Author: halo@bungie.org
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From the Pages, In Step Player 3 and Player 4
The latest novel in the Halo series came out this week, called ‘Hunters in The Dark’ from Peter David. Not only does the cover feature the super-rare, super-awesome blind wolf, but apparently the pages on the inside have some pretty cool words too! Che…
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Play to Win, Not Pay to Win
There’s been some concern and discussion in our forum and around the internet on the new Warzone Req Packs introduced in Halo 5: Guardians. Our timed exclusive GrimbrotherOne who now sits on the throne at 343 Industries pointed to an article Josh Holme…
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Team Coco vs HBO (the TV channel, not the real one)
Conan O’Brien and the cast of the HBO show Silicon Valley squared off in some Halo 5: Guardians Arena multiplayer this week on the Clueless Gamer segment. I feel like watching Team Coco play would be like playing on a team with Wu and Stuntmutt.(MacGyv…
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Cortana on HoloLens Kickstarter in 2016?
One of the surprises at E3 was a Halo 5: Guardians briefing with HoloLens that many were able to experience before trying Warzone multiplayer for the first time. Ryan Mccaffrey tried it out and wrote about his experience over at IGN.(MacGyver10 15:33:3…
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The Art of Halo 5: Guardians
Urban Reflex let us know in our forums that the Art of Halo 5: Guardians is up for pre-order on Amazon. The book goes into detail on many of the characters in the upcoming video game, most excitably for me, a look into bringing back the Arbiter in his …
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Statues, Steelbooks and Spartans
If you’ve seen enough of Halo 5: Guardians this week already to know you want it this fall, Grizzlei in our forums posted the pre-order info from Xbox.com so you can reserve your gaming experience. She also pointed us to a tweet from Rob Semsey, Senior…
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Spawning Season for Grunts and Jackals
Rockslider on our forums continues to pull some awesome gameplay from Halo: CE, and with the craziness that is E3 this week it could have been overlooked! Check out his video on spawning a ridiculous number of covies, that then receive a little cyborg …
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Halo 5: Guardians, Waypoint Info Dump
A lot of gaming news sites have already had an article out for every tidbit of info that’s been released this week on Halo 5, but the fine folks at Halo Waypoint have their own page up with information on pre-ordering, videos for campaign and multiplay…
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Warzone Multiplayer! Vagueness Will Die if This Has Forge.
A lot going on this week in the world of Halo, and along with the first campaign reveal of Halo 5, we received a first look at a new multiplayer mode with the Halo 5 Warzone Trailer. 343 Industries has since released a Vidoc for the all new multiplayer…
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Sweet, Sweet, Campaign Goodness
During the Microsoft Press Conference this morning, 343 showed off the Halo 5 E3 Campaign Demo… and if you missed it, you should stop what you’re doing and go watch it now. Really.(Louis Wu 21:10:30 UTC)
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Cutscene Library – now with more ODST
It’s taken a few days to organize, but if you swing by our Cutscene Library, you’ll find that the ODST page has been augmented with full 1080p, 60fps versions – thanks to Cody Miller and Chris101b! Go grab that full-screen HD goodness! (Louis Wu 11:43:…
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Canon Fodder – Conventional Warfare
This week’s Canon Fodder is short – but absolutely worth reading. Building on the reveals from Game Informer’s cover article, you can find flesh-outs of both Blue Team and Team Osiris (including tips on where to find even more info on TO’s Olympia Vale…
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Podtacular’s 10 Year Anniversary Reunion Party
Dust Storm shot us a note about a celebration that’s planned for RTX this year – Podtacular is celebrating its 10 year anniversary, and has some killer stuff in the pipeline! They need some help to make it all work, though, so there’s an Indiegogo Fund…
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Halo 5 Co-op Campaign Clarification
For folks who haven’t been keeping up on ALL the details, it’s worth noting this post on Halo Waypoint; it’s a clarification of a bit of information that was in Game Informer’s cover article on Halo 5. Co-op Campaign (which IS in the game) will require…
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Halo 5 Info from RUL
Greenskull from ReadyUpLive got a chance to play some Halo 5: Guardians recently, and the info dump is rather substantial. Bounce-A-Gon’s done a great job of itemizing what’s available – swing by his post for starting points! (Beware – if you’re lookin…
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Halo 5: Guardians – first play
The Guardian has a ‘First Play’ article up on Halo 5 – it’s more of a bulletpoint summary of what’s coming, but if you haven’t been keeping up, it’s a nice recap.(Louis Wu 14:51:32 UTC)
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Detailing the sides
More content from Game Informer: Two articles in the past few days have fleshed out the teams we’ll see in Halo 5. One discusses Blue Team, the Spartans that work with Master Chief, and the other focuses on Team Osiris, the team headed by Locke to hunt…
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Evolved Combat
Game Informer released an interview last week with Josh Holmes and Ian Longo, discussing the evolution of Halo 5 – what’s included, how they’re working on tweaking the product as we near the home stretch. It’s a pretty interesting piece! Go watch. Than…
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ODST Lightspeed Rescue
A few days ago, crazedone1988 stopped by our forum with a link to ‘ODST Lightspeed Rescue’, his mashup of ODST and Power Rangers – oh, the feels!(Louis Wu 14:37:03 UTC)
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ODST Reviews
More reviews are showing up for MCC’s Halo 3: ODST – FilmsGamesETC liked it quite a bit (though they wished they could swap back to see the older graphics), and IGN loved it (even with minor framerate dips at busy parts). Neither review took points off…