Halo has adopted a crowdfunding concept with their new REQ system which has arleady raised $500K upon the initial $1.5 million prize pool for the World Championships.

Microsoft is extremely proud of the recording breaking first week that Halo 5 experinced, but there's something a little off about the way everything was added up.

Halo is to games what Star Wars is to films - in other words, a bunch of incomprehensible sci fi twaddle. That's probably not what Microsoft meant thtough.

Since the earliest days of Halo, skulls have always provided that extra edge of masochism. Halo 5: Guardians is keeping the tradition alive with a new set of skulls, 15 in total, that’ll push your thumbs to the limit. But you need to find them first.

Halo is getting a much-needed overhaul this year, in Halo 5: Guardians. More guns! Co-operative play! Actual gun-sights! Exclamation marks! Muse! Wait, what? Here’s the launch trailer for the game.

When it comes to multiplayer, Halo 5: Guardians is also looking at some new ideas. Specifically, a mode that was inspired by MOBA click ‘em up, League of Legends.

I’ve always been a fan of the Halo aesthetic. That over-designed armour, gentle light trails and weirdly organic machinery of the Covenant forces. They say a picture says a thousand words, so according to my maths, there’s 78 000 worth of them in the gallery below.

Halo 5: Guardians is looking proper pretty as well. And that’s thanks to a silky smooth frame-rate, because I’m all about the frames. According to developer 343 Industries, Halo 5: Guardians will make use of a dynamic resolution in order to keep that frame-rate rolling at a consistent rate of 60fps.