I forgot how fun some Halo 3’s levels can be! Morpheus reminded me with a great pick for his Montage Monday series in a video called ‘Dispute’ by Caramel and Puba. Lots of fast cuts, but the shots and Caramel’s predictive gameplay was great!(MacGyver10 16:13:32 UTC)

Sorry for the lack of activity around a big release (early Halo Wars 2), but real life gets in the way sometimes (sick kiddo)! As we catch back up on some Halo goodies, Rockslider stopped in last week with a trick to a get a good look at Halo’s monitor. You can check it out in his forum post!(MacGyver10 16:08:00 UTC)

Some things are here to stay, others come and go! If you’ve been saving up RP for those classic helmets in Halo 5, looks like you have a hard deadline now. Seems they’ll come back eventually, but who knows when that will be!

Heads up, Spartans! The Classic Helmet Pack will only be available for one more week. Get your helmets by Feb. 21! https://t.co/n1myGKBj3C pic.twitter.com/axUvgq8IVk

— Halo (@Halo) February 14, 2017

(MacGyver10 22:46:11 UTC)

As a joke, Ducain23 first set out to recreate Forge World in Halo 5 for the fun of it, but it accidentally became a passion project for him. He has now finally completed the entire Forge World canvas in Halo 5, and while it’s not entirely practical to build new structures on it, it’s definitely possible! You might even be able to get elites surfing on it again!(MacGyver10 19:18:49 UTC)

Unyshek spent some of his day updating folks on the changes for the Halo 5 double playlist. You can read about them over at HaloWaypoint, but the basics are mode, weapon and map updates, giftable Valentine’s Day REQ packs, play 343 lovers this afternoon 6p EST in the playlist and old school art from the legendary Lorraine McLees (shoutout to mehvechan and the old Bungie webcam!)(MacGyver10 19:08:39 UTC)

You have until midnight on the east coast tomorrow to get your order in for Halo’s Legendary LootCrate #4, featuring heavily on the upcoming Halo Wars 2! Might make for a great, last minute gift for that special someone! Don’t forget you can save money by using the code ‘HBOCrate’ at checkout!

Just two days left to get the official Halo Legendary Crate for #HaloWars2! Get your order in by Feb. 15 at 9pm PST: https://t.co/15lMmA8YEz pic.twitter.com/Ap9kgoeSc5

— Halo (@Halo) February 13, 2017

(MacGyver10 19:05:48 UTC)

SEVEN YEARS now of Valentine’s Day goodies, and each year something new and different! Check out AssaultGodzilla’s latest call out to Valentine’s Day with his Halo music video for 2017! Don’t tell my wife, but like with Charlie Brown at Christmas, it’s not Valentine’s Day till one of AssaultGodzilla’s HMVs show up!(MacGyver10 18:53:46 UTC)

343 Industries has steadily increased the responsiveness to the general community since the days of the ‘play early’ debacle, and continue to do better and better in communication with the fans (love you, Grim and Sketch!). In that vein, ZaedynFel spent some time on the Waypoint forums discussing some feedback they’ve received on matchmaking recently. Really cool to see the things they’re considering for Halo 5, and what they want to do in Halo 6 as well!(MacGyver10 22:10:57 UTC)

Still catching up for his time off, Morpheus has released a number of new montages over the past few days that show off some impressive Halo skills. You can check out his ‘Montage Mriday’ for Secret Airgents, ‘Montage Smaturday’ for Unique and ‘Montage Smunday’ for The Ten Halo Commandments, a break from his normal montage bend.(MacGyver10 22:07:14 UTC)

Info on Halo Wars 2 and the latest Halo 5 goodies kick off another Halo Community Update from this past week! Give it a read to see how used cars, Bloodfuel Locusts, arena updates and new helmets come together in Halo. Also, another great 343 Staff Spotlight (software developer, Simon Gordon) and community content flesh it out at the end!(MacGyver10 22:03:23 UTC)

In apparent lieu of one more Canon Fodder closer to the 100th, Grimbrother One spent some time with the Halo Waypoint team (shoutout to KP!) to see what’s in store for Halo Wars 2 online and in the Halo app!(MacGyver10 22:00:42 UTC)

A lot of people have put out retrospectives on various Halo games, but Raycevick has done a great job voicing his thoughts on each and every one. Nice to hear one person’s thoughts on each individual Halo game so far! (Thanks cheapLEY!)(MacGyver10 20:16:34 UTC)

Guess who just got back today? Them wild eyed boys that had been away. Haven’t changed that much to say, but man, I still think them cats are crazy. Starting tonight they’ll be dressed to kill. Down at Club Errera’s Bar ‘n’ Grill. The drink will flow and the blood will spill, and if the boys wanna fight, you better let ’em. The boys are back in town.

Equip the most beloved helmets from Halo games of the past. The Classic Helmet REQ Pack is now available in Halo 5: Guardians! pic.twitter.com/cDkbfUesQA

— Halo (@Halo) February 9, 2017

(MacGyver10 19:51:16 UTC)

It was about 7 years ago (talking about Halo Wars no less!) that I could find GrimBrother One being mentioned in an HBO news post, and now our little boy is grown up and creating the games he was first tagging in the forum. Happy birthday Grim, may your day be merry and bright! (MacGyver10 15:51:58 UTC)