Halo Infinite's road ends tomorrow As Halo Studios shifts development attention to Campaign Evolved and other projects, they've announced that the forthcoming Infinite operation will be the game's last. The preview on Waypoint goes into the details, which include new maps, armor, speedier progression, and continued playlist updates. Operation Infinite drops November 18 (tomorrow.)
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Halo gets its Campaign Evolved, again Today, Halo Studios announced Halo: Campaign Evolved, a reimagining of Combat Evolved's campaign, with some new prequel missions thrown in. You can watch the preview here:
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Halo History, it could be yours! Well, goodness. It looks like a 2001 copy of the near-mythical Halo Story Bible is being auctioned off as I write this, at Heritage Auctions. Current bid is $725, but reserve isn't being announced for another few days. I'm... speechless. Thanks to Matt S. for the heads-up. (Louis Wu 17:59:12 UTC)
Believe, again with a new angle on some old Halo 3 footage This is a fun time capsule. When the Halo 3 announcement trailer dropped way back in 2006, there was some additional footage given out to select press outlets that's now been upscaled and uploaded. Thanks for the heads up, SNIPE 316.
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Halo Infinite's Lone Wolves Season 2 announce trailer drops
It's now less than a month before Infinite's second season, with new maps, armor, and more, drops. There's now a trailer to tantalize you, embedded below:
Roadmap ZZoMBiE13 is back with yet another installment of Another Halo Comic Strip - looks like he might have found an issue with the recent announcements about features of Infinite that won't be present at launch! It's all in good fun. (Louis Wu 21:02:35 UTC)
Canon Fodder celebrates issue 117 with oodles of Chief content and announcements This week's Canon Fodder is issue #117, so Grim pulled out all the stops. In addition to a ton of Chief-focused community content, there's word of a new, beefier Encyclopedia (checked over, of course, by Stephen Loftus,) and some thoughts from Claude himself on our favorite green-armored Chief. (fuchsdh 19:40:01 UTC)
That’s why we’re excited to announce Halo Infinite will support multiplayer cross-play and cross-progression when it releases later this year. That means if you’re playing on PC, you can play with your friends on Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S. It also means that your multiplayer customization and progress will follow you across all platforms.
Halo Infinite delayed to 2021 In a brief letter on Halo Waypoint, project lead Chris Lee has announced that Halo Infinite will be delayed to 2021.(fuchsdh 19:16:09 UTC)
Bad Cyborg is now local For years (well, decades - we started reporting on his megabattle obsession in early 2004), Rockslider has been exploring the depths of the original Halo physics, and reporting his results. There are literally hundreds of videos in his collection, and the level of his commitment has been breathtaking. Recently, however, he announced that he was moving on from Halo, and that he was going to let the badcyborg.net domain expire. We offered a local archive, and he took us up on the offer - so this amazing collection of videos, started before Halo 3: ODST launched, continues to be available to you. Go explore!(Louis Wu 20:04:33 UTC)
Drop feet-first into hell (again) 343 announced that the final piece of missing content from MCC, ODST's excellent Firefight Mode, is coming "this summer". Thanks, munky-058. (fuchsdh 20:52:08 UTC)
Halo: Reach Comes to MCC December 3 As an early Christmas present, Microsoft announced Reach is finally releasing on MCC December 3. Better sharpen your DMR skills, and perhaps be ready to jump off a cliff onto an Elite many, many times...
Play Sea of Thieves, Get a Spartan for Your Ship Amid the general E3 Halo news, there was a bit of a cross-promotional announcement: if you log into Sea of Thieves sometime before the end of Saturday, you'll get a Halo-inspired ship to roam the seas with. That figurehead is very cool. Thanks, SNIPE 316 for the heads-up. (fuchsdh 23:47:28 UTC)
The Showtime Halo TV Series is VERY Much Alive and Well, Will Begin Production Early Next Year You know that Halo TV series that was coming to Showtime, but rumors spread earlier this year it was cancelled? Yeah, it's very much alive according to HaloWaypoint, and it received a shout out on the Xbox Wire as well! So far we know it will be around 10 episodes, directed mostly by Rupert Wyatt and written and ran by Kyle Killen. (Thanks davidfuchs!) (MacGyver10 19:59:32 UTC)
The Next Official Installment, 'Halo: Infinite' Announced at Xbox's E3 Press Conference With Return to Old Art Style and New Slipspace Game Engine The next installment of the Halo franchise was shown off today at E3 with the Xbox press conference kicking things off with a 'demo' of 'Halo: Infinite' and its new game engine called Slipspace. You can see the reveal trailer here on YouTube, or head over to HaloWaypoint to read about the upcoming continuation of Master Chief's story post-Halo 5! (MacGyver10 22:47:47 UTC)
Halo Community Update 06/08/18 - 'Soldiering On' No mention of Halo's presence at E3 this weekend (and no denial of it either!), but still plenty for GrimBrotherOne to shout about with Halo. Lots of new Halo reading materials headed our way in the not-too-distant future, updates on competitive Halo and a few other goodies round out a pre-E3 collection of news. Here's hoping we have some big announcements soon to share! (MacGyver10 17:43:20 UTC)
Updates, Fixes and Xbox One Enhancements Coming to the Master Chief Collection in 2018! Lots of great news out of last night's livestream, but the biggest for many will be a fix, overhaul and Xbox One X enhancements for the Master Chief Collection are all coming in 2018!
As announced today, work is underway on updates, fixes and Xbox One X enhancements for Halo: The Master Chief Collection – coming in 2018. pic.twitter.com/DlByQ2SkU1
Halo Wars 2 Expansion 'Awakening the Nightmare' Hits Digital Shelves on Sept. 26th With the Gamescom announcement this past weekend, we now have a release date for the post-season pass content for Halo Wars 2! The 'Awakening the Nightmare' expansions hits digital shelves on September 26th!
Atriox & The Banished face The Flood in the Awakening the Nightmare expansion for #HaloWars2 - coming to Xbox One & Win10 on Sept. 26, 2017! pic.twitter.com/xLB6HEbTHy
Halo Community Update - 07/13/17 'Austin-tatious' Missed out on the recent trip to Austin, Texas for the Rooster Teeth Expo? 343 has you covered with some of the going-on's in their latest Community Update, as well as a recap of some of the cool announcements recently for Halo backward compatibility and a preview of San Diego Comic-Con fun. (MacGyver10 21:58:45 UTC)
Halo Summer Celebration Last Week Announced New Backward Compatible Halo Games and 4k Support for Halo 5 So I picked a very poor time to go on vacation these past ten days, as Halo has seen some very cool info pop up in the last little bit. Specifically, the 'Halo Summer Celebration' happened last week where 343 announced a bunch of cool stuff with old Halo games becoming backward compatible this year, Halo Wars 2 DLC plans and Halo 5 getting special Xbox One X updates to make it 4k ready to name a few. You've probably read it all already, but I wanted to make sure we had something up at least acknowledging it. (Thanks gamerguy2002!) (MacGyver10 18:34:03 UTC)
Teaser Trailer and Waypoint Info on New, Flood-themed Halo Wars 2 Expansion After yesterday's announcement of the new 'Awakening The Nightmare' content, davidfuchs let us know that not only is there a teaser trailer for the new Halo Wars 2 expansion, but there's a lot of info on HaloWaypoint now about our upcoming Brutes vs Flood DLC. (MacGyver10 15:58:26 UTC)
GrimBrother One Clarifies New Arena Season and 'Proving Grounds' Playlist To further clarify both the announcement of the new Arena season, and the test-changes for the 'Proving Grounds' playlist, GrimBrother One penned a piece on the new Arena Season over at HaloWaypoint! (MacGyver10 22:22:36 UTC)
Use Halo Wars 2's API to Create Nifty Web Utilities or Apps With the release of Halo Wars 2 this week, GrimBrother One made sure to let us know the web API for Halo Wars 2 is also out in the wild now. You can read about it and see his interview with Software Engineer Jacob Snyder and Technical Producer Tamar Goldberg of 343 Industries at Halo Waypoint! (MacGyver10 16:55:14 UTC)
Halo Community Update - 01/13/17 'Ballroom Blitz' Davidfuchs gave us a heads up on the earlier than normal (thanks Ske7ch!) Halo Community Update this week. Plenty of Halo Wars 2 info as we approach the newly announced beta on January 20th, with pre-order bonuses, physical discs for PC and a reminder of the HW2-themed LootCrate coming. The Halo World Championship for 2017, XP/RP boosts across gamemodes, Warzone changes and still-to-be-found easter eggs, dev spotlight on 343's Olga and the community spotlights! Make sure you give it a read sometime soon when you get the chance! (MacGyver10 16:07:49 UTC)