Category: Halo News Items

According to Josh Holmes, there will be no P2P gameplay in Halo 5 – dedicated servers only. Interesting! Thanks, Pennybags.(Louis Wu 23:13:10 UTC)

Hunt the Truth is a new Tumblr page that is counting down to sometime this Sunday – go speculate on what’s there! Thanks, serpx.(Louis Wu 23:11:46 UTC)

Postmortem had some hardware problems in the past year, but has returned to announce the results of his Visualizing the Halo Universe: Writing Round 3, which was first presented in August 2014. Go see how it went!(Louis Wu 23:10:30 UTC)

Toby Dillman noticed a redditor who has been building a series on Halo lore – the first four parts (one | two | three | four) are online. Go read!(Louis Wu 23:08:46 UTC)

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…