Halo: Waypoint Chronicles – Volume One is out now, packaging years of online Halo fiction into a single anthology that collects all twenty-four Waypoint Chronicles published from 2022 through 2025, adds ten new short stories and bundles an audiobook performed by familiar franchise voices.
The volume reprises the two dozen Waypoint pieces that appeared online over the past four years and delivers ten new entries that expand character backstory and setting. Halo Waypoint says the new shorts will take readers from Zeta Halo to a Quezon endurance race on Reach and even to a Sangheili-owned restaurant in Rio de Janeiro. The audiobook accompaniment includes narration by Jen Taylor, Gideon Emery, Tricia Helfer, Darren O’Hare, Erika Soto, Tamara Taylor, Scott Brick and Jeff Steitzer, with Steitzer credited as the narrator of one of the new stories.
Jeff Easterling and Alexander Wakeford co-wrote the anthology, and the book layers fiction with Halo Infinite Intel and Armory Infinitum entries to knit short pieces into a broader timeline. One of the ten new stories, titled "London Calling," follows Laurette Agryna as she hides from invading Covenant forces in London during the Battle of Earth in 2552 — a prelude to the character’s later Spartan transformation that fans will recognize from Waypoint’s earlier reporting.
Numbers give the release weight: twenty-four previously released Waypoint Chronicles gathered together and ten additional shorts produce a collection described by the publisher as containing "more than 30 stories." That phrase sits beside the explicit arithmetic of 24 plus 10, which yields 34 entries; elsewhere the collection is described as approximately two dozen stories that were previously published online plus the new material. The mixed language creates a small but material counting friction for readers trying to pin down a precise table of contents.
Beyond the story tally, the audiobook element is a major draw. The cast includes long‑standing franchise voices — Jen Taylor among them — alongside newer narrators, and the inclusion of a named narrator for a specific new story gives the audio edition a curated feel rather than a single-voice recording. The book also folds in small pieces of franchise lore through Intel and Armory inserts, which should appeal to readers who want connective tissue between standalone shorts and larger Halo continuity.
What the publisher has not supplied in this announcement is a full, line‑by‑line contents list in the materials released so far; the public summary names settings and sample story beats but does not display the book's complete table of contents. That gap matters to collectors and completionist readers who want to know whether particular Waypoint pieces or specific minor characters are included in the print and audio editions.
Halo Waypoint has signaled that Volume Two begins now, but offered no schedule or details on what the next volume will collect. For today’s reader, the concrete takeaway is straightforward: Volume One bundles the 24 Waypoint Chronicles from 2022–2025, adds ten new short stories including "London Calling," and arrives with an audiobook performed by several familiar Halo voices — while the exact, page‑by‑page contents list and the timetable for Volume Two remain to be published. For more reading on halo-branded projects elsewhere on the site, see coverage of the Dodge halo car and Jeep’s planned halo Scrambler pickup.
