Really well put together, Okom. It's great to see things like this. Here's my contribution to the blog, sharing my thanks and appreciation to Sketch, Phantasia, Foge and Forge Lord 🫡🫶

I have a video going up imminently, but my thoughts: Modern Halo has been an unmitigated fucking disaster for 15 years, even with the rebrand/restructured studio, the exact same problems of 343 persisted with Halo Studios, as evidenced by Campaign Evolved. It wasn't all bad, by any means, but Halo is in the gutter and has been for over a decade I have a lot of very, very good friends at Halo Studios who I know for a fucking fact aren't just extremely talented, but have the right ideas for Halo that are often at odds with the direction the franchise has gone in, which is something they simply have no control over, and the fact that (once again) genuine talent like this is lost because of the braindead fucking stupid decisions out of their remit is infuriating As for Activision (and likely Sledgehammer) making the next Halo game, at this point fuck it, why not? Sledgehammer have been the most beloved CoD developer in recent years so of all 3 CoD studios to be taking over Halo, I have the most faith in Sledgehammer if it does turn out to be them I really hope this doesn't result in the Halo 7 can being kicked even further down the road, but I feel like it will. I doubt Sledgehammer's game is gonna be Halo 7, probably gonna be an "ODST 2" or something similar, hell maybe even an MP game At the end the day, this has been coming for a long time. Frankly, I'm amazed it's taken this long for such a scorched earth move to be made with Halo, and I hate how many passionate and talented people who have the RIGHT IDEAS FOR HALO have to be caught in the crosshairs, but I think this is, unfortunately, a brutal, yet necessary step for the franchise to try and fix itself Time will tell I guess, let's just hope this "New Dawn" doesn't end up in a total solar eclipse like the last one

Halo: Campaign Evolved runs at a locked 60fps on Xbox Series X in Performance Mode Performance Mode also uses Hardware Raytracing and UE5 Lumen while running at 1080p. This is very impressive, kudos to the team that did the optimization at Halo Studios for Xbox Series X.

Halo: Campaign Evolved is already in the Top 10 best-sellers on Steam in the US. Top 15 globally. Considering the main platform for Halo: Campaign Evolved is Xbox, Xbox PC and Gamepass. This is a good sign. Seems like the majority of people liked what was showcased yesterday.

Halo Campaign Evolved looks solid. It's vibrant, gunplay looks good, the graphics look amazing and I cannot wait to play the three prequel missions. I was critical of this game from its first showing, but this one was really good. I still don't like the new Cortana design or cosmetics but, the game overall looks like it's going to be a win.

Marathon has genuinely the worst UI I have ever experienced in any game. Like it's THAT bad. Gunplay is good though.

Our Content Strategy For Games In UEFN. We wanted to share our plan for our content in UEFN and keep our community updated. We cannot wait to share more soon. Read Here: forgefalcons.com/post/uefn-c…

Well, we kinda had it coming. From discovering a bug on a map to getting max rank way faster than intended, here's how some of the top forgers got banned from Halo Infinite—including me: Hero in 117 Minutes: The Largest XP Exploit in Halo Infinite: okom.one/blog/hero-in-117-mi…

Two of my favorite posters from Worlds. First one is the 2024 STU poster by @TheForgeFalcons graphic design team and the second is a piece by @OutletChief729 and I think the only one from 2025 with a Forge monitor. Red vs. Blue as well.

Hoping everyone across the Halo community and Halo Studios has an amazing time at Worlds, excited to see what is revealed! Praying it's peak 🙏

Black Ops 7's Open Moshpit playlist is the most fun I've had playing Call of Duty Multiplayer since Black Ops 3. I hope it is a permanent addition to the game or all social playlists are changed to have the same SBMM setting. Because it's great. Halo, take notes 🙏

Netflix could do the funniest thing right now.

Cannot wait to play this in Matchmaking again! When I say the team put so much love and passion into this experience, I hope it shows in the experience itself. We have absolutely loved working on this mode, and we a incredibly thankful Halo Studios got it in with Haloween II.🙏

I was in charge of working on most of the renders for our Action Sack gamemodes The most challenging was the Laser Mania render, I had to make a render were everything was pitch black with no light sources I hope you have fun with these new modes Links in the quoted tweet

Played our Teams Battle Royale with @iSpiteful today, we did Quads. This is one thing I'd be more than willing to work on for Matchmaking with the team, as it would be very little work on our end and it's something that has been with us since nearly the beginning. The teams mode pushed me over the edge, it played super well and was really good fun, would love to play it in Matchmaking with friends one day.

Halo Community! This is awesome to see, and we love when the community comes together for something like this. But we would just like to ask a favour. We would like to kindly ask that we are *NOT* nominated for "Best Community Forger" here, we feel this award should go to a Solo forger, someone that has collaborated with other forgers and helped others in many different ways. That is not us, we are a collective closed team, so we would like to nominate @_Okom for this award. A forger that has put thousands upon thousands of hours not only into forge, but giving his knowledge about forge and time to the community, there is no one in our eyes more deserving for this. So please, if you have the time, nominate him here: tinyurl.com/CommunityCommend…

From Helldivers 2 inspiring the creation of Helljumpers in Halo Infinite, to now actually seeing Helljumpers in Helldivers 2. The cycle is complete Halo bros. This looks peak.

I remember watching this come together, honestly incredible work, still love this render to this day. Making Helljumpers was a wild time, watching the experience itself come together and then watching the art team take that and make literal peak renders, what a time.

Where it all truly started, Survive the Undead my beloved. Now 2 years later, this team has gone from making forge experiences to now being fully dedicated to making games using Unreal Engine tools in Fortnite. And none of this would have been possible without Halo and Forge, the team itself wouldn't exist without that so I am incredibly thankful for Forge. I may be critical of Forge and Halo Studios from time to time, and for good reason, but Forge will always have a soft spot for me. And my thanks extend to the team that made the tool, being Halo Studios.