And it was gorgeous. But around this great-feeling, technically excellent Halo game, 343 had created a multiplayer structure that borrowed heavily from Call of Duty, in ways that were, uh, bad.

With Halo 5, if you want to play with friends in real life, you’ll have to lug your Xbox One console to a friend’s house and hook up your device — with your own Halo 5 game — to a separate ...

Additionally, Halo 5 is in the Xbox Game Pass program, so you can play it--and more than 100 other titles--for $10/month. One thing to bear in mind is that Halo 5 is an absolutely massive download.

Halo 5's story is less scattered and confused than Halo 4's, and 343 has wisely ditched hiding important backstory in terminals scattered throughout the game. But I was often confused by the game ...

Halo 5: Guardians is free to play, starting today and for a few more days. The entire Halo 5 package is available to download and play completely free as part of a limited-time offer.

Microsoft's Halo 5: Guardians has "gone gold," meaning development on the sci-fi shooter is "finished." Discs are now heading to factories for mass production ahead of the Xbox One game's October ...

The Halo 5 beta gave the world its first substantial look at 343’s new and officially-Halo Halo game just a few months after Destiny’s arrival, and at a glance it seemed a stranger to itself ...

Halo 5: Forge’s main limitation right now is the lack of a custom game browser (aka a server browser), so you can only join games via Xbox Live friends. 343 is planning to add this feature in a ...

I t will be playable from June 29 until July 5 as part of the Xbox Live Free Play Days program. Halo 5’s new Warzone Firefight mode is set to launch on June 29 as a free downloadable update.

Halo 5: Guardians brings some excellent new multiplayer offerings, but its weak campaign, dull plot and co-op-heavy design make it frustrating to play alone.

Which is not to say Halo 5: Guardians won't be good. Based on what we've seen of the single-player campaign, there will still be some great action set pieces. The difference is Halo in cinematic ...

Halo 5: Guardians ‘ bold idea isn’t just to subtract him from three-quarters of the game, but to play coy with his motives. For months Microsoft has been teasing an epic showdown between a ...