Halo's Master Chief has single-handedly turned the tide of interstellar wars. Yet despite his legendary exploits, his rank ...

Nicole Carpenter is a senior reporter specializing in investigative features about labor issues in the game industry, as well as the business and culture of games. Of course, this isn’t to say ...

Toward the end of the first episode of “Halo,” Master Chief — the commander of a squad of scientifically enhanced soldiers known as Spartans — is held at rifle point by Kwan, a teenage ...

Prepare yourself for Polygon’s Who Would Win Week.. People have always loved to compare Samus Aran and the Spartan known as Master Chief Petty Officer John-117 for two simple reasons ...

The mysterious, armor-clad hero of the human race is not quite human himself: As part of the Spartan program, Halo's Master Chief, aka John-117, was genetically engineered and reared by the ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. An erroneous piece of Halo lore began with a joke by the Twitter account dril, posted on May 11, 2017: “my main issue with ‘master chief fucks ...