As if we didn’t have enough news to cover from the community already, this week we get a double portion with updates from projects, HCS Grassroots events/streams, matchmaking updates and a late posting of the Halo Spotlight from Unyshek. We really thought we were out of the dark ages of having to worry about covering Thursday postings, but alas, here we are mid-show with the latest Waypoint update. This week, being the first full week of December, Uny was joined by James Monosmith to review the latest Halo Gear to pick up for your Halo fanatic this holiday season. Did you know you can actually buy Halo: Fireteam Raven? Just pull out $67K and you’re set! Despite the length of this podcast, it’s a packed one. Podcast artwork provided by VinWarrior, and created by BossVeteran and Joshua Ezzell.Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:09:33 — 69.5MB)
A new season calls for a few changes to our normal Halo content. Unyshek has taken over for community updates and social streams as we enter the winter season (for those of us in the northern part of the world). There’s a December update poised for MCC, some upcoming holiday playlists for Halo 5, digital goods and a few highlights from the Grassroots program partners.
The final Halo 5 HCS tournament has taken place and TOX has been crowned the undisputed champion. Not to worry as HCS Grassroots will continue to support the competitive Halo scene in addition to community content creators. MCC has received its latest update bringing new features such as the Match Composer and controller customization options. Halo 5 also has received a new community-curated social playlist for Team Doubles.
One week of and we’re slammed with another news and community content filled episode. The final HCS Halo 5 event is taking place at DreamHack Atlanta, MCC is getting an update soon after, Grim’s final Community Update and so much community created content. Among the latter, two new community projects have surfaced to create fan-made Halo FPS games: 
This week, the Community Spotlight returns with some ghoulish delight as we pass Halloween here in the states, or Halo-ween as we like to call it. The community creations do not cease to amaze us from artwork and forge creations to renders and videos. Some casting positions have been revealed for the Halo TV series confirming the Master Chief as a main recurring character, Dr. Halsey and a new character, Jenny. Sadly, this week on the Social Stream, Grim announced we will be moving onto a different position within 343 and will no longer be hosting the stream or posting the community spotlights and updates after next week. We will still be around, but not as public facing as he has been. Podcast artwork by 
This weekend is Halo 5’s Birthday and it’s bringing out all the stops with Double XP across all playlists and bringing in Warzone Turbo, Mythic Warzone Firefight and Grifball with a chance to earn a Greatest Hits Customization REQ Pack for playing. The HWCL Season 2 also wraps up this weekend, production start for the Halo TV show has been announced for June 2019 in Budapest and we get a small look at what the future of HCS holds. There’s a lot in the jam-packed episode.
This podcast comes riddled with technical difficulties, but the show goes on. The MCC Insider is back to test a couple of new features including the Match Composer and Controller Customization. We also have another Community Spotlight more amazing community creations including artwork, videos, forges and more. A new book was also announced coming next year, Halo: Renegades available for 
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