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About Sal

I’ve got tons of experience with Halo gaming and collecting. I feel I have something to offer to the greater Halo fan community. Posts along the way will be about tips and tricks in the games as well as collecting and many more Halo related things. I’ll also repost interesting articles from the official site, Halowaypoint.com, or from fellow Halo fan sites. As I continue this blog, I hope to help gamers who want advice on the games, as well as any collectors with regards to where to find collectibles as well as deals, coupons and so on. You can also follow me on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/#!/HaloFanForLife or Facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/halofanforlife11. Welcome to my blog and I hope you’ll come back again and again. -Sal

Halo Mega Bloks Fall Line-up

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Discovered earlier today by Halo Mega Bloks fan ‘FoolishBakery’, we now have a list of proposed sets for Fall 2015. I say ‘proposed’ because as this information has not been officially released by Mega Bloks, we can not call this anything but rumor at this point.

What you see below are some interesting names for the sets. Looks like we’re getting some NEW vehicles in Halo 5. Continue reading →

McFarlane Halo 4 Series 3 action figure previews

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It’s been quite awhile since we last had a wave of Halo figures from McFarlane Toys. Well, the wait is soon over!

Not only are we getting Spartan Thorne from Fireteam Majestic, Commander Sarah Palmer, and Jul ‘Mdama, we’re also getting a fourth figure, not previously shown. This fourth figure will be an exclusive to Walgreen’s. The figures is a Red Spartan Soldier (Halo 4 armor) with White secondary color.

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Without further ado, let’s get to the official pics from McFarlane. (Click on pics to make bigger) Continue reading →

Canon Fodder – Array With Words

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This is a reblog from Halo Waypoint’s on-going Canon Fodder series of articles:

Today, we wanted to tackle something that has an incredible importance in the overall scope of the Halo narrative: The firing of the Halo Array. This actually arose from a question that popped up on the Universe forums regarding the birth year of the Ur-Didact, Shadow-of-Sundered-Star, which is listed as 110255 BCE in his Universe profile. The question was whether or not the date could be accurate given its relationship to other events in the Halo timeline. In order to more completely understand the relationship between certain events and when they occur, it helps to identify certain benchmarks that can be used to extrapolate other information. Continue reading →

Monty Oum of Rooster Teeth has passed away

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Rooster Teeth’s Monty Oum, animator for RvB and RWBY has passed away. He passed yesterday due to an allergic reaction from a medical procedure.

Below is a post on Rooster Teeth’s site that brings the bad news:

Monty_Oum_at_PAX_2013Our friend, inspiration and co-worker Monty Oum passed away yesterday afternoon at 4:34 PM surrounded by people who loved him very much. Ten days ago Monty suffered a severe allergic reaction during a simple medical procedure that left him in a coma. Although he fought bravely, his body was not able to recover. During his time in the hospital he was well cared for and never in pain at any time.  Continue reading →

Halo Master Chief Collection Update

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This is a reblog from Halo Waypoint: 

Just before the launch of Halo: The Master Chief Collection, you may recall that the Halo Bulletin moved to video form for the first time, taking our weekly written news drop of all things Halo and video-ifying it. While we hope you’re enjoying the new Bulletin on The Halo Channel, we recognize that it is sometimes better (and necessary) to provide updates in the traditional blog form. Thus, I’d like to provide an update on developments across the studio, including MCC content and playlist updates as well as Halo 5. Let’s get to it. Continue reading →

Get Your Video Featured on the Halo Channel!

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This is a reblog from Halo Waypoint:

Since the launch of The Halo Channel, we’ve received a number of requests from talented community members looking to see their videos featured on the app. Whether you’re a creator of Halo montages, custom map / game type spotlights, Machinima, cosplay, stop-motion movies, weapon fabrications, Forge maps, sand sculptures, or just plain awesome gameplay, we wanna see what you’ve got. If you’d like to have your content featured, do read on!

For all videos, we’ll first review your content on YouTube, Vimeo, or a similar video hosting site – simply send us a link at the email below. If the video is something that we’d like to feature, we’ll reply and walk you through a quick and relatively painless release process.

Should your video be chosen, we’ll need to make sure it adheres to the below specs, so keep these in mind when submitting: Continue reading →