This fall, school supplies featuring your favorite Halo characters, vehicles and locations will be ready for the back-to-school season. ACCO Brands USA LLC will create a wide range of products including: notebooks, folders, composition notebooks, pencil pouches, erasers, dry erase surfaces and markers, pencils, book sleeves and binders and binder accessories.

“My experience of going back to school reminds me that one of the highlights was the fact that I was able to kit myself out with branded study paraphernalia, adorned with the heroes and villains of my childhood,” says Frank O’Connor, Franchise Development Director for 343 Industries. “Back then it was Star Wars, so it’s kind of an honor and a privilege to recreate that phenomenon for a new generation of students with the worlds and wonders of the Halo universe.”

Working closely with Microsoft and 343 Industries, ACCO Brands USA LLC are selecting dynamic imagery from across the Halo universe, so that fans of all ages can display their love of the franchise wherever they go.

Every Monday, we feature a community member who does one or more of the following things: routinely goes above and beyond for their fellow forum members, is a positive and active member of the community, and/or sends me mass amounts of cat pictures. This week our Community Member of the Week is Sergeant Novak. Read a little more about this particular fan below, then hit their profile to learn even more!

Gamertag: Sergeant Novak.

Halo game(s) you are currently playing: Halo 4 and Halo: Reach.

Favorite map, game type and playlist: My favorite map would have to be Power House. Game type: Invasion. Playlist: Invasion.

Least favorite map, game type and playlist: Worst map is Zealot. Game type: Oddball. Playlist: I don’t like the Sniper playlist very much.

Halo weapon specialty/preference: Grenade Launcher (EMP weapon) and headshot capable weapon.

Halo playing style (offense, defense, sniper, driver, etc.): Defensive Grenadier.

Anything else we should know? Hello, I am Sergeant Novak. I have been on this forum a pretty long time. In the previous months, I have not been the most active since I’ve had many computer issues and was a bit challenged to get on here. Now I am able to get on here (at least when the computer isn’t blue screening me). Anyways, I am going to introduce myself again and mark this day as me being more active. I will not tolerate the rank “newbie” anymore!

From Tyler Bourgaize:

This Tuesday (20th August), from approximately 7pm GMT, I’m doing a livestream of myself playing non-stop Halo for 24 hours straight! This serves multiple purposes because I’ve been wanting to try out livestreaming for a while now, I wanted to do something for the occasion of some new content released for Halo 4, and I wanted to do something charity-oriented during the Summer holidays. It also is a little bit of a personal goal of mine, I’ve always said that I could never play games for that long non-stop, this is the time to find out!

You can find the livestream at the time/date below, on my Twitch.tv channel: http://www.twitch.tv/tyzer193 ; go ahead and follow my channel in advance so you will be alerted when I start!

Obviously, the main purpose of this is to attempt to raise awareness and hopefully some money for Les Bourgs Hospice, who support residents of the Bailiwick of Guernsey who have life-limiting illnesses and their loved ones. They are completely funded by the public, with no financial support from the government. They also looked after my Grandma in her later times, and I’m told that she was given really great care, so I’d love to try and give something back.

Now, if you’re from Guernsey, you’ll know that our internet is horribly slow, in terms of upload speed, so with 0.6mbps upload, sadly the video isn;t as great quality as I would like it to be. Still, it’s workable and I’ll try to keep it as interesting as possible. If you feel like joining in on the fun, head onto XBL during the stream and send me an invite, I’d love to have you join me!

UPDATE: BS Angel, Community Manager over at 343i, has been fantastic and hooked me up with some avatar, gamer picture and theme codes to give away during the stream, tune in for a chance to snag one!

It has taken a lot of experimenting, organization and testing, so please, if you can, donate something towards this great cause – every little helps! Thank you!

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