Awesome Halo

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.

Rapper Dan Bull returns with an infectious rhyme that pays tribute to the Halo franchise. Who’da thought you could rhyme Machinima, Cinema, Prisoners and Dillinger? Grab the track here.

Spartan Ops is an optional episodic content to complement Halo 4. It’s made of weekly story cut scenes and new missions that can be played solo or co-op. Requires an Xbox Live Gold membership.

While the live-action launch trailer for Halo 4 is pretty sweet, this one will make you hug your Xbox 360, as it seems like the game will squeeze every ounce of performance out of your old friend.

With the latest in the Halo saga just days away, we get out first ever glimpse of the painful installation of Master Chief’s augmentations in this live-action launch trailer – and a powerful new foe.