The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft
From CruelLEGACEY:
CruelLEGACEY and Das Kalk get some hands-on time with Halo 4 at Fan Expo in Toronto. What did they think of it? Listen and find out!
As always, feel free to jump into the Waypoint Modcast discussion thread over at Halo Waypoint, and let us know what you think!
From Jamie:
Koko Bear and Price return to the city to find it up in flames.
I hope you enjoy the final episode in The Adventures of Koko Bear series!
If you’re a beast in matchmaking, you are going to have no problem whatsoever with this week’s Halo: Reach Weekly Challenge.
MULTIPLICATIVE – 25,000cR
Earn 200 Multikills in multiplayer Matchmaking this week.
Need some friends to watch your back while you rack up Multikill after Multikill? Then use the following forum thread to fill out your team:
Weekly Challenge Thread
Weekends and webcomics go hand in hand, and there’s no better day to celebrate that relaxing ritual than on Sunday. Today’s
Halo-themed Weekend Webcomic is brought to you by Maria Masuimi. Enjoy this whacky story involving the Master Chief, 343 Industries, a nasty curse, and some hamster zombies, and if you have a comic you’d like to submit for possible future inclusion, send it to bsangel[at]halowaypoint.com!
by: Maria Masuimi
You’re a busy person, and we have a thing for releasing as much Halo-related content our multi-fingered appendages can handle. That means—assuming you aren’t a speed reading super-soldier—you probably missed a few stories along the way. Not only do we forgive you, but we’ll also happily provide a convenient weekly wrap-up of absolutely everything we covered during the last seven days. Don’t worry about saying thank you. We’d rather you spend that time soaking in the goodness that is this entertaining collection of articles. Off you go!
News
The Halo Bulletin: 9.5.12
Super Jackpot Weekend: September 7-9
PAX Prime 2012 Halo 4 Coverage
PAX Prime 2012 Recap, by Halo 4 Tricks
Walshy Plays Halo 4 – A PAX Prime 2012 Gameplay Video
GrifballHub and 343 Industries Unveil Halo 4 Grifball at PAX
PAX Prime 2012 Fan Meet-up, by Ready Up Live
PAX Prime 2012 – Little Chief and his UNSC Friends Halo Cosplay
PAX Prime 2012 – Captain America Halo Cosplay
Nexy Plays Halo 4 – A PAX Prime 2012 Gameplay Video
Nak3d Eli Plays Halo 4 – A PAX Prime 2012 Gameplay Video
PAX Prime 2012 Thoughts and Opinions, by MythicTyrant
PAX Prime 2012 – A Spartan Meets his Maker
CTF on Exile – A PAX Prime 2012 Gameplay Video
GrifballHub Interviews Frank O’Connor – A PAX Prime 2012 Interview
Videos
Forge Cafe Halo: Reach Map Spotlight 7 – Covenant Corvette
Forge Quacks 4 – A Halo: Reach Video
Old School vs. New School – A Live-action Gaming Video
Fails of the Weak 103
Fun Stuff
Halo IRL: Halsey Street
The Master Chief – Halo 4 Fan Art
Fan-made Halo 4 Desktop Wallpapers
Friday Caption Fun 64
Community Happenings
Hog Mania – A 2old2play Halo Night
Your Questions for Frankie Answered – A Halo Waypoint Forum Interview
National Grifball Association Season 2 Sign-ups Open
Community Customs Night: 9.7.12
You’re a busy person, and we have a thing for releasing as much Halo-related content our multi-fingered appendages can handle. That means—assuming you aren’t a speed reading super-soldier—you probably missed a few stories along the way. Not only do we forgive you, but we’ll also happily provide a convenient weekly wrap-up of absolutely everything we covered during the last seven days. Don’t worry about saying thank you. We’d rather you spend that time soaking in the goodness that is this entertaining collection of articles. Off you go!
News
The Halo Bulletin: 9.5.12
Super Jackpot Weekend: September 7-9
PAX Prime 2012 Halo 4 Coverage
PAX Prime 2012 Recap, by Halo 4 Tricks
Walshy Plays Halo 4 – A PAX Prime 2012 Gameplay Video
GrifballHub and 343 Industries Unveil Halo 4 Grifball at PAX
PAX Prime 2012 Fan Meet-up, by Ready Up Live
PAX Prime 2012 – Little Chief and his UNSC Friends Halo Cosplay
PAX Prime 2012 – Captain America Halo Cosplay
Nexy Plays Halo 4 – A PAX Prime 2012 Gameplay Video
Nak3d Eli Plays Halo 4 – A PAX Prime 2012 Gameplay Video
PAX Prime 2012 Thoughts and Opinions, by MythicTyrant
PAX Prime 2012 – A Spartan Meets his Maker
CTF on Exile – A PAX Prime 2012 Gameplay Video
GrifballHub Interviews Frank O’Connor – A PAX Prime 2012 Interview
Videos
Forge Cafe Halo: Reach Map Spotlight 7 – Covenant Corvette
Forge Quacks 4 – A Halo: Reach Video
Old School vs. New School – A Live-action Gaming Video
Fails of the Weak 103
Fun Stuff
Halo IRL: Halsey Street
The Master Chief – Halo 4 Fan Art
Fan-made Halo 4 Desktop Wallpapers
Friday Caption Fun 64
Community Happenings
Hog Mania – A 2old2play Halo Night
Your Questions for Frankie Answered – A Halo Waypoint Forum Interview
National Grifball Association Season 2 Sign-ups Open
Community Customs Night: 9.7.12
Last week, for our Friday Caption Fun festivities, you provided quips for an image featuring a rather unusual Elite. Here are the top captions you left for that particular image!
“BLARG-AWK!” –Xenoblade013
“And thus Vlad Vadamee successfully evaded capture by imitating an over-sized Plasma Grenade. ” –esmitherine351
“The Covenant Transformation Armor still has a few bugs in it.” –LegoMr87
“It was only when they saw how the ground forces were churning out new grenades did the Prophets realize how
out-of-control Covenant budget cuts were becoming.” –PlAyEr1JcTr
“I don’t remember eating that!” –m3rkMS
“OMG, I only have TWO toes?!” –iJek Porkins
“Assassinating would never be the same again.” –Coux73
“Elites trainees thought evading would be easy until they actually tried it.” –chongczh
“They see me rollin’.” –MLPxBRONYx44
Now that we’ve wrapped up that picture, let’s start a new one. Up for your captioning pleasure this week is an image featuring a never-before-seen UNSC vehicle. Soak in the screenshot, then leave your witty and relevant quip in a comment. Off you go!
Author: Dustin Liger
From Rooster Teeth:
Jack and Geoff go for the gold this week in Fails of the Weak. Join them as they search for that elusive goal…COMEDY!
Editor’s note: Language is mature. Proceed with caution.
Every other Friday night at 9pm EST, we get together on Halo: Reach and run some custom games. We play everything from Team Slayer to Knockin’ Zombs, and you can even bring your own custom maps to play! Just make sure to upload them on your File Share and let us know either in a comment or in the lobby which map and what game type to run with it. Hope to see you tonight!
From freddiew:
What happens when old school games go face-to-face with new school characters?
If you enjoy battling it out on old school Halo maps, you’ll want to hop into Anniversary Classic this weekend because starting today and ending on Sunday, games played and completed within that playlist will present you with the chance to receive a 34,300-credit bonus.
Happy Super Jackpot Weekend!
From Goosechecka:
At PAX 2012, GrifballHub’s Goosechecka interviewed Frank O’Connor of 343 Industries about Halo 4.
GrifballHub Interviews Frank O’Connor – A PAX Prime 2012 Interview
From HC Jules:
The National Grifball Association is pleased to announce that sign-ups are open for the final season of league Grifball in Halo: Reach. Register your team (minimum four players, maximum eight) using this form from now until Saturday 9/8 at 11:59 Pacific.
The regular season will consist of four weeks, with two scheduled matches a week. Eight teams will make the playoffs after a make-up week, and the championship game will be held the first weekend in November during a Grifball extravaganza comprised of fun events as we await Halo 4’s release. All players who compete in their games during the scheduled times will be eligible for a weekly prize.
From firestream:
I made some Master Chief desktop wallpapers in preparation for the launch of Halo 4. Feel free to download and enjoy!
From Louis Wu:
This is most of a CTF match on Exile, recorded via direct feed during PAX 2012.
From MythicTyrant:
After getting my hands on Halo 4, here are some of my thoughts on what I’ve witnessed so far, based on the questions I noticed from my previous videos. Ah, and there’s some bonus content as well. 😉
From Das Kalk and snickerdoodle:
A little over a week ago, snickerdoodle and I requested some help from you, the Halo Waypoint Community, in finding a sort of cross-section of questions that people were looking to have answered, and you more than delivered. For that, we thank you, especially since it made the interview that much easier – though I was still nervous as I’ve ever been. We had more than enough questions to ask Frankie, but as we were only allotted 15 minutes for our interview (he’s a busy man, I hear he’s working on some small budget indie game right now), we did our best to distill the 15-page thread into the purest nectar of Halo goodness.
We think it went tremendously, and we hope you’ll agree. The interview itself is rather long, and since the forums have a 7500 character limit, you’ll find the content of the interview in this post and the following post. So without further ado, I present the Waypoint Community Interview of Frank O’Connor…
Your Questions for Frankie Answered – A Halo Waypoint Forum Interview
From petetehduck:
Forge Quacks are bite-size videos that demonstrate some of the quirks that exist in Halo: Reach’s Forge editor. If you have a suggestion for a Forge Quack video, use the form on this page to submit it.
From Nak3dHalo:
This is Halo 4 Exile CTF gameplay from PAX 2012. Join Nak3d Eli as he plays live with the Waypoint moderators and other Halo community leaders!
