narrative truth and reconciliation
“We stand together, brothers to the end. We are his will. We are his legacy. We are The Banished.”
It’s finally been revealed. We’re fighting the Banished in Halo Infinite!
The Brutes are back! Here’s why they’re the perfect antagonist for the next movement of the Master Chief’s odyssey…
Read More Why the Banished are the PERFECT antagonists for Halo InfiniteHalo now has thirty books.
It’s an incredible, unmatched achievement – and most of it’s excellent. But it is also something that presents a bit of a problem, which can be summarised succinctly as…
Halo now has thirty books!
Read More Halo has a growing transmedia problemWhen 343 Industries inherited the mantle of the Halo franchise and decided to continue the story of the Master Chief and Cortana, the universe asked a question.
The answer arrived in the form of metal and madness, bearing the name ‘Promethean.’
Read More From Peter Jackson to Halo Infinite – A Rumination on the PrometheansEarlier this year, I wrote a lengthy analysis of Battle Born, as it very quickly became one of my favourite Halo novels, so I reached out to author Cassandra Rose Clarke and she very kindly agreed to have a chat with me about what’s next for Evie, Saskia, Dorian, Victor, and Spartan Owen in Meridian Divide.
Read More I Interviewed Cassandra Rose Clarke! – A Primer for Halo: Meridian DivideThe Didact did not die at the end of Halo 4.
The Didact did not die during the events of Halo: Escalation.
Contrary to the impression many have, he is, in fact, still out there… somewhere. Where is he? What’s become of him? When might we see him next, and how might he return?
Read More What Happened to The Didact AFTER Halo 4 (and How He Might Return)“They say that they want to help, but they only say it to themselves. Don’t we have a say in our salvation?”
With the announcement that Reach will be coming to The Master Chief Collection, and will be the first game flighted for the long-awaited release on PC, this naturally came as the perfect reason to go back and revisit the Data Pads and the Assembly. Who are they, and what role could they play in the future?
Read More Remembering Halo: Reach – Why I Love ‘The Assembly’This is not a bedtime story, some frightening fairy tale to entertain or scare young children; this is as real to you as the feeling of a book in your hand, a hot dinner to eat, an AI to hack, a concert to visit, a tree to climb, homework to be bored with.
This is what happens on the day the Covenant drops out of the sky to tear down your world.
In the many tellings of this story, never has it been told quite like this before.
Read More Halo: Battle Born – On Lost Childhood and the Value of YA LiteratureIt’s been more than three years now since Halo 5: Guardians released, something I have just celebrated with my own creative response to the game – The Five Untold Stories of Halo 5. We’ve had a difficult relationship, Halo 5 and I, where its story is concerned, as many of us do… I found myself looking back […]
Read More Truth and Reconciliation – My Journey with Halo 5Here we are, at the fifth and final story of this little project. This has been a really fun exercise in mixing various critiques I’ve made of Halo 5 over the last three years with more creative expression, writing scenes I’d have loved to see and expanding on some of the ideas found throughout the campaign and […]
Read More The Five Untold Stories of Halo 5 – In Loving Memory of Squad Leader BibjamAnd so we come to the penultimate instalment of The Five Untold Stories of Halo 5. This is something I’ve had in-mind for three years now, a ‘resolution’ of sorts to the conflict between Catherine Halsey and Sarah Palmer that unfortunately didn’t get the best showing in the concluding issues of Halo: Escalation. At the end […]
Read More The Five Untold Stories of Halo 5 – Halsey’s Choice