This weekend is Halo 5’s Birthday and it’s bringing out all the stops with Double XP across all playlists and bringing in Warzone Turbo, Mythic Warzone Firefight and Grifball with a chance to earn a Greatest Hits Customization REQ Pack for playing. The HWCL Season 2 also wraps up this weekend, production start for the Halo TV show has been announced for June 2019 in Budapest and we get a small look at what the future of HCS holds. There’s a lot in the jam packed episode.

This podcast comes riddled with technical difficulties, but the show goes on. The MCC Insider is back to test a couple of new features including the Match Composer and Controller Customization. We also have another Community Spotlight more amazing community creations including artwork, videos, forges and more. A new book was also announced coming next year, Halo: Renegades available for pre-order now.

From this week’s Community Update, Grim was nice enough to give us enough read ahead time for quite a bit of content to go through. We have a new comic mini-series coming, the Ban Hammer has been dropped in MCC, new features are on the way for MCC and the Insiders, and HWCL is weeks away from the invitational finals for this season. There may be a small discussion on avocados and pineapple pizza started from this week’s social stream.

Another week of not much official news, but another community spotlight brings out an even bigger collection of amazing community content. If you haven’t had the chance to check out the latest community spotlight, you really should take a look. Podcast artwork by VinWarrior and EzzellVFX.

This week is a light one on news mostly covering matchmaking playlist updates, updates on some previous discussion items and Mrs. Storm finally completed the Halo: CE campaign. Kick back, relax and keep Fraggin’ Trucks!

The major update MCC has been out for about a month and it’s already time for another major set of patches to come to the game. Some major community requests are still being worked on, but significant changes are in this update along with a couple new additions including new nameplates. Tox takes the HCS London 2018 championship title and another community spotlight is showcases some of the best community content we’ve seen yet including a Halo themed DnD-style tabletop game, someone making their own warthog from scratch, and much more!

It’s been a while since we’ve had some exciting Halo integration news, and while it’s not a new franchise, a completely new Halo experience is coming to Forza Horizon 4. HCS London is coming up along with the Halo 3 2v2 Showdown announced with official details for DreamHack Atlanta. A new rotational playlist called Roaming Hill is in Halo 5 social matchmaking and Halo 2 Classic SWAT has made its way to MCC. There’s quite a few small stories as well so jump in and take a listen.

We are back into a regular rhythm of recording and do we have some news to catch up on for this week. Since we last recorded, MCC has received the first of some significant updates coming thanks to MCC Insiders testing out new builds of the game. This update precluded Xbox Game Pass receiving Halo: The Master Chief Collection as part of the games included for access along with the ODST DLC being available for $4.99. As this week is Community Spotlight week, we have some community created art, videos, screenshots and more to talk about.

For the podcast round table at Pax West this year, we talk about the Halo Museum at 343 Industries and what we would like to see in Forge for Halo Infinite. Joining Dust Storm on this podcast is Church and The Feel Train from Installation 01, HiddenXperia, LateNightGaming, Masterz1337 from CMT SPV3, Major Thesk from Covenant Canon, LorTarkam from Windows Central, Cap’n Half Jaw from the 405th and Anvil Station, and Seek and Destroy from Sins of the Prophets.

During Pax West 2018, we sat down with the legendary collector couple TheLegendary117 and MrsLegendary117 to talk about why they are such avid collectors of Halo gear and what it takes to keep up with their endless hunt for the rarest of items. Both of them have been fans of the franchise for years and have been a part of the community in various ways by promoting the work of others, hosting local LAN parties, helping out other collectors, and being active members in other parts of the greater community. Perhaps they’ll have their own version of the Halo museum to showcase their items along with community created content.