Author: halo@bungie.org

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)

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…

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…

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…

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 …

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)

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…

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)

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)

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)

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…

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)

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)

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…

GrimBrother One slid into our forum with another Canon Fodder during the turmoil that is ‘Forge Release Day’. You can read about what might be the closest we plebeians come to the ‘Halo Bible’, a few VERY quick answers to community questions and see th…

Looks like the December update for Halo 5: Guardians is live! Go check out the ‘Cartographer’s Gift’ for new REQs, maps and of course, FORGE! (Which legendary Grifball-forger, Nokyard, and ‘Entombed’ level designer Ducain23 seem to be streaming by the …

Speaking of concept art, Darren Bacon, one of the concept artists for Halo 5: Guardians, has been featured at Concept Art World. Go check out some of the work he’s done for Halo 5 there, and follow the link to his website while you’re at it for more!(M…

There has always been plenty of beautiful concept art for Halo games, but it’s never been the easiest to get your hands on nice prints of these. 343 has teamed up with Acme Archives Direct though to provide many of these gorgeous shots in giclee, metal…

One of the updates coming with ‘Cartographer’s Gift’ that I missed until recently is a new batch of features for Spartan Companies. You can check it out in the Cartographer’s Gift info article, but the quick breakdown is a company-wide service record, …

The Sandbox Team posted a quick look at the Advanced Controller Settings coming with the update for December. They also let drop that the ‘Cartopgrapher’s Gift’ update hits next week!(MacGyver10 22:49:50 UTC)