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)

CyberKN over on our sister site DBO, reminded us that yesterday was 10 years since the Halo Legendary Map Pack was released for Halo 3! Play a game on Avalanche, then check out his post to mancannon down memory lane!

Update: Looking back through our news archive, I found some cool things that happened around the release of the Legendary Map Pack, like a ‘Game with Fame’ with Avenged Sevenfold, Frankie interviewed and KP’s gorgeous face (a working live link!) and we here at HBO played Bungie in the first Halo Humpday Challenge on the new maps!(MacGyver10 22:27:24 UTC)

Congrats to Splyce on winning this past weekend’s Halo World Championship! I’m sure the $1,000,000 they made by becoming champions feels pretty good!

Your 2018 Halo World Champions are @Splyce! The all-conquering quartet of @Shotzzy, @Renegade_JW, @KevinEcoSmith, and @TheStelluR take home the title after a dominating sweep of the defending world champs #TOXGaming. Congratulations! #HaloWC pic.twitter.com/Ny5yiWAchS

— Halo (@Halo) April 16, 2018

(MacGyver10 18:58:49 UTC)

Rightfully so, but a very Halo World Championship-themed Community Update this week from our prodigal, GrimBrotherOne. There is the obvious and heavy amount of content for our version of the Super Bowl, but some cool stuff in particular are the free stuff you can get for watching on Mixer this weekend, your last chance to get the Arena-themed Legendary Crate and some recaps of other HCS events. Ske7ch did a great job culling content from the community as well (check out that aesthetic map for the Titanic)!(MacGyver10 21:56:07 UTC)

Sixteen of the best Halo teams in the world will be competing this weekend to become world champions, make sure you check out HaloWaypoint to get the full breakdown and what socials and channels to be following for all the action!

Sixteen of the best teams from around the world are facing off tomorrow at the Halo World Championship 2018 Finals! Find out everything you need to know about this weekend's $1,000,000 international event here: https://t.co/yC1nQzc4ye pic.twitter.com/KCliJcLAmg

— Halo (@Halo) April 12, 2018

(MacGyver10 21:12:01 UTC)

Battling it out with Ghost Recon and Morrowind, Halo 5 will also be free to play this entire weekend in celebration of the Halo World Championship! Download it and give it a try if you haven’t already!

Xbox Live Gold Members can enjoy Free Play Days for Halo 5 today through Sunday. Rally your fireteam and jump in as we celebrate #HaloWC 2018 Finals weekend! pic.twitter.com/svrh9vTBFy

— Halo (@Halo) April 12, 2018

(MacGyver10 19:50:06 UTC)

While we might need to take this with a grain of salt right now, it seems the Halo TV series might have a filming location and start time for this October in Budapest, Hungary. As of right now, we have no confirmation (no, fake Kiki accounts don’t count) if this is true or not, but hopefully this is actually going to happen!(MacGyver10 15:16:29 UTC)

Nick Brick took the three shot kill weapon we all now and love, and put his LEGO spin on the classic M6D Magnum! This things has a working trigger, moving slide to ‘reload’ and removable magazine! Pretty impressive work! (Thanks Cody Moore!)(MacGyver10 22:09:14 UTC)

Have you been seeing all this hubbub over a revamped and revitalized Master Chief Collection? If you’re looking for way to get involved, make sure you head over to HaloWaypoint to see what you can do to sign up and help out!(MacGyver10 21:44:57 UTC)