It’s Bungie’s last hurrah. The end of a beautiful partnership. A final product after nearly a decade of love. It’s Halo: Reach. How does the game stack up? Read the Ripten review to find out…

Can’t get enough 411 about Halo: Reach? I know I can’t. With the official release little more than a week away, many of us are brimming with excitement! Thanks to Halo Waypoint, we have the full Bungie 2010 PAX panel event here for you to watch.

If you’re anything like me, you loved the Halo 3 viral campaign and every little bit of it. Well my appetite has been whetted once again, with Microsoft and Bungie launching an amazing campaign giving players the chance to experience hundreds of pieces of information prior to the game launching in less than three weeks…

Everyone knows Bungies last foray into the Halo universe is going to be the tale of the planet Reach and the Convenant invasion. But little did people know Bungie actually considered bringing Master Chief back…

More news from Tokyo Game Show: Microsoft announced the recently teased new Halo 3 expansion, now titled Halo 3: Recon.  The game’s campaign will be a prequel to the story of Halo 3 and will not feature the Master Chief.  Instead, you play as an ODST grunt (well, slightly better than the cannon-fodder “allies” that [...]

The elusive Hayabusa armor from Halo 3. If you’re a big fan of playing with dolls– ahem, sorry, “action figures”– then you’d probably love to litter your workspace with these Halo 3 figures from Todd McFarlane’s workshop. Some of the more interesting toys from the upcoming series 3, due out in September, are shown below, [...]

Major Nelson posted the LIVE activity for the week of January 14th, and guess what took the top spot? Well, I guess I already gave it away. Infinity Ward’s awesome military shooter finally de-throned Master Chief and his rascally gang of Spartans.

Halo 3’s crashes have resulted in a class action lawsuit against Microsoft and Bungie Studios.

Halo 3 is still the topic of controversy weeks after its release, and this time it has nothing to do with the Bungie and Microsoft split. According to the numbers published on rottentomatoes.com, Octobers ticket sales are at one of the lowest points in recent box office history. What does that mean? Well, according to [...]

“That’s it, I quit. This is so not worth sixty bucks.” Ok, so we came across this little bit of heaven while browsing reddit.com and just had to share the find with our readers. Granted, not everyone here at ripten was completely in love with Bungie’s latest Halo release in terms of the campaign mode, [...]

Halo 3′s multiplayer mode, along with Microsoft’s entire strategy for domination in the console wars, can be summed up in two beautiful words: Endless replayability. This is a desert island game–assuming you had an HDTV and Internet connection on the island, and didn’t use team chat to send out an SOS. It’s a game that [...]

Halo’s storyline finally comes full circle, and not the good kind of circle I used to draw in math class with a compass — the bad kind of circle I used to draw on the asphalt when I was five! If Bungie’s mission was to make us feel like pigeons, preordering the game, waiting three [...]

It’s official. Bungie is now a privately held independent company, meaning they are no longer owned by Microsoft. Although Bungie is not owned by Microsoft anymore, Microsoft still owns a minority equity interest in Bungie.

Pressure from Microsoft … unbearable!! Shield … can’t take … much more! Halo 3 sales figures have been announced and Microsoft states that it has made $300 million dollars worldwide and sales of the Xbox 360 console have doubled. The Halo phenomenon has hit its online play as well, with Xbox Live totaling close to [...]

Winning bidder “directsalesprice” is definitely going to be winning the office Halloween costume contest this year. His winning bid of 21,149.00 on Ebay for a one of a kind Master Chief custom featured on Spike TV, G4 TV, and in a Dell commercial, may not make him famous but it will definitely get him looks. [...]