – daft as it is – never dared to consider whether John Halo isn’t already just two-dozen rod...

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Halo is getting PC and Xbox matchmaking this year
First up, I’m going to incept the Halo theme song into your brain: Oohwawawawahwahwawha… There, that should do it. Now we have the scene properly set, I’m excited to tell you that the Halo: The Master Chief Collection isn’t going to settle on just bringing the Halo series back to the PC. There are plans afoot that will let Xbox One and PC gamers fight together in multiplayer. Everything is con...

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343 commits to crossplay, input-based matchmaking and custom game browser for Halo: The Master Chief Collection in 2020
343 has said crossplay, input-based matchmaking and custom game browser will all release for Halo: The Master Chief Collection in 2020.In a blog post on Halo Waypoint, the developer provided a snapshot of the features the development team is working on and committed to for 2020. Without providing...