The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft
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 undr zid:
This video features Tension by Unusual Hiccup & FC Quicksilver. You can download the map here. Enjoy!
Author: Velawsmo
From gametavern:
The 405th sums up their RTX experience in one entertaining video. Enjoy!
From mastrbiggy:
I’m auctioning three Halo 4 posters that are signed by some members of 343, as well as actors from Forward Unto Dawn, Jen Taylor, and Steve Downes. 100% of the proceeds go to Child’s Play. I cover shipping, but this is a US only auction. Please spread the word!
From cadynow:
After meeting for the first time on a Halo 3 game lobby five years ago, we built a relationship as best friends for three years through video games, Myspace to Facebook, then finally Skype. Once we talked “face-to-face,” we hit it off as a couple from then on. Now we finally got to meet in person for the first time after dating for two years…
Couple Meet in Real Life Five Years After Connecting on Halo
From MixMasterChief:
So, I was lucky enough to attend the annual Rooster Teeth Expo. Not only that, but I was even luckier to have played Halo 4 during the event. And just when you’d think I had a Geas for it (lol, story joke), I got to play even MORE Halo 4 at a super-secret event, held from 7-10pm after the doors had closed on the rest of the event Saturday night.
I’m not going to tell you how super giddy and bubbly I was to find a lost Frank O’Connor on the Exhibit floor, who I asked to sign my copy of Anniversary, to which he answered, “Only if you tell me where the Halo 4 panel is.” No, instead I shall tell you about how I thought the game was, and a secret or two at the end that I was able to pull from a few people at Certain Affinity and 343 Industries. WITHOUT FURTHER ADIEU, click the link to read my impressions on Halo 4!
Author: The Good Iraqi
From HT Edge:
Premium Forge is a place to showcase your Forge creations! Add screenshots, videos, and game types best suited for your map. You can also vote, rate, and comment, and the map with the most upvotes will be featured on the homepage of HTR!
To submit a map, click the link in the top right of the Premium Forge page.
From CruelLEGACEY:
Anna Popplewell (star of The Chronicles of Narnia series) sits down with CruelLEGACEY, Greenskull, and GrimBrother One to discuss her role in the upcoming web series Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn.
Halo is a fictional universe. However, sometimes we catch sight of things in real life that remind us of our favorite science fiction video game franchise. This particular series, titled Halo in Real Life, showcases those very moments. Enjoy the subtle Halo references sometimes spotted when out and about in the real world, and if you have a picture you’d like to submit for possible future inclusion, send it to bsangel[at]halowaypoint.com!
As seen and captured by Fakeday
From HC SLIK:
I just made a montage for a good friend of mine (Sundown) for Halo: Reach called “Execution.” It’s an all Ninja montage and was a lot of fun to make. The song is the dubstep remix of Chris Lake’s “Sundown.” Enjoy!
From CruelLEGACEY:
Welcome to the Waypoint Community Modcast! This all-new podcast is brought to you by the Waypoint Community Leaders. Join us as we discuss the latest and greatest in Halo news, updates, developments, and whatever else we feel like talking about. In Episode 20, CruelLEGACEY and DayandKnightly get together to talk about Reactive Bias, Halo 4, and playing with your friends!
As always, feel free to jump into the Waypoint Modcast discussion thread over at Halo Waypoint, and let us know what you think!
From Goosechecka:
On July 7, 2012, this special highlight reel by H2O Camper was shown at the Grifball panel. Enjoy!
Author: xDrummerWorldx
Some people show their love for Halo by playing the games. Others get a relevant image permanently placed upon their body. Enjoy this particular example of a Halo-related body modification, and if you have a picture you’d like to submit for possible future inclusion, send it to bsangel[at]halowaypoint.com!
Halo tattoo, as seen on Lee
From TrulyIndirectMedia:
This is Episode 18 of the Halo: Reach MLG Top 10 Plays series. We will be accepting clips from all of the community, so submit today!
To send in clips, email us at trulyindirect@gmail.com or GT: TrulyExclusive.
Office of Halo Intelligence, or OHI for short, is a semi-regular diary-type feature brought to you by various members of the Halo 4 development team. Kevin Grace, Franchise Manager, kindly agreed to write the ninth entry. We hope you enjoy an inside look at the making of our next title!
From the 7.12.12 edition of the Halo Bulletin:
Hello from sunny, crazy, excited and nervous San Diego just about 24 hours before the start of our next big drop of Halo 4 info! By the time you read this, we’ll have already gotten through the Fiction of Halo 4 panel with lots of talk of the Chief’s new story and the trouble we’re going to get him into, Halo Infinity Multiplayer and Spartan Ops’ continuing story payloads in the months after launch, and all of the scheming we’ve been doing to spin books, terminals, and even our new live-action series into the perfect mix of “what’s going to happen next?” just in time for Halo 4’s landing on 11/6. And that’s just the start for San Diego, since we have the Halo 4 gameplay panel coming up soon…
But Ms. Angel asked me here today to write up a quick intro to Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn for those who just saw the trailer or just found out about that REAL LIVE MASTER CHIEF we have running around on screen. It’s dangerous to say no to bs angel, I’ve learned (the hard way) so here goes:
Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn is the new live-action digital series we’ve been working on in (mostly) secret for the last year or so. The “live-action” up there means we have real live actors,a real live awesome suit of MJOLNIR armor and a real live Warthog to cruise around in. “Digital series” means that once we’re done, we’ll be bringing the show to you first on Machinima Prime (Machinima’s new YouTube channel) and Halo Waypoint once a week starting on 10/5 and leading right up to the launch of Halo 4. First viewing is on us, so to speak, so hey…why not check it out?
The story of Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn hops in the way-back machine a little bit to take you about 30 years in Halo history before the games you know (Halos CE through Reach) to a moment when humanity was fighting essentially a civil war, an insurrection of the outer colonies against the colonies closer to (and including) Earth. In order to keep the officers flowing for this war, the United Nations Space Command set up the Corbulo Academy of Military Science to teach the children of the UNSC’s elite leadership how to lead the war and, just as importantly, how to believe in that war.
The “believing” part is where it breaks down for Cadet Thomas Lasky, though. He doesn’t buy that this is a justified war and his willingness to question the war doesn’t exactly make him a lot of friends at the academy. He has all kinds of potential to be a true leader, but his questions and some physical problems with cryosleep training drive him to finally deciding that the UNSC isn’t the right place for him…but right as he’s about to sign his exit papers, everything changes. The Covenant attack, almost everyone he knows dies and his only chance to survive is to trust an armored green giant he knows only as the Master Chief.
After that, it’s explosions and awesome and huge spoilers, so I won’t go any further…for now.
If you’d like to hear more about Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn, check out the latest Sparkcast, which I believe should now be up for your listening enjoyment. We cover a lot in our talk with Mr. Ellis, so bs angel said we could put this write-up on pause for now to let you watch the trailer, listen to the podcast, and maybe check out the panel steam on the web. Then next week we’ll gather back here and answer some of the questions folks will have once they’ve had a chance to meet the show properly.
So if it’s ok with you, I’ll be back next week with a full report from San Diego and a small bag of answers. Okay? Okay!
Kevin