Halo

Microsoft reminds us that video game commercials don’t always need to be action packed or dramatic. They commissioned a pair of commercials for Halo Wars 2 that sees hero Capt. James Cutter engaging in silly tactical battles with the new villain Atriox.

“The whole damn Covenant couldn’t contain him at the height of their power.” The Spirit of Fire and her crew return to fight a band of rogue Covenant. Halo Wars 2 has a variety of real-time strategy modes, including campaign, deathmatch and the card-based Blitz mode.

Guard the streets with ThinkGeek’s officially-licensed Master Chief motorcycle helmet. It meets DOT standards and has a anti-UV light coated ABS shell, a reflective visor with UV protection and removable and washable center and cheek pads.

LEGO enthusiast Nick Brick made an incredible life-size version of the M41 SPNKR, the classic rocket launcher from the Halo series. It’s 50.5″ long, weighs 24lb and is made of about 6,000 LEGO pieces. Its double barrel unit is detachable, just like in the games.

In one of its most impressive projects yet, Man at Arms: Reforged made a life-size steel replica of the Gravity Hammer, the deadly one-shotting Covenant weapon from Halo 2. The resulting replica measures 6ft. long and weighs an unwieldy 100lb. See it in action at 7:20.

“You’re to return to the Infinity immediately.” “Negative, Infinity – I don’t like it.” Master Chief throws the mother of all tantrums in order to save humanity in the final trailer for the Xbox One exclusive Halo 5: Guardians.

(SPOILERS) Halo: The Fall of Reach is an animated miniseries based on the eponymous novel about John-117’s origin. The miniseries is bundled with the Halo 5: Guardians limited edition, collector’s edition, digital deluxe edition and Xbox one bundle.

We’ve seen how Locke and his team operate. Now let’s check out how the great Master Chief and the other veterans of Blue Team at work, in this cinematic for the second campaign mission of Halo 5: Guardians.

New protagonist Spartan Locke and his teammates hit the ground running in the opening cinematic of Halo 5: Guardians. This reminded us of Avengers: Age of Ultron‘s opening battle.

“Gentlemen, let the murder begin.” Team Coco played the multiplayer of Halo 5: Guardians against some of the stars of Silicon Valley. Sadly, Gilfoyle wasn’t one of them. Someone get Andy Richter his own show!

(PG-13 Language) All hell breaks loose when a bunch of PlayStation fanboys invoke the wrath of Master Chief. YouTuber RackaRacka and his crew wreck a house in yet another ridiculously over the top geeky battle.

Galactic Battles is an upcoming fan film that combines characters and objects from Star Trek, Star Wars, Mass Effect and Halo. The film will even have Commander Shepard’s male voice actor Mark Meer reprising his role.

“All hail the conqueror hero. Let us remember him… as our savior. And not our betrayer.” These two head-scratching teasers for the single player campaign of Halo 5: Guardians appear to portray parallel realities.

Exclusively bundled in the Xbox One Halo Master Chief Collection, the Halo 5: Guardians multiplayer beta will feature 4-on-4 Arena battles. Try out the new weapons, abilities and maps from 12/29/14 to 1/18/15.

The launch trailer for the 10th anniversary edition of Halo 2 gives us a peek at the sweet new cinematics for the game, courtesy of Blur Studios. Halo 2: Anniversary is part of Halo: The Master Chief Collection for Xbox One.

The latest trick video from the folks of Jump Theory juxtaposes calming music with jumps that will make you scream at your monitor. The traffic cones stunt is the stuff of legends. We wonder if that’s even repeatable.

Set on a broken piece of the Halo ring from the original Halo, Halo: Nightfall is about John Locke, one of the main characters in Halo 5, and how he became a Spartan (as seen here). The miniseries is exclusive to Xbox One and Windows 8.1.

Halo: The Master Chief Collection may be the best reason to get an Xbox One. It comes with the campaign and multiplayer of all four games in either remastered or classic graphics, plus access to the Halo 5 multiplayer beta.

(Gore) Super Power Beat Down wisely does away with setting up a plot and goes straight to the point in this episode. It looks like the Helicarrier’s numerous crashes finally took its toll on SHIELD’s budget.

It was only a matter of time before blacksmith Tony Swatton would build the iconic Covenant energy sword from the Halo series. While his version isn’t made from glowing plasma, it’s still a deadly looking melee weapon forged from steel.

Harrison Krix of Volpin Props shows off his incredible replica of the Needler from Halo 4, as it goes from concept to completion in this time-lapse. The gun measures 31 in. long, weighs 10 lbs. and is lit by 54 LEDs. Build log on Tested.

The latest guitar track from Acoustic Labs’ Greg Johnson is a brilliantly intense fingerstyle rendition of the familiar theme from Halo. Crank it up, close your eyes, and imagine waves of grunts, elites and jackals coming your way.

Lindsey Stirling and William Joseph got together with Devin Graham to shoot this Halo fan video, which combines music with MJOLNIR armor. We’re just glad nobody stuck the musicians with a grenade.

Multitalented musician Sarah Schachner performs the theme songs from Halo, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, and Skyrim, arranging and playing all of the instruments herself, and sounding nearly as epic as the originals.

While many of us will be glued to our Xbox 360 controllers tonight, Richard Ryan of RatedRR is busy jumping out of an airplane in a HALO wingsuit instead of playing video games.