Halo: Combat Evolved Is Meant to Be Played with Love

Halo was The Beatles of my video game upbringing. As a teenager and young adult, Bungie’s definitive space marine first-person shooter was my favorite gaming franchise. I loved everything Halo. I played each campaign dozens of times, spent hours immersed in online matchmaking, and fooled around with Halo 3’s map editor for more time than I’d care to admit. The Halo series was essentially my virtual anchor into the video game landscape for more than a decade. Anticipating a new adventure featuring Master Chief and Arbiter got me into a fangirl frenzy like ‘60s hippies catching a glimpse of John […]

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