Has any single game mechanic had a bigger moment than Halo 2’s E3 demo?

At the turn of the century, after films like Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace and The Matrix reshaped pop culture, early-2000s maximalism was at its peak. Darth Maul’s double-sided lightsaber and Neo and Trinity’s lobby gunfight — where they’re each firing two guns simultaneously, one in each hand — became instant teen obsessions.

One original Halo designer blasts the new remake, wonders if the point was just 'Occupying an enormous art team while you figure out what to do'

H alo: Combat Evolved is getting a second remake and there are plenty of reasons it's sort of an odd duck. On top of taking a hatchet to Halo's perennial Xbox and PC exclusivity, it's got all sorts of ground-up changes: new weapons, 4-player co-op, sprinting, and uh, "enhanced level design."

Halo on PS5 confirmed for next year but it’s missing a major feature

The long-rumoured remake of the original Halo: Combat Evolved game is coming to PS5 and Xbox but it’s only half the game. It’s been rumoured for years, with Microsoft itself dropping a number of heavy hints, but now it’s official: Halo is coming to PlayStation 5, as part of a multiformat remake of the original Xbox game.
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After Halo 5 had the iconic series on thin ice, Halo Infinite's big bad was created in Halo Wars 2 to "get back to" the FPS' "dark" past

Speaking to FRVR, Halo Wars 2 writer Dion Lay explains that 343 Industries (now Halo ... Lay goes on to explain Halo's "balance" was all about "really fun" gameplay that feeds into a "quite funny" superhuman power fantasy, "but then underneath the story ...
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