Author: halo@bungie.org

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)

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…