Author: halo@bungie.org

SexyMasterChief has put together a great ‘Duck Hunt’ map in Halo 5’s Forge with great use of scripted, moving parts. Go check out the video, then follow SexyMasterChief on Xbox to download this custom creation. (MacGyver10 20:58:09 UTC)

HugoCornellier of Reddit waded through the last month’s Halo 5 Forge creations and pieced together a pretty great list of previous maps from old Halo games in Halo 5’s new map-maker. (Thanks funkmon!)(MacGyver10 20:49:31 UTC)

munky-058 dropped a link to the Achievement Hunter crew’s top 5 games of 2015. Go listen to them rail on their own picks as they semi-explain why they are a top their favorites of last year (obviously, Halo 5 is in there somewhere!).(MacGyver10 20:44:1…

Xmoosev3 has had some fun in Warzone before, and he’s back with more garage fun. Check out the videos in his post where he plays a little chicken with the vehicles on the other side of a shield door!(MacGyver10 17:00:20 UTC)

Though we might have had an early preview, the FUD team has updated a piece on their site for the breakup of the Covenant called ‘Glimmer of a Dying Star’. Thanks to the reccomendation of one of their Community Evolved backers, they discuss the reasons…

Rockslider stopped by with some interesting, freaky elite behavior in the hangar after doing the Maw banshee snatch trick. He posted a few different ways to watch it in our forum!(MacGyver10 16:54:11 UTC)

Not only is the SPV3 crew remastering and reimagining the gameplay and graphic of Halo: CE, they are also going through and remastering all the music! Check out their remastered ‘Under The Cover of Night’ while watching some gameplay. (Thanks Masterz13…

The Halo Archive let us know of their ‘Shadow of Intent’ breakdown over the Christmas break, and unfortunately I’m just now getting to posting it. You can read their reflection on Joe Staten’s return to Halo, how they think it fits into the expanded un…

Gamesradar put up a list of ‘easy’ updates they feel would help take Halo 5 from good to great. Some of them I thought were great ideas (plenty there for you Warzone boss naysayers), and others seemed trivial to me. Go check it out and see what you thi…

General Vagueness posted that Awesome Games Done Quick will be speedrunning Halo 4 this Thursday around 9:00a EST. In the past, AGDQ has raised large sums of money for great charities and this year they’re focusing on the Prevent Cancer Foundation that…

With Halo 5’s Forge having been out for a couple weeks now, the community is just beginning to see some amazing maps come out (now if only we had those gametypes!). Some great places to check out new user-submitted maps are Forge Channel and Forge Hub …

cheapLEY brought the news to our forum that Joe Staten, the writer for much of the Halo games while with Bungie, has a new gig leading the writing for Microsoft’s upcoming new game, ‘ReCore’. (MacGyver10 23:15:51 UTC)

I had no idea what to expect at first, but after the first minute of Timgie’s ‘Rewind Paradise (A Halo 3 HMV)’ I was hooked! Timgie has done one of these for Reach before, so this is a kind of prequel/sequel he’s been working off and on for a couple ye…

While it’s the opening cinematic for Halo 5, you can get an idea for the new series, Halo: Believers, by checking out the voiceover they added to it. Hopefully we’ll see the meaty content of the series soon too!(via IESUProductions)(MacGyver10 22:42:42…

Polygon posted an opinion piece this week on why Halo 5 is the best multiplayer Halo game in years. You can give it a read on their site, but then be sure to check out cheapLEY’s post in our forum for some opinionated discussion. (MacGyver10 22:28:50 UTC)

If you looked through our news archive for Grumpy, you would see some pretty amazing tricks he’s accomplished in Halo 2 as a long time HIH member. Well this past week, he sent word of the results of some stormy weather that kept him inside for a couple…

Ray sent us an email to a cool article over at Kotaku (wait, did I just actually say that?) with another great video from the people at Termacious Trickocity. Here’s the link to their YouTube video where you can see some old and new tricks from various…

Gamerguy2002 pointed out a neat video that discusses the practicality and current, real world applications for much of the science behind the Halo games. For instance, did you know we currently have the capability of shooting plasma? Go check it out on…

General Vagueness let us know that the warthog-surfing craze is over, welcome to the Mantis-Banshee surfing days. Tuckerscreator even pointed out the instigators made a video of the feat themselves.(MacGyver10 16:35:00 UTC)

Sometimes, with the influx of brand new Christmas players in a video game, things like this can happen. I’m not sure which is crazier, the one-sided score or the fact someone is at a Spartan Rank in the 140’s! (Thanks Tuckerscreator!)(MacGyver10 16:31:…