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

New Halo Pinterest Pins!

As many of you know, I peruse Pinterest form time to time and pins anything new I find to the HFFL Pinterest board.

Today brings 21 new pins. Feel free to download or pin any of these yourself and don’t forget to check out the HFFL Pinterest page HERE for PLENTY more Halo art, crafts, cosplay and MORE!

Below are just the thumbnails. Click on each to get the full pic.

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Halo 2 Anniversary Mobile and screen wallpapers

Halostarscope.com has been in the Halo community news lately with the cryptic message given via XBOX’s twitter account. Now it seems there are two Halo 2 Anniversary wallpapers you can get from the site.

My friend and fellow Halo enthusiast, ‘PensHalo‘ found two of them. No word on if there are more than these. I did try to find more and didn’t find any others.

These two screen and mobile wallpapers feature a Halo ring along with the Arbiter and Master Chief in the Halo 2 Anniversary graphics. Feel free to download both! Continue reading

Halo Championship Series – UGC St. Louis Diamond Tournament

This is a partial reblog from Halo Waypoint:

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If you’ve been following the Halo Championship Series, you know that this weekend UGC is holding a massive HCS Diamond tournament.

UGC is hosting an officially sanctioned Halo Championship Series LAN tournament. The best players in the United States will battle in St. Louis, Missouri for a $20,000 prize pool and the largest amount of HCS Points offered, with 4,000 points going to the winning team. Continue reading

Week 2 Halo 5 Guardians Multiplayer map screenshots: Crossfire and Trench

Along with Eden and Regret, we also have Crossfire and it’s remix (sort of), Trench to play on. The latter two for the game type, ‘Breakout’.

Here are some newly released official images from XBOX/343 of Crossfire and Trench.

Have a look and feel free to download any/all for yourself. If you repost these, please be kind and mention you found the images here on HFFL. Continue reading

Week 2 Halo 5 Guardians Multiplayer map screenshots: Eden and Regret

XBOX released these official screenshots and concept art for Eden and Regret, both remixed maps of Empire and Truth, respectively.

There are some really good shots of Eden’s background city, which shows some of the work put into the art of the level.

Have a look and feel free to download any/all for yourself. If you repost these, please be kind and mention you found the images here on HFFL. Continue reading

Cryptic message for Halo Exclusives…

XBOX tweeted the following:

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Want exclusives?The key to this puzzle lies in Halo: Starscope:

HFFL: Following the link takes you to “Halo: Starscope”. I’ve been there before, but thought it was fan-made. So hmm, now I need to take a better look at this.

If any of you happen upon the key to this puzzle, please do share. I’m sure fellow Halo fans would like to know what this means.

-Sal

Halo 5 Guardians Beta week TWO, my initial thoughts and experiences

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Yesterday saw the beginning of Week Two for the Halo 5 Guardians Beta. Yeah, I know, you’re also saying, “Wait, week two already?” For whatever reason, 343 decided to start the week two game types and new maps early. I’m curious if it was pressure from fans who were complaining about AR starts?

In any event, we now have BR starts with Magnum secondary weapons. Slayer is now on Regret and Eden. Both are remixes of last week’s maps, Truth and Empire.  Continue reading

Is Neill Blomkamp still interested in making a Halo movie?

So of you many know that a Halo movie has been talk about for many years, yet has not come to fruition. Neil Blomkamp, the director of District 9, was one of the directors tapped for a Halo movie. While that has fallen short, it seems he still has interest in Halo.

Earlier today I came across an article on Blomkamp showing pics from his instagram page of a secret “Aliens” project. It’s not an official thing, rather something he was toying around with.  Continue reading