Awesome Halo

During the creation of Halo Infinite the audio team at 343 Industries turned to an unusual method to make some of the game’s sounds. Instead of just playing this piano, they used a hammer, baseball bat, and other tools to demolish it, making some truly dissonant sounds. That dry ice on metal is especially disturbing.

The opening theme music from Halo is best known for its epic, choral sound. But in the hands of the Mariachi Entertainment System, it’s a bit more festive – at least once the horn section kicks in.

Inspired by the MA40 assault rifle in Halo Infinite, this official NERF blaster features motorized dart blasting, and the ability to smoothly fire with sequential trigger squeezes. It includes a 10-dart magazine, 10 NERF Elite darts, and an attachable rail riser for mounting accessories. We wish it had a real ammo counter though.

Vocalist Matthew Van Ness has impressed us with his orchestral vocal covers of the Star Wars and Jurassic Park themes. This time, he did something a little different, but similarly entertaining by turning 100 copies of his voice into the choir from the familiar opening theme from the video game Halo.

NERF is showing off a line of toy blasters inspired by Halo. The coolest looking is the MicroShots Needler, which sadly doesn’t shoot homing spikes, followed by a motorized UNSC MA40 assault rifle. There’s also a mini SPNKR, a single shot weapon that holds a pair of darts. All three drop on 10/1/2020, just in time for Halo:Infinite.

“We lost.” Master Chief reawakens to a world in the middle of a massive war, following the events of Halo 5: Guardians. Halo Infinite will launch holiday 2020 on Windows 10, Xbox One, and the next-gen Xbox Series X console.

Halo: The Master Chief Collection is coming to Windows via the Microsoft Store and Steam. The collection will be released in parts, and consists of Halo: Reach, Halo, Halo 2, Halo 3, Halo 3: ODST, and Halo 4. The games will support 60fps, 4K and HDR.

The guys from The Warp Zone turn in another excellent performance, this time taking on the familiar theme music from the Halo video game franchise, in celebration of the upcoming release of Halo Infinite. We’re dreaming of nailing enemies with sticky grenades right now.

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.

Halo Online is an upcoming free-to-play multiplayer FPS for Windows. It’s based on Halo 3‘s engine but has upgraded graphics. It will first launch in Russia, but we’re pretty sure it’s going to eventually be in other countries .

“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.