From oObeX:

If you love playing HORSE challenges, you may be eligible to win 1600 Microsoft Points! That is, if you can complete some easy and very difficult challenges.

Completing “The Learning Curve” challenge will earn you seven entries into “a draw from a hat.” Completing three additional challenges will earn you one additional entry for each challenge completed. Submit your film clips to ObeX via PM, Xbox LIVE, or the contest thread.

The contest ends on April 10, 2012 at 11:59:59 pm ET. The draw will occur on April 11, 2012 at 4:00 pm ET.

Please click on the links below for the correct maps and game type. All submissions should include no changes to the map and “HORSEPLAY” game type.

GAME & MAP LINKS

HORSEPLAY game type

The Learning Curve Challenge: Make it to the top and jump on the land mine!
Horse Goal Challenge: Drive your Mongoose through the goal.
Track-Mine Challenge: Stand on top of the golf ball and roll to the end of track without falling off the ball.
HORSYLUM Challenge: Get through the pit and hit the goal.

Please comment in the contest thread and check out the videos for help. Good luck!

HORSE Challenges by oObeX – A Halo: Reach Contest

 

From Jamie:

With the evil Watermelon king defeated, Koko and Price must find the old wise man who lives above the western lake in hopes of gaining knowledge on the evil shadow that has been cast over the land.

The Adventures of Koko Bear Chapter 4 – A Halo Machinima

HRSotD (short for Halo: Reach Screenshot of the Day) is a daily feature dedicated to the wonders of Halo: Reach screenshots and the artists that capture these amazing images. A variety of shots—all of which are completely unaltered and captured in Halo: Reach's theater mode—are included for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy the varied selection of images, and maybe even find inspiration to make your own!

Author: xBL0ODSHEDx

 

From SingleHaloClips:

SingleHaloClips presents their February 2012 Communitytage. Learn how to submit your clips here!

SingleHaloClips February 2012 – A Halo Communitytage

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 Toa Freak. Read a little more about him below, then hit his profile to get a link to the machinima-that-must-not-be-named!

 

 

Gamertag: Toa Freak.

Origin of gamertag: When I was taking a website building class when I was 12, I needed to register a GeoCities account. I was huge into BIONICLE at the time, but Bionicle_Freak was taken. So, I picked Toa_Freak27 (don’t know where the 27 came from). Eventually, I shortened it to Toa Freak, and the name stuck.

Previous or current clan/community: Bungie, BZPower, Rooster Teeth.

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

Favorite map, game type and playlist: Lockout, Team Slayer, Invasion.

Least favorite map, game type and playlist: Rat Race, Halo Reach’s Infection, Living Dead.

Preferred control scheme: Bumper Jumper.

Halo playing style: Offensive. I’m the guy with the most kills and the lowest K/D spread, often enough.

Favorite Halo character: Jacob Keyes or Admiral Cole.

Favorite Halo book: Halo: Evolutions.

Favorite Halo quote: “They call it, Halo.”

Halo creations: Some horrible machinima I prefer to forget….

Get to know Toa Freak here!

 

It’s a fail. It’s a win! It’s a fail… it’s a win?

From HT Edge:

Welcome to the HTR Staff vs. The World event. This is your chance to face off against the staff of Halotracker! The specifics are as follows.

When: Saturday April 7 & Sunday April 8 at 3pm EST onwards

Raffle Prizes: 1 x 1600 MSP, 2 x 800 MSP, 1 x 1 Month XBL

What: The event will be 4v4 TU Slayer and Objective on Countdown, Asylum and Zealot, or Anchor 9, Damnation and Beaver Creek if teams/players have DLC. All the info about the event can be found here!

HTR Staff vs. The World – A Halo: Reach Event

 

From CruelLEGACEY:

I am excited to announce that Playtime Season 3 will be premiering on Tuesday, March 27, 2012. Spanning 10 episodes and featuring more than 20 characters across eight different locations, Season 3 is the biggest and best season of Playtime yet!

Just as I did with Season 2, I’ve teamed up with Halo Waypoint to bring you every episode of Playtime Season 3. We will be releasing a new episode each week for 10 weeks in a row. All 10 episodes will be available on every version of Halo Waypoint: the website, mobile app, and Xbox 360 Dashboard app!

Each episode of Playtime Season 3 will also be released on the show’s official homepage, simultaneously with each Waypoint release. The complete release schedule can be found here.

Playtime Season 3 – Trailer and Release Date

 

Spartans, we’re sending you back into Campaign this week for your challenge so listen up! Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is:

NOT LOUGH, HIGH – 30,000cR
Earn a score of 250000 in any mission in the Reach Campaign.

Sounds hard? It’s supposed to be! But here are few hints that might help you reach the lofty number:

Turn on some Skulls – It’s always fun to mix up the gameplay, but for maximum point awesomeness try picking Skulls with score multipliers, for instance Famine, Tilt and Mythic.

Raise the difficulty – Get the biggest bang for your scoring buck by setting the difficulty to Legendary.

Amp up the speed – The faster you complete it, the more points you will earn.

Get fancy with your kills – Multi-kills, Assassinations, Headshots, oh my! Going for style pays off in lots of points for you.

 

Good luck, and don’t forget to stop by the 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, which will undoubtedly quack you up, is brought to you by petetheduck. Enjoy this particular strip, and if you have a comic you’d like to submit for possible future inclusion, send it to bsangel[at]halowaypoint.com!

by: petetheduck

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: 3.21.12
Final Transition of Halo Services – Halo 3 Recon Armor
Reach Weekly Challenge – 3.19.12

Videos
T-Money ‘N Ca$h Flow – A Halo Rap
Halo: Reach Tips – Strafing
Remnants – A Halo 3/Reach Montage
Queso Man 11 – A Halo: Reach Montage
Benny Hill Zombies – A Halo: Reach Musical Video
Wings of Equilibria 1 – A Halo: Reach Machinima
Drift Circuit – A Halo: Reach Racetrack
Game Fails: A Reasonable Place to Park
Bang Bang – A Halo 3 Montage
Armored Mongoose Machine – A Halo: Reach Epic Forge Tutorial
Halo: Reach – Achievement HORSE #67
Curse of the AFK – A Halo: Reach Machinima
Halo Community’s Top Ten Halo: Reach Snipes
Driving up a Mountain – A Halo: Anniversary Trick
Fails of the Weak 79

Fun Stuff
Nice Set of Pipes – A Master Chief Pipe Cleaner Figure
Banshee Stealing Guide – A Halo: Anniversary Trick
Tattoo Tuesday: Elite Sugar Skull
Halo IRL: Nightfall Forklift Glitch
Wheatley and 343 Guilty Spark
Figures in Action: Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi
Friday Caption Fun 45

Community Happenings
Community Member of the Week: AnAverageBanana
Concrete Jungle – A Forge Café Contest
Test Night with a Cartographer: 3.21.12
Grifball Spring League 2012 – Sign-ups and Information
Forge Hub Featured Map – Splashes
Tyrant’s Winter Mythic Recon Challenge 7

Halo: Reach Screenshots
Got Your Rocket! – Freakin’ Funny
What’s Your Cause? – Fun with Forge
Immortal – Simply Amazing
Death Star Invasion – Fun with Forge
Cosmic Dream – Simply Amazing

HRSotD (short for Halo: Reach Screenshot of the Day) is a daily feature dedicated to the wonders of Halo: Reach screenshots and the artists that capture these amazing images. A variety of shots—all of which are completely unaltered and captured in Halo: Reach's theater mode—are included for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy the varied selection of images, and maybe even find inspiration to make your own!

Author: Advanced 90

 

From Rooster Teeth:

Jack and Geoff are at it again, raising their self-worth by making fun of the Halo-related missteps of others.

Fails of the Weak 79

 

From CMNeir:

The team that brought you Halo 2 Tricks, Halo 3 Tricks, and Halo: Reach Tricks present you with Halo: Anniversary Tricks with a new crew of trickers ready to please.

In this episode we show you a small trick utilizing a Warthog to climb the side of a mountain.

Driving up a Mountain – A Halo: Anniversary Trick

Last week, for our Friday Caption Fun festivities, you provided quips for an image featuring a Spartan and his two little friends. Here are the top captions you left for that particular image!

 

“Grifball got way stranger after the Title Update.” –Fartz McPoo
“The amount of team kills for Spartans skyrocketed after the UNSC started including Mini-Spartan Advisors.” –ArchedParasite
“The pre-alpha screenshot of the new controllable vehicle in Halo 4 did not meet expectations.” –TheSarge007
“The good, the bad, and the deadly.” –GeoNeo2582
“That day, Bob had to make the decision to shoot the wild Elite or hug him.” –Last Promethean
“Keep your head down, there’s three of us in here now.” –l0kin142
“And FFA was forever changed after the addition of Super Mushrooms.” –WaryGnu1
“Upset about not getting an AI, Spartan-438 attached action figures to his armor and pretended.” –Tyler C Barnes
“The tragedy of good vs evi… I mean Red vs. Blue.” –Thomas Barbaritz

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 rather puzzling scene. Soak in the screenshot, then leave your witty and relevant quip in a comment. Off you go!

Author: skull48

From MythicTyrant:

The Winter Mythic Recon Challenge is about to enter its seventh week. The challenge that lies ahead of you? ONI: Sword Base on Mythic Difficulty!

The rules are fairly simple. Load up the mission, make sure your settings are on Solo Legendary, switch on ALL 13 skulls (both Gold and Silver), and also turn on FFA scoring. When you complete the mission successfully, upload the film to your File Share, and send me a tweet on Twitter with the hashtag #wmrcentry7 along with a hyperlink to your film. Don’t worry about tagging the saved film. Simply put “Mythic Difficulty” somewhere in the film’s description, and that will suffice.

Just a few other tidbits of information for you to keep in mind:

1) You must have an Xbox LIVE Gold subscription.
2) You must have your XBL gamertag linked to your Bungie.net profile.
3) The mission must be completed while you are online and during the seven-day contest period. Make sure you can view it in your Game History.
4) The mission must be completed in one setting. No save/quit abusing! Only Solo Mythic rules apply here (Legendary, all skulls active, FFA scoring).
5) If you die, you must exit and reload the mission. This generates a ‘clean’ carnage report for the film.
6) Only one submission is allowed per person, per challenge.
7) You must submit your entry during the seven-day contest time period.

This contest begins 12:00 AM Pacific Time on Friday, 3/23/2012, and lasts for seven days. This gives you all day Friday, an entire weekend, plus four additional weekdays to complete the mission. The winner, who will instantly receive four free months of Xbox Live Gold and later will receive some very cool special prizes from 343 Industries in the mail (forwarded by The Tyrant!), will be notified the following weekend.

If you need assistance, both HBO and Halo Waypoint are here to help with the coveted Halo: Reach Mythic Difficulty Guide as well as the newer LASO Challenge Guide. Both of these enriched guides can also be found on MythicTyrant.com. Thanks for participating, and as always, we’ll see you on the battlefield!

 

From Erik:

These are the top ten Halo: Reach and Halo 3 sniper clips submitted by the community. Visit the HaloCommunity.com forum for discussion and details on upcoming Top Ten videos. Enjoy!

Halo Community’s Top Ten Halo: Reach Snipes

 

As part of the final transition of Halo services, we will begin unlocking Halo 3 Recon armor for all Halo 3 players in the very near future. This process, which will be done in waves, is expected to last several days. As always, thank you for your patience, and we’ll have more details for you in next week’s Halo Bulletin.

TL;DR – Yes, everyone can has. <3

HRSotD (short for Halo: Reach Screenshot of the Day) is a daily feature dedicated to the wonders of Halo: Reach screenshots and the artists that capture these amazing images. A variety of shots—all of which are completely unaltered and captured in Halo: Reach's theater mode—are included for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy the varied selection of images, and maybe even find inspiration to make your own!

Author: YardonaHardlong

 

From Parker:

Curse of the AFK follows Samuel throughout matchmaking as he gets nothing but AFK teamates. He was cursed by a man in the beginning of the video who had an AFK as a teammate. Curse of the AFK is an original and classic comedy machinima made by Meanscreen Production. Enjoy!

Curse of the AFK – A Halo: Reach Machinima