It was an exciting week for Halo. Beyond all of the other stuff like the Sanctuary reveal, the Halo Channel reveal, people getting to play Halo 2 Anniversary campaign for the first time and so on, there was the matter of a Halo 2 Anniversary tournament. I covered the first two days of it a little. I would have covered the next two, however, the 2nd Annual HFFL LAN was going on and my attention was on that and being a good host to the folks who came to it. Continue reading
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Halo Escalation #9 coming soon!
Halo Escalation #9 will be released on August 27. This issue looks to be an exciting one, if the cover has anything to do with the story.
Give yourself a gift and by this series of Halo comics by Darkhorse. even if you’ve missed previous issue, you can buy them digitally from Darkhorse themselves.
Take a look for yourself at the cover of issue #9… Continue reading
The Spirit of Fire podcast episode 13: 2nd Annual HFFL LANstravaganza
This past weekend was the 2nd Annual HFFL LANstravaganza. On Sunday, those who were staying over joined in with me as we talked about the Halo Channel, Gamescom Sanctuary reveal, and of course the festivities of the LAN itself. Continue reading
The LAN is complete and I’m back to blogging!
This year’s Annual HFFL LANstravaganza is complete. I stepped away from blogging and nearly all of social media from Friday to Monday morning. This, so that I could ensure I was a good and attentive host to my guests from all over the country. We actually had MORE people from out of state this year than local folks. That’s pretty darn cool, if you ask me. (Even if you didn’t, I just told you so, LOL)
This weary Spartan needs to clean up the house, catch up all the Gamescom events as well as al the social media missed.
I’ll have several Mega Bloks reviews coming this week as well. And as always, fresh Halo news! Of course I’ll have a complete recap of the events in a few days.
Stay tuned though folks, as I’ll be having Halo trivia questions for prizes leading up to HFFL’s 3rd anniversary as a blog on September 23rd!
-Sal
Halo: The Master Chief Collection gamescom Showdown Qualifier – Day 2
The following is a reblog from HaloWaypoint:
Day 2 is over, and we have another group moving on to the finals!
Team name: DZS
Players: dzs Speed, dzs BlizZ, dzs TriczR, dzs Jobst
Bravo (2nd from left) and Bonnie Ross (2nd from right) of 343 are also pictured above.
-Sal
Halo: The Master Chief Collection gamescom Showdown Qualifier – Day 1
The following is a reblog from HaloWaypoint:
Many tried, many died, and this team of four emerged victorious today in Hall 9 at the ESL booth. They’ve got free passes to return to the battlefield this Sunday for the finals and a chance at the $10,000 purse! Continue reading
Halo Channel reveal video analysis
Yesterday we learned of the new Halo channel. The video of the reveal just blew by and if you weren’t paying attention, you could have missed a lot of information.
Below is my analysis of key things to be seen in the video. I left the screenshots intact so that you can see when the image was taken during the viewing. Continue reading
Another Door Prize of LAN attendees, 2014 Halo Mega Bloks large poster!
Not only have I received 30 Halo 2014 convention exclusive cyan spartans from Mega Bloks, I’ve also received a couple dozen of their super sized posters. Each LAN attendee will get one poster as well as one of the cyan spartans.
Here’s the poster (forgive the perspective as we took the pic outside and the wind was blowing (and wouldn’t stop). Continue reading
Halo Pipe Cleaner figures to be displayed at 2nd Annual HFFL LANstravaganza!
I’ve featured these on the blog several times before. Since the first article of these back in December 2012, I’ve gotten to know the artist.
Not only is Isaiah ‘Rythmic Warrior’ great at making detailed pipe cleaner figures, he’s a Halo gamer. Continue reading
Halo 5 Guardians BETA screenshots!
Following up on the Sanctuary and Delta Halo screens, we have 21 shots from the Halo 5 Guardians multiplayer BETA. This is exciting stuff. And for those who have played Halo for a long time will certainly recognize one of the maps shown… Continue reading