Month: March 2016
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Halo 5’s Warzone Firefight Trailer Released During Halo World Championship
During the matches of last week’s Halo World Championship, 343 Industries gave us our first official trailer for the new mode coming this summer, Warzone Firefight! It will be a five-round game of up to 8 players taking on TONS of AI opponents. You can…
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Canon Fodder – Glassed Ceiling
This past week, GrimBrother One gave us some insight into the new Warzone map, Skirmish at Darkstar. Also, he tackles the idea of the Halo World Championship and whether it’s canon or not, and shares a killer video on the Arbiter’s inclusion in another…
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Let’s Play Myth Co-op #10 Out of the Barrier
We’re playing the next of Bungie’s famous games, the Real Time Tactics fantasy wargame, Myth. Set in a mysterious land of cyc…
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Halo Fan Fiction Friday – Parts 8 and 9 of ‘LORC: Beginnings’, Plus More
With what he started back in July of 2012, HWPD continues with parts 8 and 9 of his ‘LORC: Beginnings’ series. Additionally, he expands the series a bit with an ONI Priority Transmission set in his LORC universe. Go give it all a read if you need to ca…
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Play Your Part In Creating The Halo Theme and A New Guinness World Record
Want to contribute to the first Crowd-sourced version of the Halo theme? Craig Stuart Garfinkle is soliciting musicians and singers to add their creativity by sending videos of them performing different parts of the Halo theme song (Marty, want to jump…
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Halo Wars Available In and Backwards Compatible Now In The Xbox One Preview Program
Overnight it looks like Halo Wars was made playable via Xbox One backwards compatibility to the dashboard preview program. If you’re in the preview program, go ahead and download it or slip that disc back in for some RTS Halo! (Thanks The BS Police!) X…
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Halo World Championship Currently Streaming on Twitch
Don’t forget the Halo World Championship is underway right now on Twitch! You can follow @HCS and @ESLHalo on Twitter to keep up! The #HaloWC 2016 is now LIVE on Xbox One, https://t.co/dda9QxPbLG & https://t.co/cHtvlQeF2a! Good luck, have fun! pic….
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Halo 5 50% off Digital and $20 Off Physical This Weekend. Arena REQ Bundle Also %50 Off!
If you’ve yet to enter the world of Halo 5, the digital version of the game will be on sale during the Halo World Championship this weekend in the Xbox store. If you’re more of a physical disc player, Amazon.com will also be running a special promotion…
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Halo World Championship Begins Tomorrow, So Let’s Get Caught Up and Eye Some New REQ’s
The Halo World Championship Finals start tomorrow, and to get you caught up and ready for the action, the Xbox Wire has laid out all the details for this weekend’s games as well as how the teams came to be in the finals. In addition to the eSport information, 343 will be making available a…
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Unrealized Easter Eggs AND Achievements(!?!?) in Halo: CE?
Masterz1337 was messing around in the code for Halo: CE and found not only what could have been a nifty Easter egg, but what also could have been Halo’s first flirtation with ‘achievements’ before Xbox even had them!(MacGyver10 03:21:03 UTC)
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The Halo Archive’s ‘Halo Sheet Music: Scores of Halo Halo 3: ODST’ Up Now
Many people loved the different play-style and narrative of Halo 3: ODST, but my favorite part of the whole thing was always the amazing score (That sax!)! Check out the sheet music for ODST and a little about the release of the game from our friends a…
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Mongooses Helping Out Warthogs…Quite Literally
Sometimes the little guys help out the big guys! (Thanks scarab!)(MacGyver10 03:15:35 UTC)
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The Halo World Championship This Weekend, and Free REQ Packs for Viewers
The Finals of the Halo World Championship start this Friday with the largest console-only game prize pool in history! There will be plenty going on on the Halo Twitch stream if you want to catch the action Friday and Saturday, but the actual finals wil…
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Kill With the Mantis A Little Earlier Now In Warzone
In some quick Warzone news, the Mantis has had some changes come it’s way, and while it still might need a damage buff, at least you can call it in a little earlier now!(MacGyver10 03:10:54 UTC)
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Halo 4 Cutscenes – now in 1080p/60fps
Cody Miller went back through Halo 4 in the Master Chief Collection and supplied us with 1080p, 60fps versions of the Halo 4 cutscenes. Swing by the Halo 4 page in our Halo Cutscene Library for all the new goodness!(Louis Wu 23:47:03 UTC)
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MisterMonopoli Beats Halo 2 on Legendary for New Speed Run World Record
During a recent speed run of Halo 2 on legendary, MisterMonopoli claimed the world record by beating it in its entirety in just 1:38:15! You can see the Twitch archive of his race through the game for the Gamers Outreach Charity, and follow along with …
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Halo Community Update – 03/11/16 (‘The Calm Before the Storm’)
Light on the content (update) this week, Bravo at 343 uses his words to talk about this week’s upcoming Halo Championship Finals and tease the bigger update we’ll receive later today for it. There’s new concept art and a screenshot of the Warzone map c…