Year: 2014

We need your help! This year, we received more than 20 submissions for our 343 Guilt O’ Lantern contest (well, a few more than that, but joke entries were disqualified), and we need your help picking the winners! Swing by the voting page, peruse the pi…

The latest Halo Bulletin went live last night on Waypoint – it’s really worth reading. There’s a breakdown of the Skulls available in the package (and how they affect scoring and Achievements), there’s a description of the LASO playlists, and there’s a…

Polygon has a great piece from Ben Kuchera about introducing the next generation to Halo. It brought back some real memories – go give it a read!(Louis Wu 21:36:39 UTC)

IGN has been counting down the best Halo maps – the top 10 are now online. I’m intrigued that no map past Halo 2 made the top cut. Thanks, ChrisTheeCrappy.(Louis Wu 21:32:57 UTC)

Halo Waypoint has released a pair of ‘Prologue’ Terminal vids (Beholden and Unyielding), filling in some of the Halo 2 backstory that happens outside the games – readers of the earlier novels might recognize some situations. Fascinating! Thanks, Mid7ni…

Wow, interesting. FyreWulff made some simple graphics to show you the size of the Forge canvases in the Master Chief Collection, and how they compare to the canvases we’ve had before. That’s a lot of space!(Louis Wu 21:25:30 UTC)

A bunch of reviews for the Master Chief Collection have landed – thanks to our forumgoers for ferreting out the links! Polygon The Verge IGN CVG Go see what’s coming next week!(Louis Wu 21:23:10 UTC)

Ouch! The Verge has looked at the first of Halo: Nightfall’s five episodes… and came away underwhelmed. Give it a read, unless you want to judge for yourself first.(Louis Wu 22:45:32 UTC)

The latest Campaign Level poll from GameVGame focuses on Halo 3: ODST – go pick your favorite!(Louis Wu 22:42:33 UTC)

Earlier today, Bravo announced the ‘Halo Championship Series’, which is 343i’s plan to help get Halo back into the competitive and eSports scene. 343i is teaming up with ESL and Twitch to help host online and LAN tournaments that run under a unified pl…

Project Triforce listed H2A full scale plasma rifle replicas for pre-order. These seem to be officially endorsed by 343i and they do look quite nice. There are two versions, a blue one that runs $150 and a red one that costs $162.50. Thanks, Mid7Night….

The Xbox YouTube channel also released a Master Chief Collection launch trailer – check it out!(mastrbiggy 00:20:56 UTC)

The Xbox YouTube channel released a TV ad for The Master Chief Collection. It’s a montage of Halo footage paired with the song “We Will Rock You”. The song was recreated with Halo weapons sounds – awesome!(mastrbiggy 00:17:31 UTC)

Just a quick note about our 343 Guilt O’ Lantern contest – if all goes well, I should have all the entries up for voting either tomorrow or Friday. Get ready to pick your faves – there are some awesome ones this year!(Louis Wu 23:40:28 UTC)

Another day, another GameVGame poll… today’s wants to know, what’s your favorite Halo 3 Campaign level? Go vote!(Louis Wu 23:39:21 UTC)

A couple of days ago, we mentioned a fan-written article that suggested that Halo 3 Campaign Theater was being downgraded in the Master Chief Collection. That seems to be a premature conclusion – check out this tweet from Frankie confirming that they’r…