
The Halo Waypoint website launched September 2009. On JHalo Waypoint was announced as an Xbox 360 application that would feature several Halo Legends videos. The Halo Waypoint website received a visual and organizational overhaul on Octoin preparation for the release of the Halo Channel and Halo: The Master Chief Collection. The Halo Channel is a next-generation iteration of the Waypoint concept and is available on the Xbox One and Windows 8.1. 343 Industries discontinued support for the Waypoint mobile apps on August 1, 2014. ATLAS was free on the Windows Phone 7 and available for $4.99 on iOS and Android. An additional feature called ATLAS was released in December 2011 which showed detailed diagrams of Halo: Reach multiplayer maps and near real time game player and weapon location stats in Matchmaking and Custom Games.

The Xbox 360 version was last updated with the release of Halo: The Master Chief Collection the application is still accessible, though the information is no longer current. In May 2012 Halo Waypoint was updated to include Kinect compatibility. It was released by 343 Industries as part of the Xbox Fall Update on November 5, 2009. The Xbox 360 version of Halo Waypoint was co-developed by Certain Affinity and 343 Industries, and ended up leading to the cancellation of an unnamed Halo game being pitched by Certain Affinity at the time.Waypoint is accessible online at as the primary Halo website. Most major announcements regarding the Halo series are also posted at Waypoint.


It also allows players to access their own gameplay-related data, total Halo Gamerscore through multiple games in the series. Halo Waypoint provides users with various kinds of Halo information, including information on members of the Halo community, various machinima videos and gameplay strategies and tutorials.
