Category: HBO

Everything you need to know about the Halo 5 Beta on The Master Chief Collection’s Launch Day: A Behind the Scenes documentary from 343 gives you some perspective on what the studio wants out of the Beta (and what they hope you’ll get) A sizeable co…

343 held a special event in LA last night – Halo Fest 2014 showed off Nightfall, Halo 5, and just plain fun. IGN posted a 90 minute video showing off all the festivities – go watch! (Louis Wu 18:50:22 UTC)

The Halo Forum is kicking off a tournament to raise money for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation – swing by and see how you can join in! Thanks, RVideo.(Louis Wu 18:49:20 UTC)

AfroRyan has recut his latest Halo 2 funtage – go see what he thinks were the important bits! (Louis Wu 18:48:47 UTC)

Wahrer stopped by to announce Reclaimer Radio Ep 3 – it’s an MCC-laden show. Go listen! (Louis Wu 18:48:36 UTC)

FugitiveSoldier noticed a pretty fun website – swing by to listen to your favorite main menu music!(Louis Wu 23:38:49 UTC)

Samusaaron3 was watching a video showing off Stonetown, the Halo 2 Anniversary remake of Zanzibar, and noticed a familiar character buried in the graffiti on the sea wall… nice catch!(Louis Wu 23:34:58 UTC)

CruelLEGACEY received a media copy of Halo MCC a couple of weeks ago – swing by the ReadyUpLive forums to read his first impressions!(Louis Wu 23:26:52 UTC)

Joseph “Maniac” Cirillo III, of GameXcess.net, shot us a note about a new video he’s posted – he looks back at the original Halo 2 Launch and how it affected his life. Go watch!(Louis Wu 23:24:24 UTC)

So the fact that HBO’s active staff was at the Halo Launch Invitational this week meant that some stuff fell by the wayside – time for some cleanup! First up – a pair of GameVGame polls, based on the Master Chief Collection – Sunday they asked “What is…

Okay – mastrbiggy and I (and Tex, and Domino Theory, and Voltron, and…) are headed back to Day 2 of the Halo Launch Invitational, kicking off the festivities for the MCC Launch and the Halo Championship Series – yesterday was a fun-filled day of game…

There’s a new site online, showing some interesting Halo events in the context of their positioning in the universe – navigate via an interactive star map! Go play. Thanks, padraig08.(Louis Wu 18:20:37 UTC)

Gamecheat13 found some unused, untextured Space Banshees (the models are right out of Halo Reach) and a copy of the Broadsword in a Spartan Ops map – his speculation was that there might have been a planned space battle that never materialized. Interes…

pete_the_duck stopped in to let us know that the next episode of Forgecast is out – and the Podtacular crowd joined him for discussions about the next iteration of Forge. Good stuff!(Louis Wu 18:13:28 UTC)

We didn’t get this up yesterday – but GameVGame posted the next iteration of their Halo Campaign Series polls… which is your favorite Reach level? Go vote! (Louis Wu 20:23:50 UTC)

We need your help! This year, we received more than 20 submissions for our 343 Guilt O’ Lantern contest (well, a few more than that, but joke entries were disqualified), and we need your help picking the winners! Swing by the voting page, peruse the pi…

The latest Halo Bulletin went live last night on Waypoint – it’s really worth reading. There’s a breakdown of the Skulls available in the package (and how they affect scoring and Achievements), there’s a description of the LASO playlists, and there’s a…

Polygon has a great piece from Ben Kuchera about introducing the next generation to Halo. It brought back some real memories – go give it a read!(Louis Wu 21:36:39 UTC)

IGN has been counting down the best Halo maps – the top 10 are now online. I’m intrigued that no map past Halo 2 made the top cut. Thanks, ChrisTheeCrappy.(Louis Wu 21:32:57 UTC)

Halo Waypoint has released a pair of ‘Prologue’ Terminal vids (Beholden and Unyielding), filling in some of the Halo 2 backstory that happens outside the games – readers of the earlier novels might recognize some situations. Fascinating! Thanks, Mid7ni…