Tag Archives: Halo 5: Guardians

Firefight, a fan-favorite Halo multiplayer mode, is finally ready to arrive in Halo 5: Guardians (opens in new tab). The co-op mode has been teased (opens in new tab) for months (opens in new tab), but developer 343 Industries and publisher Microsoft are ready to put the “date” in “update.” …

Halo 5: Guardians (opens in new tab) is getting two more maps and a whole lot more as part of a free update called “Ghosts of Meridian,” coming next week. Developer 343 Industries detailed some of the coming additions in a new blog post (opens in new tab), and it …

Hopefully you’re finished exploring the free updates Halo 5 has received post-launch (opens in new tab), because the next update, dubbed “Infinity’s Armory,” drops later this month, and it’s got a lot to share with you. Infinity’s Armory (opens in new tab) comes with three new armors: the Atlas set, …

No more waiting: Halo has finally come to Xbox One. No more of that HD remaster business. Halo 5: Guardians is the console’s first full sequel to the storied franchise and there are no sacred cows when it comes to the series’ past. We’ve got a new protagonist, redesigned weapons, …

Halo 5 (opens in new tab) isn’t even here yet and 343 already has a foothold in the next game. In an upcoming Golden Joysticks Halo 5 special, 343’s Frank O’Connor and Bonnie Ross talk about the future of the series, including talk of a “fictional foundation” for the next …

Since E3, we’ve known that Halo 5: Guardians (opens in new tab)’ campaign would be a changeable thing, swapping focus from the Master Chief-led Blue Team to Spartan Locke’s Fireteam Osiris. Thanks to a huge new post on the Halo Waypoint blog (opens in new tab), we now know that …

We’ve known for awhile that there would be a Halo 5: Guardians (opens in new tab) Collector’s Edition (and a spendy one at that, with a pricetag of $250/£200), but it wasn’t until E3 2015 (opens in new tab) that we found out what would be in the thing. In …

Halo 5’s Warzone mode doesn’t care how many kills you get. They’re not worthless, not when dealt in the right time and place. But as a currency they amount to pennies dropped in the Warzone bank. 343 has devised an escalating battle economy for 24 players, with two teams clashing …

Put down your battle rifles, Spartan; the war is over. The Halo 5: Guardians beta is done and dusted. 343 Industries has found time to stroll round the smouldering battlefield, tallying up the casualties. And the results are in: Blue won the war, taking 52.55% of the victories across 20 …

Have you heard of the Ship of Theseus (opens in new tab)? You probably have, it’s a bit like the Sugababes*. The ship was both a floaty wooden thing full of Greeks and, more relevantly, the subject of a famous thought experiment. According to the great historian Plutarch, after Theseus …