Halo review – fails to be TV’s first great video game adaptation
‘I put on 40 pounds of muscle. Holy mackerel!’ Pablo Schreiber on playing Halo’s ripped hero
April 2022
Shoot em up! How TV fell in love with video games
From Halo and Resident Evil to emo apocalypse thriller The Last of Us, video game adaptations are storming our screens. Is this a fast-track to quality TV – or a cynical cash grab?
March 2022
TV review
Halo review – hit sci-fi game morphs into middling $200m TV series
Stream lover
Halo, Moon Knight and more Bridgerton: what’s new to streaming in Australia in March
January 2022
Sony to buy video game maker Bungie for $3.6bn as takeovers continue
Bungie developed Destiny and Halo while sale comes after Microsoft’s $69bn acquisition of Activision Blizzard
December 2021
Pushing Buttons newsletter
Pushing Buttons: gaming is culture – even Fortnite has something to say about society
The 10 best games on Xbox Series S/X
August 2020
Xbox Series X to launch in November, but Halo Infinite delayed until 2021
New console will arrive without its showpiece title as troubled Halo sequel is put on hold
July 2020
Xbox Series X games showcase: Halo: Infinite, Fable and more - as it happened
In a packed hour of trailers, Microsoft revealed the Halo: Infinite campaign, plus the next Forza Motorsport and a new Fable
January 2020
Will the success of The Witcher herald a golden age of game-to-TV adaptations?
2020 culture preview
Vampires, gangsters and Keanu Reeves: our games picks for 2020
September 2019
Best culture of the 21st century
The 50 best video games of the 21st century
Want to build worlds, become a crime kingpin, get lost in space, or enter the afterlife? Then our countdown of the 50 best games of the era has something for you
June 2019
The 12 most-anticipated games of E3 2019
From Star Wars and Marvel-themed juggernauts to village life sims and monster hunts, these are the games we’re most interested to see more of at next week’s E3 in Los Angeles
June 2018
Halo video game franchise to become live-action TV series
E3 2018: Microsoft's gaming chiefs on the future of Xbox
April 2018
Zelda? Pokémon? Spyro? Players tweet their defining games
Under the trending Twitter hashtag #GameStruck4, video game fans have spent the day listing the four titles that defined their love of gaming. Some are predictable, others not so much
February 2017
Halo Wars 2 review – exciting revival of the real-time strategy game
Halo returns to the world of RTS with a challenging yet instinctively playable take on the once-mighty genre, and one that is full of new ideas
August 2016
How Destiny learned from its mistakes to redefine the first-person shooter
The success of Halo saw Bungie grow from small concern to household name. Two years after release, the Destiny franchise looks set to take its developer to new heights
July 2016
If only Brexit had been a game
Simon Parkin
Current real-world politics remind us why so many prefer the ordered fairness of gaming
