Author: halo@bungie.org

If you enjoyed reading the tale of Sgt Buck as he became a Spartan, yet longed for that physical, tangible touch in your hands (a book, not Nathan Fillion), you’ll be pleased to know the hard copy of ‘Halo: New Blood’ comes out March 15th! For those th…

In addition to the text update, 343 posted a new trailer for the ‘Infinity’s Armory’ update coming later this month as well! Get a closer look at some of the new Halo 5 goodness coming next week with Infinity’s Armory. Halo 2 BR, anyone? https://t.co/2KAGiFVcAF— Halo (@Halo) January 20, 2016 (MacGyver10 22:11:36 UTC)

Gravemind shared the news of 343’s ‘Infinity’s Armory’ Update-Update. You can see more of the crazy skins coming to your weapons, info on the new maps and a classic weapon from the olden days making its glorious return. You can read the full update at …

Our buddy Gravemind has for many years felt the Halo games could use a few changes to line up more with his tastes, but he actually put to text many of his thoughts and ideas. You can check out the latest reiteration of his ‘Building the Ultimate Halo …

Last week we received notice of another Canon Fodder! This one goes into detail on the new armor sets shown off in the community update and answers a quick question on possible other uses for the UNSC Mantis!(MacGyver10 19:56:25 UTC)

Last week’s Community Update goes into a little detail on the upcoming ‘Infinity’s Armory’ update hitting later this month. You get to spy on a few new armor sets, helmets, weapon skins and more in addition to a pair of maps. Check out last week’s Comm…

Looks like some interesting new weapon skins and armor (another Gungnir helmet for me!) REQs were shown in the latest Halo World Championship competition from the upcoming January update! Check it out on Reddit if you don’t mind being spoiled a little …

You will soon be able to get your snowboard on, slalom the slopes and then snowmobile over to an Xbox One console to play Halo 5 at the X Games. January 28-31, the Halo World Championship will be at the X Games Aspen. Check out this announcement from t…

Kotobukiya will be releasing a brand new Athlon spartan next month, in the meantime you can check out the picture the Halo Twitter feed shared and pre-order at this link!Next month @koto_official’s all-new Halo 5 Athlon Spartan ArtFX+ Statue drops! Pre-order: https://t.co/YKxJSUEUTO pic.twitter.com/EODVfHtHky— Halo (@Halo) January 14, 2016 (MacGyver10 22:38:07 UTC)

davidfuchs posted some cool news in our forum regarding Halo 5’s Forge mode. It looks like we will be getting some new Forge canvases to work on, but also some new *exciting* ways of having prebuilt structures available to us. Could be what the guy in …

Last Friday after yours truly had shut down shop and left for the hills, 343 posted the latest Community Update. You get to see a little of the new digs our Halo devs find themselves in, some info on updates for the Master Chief Collection and of cours…

While I thought it was a reveal of new Vidmaster Achievements at first, it’s still pretty cool (though arguably not AS cool)! GrimBrother One stopped by with a new Canon Fodder for our perusal. Check it out for info on a few of the Arbiter’s friends an…

This week, we have a piece of Fan Fiction inspired by Joe Staten’s recent novella, ‘Halo: Shadow of Intent’. Grizzlei takes the perspective of Tul ‘Juran shortly before the events of ‘Shadow of Intent’ in a journal-like format. The piece does contain s…

For those Forgers out there worried about hitting the limit, looks like 343 has upped it quite a bit for you! We’ve just deployed an update to increase the amount of Halo 5 Map & Game Variants that you can save from 40 each to 100 each. Forge on!— Halo (@Halo) January 7, 2016 (MacGyver10…

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)