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An official Halo Waypoint app, showing Halo: Reach stats, service records and custom challenges, is set to launch alongside an map strategy app called ATLAS.

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343 Industries has announced new features for the Halo Waypoint on Xbox 360, including stat tracking, community sharing and game-launching options.

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Microsoft’s announced it’s to close the website for Halo Wars and wipe online player stats for the RTS.

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Bungie’s given Waypoint a spring clean in time for the launch of Halo: Reach tonight, as you can see in the movie after the break

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The second episode of Halo Legends, The Duel, premieres today on Halo Waypoint.

It will be free for 24-hours for both Silver and Gold members will have access to the anime.

Silver members should note that this is their last week to explore Waypoint for free along with the weekly episodes of Halo Legends.

The full worldwide schedule us up over on the official site.

Thanks, Joystiq.

Just a reminder to everyone that Halo Waypoint launches today on Xbox 360.

The free application dubbed allows for easy tracking of Achievements, the Halo Legends anime (which is out on Blu-ray and DVD February 9) , progress through the games, screenshots, videos, news, and Avatar goodies like body armor, helmets, hoodies and t-shits.

We posted a schedule of happenings for it earlier in the week, but if you head on through the break, there’s the full Legends schedule through January.

So is the official press release.

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Microsot has released the Halo Waypoint schedule for the first week, with the first Legends episode to be released on Saturday.

Those playing around with the Xbox Live preview program can already access Waypoint, and the rest of the public gets it this Thursday, November 5.

Here’s the schedule, courtesy of Joystiq:

• Monday (yesterday): Spotlight on Louis Wu
• Tuesday (today): Halo in Five Minutes (IGN)
• Wednesday:Halo 3 ODST Firefight Community Screenshots
• Thursday (official launch): Intro to Halo Legends, plus “The Babysitter” trailer, and Welcome to Waypoint
• Friday: Top Ten Firefight Tactics (Prima Strategy)
• Saturday: Halo Legends: “The Babysitter” (available Saturday only)
• Sunday: Inside the Fiction: Featuring Say My Name and the NMPD Pelican from Halo 3: ODST

Xbox 360 users who are participants in the Dashboard preview program and interested in Halo Waypoint, can check out the new Halo fan destination.

There some media, anime, Avatar rewards, and ranking based on Achievements for Halo 3, ODST, and Halo Wars, and even its own awards system – just in case you never saw the posts on Waypoint before.

Be sure to check it out if you can.

Thanks, EvilAvatar.

Microsoft’s released a Halo Waypoint video – after the break – detailing the point behind the upcoming Halo fan’s Live home.

There’s two bits to it, basically: “Intel” and “Career”. Intel’s just tons of stuff from the Halo universe in general, including fiction, upcoming anime, and so on. The Career bit tracks your accomplishments across multiple Halo games. ODST, Halo 3 and all DLC related to them are supported at launch.

It’s out in November. Thanks, Joystiq.

Update – IGN’s posted up some shots.

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Halo fanatics rejoice! Now, in addition to your Master Chief cat helmet, Cortana action figure, Halo: Fall of Reach book, and Halo-themed Slurpee cup, you’ll soon be able to bring some Halo action to your Xbox 360. Said the Halo Waypoint Twitter feed:

“Nov 5. Mark it on your calendar. That’s when you will get your hands (or controllers) on Halo Waypoint.”

Hands or controllers? Is this a hint that Project Natal’s also coming out on November 5, and will be compatible with Waypoint? Hey, we can dream, can’t we?

Head of the newly formed 343 Industries, Frankie O’Connor, has said that the recently announced Halo Waypoint is meant to ”aggregate everything” that you’d expect from the Halo universe.

“We’re going to aggregate everything that you would want to watch from the Halo universe on that site,” said O’Connor.

“But it’s a lot more ambitious than that. It’s going to evolve in features and functionality to make it the prime destination for the Halo fan.”

O’Connor also mentioned a pricing stucture is still being decided for the service by Microsoft, although they are trying to make sure Gold and Silver members of Xbox Live try to get the same experience from the service.

“Certainly, if you’re a Gold member you’re going to get access to all of that experience,” he said. “We want everyone to have this same experience, but the question is, if there’s multiplayer features that are technically connected to Gold, it’s easier to deal with. There’s a lot of reasons that [tying it to] Gold makes sense.”

The service was announced last week at ComicCon. It’ll go live on Xbox Live this autumn.

From Kotaku, via Eurogamer.

343 Industries’ Frank O’Connor was on hand at Comic-Con, and while there, he provided a few more details regarding Halo Waypoint.

Waypoint will feature access to audio and video content, community features, the ability to follow your “Halo career”, track the Halo games you play along with the achievements you unlock and other aspects not directly tied to “Halo 3, Halo Wars, and Halo, reports Kotaku.

It can be accessed from the Xbox 360 dashboard, will be a place to interact with others, and the first place to see episodes of Halo Legends which will be labeled as “events” instead of being placed in the video marketplace.

“There’s a lot more to Waypoint than just watching movies and listening to podcasts,” he said. “Maybe you just want to see a really old Halo trailer from E3. We’re going to aggregate everything that you would want to watch from the Halo universe on that site. But it’s a lot more ambitious than that. It’s going to evolve in features and functionality to make it the prime destination for the Halo fan.

“You’ll be able to see [Legends] episodes in their entirety via Waypoint in a staggered schedule. Those events will be global—it will be in every Xbox territory—and we’ll make those things sort of ‘come participate’ events.”

As far as a launch date is concerned, O’Conner reiterated that it was scheduled for a fall release, but will arrive sooner rather than later that season.

With pricing, Microsoft has yet to determine if Silver Member will have to pay to access the service or not.

“Certainly, if you’re a Gold member you’re going to get access to all of that experience,” he said. “We want everyone to have this same experience, but the question is, if there’s multiplayer features that are technically connected to Gold, it’s easier to deal with. There’s a lot of reasons that [tying it to] Gold makes sense.”

More through the link.

Microsoft has announced Halo Waypoint, a new destination for Halo fans on Xbox Live that is expected to launch in the fall.

It will provide players with the latest in Halo news and activities, as well as contain podcasts, screens, trailers and other video footage.

According to the press release, it will also “provide a new challenge for Halo gamers with a career system and player rankings tied to both in-game and out-of-game accomplishments related to Halo.”

Awesome. All this was hidden away in the press release announcing Halo Legends and the 343 bits. The whole this is below the jump, with Halo Waypoint highlighted for you.

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