File this under: geek cakes. On the outside, this stunning cake resembles the special edition Xbox 360: Halo Reach Edition console. Cut it open, and you’ll reveal tasty carrot cake innards. Click here for more pictures.
Christa chose to make the Halo: Reach edition because she knew that it’s bundled with not one, but two cake controllers. Kidding. her husband got the actual Halo: Reach edition of the Xbox 360 just a few days before his birthday.
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At first glance, this Master Chief helmet may look like it’s made of LEGO, and that’s because it is. Benny Brickster used a massive amount of bricks to make this amazing helmet wearable. Click here for the first picture in the gallery.
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You read that right, a group of gamers actually spent three-years handcrafting Halo costumes from scratch, complete with weapons, LEDs and all. One caveat: they didn’t build a giant Warthog to transport them around town. Click here for the first picture in the gallery.
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WETA designer Richard Taylor created this incredible Halo-themed Xbox 360 case mod for a Microsoft celebration in Australia. Our favorite feature? Watching Master Chief blasting the console’s hardware through its case. Click here for the first picture in the gallery.
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The famed Halo series — first game was Halo: Combat Evolved, released in 2001 — caters to both gamers and artists alike. Unrealitymag has rounded up eight stunning fan-made Halo art masterpieces. Click here to see them all.
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Amazon has the Rubies Costume Co. Collector Halo 3, Master Chief Costume for $632.37 shipped, originally priced at $999. It “features a quilted jumpsuit with EVA armor, a two-piece deluxe spartan helmet, gauntlets, and boot tops.” Product page.
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Playing Halo online or even alone can be quite frustrating to say the least, and some gamers deal with it better than others. Whether it be the “Halo Kid” or “Angry Halo Player”, you’ll find it here. Continue reading to see them all — language is definitely not work safe in some videos, so have your headphones ready.
Finally, the Halo: Reach countdown has winded down, and gamers worldwide can get their hands on this masterpiece. IGN reports that “the whole shebang will last you about nine or ten hours on your first play through on the Heroic difficulty.” Video review after the jump. Click here for more screenshots.
The campaign is excellent, backed by solid storytelling and a powerful audio-visual experience. The competitive multiplayer is familiar, yet brand new with a lot more options and a faster pacing. And the cooperative Firefight arcade mode has finally met its potential.
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Though not exactly a Facebook fail, these Halo status updates from Master Chief and friends are quite funny, or so we think. To start off, we bring you an unrelated photo of Guitar Halo 3. Click here for first picture in gallery.
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A couple of Halo: Reach videos were shown at Gamescom 2010, and they provide us with a preview of the new Firefight map. This map “takes place inside a covenant cruiser, in a small hanger with large entrances on two sides of the enclosed space.” Videos after the break. Click here for more screenshots.
According to Bungie it’s one of the smallest Firefight maps in the game, so there’s rarely a time when you’re not firing and/or fleeing for cover.
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