Halo 2's iconic E3 2003 demo, much of which did not appear in the final game when it launched a year later, will finally be ...

Bungie would eventually provide proper support for fan-made content with Halo 3’s Forge mode ... normal Spartans using only the Energy Sword to kill their prey. Any Spartan caught by their ...

A good many of us whiled away the hours of our youths playing Swords Only deathmatch in Halo 2. The Energy Sword, aka the Plasma Sword, was the star of the show, with its devastating glowing ...

Something very special happened in our hobby this weekend. The Digsite team, a group of Halo modders who've been working with ...

When Halo Studios (formerly 343) announced this year that it was moving on from Halo Infinite to focus on what's next, I took that as a sign that the days of significant Infinite updates were ...

Prior to Polygon, she worked at publications such as The Verge. Did you know that listening to the Halo 2 soundtrack is a great way to recover from the U.S. election? It’s true. If you’re a ...

“Revisit the debut prototype of Halo 2 in this restoration of the notorious ‘Earth City’ demonstration, initially unveiled at the Xbox press conference during E3 2003,” reads the description.

It may be hard to imagine for younger generations who may not have been born during the franchise's glory days, but there was a time when Halo captivated imaginations across the gaming globe.

Publisher Xbox Game Studios and developer Halo Studios will release the Halo 2 demo showcased at E3 2003, which never made it into the final version of the game, for the PC (Steam) version of Halo ...

Ari Notis (he/him) is a guides editor at Polygon, where he writes, edits, and shepherds service-oriented articles about the biggest games du jour. He previously worked at Kotaku. The demo showed ...

As part of celebrations for Halo 2's 20th anniversary this November, Halo Studios is releasing a recreation of that lost E3 demo from 2003, via a Steam Workshop mod for the Master Chief Collection.

A few days back, the Digsite team dropped Halo 2’s E3 2003 prototype level as a free mod to ‘Halo: The Master Chief ...