Month: June 2015
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It’s not a Scorpion, huh?
HaloFanForLife noticed a new kind of tank coming from MegaBloks… hmm! Thanks, Quirel.(Louis Wu 23:33:37 UTC)
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Watching a 50-covie stack form
Rockslider continues his exploration of enemy overload – wanna see a stack of 50 covenant enemies? You can watch them drop in! Craziness. (You know it’s just the clear-out at the end you want to participate in…)(Louis Wu 23:30:12 UTC)
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Batman makes him sweat
Gametrailer’s Michael Huber is tough to stomach in large doses, but if you can handle a minute, swing by ‘The E3 of Dreams – Huber Hype’ and jump straight to 1:30. He talks to Ike Amadi about Halo 5, Spartan Locke, and Batman. Thanks, Grizzlei! (Louis …
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The Know talks Halo 5
Rooster Teeth sat down with 343’s Chris Lee and Kevin Franklin to discuss Halo 5, and its presence at E3 – in a 20-minute interview, they cover everything from gameplay to the Hololens demo. Tons of great little details – if you missed this when it was…
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The Sprint – now on YouTube
If you’ve heard good things about The Sprint: The Road to E3 (the ViDoc series 343’s been publishing on the Halo Channel on the Xbox One), but don’t have the ability to watch it on the Halo Channel, Bounce-A-Gon has your back – they’ve posted it on You…
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Splitting up the Reach Statue
tadboz decided his Halo: Reach Legendary statue was too bulky – so he decided to break it apart, and create new bases for each model. The final products are really cool! Go take a look.(Louis Wu 23:11:26 UTC)
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Halo: Fleet Battles ships July 20
Jaydee noticed (amid the flood of E3 news) that Halo: Fleet Battles now has a ship date – it’ll be available on July 20. And if you follow the link he found, you can even get a 15% discount by ordering now. (‘Now’ means NOW – the coupon expires today.)…
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Locke – a man with two sources
Over on reddit, LairdM put together a few sources that suggested that Mike Colter might not be voicing the character of Locke any more in Halo 5 – that he might have been replaced by Ike Amadi. A followup by Frankie, on NeoGAF, confirms this – Colter i…
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Under Locke and Keynote
This week’s Canon Fodder is meaty – everything from a look at Armigers (the Promethean Soldier we saw in the reveal) to a peek at new armor variants coming in Halo 5, to a reminder about why you want to check out the latest Sprint on the Halo Channel. …
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ASE Ep. 160 Marathon Tempus Irae 24: You Gotta Sin To Be Saved
More Catholicism-flavored puzzles from Cosimo in this episode, at least before the game goes out of sync. We’re doing a new M…
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Halo and Hand Cramps
Looks like TeamBeyond landed a pretty sweet interview with Josh Holmes of 343 Industries going into great detail on the new Warzone multiplayer mode, Req Packs, Arena multiplayer and more. Some of the highlights (or lowlights in some cases) are spartan…
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From the Pages, In Step Player 3 and Player 4
The latest novel in the Halo series came out this week, called ‘Hunters in The Dark’ from Peter David. Not only does the cover feature the super-rare, super-awesome blind wolf, but apparently the pages on the inside have some pretty cool words too! Che…
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Play to Win, Not Pay to Win
There’s been some concern and discussion in our forum and around the internet on the new Warzone Req Packs introduced in Halo 5: Guardians. Our timed exclusive GrimbrotherOne who now sits on the throne at 343 Industries pointed to an article Josh Holme…
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Team Coco vs HBO (the TV channel, not the real one)
Conan O’Brien and the cast of the HBO show Silicon Valley squared off in some Halo 5: Guardians Arena multiplayer this week on the Clueless Gamer segment. I feel like watching Team Coco play would be like playing on a team with Wu and Stuntmutt.(MacGyv…
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Cortana on HoloLens Kickstarter in 2016?
One of the surprises at E3 was a Halo 5: Guardians briefing with HoloLens that many were able to experience before trying Warzone multiplayer for the first time. Ryan Mccaffrey tried it out and wrote about his experience over at IGN.(MacGyver10 15:33:3…
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The Art of Halo 5: Guardians
Urban Reflex let us know in our forums that the Art of Halo 5: Guardians is up for pre-order on Amazon. The book goes into detail on many of the characters in the upcoming video game, most excitably for me, a look into bringing back the Arbiter in his …
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Statues, Steelbooks and Spartans
If you’ve seen enough of Halo 5: Guardians this week already to know you want it this fall, Grizzlei in our forums posted the pre-order info from Xbox.com so you can reserve your gaming experience. She also pointed us to a tweet from Rob Semsey, Senior…
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Spawning Season for Grunts and Jackals
Rockslider on our forums continues to pull some awesome gameplay from Halo: CE, and with the craziness that is E3 this week it could have been overlooked! Check out his video on spawning a ridiculous number of covies, that then receive a little cyborg …
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Halo 5: Guardians, Waypoint Info Dump
A lot of gaming news sites have already had an article out for every tidbit of info that’s been released this week on Halo 5, but the fine folks at Halo Waypoint have their own page up with information on pre-ordering, videos for campaign and multiplay…
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Warzone Multiplayer! Vagueness Will Die if This Has Forge.
A lot going on this week in the world of Halo, and along with the first campaign reveal of Halo 5, we received a first look at a new multiplayer mode with the Halo 5 Warzone Trailer. 343 Industries has since released a Vidoc for the all new multiplayer…