Category: Halo News Items
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Espen Saetervik’s Forerunner City
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)
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HCS All-Star Halo 2 Classic Showdown
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…
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Halo: Nightfall on iTunes
Halo: Nightfall is now available on the Halo iTunes page for purchase or for rental. (mastrbiggy 21:31:30 UTC)
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Halo 3 – Unused/Removed Cinematics Compilation
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)
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Podtacular 465: Halo 5 Beta Breakdown: Spectator Mode
Our latest show comes from the depths of Pax East that took place this past weekend including the grand finals of HCS Season One. To no mere coincidence, this week we talk about one of thenew, highly demanded features in … Continue reading →
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Canon Fodder – Novel Ideas
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…
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More On Escalation
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…
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Canon Fodder – That Escalated Quickly
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)
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The Blind Leading the Blind
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…
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Remaking the Art of Halo 2 for Xbox One – GDC 2015
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…
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Xbox One MCC Bundle Announced
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…
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Red vs. Blue: Season 13 Trailer
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)
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H1 freakiness and fun #9
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)
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HCS Season 1 Finals
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)