We’ve been highlighting his Valentine’s Day HMV’s for a while, and now AssaultGodzilla let us know of a new one he put together for ‘Star Wars Day’ called ‘A New Hope’. It features a bunch of Halo footage spanning the games and other media set to the song of the same name by Broken Iris.(MacGyver10 21:07:36 UTC)

The latest Halo Community update is live with a new Halo 5 season kicking off, a new rotational playlist (Rock N’ Rail), exciting Halo product updates (new Atriox comic), Halo Wars 2 balance tweaks and sound files, and a plethora of Spotlight goodness. You can read it all over at HaloWaypoint!(MacGyver10 15:47:30 UTC)

The May/June 2017 Arena season is live now in Halo 5. Go get those 10 games in to qualify for the new season’s in-game emblem!

Complete your placement matches and work your way up the ranks to receive this season's Arena emblem. The May-June 2017 Season is live! pic.twitter.com/nMgGLMx5qN

— Halo (@Halo) May 4, 2017

(MacGyver10 22:14:03 UTC)

I almost missed this one, but Rockslider has compiled more ‘freakiness and fun’ in his 17th montage of such clips. You can check it out in his post in our forum!(MacGyver10 22:12:44 UTC)

Remember voting to get Halo: CE into the video game hall of fame? Looks like it worked! Halo: Combat Evolved is joining the New York museum this year alongside Pokemon Red & Green, Donkey Kong and Street Fighter II! (Thanks Funkmon!)(MacGyver10 22:09:34 UTC)

The latest Matchmaking Update has been shared on Halo Waypoint, and there’s some really neat new features coming AND already live! Check it out on the Waypoint forums to read about the new ‘Soft Forfeit’ feature, new season incoming and revised CSR restrictions.(MacGyver10 15:03:12 UTC)

Been a while since you watched it, or maybe you’ve never seen it? You can now check out the ‘Halo: Legends’ series of animated shorts on Netflix!

The beautiful & beloved Halo: Legends is now on @netflix! This epic animated anthology tells several exciting stories in the Halo universe. pic.twitter.com/JsStr5CsLP

— Halo (@Halo) May 1, 2017

(MacGyver10 15:01:44 UTC)

Davidfuchs dropped in with news of Forward Unto Dawn’s latest lore piece! ‘Hope for Halsey’ examinines the role Halsey plays in the Halo video games, and how her character could have newfound meaning defeating Cortana and her plans. You can read it at FUD, or check out the video version on YouTube!(MacGyver10 14:57:51 UTC)

TheSuperWaffle presents once again a mind-blowing accomplishment from the team at Termacious Trickocity, the same crew that most recently broke into some Halo 3 cutscene rooms. This time the manage to break in, rather than out, of ‘the cage’ at the end of Halo 3’s level, Sierra 117. Tricksters from HIH, Jumprs.org (RIP) and other communities have been trying to get into the room for around 10 years, but the Termacious Trickocity crew are the ones to finally pull it off!(MacGyver10 18:46:29 UTC)

Dragonclaws has uploaded their latest in-depth review of Halo media. They take a feminist viewpoint of the story in the ‘Halo: First Strike’ novel that launched the EU. You can see the first part here, and follow it up with video number two!(MacGyver10 18:34:54 UTC)

With as much time as Rockslider has spent in Halo: Combat Evolved, you’d bet he would be the one to figure things like this out! Check out his post in our forum to see some unique mid-air banshee fun!(MacGyver10 18:32:50 UTC)

Sketch is back (we met our Grim quota here a long time ago!) finally and with a new community update. Looks like the new Halo Wars 2 leader, Colony, being out in the wild, and a refresh of new maps and gametypes in Big Team Battle are the big focus this week. There’s the HCS update, 343 Team Spotlight, Community Spotlights, first image of the VERY cool new Halo Icons figure and more in there too! Check it out in this week’s Halo Community Update!(MacGyver10 17:53:12 UTC)

It’s been a while, but you can now catch back up with Spartan Grey Team in the latest Halo novel! ‘HALO: Envoy’ by Tobias Buckell is out now both digitally and physically, and takes us to a planet on the edge of treatied Joint Occupation Zone inhabited by untrusting human colonists and their wary sangheili neighbors.(MacGyver10 17:49:06 UTC)

The Vengeful ‘Vadam gave us a heads up on a showcase video for a few Halo: Custom Edition mods made as new single player experiences. He gives away the plots on some, but definitely highlights these cool, custom experiences.(MacGyver10 22:05:54 UTC)

Rockslider is show off some more fun in the entry chamber of AoTCR. Check out his post in our forum to see his set up and a bunch of crazy launches that take his spartan all over the place!(MacGyver10 22:03:49 UTC)

*YAWN* Okay, I’m up. What have I missed in the last… er, 1537 days?

Gah! One minute I’m sipping mojitos with Wu, and suddenly it’s four years later!

Ah well, that’s life. Anyway, Halo: Combat Evolved is up for entry into the World Video Game Hall of Fame over at The Strong, a museum dedicated to the history and exploration of play. Go vote!(mnemesis 21:07:30 UTC)