Author: theguardians@podtacular.com (Dust Storm)

What’s better than playing your favorite video game franchise? Living it out in real life and showing your passion through collectibles! The Halo franchise has many different products that enhance and allow fans to play in the Halo universe. Among … Continue reading →

With the return of Ske7ch to the Halo team, there are many questions about his history with the franchise. No need to worry as we start to get a glimpse of what he’s looking forward to as the new community … Continue reading →

It’s been one year since Halo 5: Guardians launched continuing the Master Chief saga. Since launch, the game has undergone many changes with updates introducing added features like Forge, file share and campaign scoring, new maps, modes and requisitions enhancing … Continue reading →

We are starting to enter the news lull but not before we get introduced to a brand new game mode for Halo Wars 2, Blitz.  This mode is fast paced requiring you to strategize your battle before the fight begins … Continue reading →

We just can’t get enough of the new Forge tools that fans have been using to create awesome new maps and now prefabrications! While there’s not much in the realm of Halo news, the community is spurring with life as … Continue reading →

Gaming conventions are not only a great place to explore the latest in tabletop and video games, but also brings people and communities together, especially the Halo community. Pax West, formerly Prime, is the gaming convention to attend if you … Continue reading →

With Anvil’s Legacy update finally out, the first person shooter that was originally slated for PC makes it return on Windows 10!  As long as your system meets the system requirements and has the Windows 10 Anniversary Update applied, you … Continue reading →

We forgot to upload this one before Pax West, so pardon some of the old news, but it still stands that this first piece of free DLC after the guaranteed release of the last update in June is one of … Continue reading →

At the end of Halo 5: Guardians we find Cortana beginning her Reclamation, dispersing her Guardians throughout the galaxy.  With access to the Forerunner domain, the rogue AI poses a large threat to not just humanity, but the other species … Continue reading →

Since the announcement of the Halo 5: Guardians REQ system, there have been many discussions in the Halo community on its effect on game play. Whether people want the system gone completely, only have it for aesthetics, or think it … Continue reading →

We’ve seen Halo really expand in the trans-media realm with animated shorts and small episodic series, and many culinary creations based off the Halo franchise, but when those two collide, you get Halo Cake Wars! While Dust Storm was fortunate … Continue reading →

If you have attended or followed San Diego Comic Con in the past, you know the main Halo attractions are exclusive merchandise, lore-based panels and cosplayers, to which this year does not disappoint.  With Halo Wars 2 coming just several … Continue reading →

The Halo Community is comprised of a diverse group of fans who find many different aspects of the franchise to call home.  Whether it’s the lore of the universe, or the competitive nature of multiplayer, or the creativeness of the … Continue reading →

RTX is one of the many gaming conventions of the year, but is probably the most rooted in the Halo community at large with the involvement of Rooster Teeth’s Red vs Blue and Grifball.  This year, 343 was able to … Continue reading →

At E3, we had a chance to talk with Executive Producer, Dan Ayoub about Halo Wars 2 and what we can expect from the next installment in the Halo RTS genre.  With the successful reception of the original Halo Wars … Continue reading →

Dan Ayoub, Executive Producer at 343 Industries walks us though the first mission of Halo Wars 2 and the introduction of the Banished after the crew of the Spirit of Fire wakes up from 28 years in cryo sleep.  Bringing … Continue reading →

During E3, we had the chance to sit down with Aaron Greenberg, Head of Xbox Games Marketing to discuss the announcements regarding the Xbox Platform made during the Xbox Media Briefing.  This refreshes our show having an Xbox representative featured … Continue reading →

With E3 came the official trailer for Halo Wars 2 and a few other interesting platform announcements for Xbox Live and Xbox One.  Xbox revealed a new console, controller studio and the Play Anywhere program allowing buy once and play … Continue reading →

Thanks to all of the support from the Halo community, the Halo Bowl was a big success.  In addition to crowning Drunken Halo the champions of the tournament, we raised over $1600 for Gamers Outreach to partially fund a GO … Continue reading →