Author: halo@bungie.org
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CE3 2015 Live – Halo Mods Showcase
CE3 Live is an annual showcase of some pretty amazing Halo: Custom Edition mods brought together by the community and shown off during a livestream. This is the 6th year making CE3, and as the post in our forum shows, they have some pretty cool Halo mo…
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Expect a Lot of Bangs
Rockslider is back with some more Megabattle craziness! He and his 11 marines tackle the Covenant with some various tactics and weaponry. Check out the linked post for your flavor of video!(MacGyver10 18:33:06 UTC)
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Prepare to SSD – More
Bones has added to the prize pool for munky-058’s Forge Contest (we mentioned it last week), and extended the submission deadline – go check out his cool comic for all the details!(Louis Wu 21:18:27 UTC)
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So Chief, Tell Me About Your Mother
The Escapist recently started a new series with video game characters spending some time on the couch of a therapist. Our mjolnir wearing hero spends some time talking about teabags and his dearly-departed, AI sidekick in an episode from last month. Th…
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Assessing the Early Halo 5 E3 Build
Digital Foundry, the infamous division of Eurogamer that focuses less on fun gameplay and more on comparing who has more inches, has an up-way-too-early Halo 5 performance article based on gameplay and videos from E3. While I believe they jump to concl…
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Happy Fourth!
If you’re in the US, we hope you’re enjoying the beautiful weather and the grilled meats on this Independence Day. If you’re not… enjoy what you’ve got! We’ll be back soon.
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Scarab Tactics
This week’s Canon Fodder gets you up to speed on the lesser-known tidbits about Scarabs, shows off Grim’s favorite armor variant as an intro to a fan-response segment asking about your favorite armor (with a tiny teaser about upcoming goodies), and pro…
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The Game Informer Show: The Halo Edition
Game Informer has an interesting episode of The Game Informer Show, with both a pair of 343 employees (Josh Holmes and Tim Longo) and a pair of folks who USED to work on Halo (Jaime Griesemer, Marty O’Donnell). It’s a Halo extravaganza! Go listen. Than…
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Armor customization discussion
Over at Beyond Entertainment, Josh ‘Sal1ent’ Holmes posted a note about the armor customization choices coming in Halo 5. It’s not clear from the reaction of our own forum whether the final system is a step back from previous games, or whether people a…
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Insight and Sneak Peeks, Incoming
Gamespot has a little bit of information about the Halo 5: Guardians panel at San Diego Comic-Con next week. Swing by for details! Thanks, Urban Reflex.(Louis Wu 21:40:35 UTC)
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A Halo 5 Skinned Xbox One
At Comic Con this year, you can once again win a custom Xbox One! While there are many different console variations you can win (PvZ: Garden Warfare 2, Gears of War, Madden, etc), there is a pretty Halo 5: Guardians themed console with the Master Chief…
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Hunt for the Truth: Following the Trail of the Halo 5: Guardians Story
Gamespot seems to think the wording of a Halo 5: Guardians panel at the San Diego Comic Con is hinting at the long-talked about, never seen Halo TV series with Stephen Spielberg. Here’s the panel description, straight from the Comic Con event schedule….
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Hunt The Truth Supercut
Hopefully you were able to follow the #HuntTheTruth audio drama as it unfolded week by week, but if you missed out on it, you can now check all the episodes in ONE BIG SUPERCUT available on the Hunt the Truth tumblr. If you consider yourself a Halo fan…
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Humble Bundle Initiation for Halo
Those that play video games on the internet might have heard of the ‘Humble Bundle’ before where they package a collection of PC games with a ‘pay-what-you-want’ style transaction and the money going to charities and the developer. Humble Bundle also d…
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Off-Key
Another week, another episode of Red vs Blue Season 13 – Ep 12 is full of fine moments and turning points. Can they get the sword back? Will Carolina and Epsilon recover? Will Kimball get herself court-martialed? Will anyone act like an adult? Go watch…
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Close Combat Against 6 Hunters
Rockslider has gone back to Silent Cartographer to see how he would do against 5 Hunters, on Heroic. Heh. (Louis Wu 21:39:46 UTC)
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Remastering An Epic
Game Informer has an interview with folks on the audio team of Halo 5 – it’s a fascinating look at how sounds and music are being updated for Halo 5. Go watch! Thanks, Bounce-A-Gon. (Louis Wu 21:38:22 UTC)
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I want my, I want my, I want my Splitscreen Play
Forbes has an opinion piece on why Halo 5 can’t pass over split-screen… it’s more of a plea than a solid argument, but a lot of fans feel this way. Go give it a read! (Louis Wu 21:35:54 UTC)
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It’s Bonekin’s Funeral
Tex let us know that after a semi-successful night of Halo gaming last week, they’re organizing another adventure for this Thursday. If you’re looking to play some MCC customs with an ‘interesting’ group of people, check out Tex’s post!(MacGyver10 20:1…
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No Split Screen or LAN for Halo 5: Guardians
I believe we might have seen some hints at this before, but ArsTechnica has confirmed there will be no split-screen of any kind in our new Halo adventure. There’s also the talk of no LAN support which is a downer for the communities (including our own)…