With each month that passes, the Halo community continues to surprise us with the unique maps created in Halo 5’s Forge mode on both Xbox One and Windows 10. To celebrate the Halo World Championship, we’ve partnered with Paramount Pictures and the upcoming film Ghost in the Shell, and are excited to reveal the Forge community’s next challenge – the Ghost In the Shell Halo 5 Forge Contest! Continue reading
Today during 343’s segment at the DICE 2017 summit, Bonnie Ross, 343 Studio Head, stated during a very sincere moment that all Halo FPS games going forward would have Split-Screen.
Before that, she reiterated 343’s learning experience from the failed launch of HMCC as well as not including split-screen in Halo 5.
Moving forward, every @Halo FPS title will have split-screen! Just confirmed by Bonnie Ross (@PlutonForEver) at #DICE2017 #Halo pic.twitter.com/ns28NK579D
— Chief Canuck (@ChiefCanuck) February 23, 2017
This is great news!
Hot Wheels Halo Vehicles
This isn’t named as such, but for the sake of ease for future reference, we will call this Wave 1. This wave includes the following vehicles:
• UNSC Mongoose
• Covenant Ghost
• UNSC Warthog
• Banished Wraith
• UNSC Scorpion
The cost per vehicle is $5 each. They can be found at major retailers. Mine were found at Wal Mart.
The cardback is common the vehciles. 
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Mega Bloks Halo Heroes Series 3
Technical Specifications:
Build Time:Â 1 minute building figure stand
Set Piece Count:Â Varies per figure, see below.
Minifigures:Â Spartan Jerome-092, Spartan Palmer, Spartan Helioskrill, Spartan Hoya, Atriox, Elite Honor Guard
Accessories:Â Varies per figure, see below.
Special Features:Â N/A
Cost:Â $5 each US (Mass Retail)
And on with the pics! (Click pics to make BIGGER)
Each carded figure has it’s on character on the card front. Makes it easier to identify which fiure is inside, from a distance.
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Mega Bloks Promethean Strike
Technical Specifications:
Build Time:Â 1 minute sorting, 2Â minutes building
Set Piece Count:Â 254
Minifigures:Â Promethean Soldier X4, Promethean Sniper, Crawler X3, Alpha Crawler, Watcher; Spartans: Defender, Warrior, Soldier, Mark VI (Gen 2), Recruit, Recon
Accessories: Sniper, Hydra, Shotgun, BR, SMG, DMR, Magnum X2, Frag Grenade X6, Binary Rifle, Incineration Cannon, Scattershot, Boltshot, Lightrifle, Supressor, Splinter Grenade X4, UNSC long crate, Promethean crate, Mega Bloks Team Flag
Special Features:Â N/A
Cost:Â $35 US (Wal*Mart Exclusive)
And on with the pics! (Click pics to make BIGGER)
The box front has a very large display window. This is great for those who want to know what comes in the set. As well, for those folks who plan on keeping the set in the box, it’s great to have a large window like this , so they can appreciate the contents, without having to open it up.
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I wanted to challenge myself to see if I could make a billboard for Halo Wars 2 using Atriox’s face. Given that we are limited in pieces in Halo 5’s Forge, I knew ahead of time that this was going to look pixelated at the end. So I used my math skills to determine how big the pieces needed to be to relatively fill a Billboard piece in Forge, then went to work in Photoshop creating the necessary pixels turn greenscreen pieces.
I took this reddish image of Atriox:Â 
Blew it up so that it was mostly his face and some of his shoulder armor.
I posterized this so as to give me just 8 colors.
From there, I broke it down to large squares that when translated to Forge pieces would be equivalent to 2X2 greenscreen pieces. 
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The following is a reblog from Halo Waypoint:Â
By Grim
This week’s spotlight shines bright on the Halowaypoint team and software developer Simon Gordon who has been hard at work bringing the Halo Wars 2 companion experience to life on the web.
Hey Simon, welcome to the Team Spotlight! To kick things off, can you tell us a little about yourself? What’s your current role with 343?
Simon Gordon: I am a software developer on HaloWaypoint.com. My main focus has generally been to work with other internal teams on showing stats and delivering an out-of-game companion experience for the Halo games.
How long have you been with the team? What prompted you to join 343?
SG: I have been on the 343 team for three and a half years. My wife and I moved to Seattle and while I was looking for a job, I heard about a job positing at 343 for a web developer. Having just worked on developing a website, I figured it was a natural fit.
What’s your background prior to joining 343?
SG:Â I earned a Bachler of Science in Computer Science at Washington State University. I had an internship while at college and several years of job experience before applying for the job at 343. Continue reading
With the release of Halo Wars 2 fast approaching, we finaly have the achievements list. This may be added to with subsequent DLC. As of this writing though, these are the initial release achievements.
Key for list below:
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This is a reblog from Halo Waypoint:Â
In the wake of the Blitz Beta many of you have had a variety of questions about Halo Wars 2 and what to expect when the game launches. I rounded up a number of queries from r/HaloWars and sent them over to the Halo Wars 2 team (both Creative Assembly and 343) to help us get some answers:
Are you happy with team colours at present? Some of us found it challenging to remember which units are friend or foe in the betas.
Great feedback! The clarity and readability of the battle is really important to us so we’ll be monitoring and reviewing players’ experiences from release and look for ways to improve the player’s understanding of the team colors in future
HFFL: For me it was easy to tell the difference between one side or the other. Where the colors blurred were within each side. Orange looked too close to red on one end and then yellow on the other. The green I sometimes mixed up with the lighter blue. This caused me to try and move troops that weren’t mine. I’d get frustrated thinking the Beta wasn’t working right. Then I’d realize my error. Problem is, by the time that was realized, it often meant I was on the losing side of a match. So yes, I hope the colors are better defined. One issue though is that many of the toys are already based off of those colors. So we’ll have to wait and see how this is addressed. Continue reading
Just a couple of days ago, 343 released these final trailers for Halo Wars 2. The first two are hilarious! The last being the actual one for the game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBOrxRsWh7s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wTgV1u2K5Y
Which one of those two is your favorite? For me the armrest just edges out the sale. FULL TONGUE! LOL
Now if that video doesn’t get you hyped!!!!
Microsoft commisioned three artists to make Halo Wars 2 posters. 2 each to each artist, one of a UNSC leader and the other a Banished leader.
These first two were created by Kevin Tong.
The following two were created by Grzegorz ‘Gabz’ Domaradzki.
And the last two were made by Craig Drake.
Which one do you like the best?
I think the middles pairing of Anders and the Shipmaster are fantastic! Use of a limited color palette with the striking reds and oranges really brings out the ‘WARS’ aspect of the posted.
No details yet on how these can be obtained. However, I’m told that they will be available at retail in some form. If that’s as a bonus at a Microsoft store or as individuals you can buy, I do not yet know. Once I do know though, you can bet I’ll post it here!
-Sal
The day is finally here! We will be able to get our hands on these classic helmets later today via a special REQ Pack!
The pack will set you back either 150K REQ Points or if you really want them and dont’ want to grind the points, you can purchase it for $10 (US).
I for one am excited for these. I’ll be taking turns with Recon, Operator, EOD, Pilot and my fav of this bunch, the CQB helmet!
Look for a Halo update on your console some time in the afternoon. As soon as I know the update is available, I”ll tweet it out here:Â @HaloFanForLife
Which reminds me, if you are on twitter and haven’t followed me yet, please do. Every article I post here gets a tweet there. So you’ll be able to stay up on HFFL even better!
This is a reblog from Halo Waypoint:
By GrimBrotherOne
Halo Wars 2 is nigh upon us, once again ushering in a very unique way to experience the Halo universe. With the Real Time Strategy genre comes not only a different approach to playing the game, but also a different approach to improving your performance. Halo fans of all skill levels are certainly no strangers to self-evaluation, whether it’s giving a quick check at their PGCR in between matches, or spending an inordinate amount of time examining and analyzing their stats online looking for an extra edge.
Sitting not too far away from yours truly is a small, but scrappy team of feature freaks – engineers who daily unleash their particular brand of genius in a tireless pursuit to deliver helpful and powerful web and application-based tools for players to enhance their Halo experience. In order to evangelize on behalf of their all-too-humble efforts, I caught up with these elusive statistic savants to help paint a picture of some of the new features awaiting players on Waypoint and the Halo app when Halo Wars 2 launches on Feb. 21. Continue reading
Halo Wars 2 has a download  size of 23.76GB. If you don’t have enough space, now might be the time to start deleting those apps/games you haven’t used, to make room.
Mega Bloks Brute Lance
Technical Specifications:
Build Time: 2 minutes sorting, 5 minutes building
Set Piece Count:Â 130
Minifigures:Â Brute Bodyguard, Brute Major, Brute Minor X2
Accessories:Â Buildable tower, Brute Mauler X2, Brute Spike, Bruteshot
Special Features:Â N/A
Cost:Â $16 US (Mass Retail) I got mine from eBay for $20 (I’ll explain that later)
And on with the pics! (Click pics to make BIGGER)
The box front features a cool action shot! As you can see by the window on the front of the box, the Brute Bodyguard doesn’t have the blueish sheen that it has in the action shot.
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