Category: Halo News Items

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…