Community Evolved Available for Purchase

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In 2001, the Halo community celebrated a decade of Halo at Halo Fest.  In response to that celebration, the folks over at Forward Unto Dawn took it upon themselves to shine a light on the communities that helped Halo thrive during that first decade.  The culmination of their interviews and exploration of these communities amounted to the publication of Community Evolved.  This book covers different community groups, creations and activities ranging across the spectrum of fan fiction, machinima, clans, traditional and untraditional art, mods, Forge, competitive, and more.  This book was originally only available through their Kickstarter campaign, which we highlighted an our podcast in the distant past.  Today, Forward Unto Dawn announced that the book is now available through Lulu.com.  This hardcover copy comes in 188 pages of black and white highlights of the community’s first decade in support of Halo.  The book costs $28, which is strictly limited to the cost of producing the book since it’s not an official Halo publication.  Despite the fact, this is one book every Halo fan involved in some aspect of the Halo community should not pass up on purchasing.

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343 Honors a Fellow Spartan’s Loss in Hammer Storm

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In honor of the tragedy encountered by one of the Halo community’s most beloved members, Adam aka. thecrzedspartan, 343 has created the Spartans Never Walk Alone pack.  This free REQ pack comes with the Hammer Storm update and features the very first animated emblem, True Light.  In memory of Adam’s loss of his two daughters Trinity and Lena, 343 also embedded their names in the stars on the latest arena map Torque.  Last month, the community came together in a valiant show of support hosting a 24-hour livestream called Halo for Crazed and ended up raising over $28K for Adam’s family.  This is a truly remarkable thing 343 has stepped up to do for the community and it just goes to show that even though they make the game we all love to play, they are just as much a part of the Halo community as we all are.

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Halo 5: Guardians Hammer Storm Details

Hammer Storm is February’s Content Update and features a bunch of new content added to Halo 5: Guardians and is already being heralded as the largest update to Halo 5 yet.  Adding new modes and requisitions to the game, Hammer Storm continues to show 343’s commitment to the community giving fans some of the most requested features.  Here’s what you have to look forward to today as you launch into Halo 5. Continue reading

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Future Halo 5: Guardians Content Details Including Warzone Firefight

Halo-5-Guardians-Free-Spring-and-Summer-Content-Preview1In conjunction with today’s Hammer Storm update release, Xbox Wire has released a few details regarding upcoming Halo 5: Guardians content.  To date, we’ve received five new maps (not Forged), three new game modes, Forge and over 180 new REQs in the first four content updates.  343 will continue to offer free content monthly through June this year including more maps, modes, REQs and features as they continue to address community feedback.  They also unveiled a new mode that will come in a future content update: Warzone Firefight, an answer to the community’s cry for a Firefight-like PvE game mode.

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Halo 5 Grifball Gameplay

Grifball comes to Halo 5: Guardians this month with the Hammer Storm update and Polygon has the first exclusive gameplay.  The video also shows the Gravity Hammer and the new “ball” in action for the first time.  This sport of the future within a first-person shooter has been a staple game mode since Halo 3 and we’re very excited to see what’s going to happen with Halo 5’s new Spartan Abilities and Forge.  For the latest in Grifball news, check out our friends over at GrifballHub.

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Killer Instinct Arbiter Trailer

We were teased during the X-Games that the Arbiter was coming to Killer Instinct and how we have a full on trailer.  You may not recognize the voice of Keith David, who voices the latest Arbiter, Thel ‘Vadam.  That’s because according to Frankie, the Arbiter in KI is an amalgamation of many Arbiters from the Halo universe (Polygon).  The Arbiter joins Killer Instinct Season 3 on Xbox One and Windows 10 March 2016.

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Machinima Monday: Breach

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When a businessman is about to sign a contract with an alien organization, the trade agreement he’s involved with is a lot more complicated than it seems and is attacked by another alien faction.

Video published by: An Epic Tomato

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