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Operation: Last Stand Community Playdate

by misplacedyank

Lock in for our Operation: Last Stand Community Playdate—dropping into Firefight: Battle of the Academy and diving headfirst into Mutilator Madness starting at 11am PT tomorrow. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/38365036/bb4311675e96598e948c2d1abbc5f740ac30554a.jpg Join us and you just might claim the rare Unicorn of Ice! 🦄 🟣 Twitch 🔴 YouTube {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/38365036/50864cb43d553261012f220d6ec707b802800dd9.jpg

Halo: Battle for the Academy – Part 1

by misplacedyank

“February 2560. The UNSC personnel of the Avery J. Johnson Academy are plunged into peril as the rogue artificial intelligence Iratus is unleashed.” {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/38365036/838c0ba46a039cc81e2025fb51c766e59621986e.png Halo: Battle for the Academy – Part 1 is available here, on Halo Waypoint, as a free PDF, and in audiobook format on YouTube. Historian's Note Halo: Battle for the Academy Part 1 takes place on February 29, 2560, approximately three months before the Master Chief is awakened at Zeta Halo. The year is 2560. Cortana’s dominion has ended, but the merciless forces of the Banished have rushed in to fill the void, decimating all who stand in their way. Spartan Commander Agryna is preparing a new generation of Spartans to face the emerging threats of the galaxy. Located on the hidden frontier world Nysa, the Avery J. Johnson Academy of Military Science has been plunged into peril. From within the hidden subterranean facilities of the Academy, the rogue artificial intelligenc...

Forge Features

by misplacedyank

Welcome to another edition of Forge Features! This series highlights notable maps, modes, and other creations from our talented Forge community. Bookmark your favorites using the links below for your next custom game. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/38365036/4fccfa25832833f78fb5351f1defad380335367e.png Halo hoops, highwire escapes, and the very heights (and depths) of custom arenas. Check out our latest sampler of community-created Forge experiences, featuring superb Slayers, PvE modes, minigames, and more! Superb Slayers Exciting arenas for free-for-all and Team Slayer matches. Use the links to add them to your Halo Infinite bookmarks. Essence Bookmark Credits: DISTORTED JAKAL, MikRips, bullet2thehead9, xo Domino, Kat Rat A Tat, spartan blood 1, Lahont, BiiTTERSWEET, J3N3R1C, Lady Echidna, AddiCt3d 2CHa0s {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/38365036/b7c8d5b776d526b9406a1134d5d99ca7b00a5ab7.png Created in partnership with Women of Halo for the WoH x Dark Inside Tournament, this rapturous rendition of Halo 5’s Fatho...

New Halo Infinite update breathes extra life and big ideas into the FPS game

by editor@pcgamesn.com

Every time I come back to Halo Infinite, I'm reminded how good it feels to play. Halo Studios (formerly 343 Industries) nails the sense of weight and movement, and the Spartan power fantasy across the entire experience, but it's especially noticeable in Infinite's multiplayer. The breadth of tools at your disposal makes it one of the best online sandboxes around, and the latest update is a big one. Even with Halo's Unreal Engine future looking incredibly bright, now's the time to give Infinite another shot. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: New Halo Infinite game mode is shooting for Counter-Strike style tactics Ex-Halo and Destiny veteran's new studio "halting work" on debut game The new Halo games could totally fix the broken triple-A industry

Summer 2025 Playlists

by misplacedyank

Firefight continues to evolve in Halo Infinite. You’ve already had a taste of this version when the mode first released and now, it’s time to battle at the Academy. Say your ardent prayers as you prepare to fight. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/38365036/22e6d15542740fdf2684b8c545d2e4f277eebf19.png Battle Brief The Banished were invited in by Iratus and it’s up to you to repel the forces from the steps of the Avery J. Johnson Academy of Military Science. In your typical fireteam size of four you’ll be squadding up to stand your ground. Our first taste of this linear Firefight mode came with Ardent Prayer back at launch. “What does linear Firefight mean?” Thank you for asking, I’d love to tell you. Rather than simply defend hills or race ahead to each hill, you’ll find this mode progresses and gets a bit more difficult at each turn. a campaign, this experience moves forward sequentially – you’ll need to finish one battle before you can move forward and start another. In short, Firefight: Battle of t...

Summer Update 2025

by misplacedyank

The 2025 Summer Update kicks off with a bang in Operation: Last Stand. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/38365036/91e4b512e42de3dd90eb7418fdcd7bf8d844b28f.png Later this month, we’ll return to the Spartan Academy in a linear Firefight experience and introduce a heroic assortment of updates, including a devastating new power weapon, sniper ricochets, expanded Weapons Bench customizations, a monstrous Juggernaut mode, and a 50-tier Premium Operation Pass with four armor sets and a variety of instant unlocks. Ready up, Spartan. It’s time to fight. Update Calendar {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/38365036/7a3ea64bad371f1f1e99a4a9665ae32bbfc754c3.png The 2025 Summer Update continues the Operation format introduced in the 2024 Winter Update. We’re looking at a new season of month-long Operations packed with playlists, modes, unlockable armor, and a few surprises to come! Here’s a look at our sizzling Summer Update schedule: Operation: Last Stand (May 6) Operation: Legacy (June 10) Operation: Reclaimer (July 8) Since our...

2025 Summer Update Community Livestream

by misplacedyank

The Academy stands ready. Join us tomorrow at 11am PT for an in-depth look at Halo Infinite’s Summer Update. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/38365036/bbdbfc177ba3b75d7160562bab90a3ea7a561d80.png Prepare for #OperationLastStand, a monstrous new Juggernaut mode, a devastating power weapon, and more! 🟣 Twitch 🔴 YouTube {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/38365036/5779784ebc2c8914dffba212151321d9705a09c0.png

Operation: Last Stand

by misplacedyank

Be hope in times of darkness. Return to the Academy and repel the Banished in Operation: Last Stand, live now through June 10. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/38365036/c582f20e01b692566626968a445ae0c46747b891.jpg The captured AI Iratus has exposed the location of the Spartan Academy. It’s up to you to fend off a Banished onslaught in Firefight: Battle of the Academy, a new linear Firefight experience where securing objectives is tantamount to survival. Can you outlast your foes long enough to enact the Cole Protocol? The 2025 Summer Update arrives in Halo Infinite with new playlists, a devastating new power weapon, expanded Weapons Bench customization options, and a last stand for some of humanity’s most decorated soldiers. New Weapon: Mutilator {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/38365036/97faf50f1eadf1ff36acf1ceebbea65120933e29.jpg Two barrels. One gravity-shifting wallop. The Mutilator is a cruel instrument of maximum devastation, borne of the imponderable pairing of a double-barreled shotgun and a Gravity Hamme...

Community Playdate

by misplacedyank

New maps, new modes 🔥 {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/38365036/46cbf2be6f3bd643d079558f5901529a385994cd.jpg Join us in the freshly updated Big Team Battle playlist for our #OperationForerunner Community Playdate tomorrow at 11AM PT! 🟣 Twitch 🔴 YouTube {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/38365036/1dc9e177e50501c50eed93709dc95deb3fb037a4.jpg

April Big Team Battle Refresh

by misplacedyank

Big Team Battle is bigger and battle-ier than ever in Halo Infinite already. But it’s time to take it up a notch and add “more bombastic than ever” to the list now too. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/38365036/47486ca20fea658adb6fec85b9d8734260e58027.jpg Extraction Not seen since Halo 4, Multi-Site Extraction lands on the (big) battlefield. With a win condition of “first to 7 extractions,” you and your team will want to have a plan in place. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/38365036/97ee032ecf03140e5b8e84d65f52e10d22061b73.jpg Cover one zone and go 1:1 with the opposing team? Or battle for both? The choice is yours but be ready to move swiftly to snag the zones from your enemies. Each extraction is worth 1 point so just get 7 and you win. That’s probably easier said than done but you got this. I believe in you! Assault {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/38365036/6084ea7127e6ea70f8b36191378fd1414fa164aa.jpg By now you know the drill. Grab your bomb, load up a vehicle for optimal shenanigans, and full steam ahead into the enemy b...

Forge Features

by misplacedyank

Welcome to another edition of Forge Features! This series highlights notable maps, modes, and other creations from our talented Forge community. Bookmark your favorites using the links below for your next custom game. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/38365036/a8bca134c5fcdf110f505d9bd215c59bb07fa009.png This Forge Feature collects sprawling estates, highway chases, biome-swapped remakes, and arenas from across the known universe. After seeing the Forgers’ handiwork, we’ve got to ask: is there anything you can’t build in Forge? Uchiha Estate Bookmark Credits: Galaxytivity, Le Frenchys, Saber, vL3GO, Kordaak, Smileus, Ampoligy, Premiery, Vibrant, hvmmie, Typhoonsy, Animosity, B0ARD, Sai Ryku, Befi, Disciple, Shots Fatal, OOOHGIE, Minds Evil, Mikasa, Levi, Jalen Cortez, Lea SIV, Splenzo, Wither TTG, Malccolo {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/38365036/5d4240008ff3b9570beade23821d842e923de229.png A sprawling estate for an esteemed ninja family. The serene surroundings of the valley boast lush gardens, cherry blossoms, ...

Halo: Tulpamancy

by misplacedyank

"April 2560. As the Office of Naval Intelligence investigates a derelict cruiser belonging to the ancient human Ancestors, strange effects begin to take hold of the crew." {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/38365036/4eeaeda1fa52618d5abd21033b9b7cb2d371883c.jpg Halo: Tulpamancy is available here, on Halo Waypoint, as a free PDF, and in audiobook format on YouTube. Historian's Note Halo: Tulpamancy takes place in April 2560, approximately four months after the disappearance of Zeta Halo. CLASSIFICATION: PRIORITY ONE ALPHA OFFICE OF NAVAL INTELLIGENCE PROJECT: ARC DREAM //ARCHEOHOMINA //FROM: Codename: PANGAEA //TO: Codename: YUGA ATTACHMENTS: Archeohomina: An Introduction ‘Guide to Protogenic Civilizations’ by K. Iyuska ‘San’Shyuum: Past, Present, Future?’ by C. Lux Requiem Terminal Dialogues, recovered by S-117 Bornstellar Relation Transcript Excerpts ONI Xeno-Materials Exploitation Report 15Y1198 They say that the key to the future lies in our past. Given everything we’ve learned in recent years I’m i...

Husky Assault

by misplacedyank

Too often have we all gazed upon the playlists and wistfully longed for the mashup of our dreams – Husky Raid and Assault. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/38365036/aaff045dab886138244a7bfffaeb9ae5bade803e.jpg Today, our dreams come true. We’re mixing the bombastic chaos of Husky Raid with the strategy of tactical Assault. We call it…Husky Assault. (Betcha didn’t see that coming.) Assault on the Husky Raid {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/38365036/e8adcc15955d7c89d2b61c42c120cfa37eaa3dbe.jpg The linear and somewhat claustrophobic nature of Husky Raid makes for thrilling and exciting games of Capture the Flag. That action gets flipped head over heels with the introduction of Assault. Now you’ll have to work together as a team to battle for the (neutral) bomb then escort your carrier to the base and allow them to plant the bomb… drive a wedge through the enemy lines, and try not to get left behind as the intensity of Husky Raid rages all around you. A new map is also joining the pantheon of tried-and-true Husky Rai...

Forge Features

by misplacedyank

Welcome to another edition of Forge Features! This series highlights notable maps, modes, and other creations from our talented Forge community. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/38365036/6ab4593434a5c77510011bc7d4dc99a42f8c94cb.png Bookmark your favorites using the links below for your next custom game. What mighty works the Forgers have wrought! Our latest helping of Forgified maps and modes includes a selection of excellent Slayer locales, hilarious minigames, and an iconic retail experience that’s larger than life. Monastery Bookmark Credits: the hairyman360 {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/38365036/bdc12200b67343e1350fd6dd818a7bf8d94d21ad.png A high-stakes symmetrical map for settling ancient grudges. High in the jagged peaks of Sanghelios, the red and blue temples of an unnamed cult have been turned into bases for opposing factions. Furnished with ascetic sleeping quarters, imposing statuary, and the delicate tweets of songbirds, you could almost feel zen about getting rekt in a 4v4. Island Base Bookmark Cre...

Operation: Forerunner

by misplacedyank

It’s time to reclaim what was lost. Fight for the grace of the Mantle in Operation: Forerunner, live now through May 6. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/38365036/cecb4b2be750c7cd77a4277fe83ab8bd0229d60c.jpg Once the galaxy’s self-appointed caretakers, the Forerunners have left behind many secrets in the form of sacred rings, colossal installations, mysterious artifacts—and devastating military technology. The latest free 20-tier Operation Pass offers a chance to reclaim the Prefect armor from the annals of history. Reverse-engineered from the combat skin of the Forerunner Prefect class, this fan-favorite Halo 4 armor set has been adapted and reforged for a new chapter in Spartan excellence. Complete all 20 tiers to prove yourself worthy of the title. May your foes tremble before you! New Mode: Husky Assault {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/38365036/9e658cb201d380265fbfde6bf431f2352d274251.jpg Strategy, meet chaos. Husky Assault combines the do-or-die rush of Husky Raid with the tactical objectives of Assault. Wea...