Author: halo@bungie.org

fake_frogs stopped in to announce Episode 9 of his Green Team series – this one focuses on the Master Chief Collection’s matchmaking. (It was filmed back in November, so many of the issues that folks saw then have been resolved.) Go watch!(Louis Wu 23:…

Last year, we mentioned a long-hidden easter egg in Halo 3 – XanderJ has revisited this and found a consistent way to trigger it. Go try this one for yourself!(Louis Wu 23:03:45 UTC)

Dark Horse has posted a preview of Halo Escalation 16 – looks like the art quality has shifted! Thanks, serpx.(Louis Wu 23:00:00 UTC)

HCS All-Star Halo 2 Classic Showdown is live on the Halo Twitch channel. Apparently there will be giveaways too. Go watch!(mastrbiggy 23:23:58 UTC)

TheChunkierBean has posted a March update for his free-to-play, Installation 01. Things seem like they are coming along since we last heard about the game. Check it out!(mastrbiggy 22:28:16 UTC)

Espen Saetervik created a breathtaking piece of concept art depicting a Forerunner City. You can check out the rest of his art here.(mastrbiggy 22:26:59 UTC)

343i announced that on March 19 (this Thursday) they will be hosting an HCS All-Star Halo 2 Classic Showdown. 343i has selected 8 of the top HCS players and the community will vote on which 4 players will match agains the 343 Pro Team in a best-of-5 se…

Halo: Nightfall is now available on the Halo iTunes page for purchase or for rental. (mastrbiggy 21:31:30 UTC)

gamerguy2002 stopped by to let us know about Gamecheat13’s latest video that shows off a few unused cinematics and cutscenes from Halo 3. Go watch!(mastrbiggy 21:30:01 UTC)

This week’s Canon Fodder is live and it focuses on Halo novels that are releasing this year – there are quite a few, including one by Joseph Staten. Grim also interviews Frankie about his upcoming novel, Halo: Saint’s Testimony. We are also teased abou…

Speaking of Escalation, there’s an interview over at Newsarama, with writer Duffy Boudreau – you can get info about where the series is going, and see cover art from episodes 19 and 20 (which are still a ways off). Nice! Thanks, Grizzlei.(Louis Wu 22:5…

Eep – looks like we missed last week’s Canon Fodder, which was focused on the comic series Escalation. Grim interviewed Brian Reed, one of the writers involved in the series, and teased out some pretty interesting morsels! Go read.(Louis Wu 22:53:20 UTC)

Amazing – Twitch Plays Halo is still going, with its crowdsourced run of Halo… and they’ve made it to the trench run on the Maw! (It’s currently offline, but that’s temporary.) Keep an eye on this stream, just to see if they’ll finish! (Thanks to Hoo…

Certain Affinity’s Michael Pavlolich gave a GDC talk that detailed the pipeline and tools that allow artists to quickly take concepts and ideas to a functioning in-game model. A good portion of his presentation is focused on recreating Halo 2’s art for…

Major Nelson announced that Microsoft will be releasing an Xbox One Halo: The Master Chief Collection Bundle this month for $349. The console itself is a standard black Xbox One, but you do get some nice Halo packaging as well as the digital version of…

Red vs Blue Season 13 will kick off on April 1… and the trailer for the season was released on Friday. (Sorry – but hey, you were busy this weekend, right?) Go watch!(Louis Wu 16:11:46 UTC)

Rockslider put together another video that captures some of the weird and funny moments of Halo 1. The Elite bit in the beginning made me chuckle quite hard. Go watch!(mastrbiggy 21:22:43 UTC)

The Halo Championship Series Season 1 finals are live on Twitch – you’ll be able to tune in all weekend. (mastrbiggy 21:20:55 UTC)

A few years ago pete_the_duck introduced us the Halo Musical Chairs – it seems that ChewyNutCluster has made a very similar version for Halo 2 Anniversary. Mr Pokephile has a YouTube video showing off the mayhem – go watch! (mastrbiggy 08:19:37 UTC)

I missed this last week when it was released, but Frank O’Connor spoke to GamesRadar about Halo 5, and what it means for the franchise. It’s a fascinating read to see how the character of Locke has been developed specifically to serve purposes that CAN…