In lieu of a community update yesterday, we did get a first look at the new Halo novel, ‘Halo: Silent Storm’. Looks to be a cool story of Master Chief and Blue Team as they fight for humanity’s survival in the early days of the Covenant War.(MacGyver10 15:01:41 UTC)

Having trouble figuring out your favorite Halo maps of all time? Nillapuddin has put together a bracket for the multiplayer maps of Halo 1, 2 and 3, as well as a separate bracket for Halo Reach, 4 and 5. Check it out and vote for your favorite!(MacGyver10 14:45:32 UTC)

Rockslider put together a new video in our forum showing how to merge the bodies of dead Covenant and marines in Halo CE’s campaign. It really makes for some neat moments in separating the models with plasma grenades and rocket blasts! Not sure if anyone has really shown this off before either, as it seems to be a cool, new glitch for this 17 year old game!(MacGyver10 15:35:53 UTC)

343 Industries will have a community playdate today in the new ‘Elimination’ playlist. Hop in to try to play with their crew and score a fancy AR skin!

We're kicking off a new livestream series on @WatchMixer by jumping into Halo 5's upcoming new Elimination playlist for a Community Playdate. Join us live this Wednesday at 1:30pm PT on https://t.co/B6GuNy6y8b for all the festivities! pic.twitter.com/jkJNcuj65N

— Halo (@Halo) April 30, 2018

(MacGyver10 15:33:37 UTC)

After a couple weeks off, Grim is back with a new Halo Community Update over at HaloWaypoint. A recap of the recent Halo World Championship, a little bit on an ArmA 3 mod and some other cool Halo bits round out another ‘non-new-game-announcing’ update (45 days till E3)!(MacGyver10 21:51:04 UTC)

There’s something freaky afoot. Check out Rockslider’s latest video, a short but cool one on a topic they’ll be spending quite a bit more time on shortly!(MacGyver10 21:46:24 UTC)

Looks like the inevitable was addressed yesterday, as 343 Industries shared over at HaloWaypoint that they and Microsoft are strongly encouraging the ElDewrito team to cease working on their ‘Halo Online’ project. If you remember, ‘Halo Online’ was a game Microsoft released only in Russia to test the waters for Halo on PC, but cancelled shortly after. It’s a tricky situation, but one 343 Industries explains very well I felt in their Waypoint post. (Thanks munky-058!)(MacGyver10 18:28:55 UTC)

While pointing out a particular possible addition to the MCC, AfroRyan let us know last week (while I was on vacation) that another MCC Development Update is out for your reading! A LOT of cool stuff in there including some proposed images of the new menu system, Halo: Custom Edition maps possibly being added and other engineering and game-specific wonders! Definitely go check it out!(MacGyver10 18:36:36 UTC)