Since our last episode we’ve received a little more information about Forge for Windows 10 and get some news about a change in the upcoming schedule of content releasing for Halo 5.  While 343 is putting on the polishing touches for the next batch of content that is scheduled to come, we will receive the Hog Wild content update REQs ahead of schedule.  With a lull in the news, we are able to wrap up our campaign walk-through for Halo 5: Guardians leaving us open to discuss more in-depth topics brought up in the campaign for future shows.

It’s a Forger’s dream come true as Halo 5’s Forge is coming to Windows 10!  With the last officially supported version of Halo being Halo 2 Vista, it’s nice to see Halo come back to the PC, even if it is for Forging and testing purposes only.  In this show, we also tackle one more campaign mission in our journey to complete our Halo 5 journey.

For almost two years, Biowolf has been co-host of our podcast and today we say farewell as he steps down from his official role on the show.  It’s been a wonderful ride having him riding shotgun, but we wish him the best and expect to see him back from time to time.  While we look for a new co-host to fill the vacancy alongside Dust Storm and Godzilla T, we have the latest content update released with a load of new content.  The Memories of Reach update fills out the rest of the armor sets to represent Noble Team, loadout weapon skins for well known teams from the Halo franchise, Infection, Status Arena map, Forge additions, Requisitions and more.

The next content update brings back memories from Halo: Reach including armor sets to finish out the members of Noble Team.  In addition to the armor sets, new weapon skins for many of the fireteams encountered in the Halo Universe will be added among many other REQs coming with the update.  If you’re rocking the Kat armor, don’t be offended if no one hops in your Warthog.  Continuing our campaign coverage in an effort to get to those lore episodes we know you’re longing for, we visit Genesis as Fireteam Osiris continue their search for Blue Team and Cortana.

343 continues to give out cool new features and responding to community feedback and we are happy to finally see a working File Browser available now on Halo Waypoint.  It is now easier than ever to manage your bookmarked variants and view your game clips and screenshots.  In addition, Super Fiesta has been a blast and with Warzone Turbo back, there’s plenty of opportunity to play with some of your favorite REQ weapons.  Back on the campaign coverage, we discuss Battle of Sunaion as we attempt to wrap up the game so we can jump into some heavy lore discussions.

The Ghosts of Meridian content update hit Halo 5 last week including new REQs, a new Arena map Tyrant and a new Warzone map Skirmish at Darkstar.  In addition to the update, the Warzone Firefight Beta is also here until April 19th, featuring five waves of enemies and various objectives.  In this show we discuss our impressions and experience with the update so far.

The Halo World Championship has crowned a victor and Counter Logic Gaming has earned the title of world champions taking home $1,000,000.  This is the largest prize pool in competitive Halo and console eSports history, with 60% of the pool being crowd funded.  In addition to champions being crowned, this is the first major tournament we’ve seen a team from overseas beat out an American team in pool play with Epsilon eSports from the UK.  For this recap, we are joined by the one and only Nak3d Eli discussing the outcome of the tournament, and the way the event and season were run.  We also had the privilege of interviewing Epsilon eSports, Team Immunity and Team Elevate during the weekend getting their views on the tournament as events unfolded.  We also had a chat with Walshy and Goldenboy after day 2 and the semi-finals with their predictions and views of how the teams had performed up to that point.  We would like to congratulate CLG for their success at the Halo World Championship and hope to see all the teams that participated back in the competitive scene again.

Our friends over at GrifballHub are at it again with another Kickstarter to fund a Grifball booth at the Rooster Teeth Expo in Austin, Texas this July.  For the past three years, the Halo community has banded together to make the booth possible with reward items including Grifball t-shirts, stickers, bags, wristbands, buttons, Cards Against Grif, and much more.  This year, GrifballHub is attempting to reach their most ambitious stretch goal yet: a fully featured Grifball stage with constant Grifball action during the expo.

If you’re looking for epic space battles in the Halo universe, look no further than the Sins of the Prophets mod. These folks have done a complete conversion of Sins of a Solar Empire creating custom space vessels, music, effects, UI and the likes to bring Halo to an even grander scale.  We had the opportunity to chat with Unikraken, Cole and Lavo from the project to discuss what Sins of a Solar Empire is and how much work has been put into the mod for a full Halo conversion.

We’ve survived and completed our Halo Community stream with Operation Supply Drop.  In this episode, we recap the events of the stream and highlight some of our best moments from the event.  Huge thanks to our guest streamers Ready Up Live, Halo Wheelmen, ProAceJOKER, GrifballHub and Ducain23 along with our featured members and groups.  We had a blast and look forward to working with even more communities for events to follow.