Newsflash:

Halo Waypoint Launches with New Content

Published November 5, 2009

Halo® Waypoint, the new virtual home for all things Halo, launches today on Xbox LIVE®, and will be the exclusive destination for full-episode previews of Halo Legends beginning Saturday, November 7. Available for Halo fans worldwide following a successful preview period, Halo Waypoint brings all the richness of the Halo universe together in one place. Halo Waypoint features daily updates of fresh, exciting content such as developer interviews, trailers and screenshots, exclusive video footage, community activities, and the latest Halo news.

Halo Waypoint.

Avatar Awardables
In addition, Halo Waypoint includes an innovative career system that tracks players’ accomplishments across multiple Halo games and gives them new ways to show off their heroic gameplay feats. By downloading and “enlisting” in Halo Waypoint, players will be rewarded with a variety of Bungie-created Halo 3: ODST Avatar Awardables for attaining specific Achievements in the game. Rewards vary from stylish T-shirts to full sets of ODST armor. The experience is retroactive, so if players have already unlocked the requisite Achievements, the awards will be ready for them once they enlist in Halo Waypoint. 

The ODST Full Body Armor.

Players can unlock the following Achievements to gain access to Halo 3: ODST Avatar Awardables:

As a bonus for enlisting in Halo Waypoint, fans receive a Monitor accessory for their Avatars modeled after the Halo character, 343 Guilty Spark. The Monitor will help fans find their way around Halo Waypoint.

Halo Legends Anime
The rollout of exciting new Halo content doesn’t stop there. This Saturday, the first preview episode of the highly anticipated anime series, Halo Legends, will debut ONLY on Halo Waypoint.

A scene from the debut episode “The Babysitter.”

Set to be distributed in early 2010 by Warner Home Video, written and created by an array of renowned anime studios and produced by 343 Industries, Halo Legends will explore never-before-told stories based on themes and characters in the vast Halo universe. Sponsored by the U.S. Air Force, previews of four new Halo Legends episodes will be available only on Halo Waypoint during 24-hour live-streaming events on Xbox LIVE over the next three months.

The first Halo Legends preview episode, “The Babysitter,” is created by famed anime house STUDIO4˚C, and follows the story of a group of ODSTs who reluctantly accept a Spartan sniper into their strike team. As they embark on a perilous mission to assassinate a high-ranking Covenant Prophet, old rivalries must be reexamined if the mission is to succeed. Watch what happens as the mission progresses into hostile territory, and both the Spartan and the ODSTs discover something important about the other.

Following each preview episode on Xbox LIVE, fans will receive exclusive behind-the-scenes looks at each studio’s creative process through “making of” specials. Below is the current broadcast schedule of upcoming Halo Legends live-streaming events (subject to change):

To learn more about Halo Legends, visit the official website. For the latest updates on the Halo franchise, follow the Halo Waypoint Team on Twitter @HaloWaypoint or on Facebook.