All current Spartan Company Banners

There are 69 original Spartan Company banners. I’ve downloaded each and offer them to you here. Feel free to download any/all of them if you wish. These are presented in thumbnail, so there is a lot more of the image to see! As always, click on them to make bigger.

When new ones are added, I’ll have a new post showing the new banners, with a link back to here so you can quickly get to the originals. Continue reading

Halo 5 Guardians Controller Configurations

There are 10 different controller configurations to choose from in Halo 5 Guardians. Which will you choose??

With the addition of Smart Link, Issue Orders, and Tracking, Halo 5 Guardians needed to have a robust menu of choices for controller configurations. Your favorites have returned of course. However, they have arms additional buttons to press due to the add-ons.

Let’s take a look at each config (click to make graphics bigger):

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Hmm, this one seems a little confusing for me. But I’m used to a couple other controller settings. Continue reading

A Disturbing Halo 5 Countdown Clock with Frank O’Conner…

Okay, so while there is a small countdown to Halo 5 here on HFFL, I found a link to this all too disturbing countdown starring 343’s own Frank O’Conner. Not that Frank is disturbing, but it’s how his fingers and hands are used to count down…

Here’s just a screenshot of it.

Screen Shot 2015-10-24 at 7.05.29 AMThere are five images of which the first is seen above showing varying pics of Frankie and his fingers. Be sure to click through the rest of them. I particularly like the Fingerhawk…

Check out the countdown HERE.

Support: Issues Launching Halo 5 Guardians

This is a reblog from Halo Waypoint:

We know you’re excited to finally get your hands on Halo 5: Guardians on October 27, and we wanted to make sure you’re ready to jump in right away. If you’ve digitally pre-ordered Halo 5: Guardians on your Xbox One before September 21 and are NOT using Instant On power mode, you may still have an incorrect “stub file” for the title, which is simply a placeholder file. Players that have this particular version of the stub file will be required to delete it, and reinstall the title. Continue reading

Can the Woman Behind Halo 5 Save the Xbox?

This is a reblog from Bloomberg.com: 

Bonnie Ross is in charge of Microsoft’s biggest video game ever.
By Joshua Brustein | October 22, 2015
Photographer: Michael Friberg for Bloomberg Businessweek

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The women’s volleyball locker room at the University of Southern California’s 10,000-seat Galen Center isn’t the most glamorous green room, but Bonnie Ross couldn’t care less. It’s June 15, and in 30 minutes, Ross, who’s in charge of Microsoft’s most valuable gaming franchise, will take center stage at the industry’s most important conference, E3. It’s the pitch of her career—a preview of Halo 5: Guardians, set to go on sale on Oct. 27. Continue reading