Year: 2017

Adv Jones gave us a heads up on the latest Archive Beacon. With a lot of changes this past year, the Halo Archive isn’t resting on their laurels, but still striving to improve how they do what they do! Give it a read as they look ahead at what’s to com…

Thanks to the aforementioned Community Update, we found out about this blog post from studio head, Dan Ayoub on the upcoming Halo Wars 2 beta!(MacGyver10 16:12:47 UTC)

Davidfuchs gave us a heads up on the earlier than normal (thanks Ske7ch!) Halo Community Update this week. Plenty of Halo Wars 2 info as we approach the newly announced beta on January 20th, with pre-order bonuses, physical discs for PC and a reminder …

The second beta for Halo Wars 2 starts January 20th! This time it features the new ‘Blitz Mode’ that combines tactical combat, card-based strategy and microtransactions (we’ll see how that goes)! The Halo Wars 2 Blitz Beta begins on Jan. 20! Tactical c…

Looks like the winter season is over, and the new one has started in Halo 5’s Arena mode! If you played ten games in a ranked playlist during its duration, your emblem should be there. In the meantime, here’s the preview of this new season’s emblem! Hop into Halo 5 and complete your Arena placement…

Big fan of the Brute species? Already a Legendary LootCrate subscriber? Either way, you might want to check out the new figure coming with the next Halo Wars 2-themed crate, as Atriox can be picked up with this crate if you order before February 15th (His name is Atriox. That is what you’re up against.…

Both Gravemind and WizBlue (via email) gave us the heads up on an amazing bit of footage from a cancelled Halo Mega Bloks video game! There’s quite a bit of great footage of what might have been, including some use of iconic Halo weapons, and a killer …

As they’ve done in years past, the Awesome Games Done Quick crew will be speedrunning for charity again, and they’ll be picking up the controller-throw-inducing legendary difficulty of Halo 2! The jackal sniping is currently set to run at 7:55P EST thi…

Forward Unto Dawn is kicking off the new year by going old school with a classic Halo villain, the Prophet of Truth! Check out their piece, ‘The Shroud: Prophet of Truth as Tragic Hero’, and let ’em know what you think in our forum! (MacGyver10 23:03:3…

Forge user Julianoz1224 created a really cool game with the new scripting tools in Halo 5. Check out his scripted, co-op survival game where you and friends are pitted against Mantis’s! You can see his Imgur post for GIFs, links and explanations of the…

While we’ve known the next Halo Legendary Crate would be Halo Wars 2 theme, we get a pretty picture from LootCrate to show of Atriox and the new order-by date of February 15th for Crate #4! Don’t forget to use our code ‘HBOCrate’ to get 10% off! Would …

The Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences got together with upcoming DICE 2017 speaker, and Halo head, Bonnie Ross, to talk about sci-fi communities, ‘staying true to the franchise’ and other Halo bits. You can give it a read at the link!(MacGyver10…

If you’ve lurked a long time without posting at HBO, take a tip from Timishere on how to do it! He let us know of a teaser he put together for his friend’s new Halo machinima coming out soon! Something to look forward to for sure!(MacGyver10 22:16:26 UTC)

Rockslider has shown off his freezing of Covenant before, but this time he takes ‘goldie’ and gives him the purple explosion treatment with needlers, nades and rockets! Check it out in his forum post!(MacGyver10 22:14:43 UTC)