Year: 2014

Yesterday, Waypoint released this week’s bulletin – it has information regarding the playlist update and there’s a poll for which game type you’d like to see in Team Doubles. Voting only lasts for four days – don’t miss out! There’s also some informat…

Jeff and Brad from Giant Bomb check out what Halo: Spartan Assault has to offer – they don’t seem too impressed. You can watch it on Giant Bomb or YouTube.(mastrbiggy 09:53:57 UTC)

TheChunkierBean stopped in to announce his free-to-play Halo game, built on the Unity engine. The video shows off some early weapons and some physics – looks great! (Louis Wu 21:49:32 UTC)

Robowski let us know that his latest blog entry at Post Game Carnage Report summarized the highlights of 2013 – go see how great a year it was for them! (Louis Wu 21:46:25 UTC)

The Halo Mole Team let us know that the next contestant has been revealed – Goosechecka holds the honored seventh slot. Check out the intro video for more info – and try and guess whether she’s a real contestant… or the Mole? (Louis Wu 21:45:17 UTC)

Whispering into your ear about sweet loots.

NOKYARD found an archived version of Monopoli’s Halo 2 speed run from Awesome Games Done Quick 2014 – if you weren’t able to watch it in the wee hours of the morning now is your chance. Monopoli and crew provide some really great commentary on their st…

GameRevolution has posted a review of Halo: Escalation #2 – it’s more of a quick summary of the action, but it serves as a nice reminder that the issue will be available tomorrow, both in stores and via digital download. Grab your copy!(Louis Wu 22:34:…

OXM has an interview with Microsoft’s Phil Spencer – he talks about the Halo TV series coming from MS and Steven Spielberg. It’s an interesting read – it gives some insight into how MS sees Halo, going forward. Thanks to Grizzlei, who found it at exami…

TrueAchievements’ Achievement of the Week this week is ODST’s Endure Achievement – swing by the site and complete it for yourself (or help others do so)! Thanks to Morpheus for the heads-up.(Louis Wu 22:06:15 UTC)

This isn’t really Halo-related, but it’s video-game related, and the submitter shows up around here quite a bit. Gina ‘Dogiojoe’ Johnson has just kicked off a Kickstarter campaign for a book she’s written called ‘Why I Game’ – it’s a response to the ‘v…

An article focusing on the aborted Halo film helmed by Neil Blomkamp was written last April at One Room with a View… but it popped up in my Google feed last night. Weird. It’s a nice overview of the project, and contains a bunch of tidbits I’d never …

This morning a blog post by Xbox Corporate Vice President of Marketing, Strategy and Business, Yusuf Mehdi thanked fans for “an epic 2013” and touted some of the cool happenings and titles on their way in 2014. Missing conspicuously from the list was H…

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HaloGAF Radio Episode 16 is live – Tashi is joined by Steelyuhas and Heckfu to discuss the Xbox One and the recently faked Halo 5 images. Go listen!(mastrbiggy 08:36:38 UTC)

Halo Waypoint focused on a gorgeous painting by ThePriceOfPower a couple of days ago – if you missed it, you should swing by. (Louis Wu 22:56:04 UTC)

MixMaker117 put together a level-specific Achievement Guide for Spartan Assault – pretty helpful! Give it a look to speed up your achievement hunting.(Louis Wu 23:01:19 UTC)

DrummDragon filmed Master Chief’s Christmas… I’m not sure his friends are really friends! Go watch.(Louis Wu 22:58:00 UTC)

This might be our last news post about Fails of the Weak – the AH crew seems to have pretty much lost interest in actually doing them any more. (There were some fun fails this week – but you’d have trouble telling from watching the vid.) Anyway, here a…