New official Halo 5 Guardians Arena vid and screenshots!

I have for you 28 new screenshots from the Arena multiplayer portion of Halo 5 Guardians as well at first a vid of the action!

Um, okay, WOW! The new maps look GREAT! The new invis is very cool. And that kicking motion with Spartan Charge? YES! And holy crap, the ways you can get around some maps! LOTs of venues you wouldn’t normally think of.  Plaza looks visually VERY appealing. And the changes to Eden are fantastic!x

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$1 Million Halo World Championship!

Yep, 343/Microsoft is putting on a whopper of a Halo tournament. The total prize pool will be $1 million dollars. Watch the vid below, then some comments form me.

Okay, it’s cool and all that MS is really backing Halo. However, I have strong reservations that at high stakes tournament is going to bring Halo back to the forefront of eSports. Yes, in the temporary, it will. Might get some of the former pro Halo players to come back to Halo or at least split their time between it and COD. But it will really have to prove itself with the whole of the community when the game releases in October, if it’s to have any eSports longevity. Continue reading

Halo Community Update 8.2.15

This is a reblog from Halo Waypoint: 

By B is for Bravo

If you’re reading this, it means that we’ve arrived safely in Europe for gamescom, and have found a charming café from which to post this transmission. We’ve snuck this very text through French, Belgian, and German borders in an effort to get it to your part of the world, and we’re glad that it too has arrived safely. In the paragraphs that follow, we’ll talk about gamescom, new development tales from the world of Warzone, the adventures that await within pages of a recently released short, and beyond. But first, let’s check in on MCC playlist and content updates. Continue reading

Canon Fodder – Lore of the Rings

This is a reblog from Halo Waypoint: 

By GrimBrother One

ISSUE 35

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Welcome back, folks! Last week we dove fleet first into the brand new Halo tabletop game from our partners at Spartan Games. For fans of the stellar ship experience, Halo: Fleet Battles will be making an appearance this weekend at GenCon in Indianapolis. If you’re in the neighborhood, more info can be found here. Meanwhile around these parts, the Seattle skies and Lake Washington waters will be filled with a different fleeting demonstration, as Seafair brings its annual abundance of high-speed hydro racing and epic aerobatic action to a myriad of excited and awaiting eyes and ears. At 343 Industries specifically, we’re all heads down on a variety of different ways we hope to bring the eyes and ears of Halo fans just as much excitement and joy, whether it’s pouring into the production and polish of Halo 5: Guardians, or getting ready to share more news at next week’s Gamescom conference in Germany. Needless to say, we hope you enjoy what we have in store on all fronts. In this week’s issue of Canon Fodder, we’ve got a smattering of topics to touch on, starting off with a few of your very own burning questions from the Halo Waypoint Universe forum.

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