Today marks the birthday of Halo 4 and Waypoint is celebrating with many festivities this week. There are daily giveaways on the Halo Waypoint Twitter, a special birthday playlist and unlockable emblem, and bs angel is also giving out hourly codes for some avatar goodies over on her Twitter.
Halo has never quite had the in-game pizzazz of a holiday quite like Haloween, but this week presented one fine treat that everyone got to enjoy for a couple of days called “Smashing Punkins”. The special oddball playlist available from October 30-31 featured a unique orange ball-holding punkin and dark green hammer-wielding smashers. We got to play some of this for Wacky Wednesday this week and it was undoubtedly crazy. Aside from the spirited festivities, Halo: Spartan Assault was announced for the Xbox platform earlier this week. You can also check up on some of Halo Waypoint’s favorite community pumpkin carvings, one of which made this week’s album art. More information about all this and upcoming matchmaking updates can be found in this week’s special edition of the Halo Booletin. Enjoy
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Extra Life is a yearly charity event where thousands of gamers rally up for a full day of gaming to support the Children’s Miracle Network of hospitals. Gamers rally for their fans to donate to the cause and some even give away things on their streams. Even though the event has started and people streaming, you can still give to the causes. Here are some ones of interest if you’re in the mood for helping kids.
Allissasaurus: Support Extra Life – Twitch Stream
RoosterTeeth: Support Extra Life: Team | Cool Caiti – RoosterTeeth Stream via YouTube
PMS Pandora’s Hope: Support Extra Life: Team | Almighty Moa – Twitch Stream
The Vowel (e): Support Extra Life – Twitch Stream
Destiny Community (Lead by Guardians of Destiny): Support Extra Life – Twitch Stream
By popular demand, Halo: Spartan Assault is coming to the Xbox platform on Xbox 360 and Xbox One. Halo Waypoint announced today the game will drop on the console scene with additional content this December, just in time for the holiday season. Here are some of the things you’ll get exclusively on the console experience:
We’re back again at taking a look at the Halo Universe as offered this time by the Kilo-Five trilogy. The first book written by Karen Traviss, Glasslands picks up right where Ghosts of Onyx leaves us with Dr. Halsey, Chief Mendez and the Spartans that entered the Onyx shield world. While they explore the dynamic world of the Forerunner remnants, the relationships between Humans and Sangheili remain complex and convoluted with the establishment of peace between Lord Hood and the Arbiter and the armament of Sangheili clans by ONI. We are introduced to the Kilo-Five team lead by Captain Serin Osman and manned by a mixture of ODSTs, Spartan Naomi, and Professor Phillips. Join us as we take a look of the effects of the Halo events that took place in Halo 3 and the ongoing struggle of the UNSC and Covenant. We of course take a look a this week’s Halo Bulletin as well introducing Neutral Flag and the results of the Ricochet Forge Contest. We were lucky enough to have some of the best Halo community members on the fiction from Forward Unto Dawn, FinalPOSTMORTEM and DynamicDave along with Laird and TDSpiral. Enjoy
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With the recent release of Halo 3 under the Games with Gold program, we decided it would be a good time to recollect some of the memories we had while playing Halo 3 and some of the foundations that were set in the conclusion of the Halo trilogy. There were many things that Halo 3 did right and is touted by many as the pinnacle of Halo multiplayer, but as with every game, nothing is perfect. We did not focus on any one particular area, but it lead to two hours of content for you to consume. We also cover the matchmaking update and other happenings in this week’s Halo Bulletin. To help re-live the good old days, we have some good old (or their rather preferred “distinguished”) Podtacular members join for the episode: TYP0GRAPH1C and Laird. Enjoy
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The final chapter in the Halo trilogy is now free to Xbox Live Gold members. Relive the moments of Master Chief fighting against the Covenant and stopping the Flood to prevent the destruction of life in the galaxy. Join up with your friends over Xbox live to play cooperatively in Campaign or engage in the pinnacle of Halo multiplayer. Grab your copy of Halo 3 from the Xbox Live Marketplace. Make sure you also grab the free Heroic and Cold Storage DLCs.
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