Showtime has big, universe-killing plans for Halo
In June, we reported that Showtime had ordered 10 episodes of a show based on the Halo video games, making it the…
Showtime to finish the fight with Halo TV series
According to Entertainment Weekly, Showtime has stepped into its Mark IV Mjolnir armor and ordered 10 episodes of a…
Master Chief is back in Halo Infinite
Microsoft kicked off its E3 2018 showcase with the most teasing of teaser trailers for the next game in the Halo series.…
The key to writing an iconic video game theme is nailing those first few seconds
Nobody buys a video game for its soundtrack, but, as the Game Boy’s Robocop made achingly clear, sometimes that…
What’s your favorite “wrong” way to play a video game?
In honor of today’s 15th anniversary of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, we’re asking the following question:
The best video game secrets are the ones you’re not supposed to find
Our current Special Topics In Gameology series continued this week as Patrick Lee turned an eye toward the deleted…
Readers discuss why it’s so hard to properly invade the United States
America At War
This week, Drew Toal took us on a tour of an occupied America in his review of Homefront: The Revolution.…
Grifball turns Halo into rugby—but with giant hammers and laser swords
Welcome to our weekly open thread for the discussion of gaming plans, nagging questions, and whatever else we feel like…
Readers mourn the loss of split-screen Halo
It’s November, which means new games are coming faster than you can say “eh, I’ll wait for Fallout 4,” but we’ve still…
Halo 5 is a missed opportunity to evolve more than just combat
Much of the hype around the new Star Wars movies (perhaps the only space epic bigger than Halo) is fueled by rumors…
Readers try to define the perfect balance for freedom in puzzle games
This week, we dipped back into 2014 with a review of The Talos Principle, a puzzle game from the Serious Sam developers…
The Master Chief Collection leaves out Halo’s most humanizing games
Note: Microsoft has announced that it is remastering Halo 3: ODST and will be gifting it to players who booted up The…
Captain America beats up Pokémon kid in the battle of heroes vs. game characters
Everyone suspected Minecraft would one day bring about the end of all things, but who could’ve guessed it would’ve gone…
Readers share their Destiny criticisms and sordid Sims tales
We ran reviews of two high-profile games this week. The first was Destiny, the new multiplayer first-person shooter…
The “shared-world” thrills of Destiny wear thin over time
Since its initial introduction to the world, the makers of Destiny have cloaked their game in enough mystery and…
Our critic answers your Destiny questions from the front lines of Old Russia
As promised earlier in the week, I got Ryan Smith, the Gameological critic handling Destiny, on the horn to answer…
Nicolas Cage’s face invades Halo, continues to be everywhere
The invasion of Nicolas Cage’s face continues unabated. He was already on a Serbian biology textbook, every selfie on…
The first trailer for Ridley Scott’s Halo: Nightfall attempts to prolong the game’s history
Despite the wealth of material that video games have provided the film world, few—and some would argue, none—have been…
The Xbox is getting out of the original-video-content game
As arch-rival PlayStation is busy leveling up by developing its first scripted series, Xbox is shouting, “No fair!” and…
Do you have “gateway games” that make you want to play other games?
Welcome back to AVQ&A (Gameological edition), where we throw out a question for discussion among the staff and readers.…