Season Three of The Sprint is back with the first two episodes now available on Halo Waypoint and on their YouTube channel. These first two touch primarily on the sounds you’ll hear in Halo 5: Guardians covering the original score, sound effects, and mixing. The second episode shows off a little motion capture from the opening cutscene as well. Episodes three and four will release on October 26th, the day before the games launch, and five and six will release on November 16th. Continue reading
Here’s our first look of the Halo 5: Guardians’ Spartan Hub where you can check on your career stats, customize your Spartan, manage your requisitions and change settings. We cover (mostly) everything you’ll find in the Hub when it comes to customizing your Spartan and available requisitions you can open from REQ packs.
Halo is expressed in many different mediums, but it really comes alive when fans cosplay as your favorite characters from the game. The folks from the 405th Infantry Division do just that and are the fans that spend countless hours recreating the armor, characters and weapons found in the game. In this special episode of the podcast we talk to Benedict Choy and Dani Yuan, Commanding Officers for the Pacific Regiment; Jeremie Sloan, Commanding Officer for the Portland, Oregon, South Western Washington area; and Jose Valdez. Jeremie and Jose are also both a part of Armory Props. If you’ve ever wanted to know what it’s like to cosplay at an event in Halo gear, this is the show for you.
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The official story is the Master Chief is dead. The unofficial story, Locke’s hunt begins!
After arriving on Meridian with BB and the unsettling realization of familiarity with the events taking place in the outer colonies, Maya started to appreciate the gravity of the situation. With an awkward introduction from Arie Resneck, her contact on Meridian, to the giant crater just outside of Conrad, and finally the discovery that Ilsa Zane, the Spartan IV science experiment gone wrong was still alive, it was very apparent the severity of NCA control over the region. After heading to one of the old converted mining facilities, Maya found a familiar face and Arie got some data on the research being conducted on the crater before BB alerts them of an incoming airstrike. After being locked in with Ilsa Zane who exposes and executes Arie, she confronts Maya, only to be interrupted by a UNSC air strike. Maya and her friend make it out alive, leaving her cover blown and on a course to a place where she knows who can decrypt Arie’s data chip.
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343 Industries just announced the return of The Sprint: Making Halo 5: Guardians for a third season. According to the teaser, this season will debut in October focusing on the final touches being put on the game before it hits our consoles. In season one, we got a look at the making of the Multiplayer beta. Season two (1,2,3,4) took a look at the Road to E3, and their initial campaign and Warzone reveals.
If you’ve ever heard of a funky game mechanic or capability that existed in Halo 3 for some bizarre reason, it’s likely the folks over from Defend the House have tested it. Halo 3 was one of the very first games they tested with their mythbusting expertise and became a machinima household name in the Halo community. Today they released a montage of some of their best myths they tested in Halo 3, and admittedly, it brings back some fond memories.
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