Microsoft announced Halo: The Master Chief Collection at its press conference on Monday, featuring all four games starring our favorite faceless supersoldier in one convenient package. Because playing games in anything less than 1080p makes some people's eyes bleed, Master Chief's adventures have all received the Halo Anniversary treatment and been updated for our modern retinas. Feast your eyes on some of the hot campaign action from Halo 2 in this trailer.

Are you longing to relive the magic of those original Halo games, yet your cherished copies were stolen by wolves, or some other woodland creature? Weep not, friends. Rumors have it that you'll be able to once again experience the delight of mowing down thousands of Covenant as your favorite seven foot tall space marine and his freaky alien buddy in glorious current gen graphics.

In a follow-up, it has been reported that 343 Industries, the developers of the highly anticipated Halo 4, is already talking another Anniversary title for Halo 2.

Bungie are no longer the developers of the Halo franchise, but as one door closes another, in the form of 343 Industries' Halo 4, opens. Before bidding so long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, adieu to the Halo franchise, Bungie have released one last statistical overload.  Amongst the multiplayer stats (over 208 billion games played), are some co-op Firefight stats - 29 Billion kills, 350,405,511 games played, 12.8 Trillion points earned.  Check out Read More and open the gallery for a tiny version of this Halo stat orgy.  Or better yet, follow this link for the full image! 

Look at that screen shot.  Doesn't it just make your eyes bleed?  The aspect ratio alone makes me furious.

So very lonely

Tonight we lay to rest the worlds first broad band gaming service for consoles.  Microsoft is flipping the switch on Xbox Live for the original Xbox, thereby killing access to dozens of games with online modes that nobody plays anymore.