Author: halo@bungie.org
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‘The Autumn, She’s Been Hit’
‘Heroes were born in the fire and bloodshed of the wars which followed, and their names and deeds will never be forgotten.’ – Myth: The Fallen Lords Prologue If you’ve been around here at HBO for any amount of time, you’ve probably seen the check out the page set up to help us never forget.(MacGyver10…
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Rooster Teeth Stars Burnie and Ashley on CBS’ The Amazing Race
There are some people that can never be thanked enough for what they have meant to the Halo games, our founder being one, but the team at Rooster Teeth has also been essential to the growth and success of Halo. For this season, the TV show ‘The Amazing…
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Concept Art for Spartan Men and Women In The Venerance Mod
The Lionheart and the crew of Venerance have quietly been plugging away on their mod, and the work shows! He dropped by with excellent art depicting the shape and design of their Spartan men and women. Check out his post for the concepts!(MacGyver10 15…
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Valentine’s Day 2016
AssaultGodzilla is back again for 2016, setting Linkin Park’s ‘Valentine’s Day’ to Halo footage with some newly incorporated Halo 5 stuff.(MacGyver10 15:15:12 UTC)
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Halo Community Update – 02/12/16 (‘Hammer Storm Preview’)
The latest Community Update went live last week, showcasing the upcoming February update now title ‘Hammer Storm’. There are new REQs, new armor, new weapons, a new map and new game modes coming our way as just a portion of the love month’s update. Add…
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Canon Fodder – Needle Me This
Our resident puppymonkeybaby let us know of the latest Canon Fodder’s arrival. There’s a shoutout for a few UNSC Hornet shots, musings on the remaining San’Shyuum and what they might be up to, as well as some in-universe explanations of the upcoming ho…
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Final Teaser for Halo: Believers Shows Infinity Looking Worse for Wear
There have been quite a few ‘teasers’ for the Halo: Believers machinima that IESUproductions has been working on, but this latest and last teaser shows off some new animations and give a little bit more of the story than we’ve had in the past. Hopefull…
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Xbox and Mattel Collaborate for New Halo Toys In 2016
SIX min WHISTLE let us know that Microsoft and Mattel have reached a deal to start making new Halo toys. Check out the Xbox Wire for details on this partnership, and to see some of the cool toys coming out in 2016!(MacGyver10 21:21:58 UTC)
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Halo 5’s Weekend Playlist Pits You In A ‘Double Date’ to The Death
This weekends’ Halo 5 playlist is live! Grab your favorite female or main man and jump into a ‘Double Date’!The Valentine’s Double Date playlist w/ H2 BRs is now live! Steak is for dinner. Losing team picks up the check. <3 pic.twitter.com/X5MM5nVaeq— Halo (@Halo) February 12, 2016 (MacGyver10 21:18:49 UTC)
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Pilot Banshees Dressed as Spatulas and Drive Warthogs Dressed as Pancakes in Flapjack Frenzy by SplinterBL
If you like to play Halo 5 before dinner, this mini-game might make you hungrier before. It also might be one of the coolest things I’ve seen! Check out Flapjack Frenzy by SplinterBL where you pilot spatula-banshees and drive pancake pumas! (Thanks Hal…
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‘The Case for Gaming’ by Utah Jazz Player Gordon Hayward and How Halo Can Actually Be A Sport
eSports, in particular Halo with their recent showing at the X Games, have been getting dogged for not being a ‘real sport’ since their inception. Gordan Hayward of the Utah Jazz recently wrote an article on The Case for Gaming’s place in sports throug…
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Well-timed Spartan Abilities End This Round of Halo 5 Breakout
Sometimes you pound, and sometimes you’re the ground (just ask Cam Newton [oh snap!]). This ending for a round of Breakout in Halo 5 definitely sees one man pounding four others…wait…let’s try that again. One man ends a match of Breakout with some …
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Play Soccer With a Warthog In ‘Rocket League’ Coming Next Week
Rocket League is a fairly popular game over on the Playstation, and it was announced yesterday that it’s coming to Xbox One next week! The Halo connection here is that the Xbox One version of the game not only includes all the DLC that has been release…
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This Massive LEGO Infinity Looks Good In the Dark
We posted about this massive LEGO Infinity creation late, last year, and the creator Zeo CMF had no idea. He sent us an email to give us a heads up this week, and while most of what he sent we’ve seen before, there is a ‘commissioning video’ with cool …
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Halo 5 Mythbusters Gives You Proof to Shut Up the Rumormongers
What happens to be one of my favorite web series has released two videos since we last posted about them. Check out Halo 5 Mythbusters video 3 and Halo 5 Mythbuters video 4 as they debunk and prove community suggestions in Halo 5. (Thanks General Vague…
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Halo Community Update – 02/05/16 (‘A Whole New Ball Game’)
Bravo posted a late community update this past Friday sort of recapping much of the information we’ve been hearing for a bit on recent updates (matchmaking, Warzone, blue spartans, etc), but he also shows off a bit about the new ‘Ball gametype’ and a f…
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Canon Fodder – Judges and Jurys
Since 343 posts everything late on Friday evenings (east coast represent!), I usually don’t get to share on the day they come out unfortunately. With another school/work week in full swing though, maybe take some time to read through the latest Canon Fodder again (or for the first time)? There is plenty on Cortana’s new…
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Game Day Slayer Is Not a QB Nickname This Weekend (Social Slayer Playlist Live!)
If you’re not a fan of American football, or maybe just will fit some games of Halo 5 in between sportsing this weekend, the weekend playlist is live in Halo 5! The Game Day Slayer playlist is now live in Arena. Jump in for some social slayer before (a…
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‘You’re Now an Owl, Wort-wort!’
Lord Zedd has been sifting through old Halo code again, and this time found a brutal marine assassination from elites. Check it out in gamerguy2002’s post in our forum!(MacGyver10 23:25:30 UTC)
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CaptainDireWolf Recreates the Star Wars Pod Race In Halo 5’s Forge
munky-058 shared a pretty cool custom/aesthetic map called ‘Boonta Eve’. It does kind of work, but it is on honor rules until we get an official race gametype. If you’re interested though, go see what the pod race from Star Wars Ep I would look like in…