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Project: Contingency – Fan-Made Halo CRYENGINE-powered PC Exclusive – New Concept Arts & Videos Released

Back in August 2013, we informed you about Project: Contingency; a fan-made Halo game powered by CRYENGINE. It’s been almost two years since then and after a big radio silence, the dev team decided to release a bunch of artworks and videos for this project. Project: Contingency will be a free-to-play massively multiplayer online with up to 64 players support. It looks promising, so go ahead and take a look at what the team has achieved this far! Continue reading Project: Contingency – Fan-Made Halo CRYENGINE-powered PC Exclusive – New Concept Arts & Videos Released

Speedrunner Finishes Halo: CE Legendary In Just One & A Half Hours, Making A New World Record

YouTube’s ‘TheDeadaTTicus’ has managed to finished Halo: Combat Evolved in just one and a half hours (in Legendary difficulty). As of this moment, this is the fastest speedrun of Halo: Combat Evolved (though as the speedrunner admitted, it might be possible to get under an hour and a half someday). Enjoy! Continue reading Speedrunner Finishes Halo: CE Legendary In Just One & A Half Hours, Making A New World Record

Halo: Combat Evolved – New Update Resolves GameSpy Server Shutdown, Brings Additional Fixes

Bungie has revealed the changelog for the latest update of Halo: Combat Evolved that will be released later this month. According to the changelog, this update addresses the closure of GameSpy’s server, enables refractive Active Camo on Nvidia cards and fixes handling of video cards with more than 2GB of memory. Continue reading Halo: Combat Evolved – New Update Resolves GameSpy Server Shutdown, Brings Additional Fixes

Halo’s Energy Sword & Dragon Age: Inquisition’s Helmet Made In Real Life

Okay, it’s time for something a bit different. Our reader ‘Anabel Martinez’ has informed us about a real life helmet based on Dragon Age: Inquisition that was created by Allen Amis and Sarrah Wilkinson. The helmet looks amazing and you can view below some images from it. Moreover, YouTube’s “Man At Arms” has forged Halo’s Energy Sword. So waste no time and hit the jump in order to admire them in all their glory. Continue reading Halo’s Energy Sword & Dragon Age: Inquisition’s Helmet Made In Real Life

Project: Contingency Is A Fan-Made Halo Game, Powered By CryEngine 3 – Tech Demo Revealed

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Halo fans, get ready for a treat. A team of talented students (or modders if you will) is currently working on a fan-made Halo project called Project: Contingency. Project: Contingency will be powered by CryEngine 3 and as the team noted, Project-Contingency is the codename of their project, meaning that the final name will be revealed at a later date. The team has released a tech demo to showcase what they have currently accomplished that can be viewed below. Enjoy! Continue reading Project: Contingency Is A Fan-Made Halo Game, Powered By CryEngine 3 – Tech Demo Revealed

Halo Gets Updated With Better Visuals Thanks To Its Modding Community

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Remember that E3 trailer of the first Halo? Man, was that something or what? Halo was the first game that made 3DFX realize that 32bit coloring would be essential for newer titles, and it was the game that most PC gamers were looking forward to. To put it simple; we love the first Halo game, as well as its OST. And it seems we are not the only ones, as this relatively old title keeps getting mods that attempt to overhaul its visuals. Continue reading Halo Gets Updated With Better Visuals Thanks To Its Modding Community

Weekly CryEngine 3 Gallery [March 3rd – 9th]; Bioshock & Halo In CryEngine 3

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Today we bring you new shots from 3D artists and CryEngine 3 modders Glode, scotthomer, Rens, chicken, QuadReaktor, ReVan1199, EliteGhost and i59. The highlight of this week is undoubtedly scotthomer’s finished Bioshock environment, as well as Rens’ finished environment based on Bungie’s Halo. These two guys will be featured in the next issue of the online Vertex magazine, so make sure to keep an eye on it. Both scotthomer and Rens proved that CryEngine 3 has a lot of potential, so here is hoping that developers will start taking advantage of it. Enjoy! Continue reading Weekly CryEngine 3 Gallery [March 3rd – 9th]; Bioshock & Halo In CryEngine 3

Halo 5 In Real Life – Fan-Made Live-Action Video

Halo CE AnniversaryYouTube’s member ‘devinsupertramp’ and his friends made an amazing live-action video that supposedly showcases an early verion of Halo 5 for X720. The costumes are a beauty to behold and we seriously think that these guys should use them to make a proper Halo movie. On the other hand, the commentary in this video sucks. It really, really, REALLY does. In fact, we’d advise you to watch the video in mute mode due to the awful commentator. Enjoy! Continue reading Halo 5 In Real Life – Fan-Made Live-Action Video

Halo: Combat Evolved PC – New Fan-Made Campaign ‘Project Lumoria’ Released

More goodies for our Halo fans, as TM Mapping Team  has released Project Lumoria, a fan-made/custom campaign for Halo: Combat Evolved PC. In Project Lumoria, players will embark on a journey that brings you to the Forerunner world of Lumoria. When a scientific research crew sends out a beacon of distress, the UNSC frigate “The Endless Horizon”, a frigate class ship, is sent in to execute a low-profile search and rescue operation. Continue reading Halo: Combat Evolved PC – New Fan-Made Campaign ‘Project Lumoria’ Released