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Halo Video Celebrates 15th Anniversary

Halo Video Celebrates 15th Anniversary

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This week is a pretty momentous event for a certain video game series. 343 Industries has announced that this is a special week for the Halo video game franchise. The Halo series celebrates its 15th anniversary this week. The first video game in the series debuted this week in November 2001 for the original Xbox console. It’s almost hard to believe it’s been 15 years since the first game was released. To go along with the special event, 343 Industries will be starting a special Halo 5 “Anniversary Throwback” Playlist. This means maps from Halo: Combat Evolved will be reintroduced for the latest game thanks to some community builders. So these will be recreations of classic maps for Xbox One and Halo 5. There will also be a special Play With 343 day. For this occasion, team members from 343 Industries will be online and playing the latest game for the Anniversary Throwback playlist. 343 Industries will publish the gamertags later on for players who want to participate with the team members. You can

Halo 5 Update Launch Trailer for Forge & Anvil

Halo 5 Update Launch Trailer for Forge & Anvil

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343 Industries has released the launch trailer for the new Halo 5: Guardians update, which is called Anvil’s Legacy Update. You can check out the new gameplay video, featuring new gameplay footage, in the player below. This is a new content update for Halo 5: Guardians, and it has more features and content than any previous Halo 5 update to date. It marks the release of Halo 5: Forge and the Halo app for Windows 10. In addition, the update features the revival of the Haven map, which gamers can now play in Halo 5. In addition, the update also features Mercy and Warzone Assault as new battlegrounds known as Temple. Another update for Forge is the Content Browser. This will allow Forgers to share their masterpieces within the game community. Also, there are some new cosmetic and Power Weapon REQs for the game. These include the Master Control skins and Wicked Grasp weapon, which are from the mighty Hunters players. It’s nice to see that content has been continued to

Halo 5: Guardians Update Teased by 343 Industries

Halo 5: Guardians Update Teased by 343 Industries

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In a new blog post, 343 Industries offered some details for what will be coming for the final major update for Halo 5: Guardians. More content is going to be offered for Halo 5 very soon. 343 Industries specifically said the next update will have a “variety of goodness.” According to blog post, there will be new areas to play in and also “new Reqs to wreak havoc with.” In addition, there will be more objects and features for the Forge mode. Also, the update will feature the Halo 5 Content Browser, which will help ease the search for community creations in the Halo community. It should be interesting to see what 343 Industries comes up with for the final update for Halo 5. Hopefully it will end the game’s content and DLC for the life of Halo 5 with a bang. The upcoming update for Halo 5: Guardians will be revealed later on, along with its full release date. 343 plans to reveal more news on the update, along with

Halo 5 Has Largest Player Base Since Halo 3

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When it comes to games with lots of replay value, seeing how many gamers continue to play the game well after launch often indicates their passion, as well as potential for buying the next game in the series should there be one. Halo is a franchise that often has tons of continuous players on their multiplayer servers. But in a Reddit thread, Halo community manager Andy Dudynsky revealed that Halo 5 has not only been doing incredibly well, but has actually done better than every Halo game since Halo 3. Which came out in 2007. “I do believe you’d be very pleasantly surprised with not only the number of players who jumped on during the free play period (holy moly lots! by golly it worked!), but also the amount of Halo 5 players each day and month – this isn’t something we’ve talked about yet, but I am rather happy to share that even before the free play period, Halo 5 has had the highest monthly active players for a

Halo 5 Free Update Gets Detailed

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Some new details have been revealed for the upcoming free update for Halo 5: Guardians. 343 released a new weekly update with all sorts of details for the new expansion, Warzone Firefight, is set to launch on June 29. The expansion has gone through a number of changes since it’s April beta period. One of the new features for the expansion that was added since the beta is a splash feed that will be displayed at the beginning of each round. It reveals the round number and what players need to do in order to succeed. Since it’s front and center, it comes in with a “splash.” There will also be a mini-scoreboard at the bottom-right of the screen to showcase team progress toward current objectives in the games. 343 stated on this feature: “Depending on the goal, the scoreboard will look and act different in order to inform your squad as to how the round is shaping out. For instance, if the goal is to eliminate 100 Grunts, a red bar

Team Arena Summer Preview For Halo 5 Given

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On a post on the Halo community website, Bungie revealed details about new updates coming both this week, and events coming this summer. This included the results of the Team Area challenge that’ll come to the Pro Leagues this Summer. You can read the full breakdown for the Team Arena update here: “After weeks of internal testing, feedback from the Team Arena Summer Preview playlist, and multiple rounds of feedback with Pro League teams, we’ve locked on final map layouts as well as map and game type combinations for Team Arena and the HCS Pro League. As of today, the Team Arena playlist will reflect the official HCS Pro League maps and game types. The following game types will be played for the start of Pro League. As a note, extensive testing was done with the Assault game type, and at this time it has been determined that the game type could use some extra tuning before being integrated into Pro League play. The multiplayer team will continue working with

Halo Forge Coming To PC This Year For Windows 10

Halo Forge Coming To PC This Year For Windows 10

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343 studios, the team behind the recent Halo titles, completely remade the Forge system in Halo for Halo 5: Guardians. Now, they’re making the transition to PC, as Halo 5: Guardians Edition will come to Windows 10 later this year. More than that though, the Forge system will be free for anyone to try. On the Xbox website, they revealed the news: “Forge on the PC will finally give the mouse/keyboard editing precision the community has always been clamoring for. On top of that, an updated and optimized UI geared towards mouse interactions makes a lot of the inputs in Forge easier/faster than before. Since we released Forge in Halo 5 we’ve seen so many amazing new things come from it – from weird mini-games we could have never anticipated to meticulously crafted maps that are even approaching the visual quality of internally built maps. The team has continued to wonder what we’d get if we could put Forge in the hands of as many people as possible, and making

Halo 5: Memories of Reach DLC Revealed

Halo 5: Memories of Reach DLC Revealed

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Halo Waypoint has revealed a new free DLC for Halo 5: Guardians called the Memories of Reach. This DLC will be part of a free update later this month. This new update will feature search preferences for matchmaking across Arena and Warzone. In addition, gamers will now have the option to choose from the default setting of Balances and Expanded and Focused. The DLC also features some tweaks and changes to the Post-Game Carnage Report. After the update, the PGCR will now display an overview of every reward players have earned during a match and the three rare and legendary medals. In addition, the update makes changes to player movement during multiplayer. Gamers will now get a slight increase in their overall speed while they are crouched during the game. On top of that, a bug has been fixed where the Spartan Charge was not properly targeting enemies. Two new features for the DLC are also the new multiplayer maps of Stasis and Infection. 343 Industries will show gameplay footage for

Halo 5 Adds Fan-Made Maps

Halo 5 Adds Fan-Made Maps

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Halo Waypoint.com has announced that Microsoft is releasing a series of new maps made by fans for Halo 5: Guardians. The maps are Forge maps that can be played across Big Team Battle and Grifball. Other Forge maps in rotation now are remakes of the Valhalla and Sandtrap maps from Halo 3. You can check out a new gameplay trailer for the community maps in the video player below. Here are the community generated Forge maps for Big Team Battle: “Altar” by WyvernZu (the Sandtrap remake) “Boulevard” by alex quit (inspired by Halo 3: ODST) “Eagle Square” by SHIFTY time “Fracture” by Squally DaBeanz “Scavenger” by CommanderColson “Viking” by no god anywhere (the Valhalla remake) There are also some new community maps for Forge’s Grifball, which were created by the fans. Those maps include the following: “Bloodsport” by NLTROOO and Creative F0rce “Blue vs Red 2003” by JA50N 0, The222v and ImDuhUnicorn “Crow’s Court” by xNFx Monsta and RBG Persian “Grif Temple” by Caustic Kirby “Frontier” by CaptainPunch374 and Creative

No Halo 5 Campaign DLC Planned

No Halo 5 Campaign DLC Planned

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Halo 5: Guardians won’t be receiving any sort of campaign downloadable content, as developer 343 Industries wants to focus on other aspects of the game for expansions. Studio head Josh Holmes has explained in an interview with Red Bull that although the team is interested in finding new ways to get players involved in the world of Halo, they don’t have any plans to do that with further story content for the newly released shooter. “While we’re always looking for new ways to expand the Halo universe, we do not currently have any plans to release future campaign content for Halo 5: Guardians,” said Holmes. This makes sense as Halo has traditionally stayed away from expansion packs and story DLC, instead having more content added to the online multiplayer portion of the game via map packs. It would seem that 343 Industries intend to carry this on, with the release of 15 brand new maps released by June 16. As revealed in June of this year, these maps will also

Halo 5 Not Coming To PC?

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A little while back, a report stated that there was a “high probability” that Halo 5 would be coming to PC. To which many Halo fans rejoiced. However, on Twitter, 343 Industries Frank O’Connor revealed that his words were taken out of context, and that though he would like Halo 5 on PC, it’s not a guarantee: “I didn’t “mention” it, I was asked a question and gave the same noncommittal answer I’ve been giving to that question for ten years.” This was then affirmed by Aaron Greenberg of Xbox, who said quite plainly if Halo 5 was coming to PC like it was rumored to: “This is not true. Game is being made exclusively for Xbox One.” Some fans don’t give up though, and reasked O’Conner, citing what Greenberg said as contradictory, to which O’Conner replied: “No he didn’t, he said the same thing I did. It’s not out of the question, but there’s no plan at this time?” So it appears that Halo 5 will not be coming

Halo 5 Multiplayer Detailed

Halo 5 Multiplayer Detailed

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With the upcoming Halo 5 comes a lot of questions. Not the least of which is how the game will handle multiplayer, which is easily one of the most popular parts of the Halo franchise. Recently, via Halo Way Point, the Arena portion of Halo 5 was detailed. For those who don’t know: “Arena allows players to go head-to-head in a game of skill where everyone starts on a level playing field. Each player begins with the same weapons and abilities and vies for possession of power weapons and power-ups by maintaining map control throughout the match.” The major reveals were about rankings, and how matchmaking would be taking place. “The Competitive Skill Rating (CSR) system in Halo 5 is designed to ensure high quality matches between players of equal skill, on a per-playlist basis. When you first hop into any of the Arena playlists, you will play a series of placement matches before being earning your CSR. After you complete 10 games, you will be placed into one of

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