Author: halo@bungie.org
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Someone at Polygon Thinks Halo 5 Is The Best Multiplayer Halo Game In Years
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)
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Grumpy Launches Himself from The Bottom of The Arbiter Level in Halo 2 to The Top of The Level Using a Banshee and Phantom
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…
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Termacious Trickocity Teams Up With Terminal Velocity for a Trick Jump Video, ‘Elevated Existence’
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…
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DidYouKnowGaming Pits The Science of Halo Against the Real World (Not Those Reality Folks from MTV Though)
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…
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Sangheili Don’t Surf, But Mantis-Banshee Surfers Are A Thing
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)
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Halo 5: Warzone Game With A Score of 1000 to 1
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:…
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They Put H-A-L-O in ‘Halo: First Strike’ for His Christmas Gift
It might have taken me a second to figure out what it was, but ‘Dank_Cheney’ on Reddit received a pretty cool gift from his significant other out of an old copy of Halo: First Strike.(MacGyver10 16:28:02 UTC)
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Devotii’s Halo 5 Remake of Chiron TL-34 in Forge
Sometimes you come across a Forge map so well done, you just have to share it on its own. Check out this ‘Chiron TL-34’ remake for Halo 5 by Devotii. You can follow him on Xbox One to gain access to his file share through the Halo 5 menus!(MacGyver10 1…
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Joe Waters, Former 343 Developer, Passed Away Last Week
Joe Waters, a former developer for 343 Industries, passed away last week. He worked on Halo for quite a few years with both Bungie and 343 in the past decade, in addition to many other titles. Our own TDSpiral shared of his experience with the colorful…
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Canon Fodder – Holiday Shipping
Santa Claude’s most famous elf returned today with another edition of Canon Fodder before the holiday. Check it out for plenty of info on the new Sangheili ships we saw in the opening scenes of Halo 5: Guardians, including scale comparisons with some o…
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FORGEHUB Tutorials for Halo 5’s Forge Mode
The Halo Twitter account posted some great Halo 5: Guardians Forge tutorials from FORGEHUB a little earlier. If you’re having trouble with scripting, some of the new effects in game (snow, rain, fire, etc) or a number of other great options, check out …
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Forward Unto Dawn Podcast Ep. 16 – ‘Bronze-Tier Scrubs’ On This Past Year’s Halo Fiction
The guys at Forward Unto Dawn have got together for a new podcast taking a look back at this past year’s Halo fiction. Particularly, they go over Joe Staten’s ‘Shadow of Intent’ and Spartan Locke. Check it out on YouTube here!(MacGyver10 15:38:44 UTC)
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Halo Community Update – 12/18/2015 (
At the end of the release week for Forge last Friday, 343 put out another Community Update recapping the release of ‘The Cartographer’s Gift’. They kind of reiterate some of the map talk we’ve heard, but do explain the machinima controls a bit better a…
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Gamespot Ranking Their Top 25 Games of 2015 and Halo 5 Made It
Gamespot has been ranking their Top 25 games of 2015 and Halo 5 made the list. As Urban Reflex said, there are ‘bunch of games I’ve either never played, never heard of, or disagree with. Just like every list of top games ever’.(MacGyver10 15:57:03 UTC)
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Rockslider’s Banshee Battling, Stunt Drive Special
Rockslider is back with more general Halo CE shenanigans. His warthog gets a little help from a banshee-friend on his way into battle. Check out the links in our forum for your video flavor!(MacGyver10 15:54:19 UTC)
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‘Forging Ahead’ – Halo 5: Guardians Forge Mode ViDoc
343 Industries put a ViDoc up last week for the recently released Forge mode in Halo 5: Guardians. Go watch the story of the Halo 5 Forge mode coming together. (Thanks munky-058!)(MacGyver10 15:52:00 UTC)
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Halo Reach Now Backwards Compatible on Xbox One
In a list of some great old 360 games (Fable III, Iron Brigade, etc), fans of Halo will see a familiar old face resurfacing now on their Xbox One. As of today, Halo Reach is back with backwards compatibility on the Xbox One. This puts all the Halo game…
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Brand New Machinima Controls in Custom Games for Halo 5
Along with the Cartographer’s Gift update yesterday, 343 Industries sneaked in a huge bullet point in way of machinima controls in custom games! (Thanks davidfuchs!(MacGyver10 16:18:14 UTC)
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Halo 5: Guardians Collector’s Edition On Sale at Amazon for $99
Munky-058 stopped in with word of a major discount on the Halo 5: Guardians Collector’s Edition at Amazon. Even if you already have the game, $99 for all the sweet physical items and a digital copy of the game might be for you!(MacGyver10 16:16:08 UTC)
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Respawned In The Warzone Vehicle Garage
Sometimes when playing Warzone, things don’t go exactly as you planned (I’m looking at you, ‘Mr. Legendary Boss Kill Stealer’!), but sometimes those things can be pretty cool too! Xmoosev3 stopped by our forum to show a video of him getting into the ve…