Customize Your Spartan on Halo Waypoint

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Halo Waypoint rolled out a new feature today where you can customize your Spartan for Halo 5: Guardians.  If you earned any armor or helmet unlocks from participating in the multiplayer beta, you can set those as your active armor pieces right now.  You can also select your armor colors and gender.  Once Halo 5: Guardians launches on October 27th, any REQ packs you’ve redeemed with Xbox codes and opened within the REQ menu in the game will be available to customize both in-game and on the website.  Go customize your Spartan today so you will be ready to hit the Arena first thing.

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Halo 5 Arena CSR and Matchmaking Details

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Halo 5: Guardians is just over a week away and Arena multiplayer brings competitive Halo back with equal starts for all players.  With Arena comes a reinvigorated Competitive Skill Ranking, Seasons, fair starts, no join-in-progress and a new banning system.  Arena will also be the driving force behind the Halo Championship Series and the place to put your skills to the test against other Spartans. Continue reading

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Podtacular 510: Jackals of the Rampant Perdition

After being captured by Kig-Yar pirates, Maya, BB, Mashak and Bostwick are being dragged about getting ready to be thrown out the airlock.  Maya, having previously studied Jackal behavior convinced their captors to take them to the ship mistress claiming it would be foolish to jettison valuable prisoners into space.  After talking with the ship mistress, they-re given one hour to come up with 60K credits or they would be beheaded one by one.  The Jackals put them into a holding cell occupied by a Sangheli who survived one of the events and witness the Master Chief there.  Before the Sangheli died, he claimed these events were the first of many to come.  As the first hour ran out, the Jackals take Bostwick to be cut up.  Maya plugs BB into an energy conduit and manages to escape the cell and rescue Bostwick.  Just before they get to their ship in the hangar, the ship mistress stops them claiming they have no value, which Maya proves wrong as she says she can fix their Slipspace drive at the cost of their freedom.  Many thanks for Toa Freak shining brightly with us one again.

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GameSpot Halo 5 Mega Bloks Giveaway

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Celebrating the launch of Halo 5: Guardians, GameSpot has teamed up with Micorosft, VIZIO and Mega Bloks to give away a complete gaming setup and Halo Mega Bloks.  To enter, all you need to do is fill out the giveaway form and like GameSpot on Twitter and Instagram for additional entries.  One grand prize winner will receive a limited edition Halo 5: Guardians Xbox One bundle, both the Locke and Master Chief themed Halo 5: Guardians controllers, Halo 5 ASTRO A4o headset, suite of Halo 5 Mega Bloks building sets, and BOOMco Needler.  Fifty first place winners will receive a suite of Halo 5 Mega Bloks and the BOOMco Needler.  The Mega Bloks suite includes the Covenant Commander, UNSC Attack Gausshog, Phaeton Gunship and Scorpion’s Sting.  This is a great opportunity to get your hands on some exclusive Halo 5 hardware and some great Halo Mega Bloks sets.

 

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Show Off Your Passion for Halo

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Do you have a love for Halo? Do you have a collection of Halo merch that proves your fandom? Halo Waypoint is looking for video and photo submissions from the community that show off your passion for the franchise through launch promos leading up to the game’s release.  This is your change to have your collection shown off to thousands of Halo fans.  If you are interested in showing off your passion to the world, there’s a few guidelines for submissions:

  • Video length: 1 minute or less!
  • Video Frame Size: 1920 x 1080 (16:9, maintain native frame size)
  • Video Frame Rate: 29.97p (preferred for 1080p natively produced content)
  • Video File Formats: AVI, MP4, MOV and WMV (H.264 codec preferred)
  • Audio: Stereo (192 – 384 kbps audio bitrate)
  • Photo File: JPG, PNG and TIFF – at least 300 dpi

Send your submissions via WeTransfer.com to: videosubmissions@halowaypoint.com or photosubmissions@halowaypoint.com, and also include your name, gamertag, hometown, and Twitter if you have one.

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Pre-loading Now Available for Halo 5: Guardians

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For those who have pre-ordered the digital version or the Digital Deluxe edition of Halo 5: Guardians, you can now pre-load the game on your Xbox One.  If you have “Instant On” set up in your power settings, pre-loading is automatic and you should have it downloaded by now depending on your internet speeds.  If you’re wondering how long it will take to download you’re looking at a 46GB install size with an upcoming 9GB multiplayer required update.

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Halo 5: Live Launch Event Stream Announced.

In celebration of the launch of Halo 5: Guardians, Xbox along with YouTube Gaming will host a six hour stream on October 26th starting at 6PM ET to conclude at the North American release at midnight. The broadcast will feature exclusive gameplay reveals, celebrity appearances, live interviews with the 343 Industries development team and much more.  Special fan events will take place at every Microsoft store across the country where the event will also be live streamed and exclusive Halo posters will be sold. Continue reading

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