Looks like Halo 5: Guardians will be free to play this weekend, now through Sunday at 11pm PST. It’s a large download, but if you plan accordingly, you can get some feeling for Halo 5 and how it plays for the price of nothing. It’s also 20% off if you like it enough to buy it!(MacGyver10 22:19:21 UTC)

Rockslider has spent a ton of time lately with the flood forms of Halo: CE’s ‘343 Guilty Spark’ level, but this is the first time he’s EVER seen this reaction from the Flood. There’s a back and forth in our forum over what it might be from, but so far, no one has claimed to see this anywhere else before!(MacGyver10 19:13:38 UTC)

Lots of things on the horizon for Halo this year, but nothing too juicy released just yet. What we do get is plenty of info on the upcoming Halo Championship Series events (Yay MLG!), a reminder of Grim’s achievements, heads up on a communtity playdate that does NOT happen during east coast work hours and some Q&A from Jessie Thomas, a games user researcher for the Xbox team at Microsoft. Lots of great stuff in this first update for 2018, and it wraps up with some cool community content!(MacGyver10 19:03:38 UTC)

Rockslider let us know about a new Halo: CE Legendary speed run world record by GarishGoblin, and what makes it really cool, is you can see him use Rockslider’s banshee grab trick on AoTCR. You can see it particularly in his world record attempt at that level by itself!(MacGyver10 23:07:39 UTC)

On the latest episode of the Forward Unto Dawn podcast… Dani and David are joined by Dildev and Defguru (guess your name must start with a ‘D’ to be on this week) to talk about the year in Halo, hopes for the future, and pour one out for the unjustly maligned Halo: The Flood. (MacGyver10 23:02:25 UTC)

Rockslider has been seemingly enjoying his time with the 343 Guilty Spark level of Halo: CE. This time he highlights his swampy adventures with a spotlight on the ‘swamp guy’ flood form that attempts a runaway like the others.(MacGyver10 23:24:59 UTC)

Hope you had a merry Christmas this past week! It looks like 343 Industries released their own Halo version of ‘The Night Before Christmas’ with everyone’s favorite janitor reading it!(MacGyver10 21:08:46 UTC)