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UMG has announced a new $75,000 Halo competition due to take place in Florida this May. The HCS Daytona by UMG tournament will take place at the Ocean Center Arena in Daytona Beach between May 12th and 14th, with $75,000 up for grabs in the main competition. To compliment this …
Read More »The Halo World Championships was the most successful Halo event ever
The 2017 Halo World Championships that took place last weekend have become the biggest Halo event ever in terms of viewership. At its peak the streams for the Halo World Championships hit over 135,000 concurrent viewers across Twitch, Twitter, Facebook, and Beam. Beam is Microsoft’s Twitch competitor if you were …
Read More »Gfinity to hold European Halo World Championship 2017 Qualifier at Wembley
Gfinity has finally revealed the details of the upcoming European Halo World Championship 2017 Qualifier: London. The event will take place between February 17th and 19th, and in a surprising move it will be held at The Great Hall in Wembley Stadium and not at the Gfinity Arena. The best …
Read More »Halo World Championship returns in 2017
The Halo World Championship is returning in early 2017, with qualifying events taking place all over the world. Dates for the World Championship itself have yet to be revealed, although it is expected to be sometime in April. However a number of LAN events beforehand have been revealed. First up …
Read More »Pilgrim Media Group bringing competitive Halo to TV screens
343 Industries and Pilgrim Media Group are bringing competitive Halo 5 to TV screens. There is no specific details on what format the show may take, but the most likely option is that the show would be based on highlights or live broadcasts of the Halo Championship Series. The show …
Read More »343’s Josh Holmes leaves studio for indie development
Announces Chris Lee as replacement
Read More »Ex-Bungie devs’ studio Polyarc Games raises $3.5m
Tam Armstrong, Danny Bulla and Chris Alderson worked on Destiny, with former pair consulting for Oculus, before founding virtual reality outlet
Read More »Free Russian version of Halo has been cancelled
Halo Online has not made it to release. This free-to-play PC multiplayer version of Halo was set to be released exclusively for the Russian market later this year. A member of Halo Online’s social media team says on Russian social network VK that they were waiting for news from Halo …
Read More »343 explains ‘casting and technical reasons’ behind Halo Wars 2 actor replacements
Developer says the industry has made ‘geometric leaps forward in technique and technology’ from the ‘hand-drawn’ models of 2009 original
Read More »‘We’ve come a long way from Space Invaders’: 343 on the evolution of Halo
The studio's Frank O'Connor discusses the work that has gone into establishing's Microsoft flagship IP
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