Year: 2014

We totally forgot to mention Wednesday’s Halo Bulletin yesterday – sorry! It’s absolutely worth reading; in addition to the information about upcoming changes in Matchmaking playlists, and beautiful screenshots with a nature theme, there’s an announcem…

Robowski and the Post Game Carnage Report crew were pretty intrigued with Microsft’s purchase of the Gears of War franchise… but that doesn’t stop ’em from talking about Halo. Go listen!(Louis Wu 22:26:12 UTC)

There was some confusion a couple of weeks ago about the release date of Spartan Assault for the Xbox 360 – we’d pointed out that a fan had noticed a page on the Xbox.com site listing a release date of January 31, but the following day that page disapp…

GrifballHub is hosting a Halo: Reach Firefight challenge – lone wolves and team players welcome. GrifballHub will be updating leaderboards and you can find the gametype on the forums. Thanks, Goose Checka.(mastrbiggy 22:39:33 UTC)

The Tyrant’s latest Halo 4 WTF Moments episode is called ‘Attack of the Replicons’ – sometimes, you’re confident that you know how the AI is going to react… until they react differently. My heart goes out to you, Tyrant.(Louis Wu 22:35:47 UTC)

NOKYARD let us know that High Speed Halo is back after a long hiatus. The website has been updated and will be featuring multiple speed runs per day, meaning that the submission process is now pretty quick. In addition, there’s a new live stream page…

Rockslider returns to grenade-flying fun on Truth and Reconciliation – there are two new videos showing off dustbowl megabattle fun. Go watch ’em! (Louis Wu 22:25:37 UTC)

Quirel is back with another Fanart Tuesday (well, west coast Tuesday) – this time, the focus is Cortana. And the images he’s found make a fantastic collection of perspectives – go explore! (Louis Wu 22:23:41 UTC)

Masterz1337, the co-lead for the CMT project (search our news if that doesn’t ring any bells), let us know that they’ve discovered an interesting discrepancy in player speeds between the various Halo games – read all the details on the Halomaps forum!(…

DeviantARTist SebastianvonBuchwald envisioned a battle between Master Chief… and Mario. Nice artwork! Thanks, SEspider.(Louis Wu 23:54:29 UTC)

MixMaker117 cut a new Halo vid to ‘Once Upon A Time’ – nice feels! Go watch. (Louis Wu 23:39:52 UTC)

You may have seen some reports of leaked pictures from the next Halo recently; the ‘leak’ has been debunked across the board (by 343 and by the creators of the images, who are actually building a CryEngine 3-based mod we mentioned back in July). If you…

From the sketchbook to the drawing board.

TD Spiral had created an alternate cover for Cryptum as a present for his Secret Santa recipient. Today, he decided to share with the forum. BEAUTIFUL. (Louis Wu 22:50:47 UTC)

Rockslider noticed some more bizarre grenade behavior – this time it’s a Frag, though. Go see! (Louis Wu 22:45:53 UTC)

Elan Lee has some experience with setting up out-of-the-ordinary experiences with stuff like videogames; he was part of the team that created I Love Bees, for Halo 2, and he was part of the team that created Sadie’s Story, for Halo 3: ODST (at a comple…

With the announcement of Microsoft’s acquisition of the Gears of War franchise from Epic, Polygon thought it fit to provide an opinion on how they feel that Halo 4 laid the blueprint for the next generation of Gears of War. It’s an interesting read reg…

This keeps coming around, it seems. IGN is reporting a rumor that Neill Blomkamp has been tapped to direct the upcoming pilot for the Stephen Spielberg-led Halo tv series. I guess we need to wait and see. Thanks, Avateur.(Louis Wu 16:24:39 UTC)

Katie Satow does a vlog for Geek & Sundry, and her latest shows you how to paint your fingernails in a full-on Halo theme. Awesome! (Really cool final product.) Thanks, doober187.(Louis Wu 16:19:17 UTC)