Author: halo@bungie.org

Eric Rodrigues has been making great Halo art for over a decade and sharing it with us at HBO. He recently emailed us a beautiful shot of Cortana that he gussied up a bit. He drew a pose of Cortana, engraved it into a sheet of lucite with his dremel an…

Speaking of cut content, looks like a few weapons from Reach made their way into Halo 4. Gamecheat13 found both the Plasma Launcher and Focus Rifle laying around in Halo 4 code. Once again, gamerguy2002 summed up the finds in our forum.(MacGyver10 16:0…

Lord Zedd is back slinking through the coded underbelly of Halo games and found some unused skulls that were planned or played with in Halo CEA. Both the ‘Laugh’ and ‘Bang Bang’ skulls are fleshed out a little bit in the cut content he found. (Thanks g…

Rockslider is back with more shenanigans in Halo CE, this time improving upon someone else’s shenanigans. Investigating the business of snatching a Banshee on The Maw, he found a way of speeding things up a lot. Ducain suffered five hours of weapon acc…

Wahrer has done some pretty amazing transcribing, and not of words, but of music! Based on the compositions shown in writing in the Sprint Season 3 videos, he’s put the notes to music. Pretty cool!(MacGyver10 22:41:40 UTC)

According to Josh Holmes on Halo Waypoint, Halo 5 has officially gone gold – it’s certified and ready to ship. Now all that’s left is the wait until October 27! I’m drooling… (Thanks, The BS Police.)(Louis Wu 14:57:24 UTC)

We know there have been many people waiting on news of Halo 5’s forge (our own Hyokin for instance), and today 343 has put up a new article and video going into some detail on the latest iteration of forge. It seems some community forgers had the chanc…

thebruce0 has linked us to the latest episode of season 2 of Hunt The Truth. A friend returns from the dead, a safe house becomes a trap, and Maya is faced with a decision that will change her life forever. Go check it out on the HtT blog!(MacGyver10 2…

Forbes has released a couple of videos for the upcoming Halo 5, and Grizzlei in our forum has linked to both part 1 and part 2 for us if you want to check out her post or join in on the discussion!(MacGyver10 21:59:34 UTC)

Free Weights stopped in with a photo he took at a pumpkin festival in Germany. Lol, pumpkin Master Chief with a pumpkin warthog! A photo posted by @humanwickeffect on Oct 4, 2015 at 11:44am PDT Amazing!(Louis Wu 23:09:53 UTC)

Pretty interesting podcast from the Science Fiction Show – Eric Trautmann talks about how the first Halo novel came to be. Some of his recollections are pretty surprising! Thanks to Grizzlei, who found this on Eric Nylund’s blog.(Louis Wu 23:01:54 UTC)

The Community Update didn’t get posted this week – but in its place, you get a roundup of multiplayer impressions – a nice go-to list if you’re trying to soak it all in! (Louis Wu 22:58:53 UTC)

This week’s Canon Fodder went live (as usual) on Friday – and (as usual) it’s worth your time. Wanna see how your favorite vehicles are getting modified for Halo 5? It’s in there. Wanna know what you can do with the Halo Channel app? It’s in there. Won…

Bravo knows how to deal out the needles to our elite enemies, and it looks like thanks to NECA, you can also have your very own replica needler for $300.(MacGyver10 21:29:05 UTC)

The BS Police shared 343’s tweet from earlier today. Looks like we get two weekends straight of new Halo commercials! This Sunday, The Hunt Begins with a new #Halo5 Guardians commercial during @FearTWD. Be sure to tune in!— Halo (@Halo) October …

I believe we somehow missed this during the summer (couldn’t find a news post about it), but if you haven’t yet downloaded the Halo Channel app on your phone or Xbox One, check it out and watch a video to receive a special promotional REQ pack with an …

Xbox and 343 Industries have created a Halo 5: Guardians Visualizer that lets you share your thoughts about Halo. As more and more people add to it, the Chief’s helmet will be fleshed out through the wireframe skeleton to display pieces that hold every…

While it’s devoid of any further details to how the system itself will work, the latest news update at HaloWaypoint shows off some of the REQ cards you can unlock while building your collection. There’s a good wall of text that goes into great detail o…

The Woaf is back with part 10 of his Woaf 117 series. Barry makes sure the Woaf knows he is incapable of driving…right before the Woaf kills him! Check it out on YouTube for more!(MacGyver10 18:26:50 UTC)