Year: 2014

This week’s Halo Bulletin covers the madness that was Gamescom, with pictures, a recap of the reveals, and an interview with the winners of the Gamescom Showdown. There’s also a teaser for the upcoming tournament at PAX (which starts in a week!). Final…

Ready to get hyped for the Master Chief Collection? Go watch Beyond Entertainment’s Halo: The Return, edited by Snipetality. It’s spectacular. Grimbrother One was the first to point this out to us.c(Louis Wu 22:01:17 UTC)

Over at The Sixth Axis, Matt Wingler wonders how good his memory is. Will Halo 2 stand up to the nostalgia? Check out his thoughts!(Louis Wu 21:59:07 UTC)

Revenant1988 stopped in with a video of some new upgrades to a classic Sean Bradley energy sword prop… you’re ready for that rave with this one!(Louis Wu 21:56:28 UTC)

pete_the_duck has found himself in a pretty tight space, financially, and has decided to part with some classic Halo schwag to help pay some bills. If you bid on this stuff, you’re not getting merchandise from someone who bought it originally as an inv…

Jem Pizzazz let us know that a pretty nice Mylar print is up for sale on eBay right now; this is Lorraine McLees’ Halo 2 MC artwork, and you haven’t been able to buy it (except from previous owners) since 2004. Take a look!(Louis Wu 22:02:16 UTC)

Gamecheat13 took all the named ODSTs from Halo 3: ODST, and tossed ’em into Firefight, to see how they do against waves of Covenant. Interestingly, their biggest weakness seems to be grenades. Pretty interesting watch! Check it out.(Louis Wu 21:57:41 UTC)

Episode 14 of Red vs Blue Season 12 went live this week – Reds and Blues split up to complete a couple of important tasks… and come back with varying success. Go watch!(Louis Wu 16:58:45 UTC)

The folks over at HaloFanForLife have released episode 13 of The Spirit of Fire podcast. In this episode the crew share their thoughts on the Halo reveals at Gamescom and talk about the recent HFFL LANstravaganza. Go listen!(mastrbiggy 23:49:21 UTC)

RVideo sent us a link to a trailer for In Memoriam: The Metaltage. It’s only a minute long, but it does a fantastic job of building hype for the final product… go watch!(Louis Wu 21:50:54 UTC)

Chris101b stopped in to let us know that 343 has released an hour of gameplay on two the new maps (Ascension and Sanctuary) from the MC Collection – it’s 2v2 and the players are all ex-Pros (that now work for the studio). Good stuff! (Louis Wu 21:49:21…

Comic Book Resources has posted a preview of Halo: Escalation #9… and I must say, there is some info released in those 6 pages that could be considered spoilers (both for the comic series, and for the direction 343 looks to be taking the Halo franchi…

A few days ago, Rockslider released a video showing off a plasma pistol… which reacted oddly to stimulus. We weren’t able to put up mirrors for it, but you can swing by his post for links to YouTube and self-hosted versions.(Louis Wu 21:38:50 UTC)

Depending on your timezone, you may have been fast asleep during the Halo 2 Anniversary Gamescom showdown. No need to fret, there’s a Twitch archive of the entire 6.5 hours of competitive Halo play. You can also watch the rebroadcast of the showdown on…