Microsoft has announced a selection of new features for their Live community Halo Waypoint along with a new motion comic to celebrate the series' tenth anniversary.

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343 Industries, the studio now in charge of Halo, has added the ability to access you full service record in Waypoint and even compare it against your friends' service records. Now you can even launch Reach directly from inside Waypoint if you have the Games On Demand version installed on your 360 hard drive.

The new motion comic, The Mona Lisa, will debut on Saturday the 23rd of April on Waypoint. It follows the deeply classified mission of the UNSC Red Horse as it explores the debris field from the Halo artifact. They discover a prison ship called the Mona Lisa and board it only to discover a terrifying threat.

There is also a selection of new Halo goodies coming to dress up your Avatar in including Spartan Helmets and Red vs Blue t-shirts which will be available from tomorrow, April the 14th.

Tenth anniversary celebrations will kick off in earnest later this year at PAX Prime in Seattle between the 26th and the 28th of August. will announce more on this soon.

By Ewan Aiton