Author: halo@bungie.org

The Xbox LIVE Ultimate Game Sale starts today – and today’s offers are all Halo titles. Games On Demand versions of Halo 3, Halo: Reach, and Halo Wars are each $10, while Halo 4 is $40. Act fast! Thanks, Black Six.(Louis Wu 15:52:09 UTC)

Skywalker DSP dropped in with a fun little commentated game on Landfall – if you haven’t had a chance to check out the new Majestic maps, this will give you a nice overview. (If you have, it’s fun gameplay in any case.)(Louis Wu 15:41:58 UTC)

Cracked.com put together a video called ‘The 7 Deadly Sins of Online Gaming’ – and while these sins are not really game-specific, Halo makes an obvious appearance. How many have YOU been guilty of? Thanks, Revenant1988.(Louis Wu 15:38:54 UTC)

SonGoharotto pointed out a fun little Halo 4 AI fail… it’s all about the lulz. Go try it for yourself!(Louis Wu 15:36:43 UTC)

Another map pack, another glyph code – GunRunner48 informed us that the Section 3 crowd has already decrypted the code buried in the Majestic Map Pack. Swing by the Section 3 Completed Glyph Sequences page for the solution, or the Halo Waypoint forums …

DayandKnightly wrote up a quick summary of the story underpinnings of the new maps – give it a read! (Louis Wu 22:03:42 UTC)

Nevin ‘CruelLEGACEY’ Douglas was given early access to the Majestic Map Pack last week, and discovered that Halo 4 became more fun when he was playing with people who actually wanted to play the game. Go read his thoughts on the dangers of popularity.(…

As a reminder, Majestic Map Pack dropped this morning – the 438 MB download is available now for folks who bought the Season Pass (or received it as part of their Limited purchase of Halo 4), or for folks with 800 MS Points to spare. Don’t miss out! (L…

uberfoop posted a writeup filled with lots of images and video clips from a group run last week through Spartan Ops Episode 10 – pretty fun stuff! Go check it out.(Louis Wu 13:45:05 UTC)

Arithmomaniac pointed out that an outage of the Azure cloud service on Friday affected not only Windows users… but also Halo 4 players. Ouch!(Louis Wu 13:44:14 UTC)

Yesterday morning, 343 Industries live streamed gameplay of the new Majestic maps and showed off some new game types, including Infinity Rumble and Rumble Pro. You can watch the archived version here. (mastrbiggy 09:19:04 UTC)

Clicked shares his thoughts on the three maps included in the upcoming Majestic map pack DLC for Halo 4 – he goes over what game types are best suited for each map. Overall, he thinks the pack is worth your money. While your watching Clicked’s review o…

pete_the_duck shared some videos showing off the Forge options on the new maps included in the Majestic map pack for Halo 4. Go watch!(mastrbiggy 09:14:38 UTC)

TheIncomeTaxes and Insane Alpha Beta found what I think is the coolest Halo 4 easter egg so far – they found images of Tsavo Highway from Halo 3 cleverly hidden in some of the Forge piece reflections. You can see the giant storm cloud and even the brok…

A couple of days ago, we mentioned ‘Welcome to Landfall’ – and then yesterday, Halo Waypoint released ‘Welcome to Monolith’. Today, they finish up the series with ‘Welcome to Skyline’ – if you haven’t checked these out, they’re a great way to get famil…

Dust Storm contacted us about Podtacular’s Spartan Ops coverage – they just hit the halfway mark. Here are all five finished ‘casts: Episode 1: Departure Episode 2: Artifact Episode 3: Catherine Episode 4: Didact’s Hand Episode 5: Memento Mori The…

Nevin Douglas sent word of a new machinima short featuring Majestic, due to drop on Tuesday. Nice backdrop!(Louis Wu 23:41:56 UTC)

We actually have a policy that we will publish a maximum of three pieces of Halo Fan Fiction per author, in a given week – but the well’s been so dry for so long that we approved all five chapters of Blue 4 that firerwolf dropped off recently. Go give …

Jack and Geoff take a look at this week’s Halo fails (AH & YouTube) – self-teabagging is now a thing! There are some pretty great vehicle fails in the video as well (and a win.) Thanks, Nikko B201.(mastrbiggy 09:20:34 UTC)