Halo

The latest episode of the Paramount+ Halo series is an action-packed throat punch from the moment it starts. That punch to your windpipe will sting a little more if you’re a big fan of a certain character from the games, who bit the…

The Halo TV show has always held the video game series’ lore at arm’s length. From its early announcement of the “Silver Timeline” (an entirely separate but loosely similar canon that the TV show would be sticking to) to the first…

The opening scene in Halo season 2’s third episode (titled “Visegrad”) has a telltale marker of prestige television: It’s dark as shit. As John/Master Chief (Pablo Schreiber) and the rest of his crew head off to pick up the cliffhanger from…

Photo: Oleg Krugliak (Shutterstock)Last week things got a little hectic in the world of Xbox. Following January reports and speculation that Xbox exclusives Sea of Thieves and Hi-Fi Rush could arrive on PS5, February saw convincing rumors…

Screenshot: 343 Industries / Claire Jackson / KotakuFree-to-play shooter Halo Infinite just got a long, long overdue update to one of its more troubled modes: Big Team Battle. Featuring 24 players at once, Infinite’s large-scale playlist…

The second episode of Halo’s second season isn’t bad, by any means, but it’s not quite as memorable as the previous episode. Instead, “Sword” is a reminder that the Halo series is strongest when it focuses on the Spartans’ stories, whether…

The team behind the polarizing Halo TV series on Paramount+ really wants to change your mind in season two. In the lead up to the latest season’s debut, everyone from producer Kiki Wolfkill to new showrunner David Wiener and even Master…

Halo’s first season felt like an old-school video game adaptation: desperate to be taken seriously and terrified of all of the specific oddities about its source material that people actually love. Sure, there were firefights, Spartans,…

Paramount Plus’ Halo series didn’t get off to a great start. The first season, which premiered in 2022, seemed torn between trying to match the action of the games and telling a very different story about Master Chief — which included a…

It is the week of the Big Game, folks — that’s right, we’re talking Halo, and Halo, the show based on the hit Xbox game that’s back for season 2. It’s a big one — this is the show that Master Chief (Pablo Schreiber) had sex on, and that…