Month: September 2011
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Halo Bulletin: 9-28-11
The wonderful bs angel from the Halo Waypoint crew dropped upon us the latest Halo Bulletin, chock full of information about the upcoming map Prisoner/Solitary as well as info on the upcoming TU-related Playlist updates. Also, I would like to specific…
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Duo Wielders
ZZoMBiE13 passed along a link to Duo Wielders, a bit of fan art created by DeviantART’s TheCyberForge. He liked the original medium, and he liked the detail. Check it out!(Louis Wu 20:04:21 UTC)
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Feminist Analysis of Halo Wars
Dragonclaws stopped in yesterday to let us know that she’s added Halo Wars to her list of Halo titles analyzed for their feminist support. It’s available in a text version, too, if you have trouble with the quiet voiceover on the movie.(Louis Wu 20:02…
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Tyrant’s LASO Challenge Walkthrough – Winter Contingency
Daniel ‘Tyrant’ Morris is releasing a ‘LASO’ guide – this is like his Mythic guides, but matching the requirements of the LASO Weekly Challenges. That is: the difficulty is Legendary, and all skulls except Blind are on. The first chapter, covering Win…
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I need a burger.
Finnish Spartan sent along a link to an ODST… in a McDonald’s drive-thru. On a Go-Kart. He’s not on fire, but that would be the next stage, I guess. Go watch – awesome!(Louis Wu 13:49:58 UTC)
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Halotracker Top 5 – September: Multikills
Edge sent word of Halotracker’s latest Top 5 – for September, it’s Multikills. If you’ve missed any past episodes, they’ve compiled them into a single YouTube playlist. (Louis Wu 13:49:28 UTC)
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Nightfall is Upon Us!
HC Redemption sent word of the latest Challenge from HaloChallenges.com – it’s built on Nightfall, and is available in three difficulties (Normal, Heroic, or Legendary). Go check it out – and see what you’re up for!(Louis Wu 13:44:48 UTC)
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More Art of Halo – and Fearless Chapter 4
Dennis Powers let us know that his new site, the Art of Halo Custom Edition, has a new batch of featured maps – swing by and take a look! Comments can be added to their forum, or tweeted, or even submitted via a comment form. While you’re there, you c…
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Camp Froman, Indeed
Nak3d Eli put together a short video to help you conquer the current Weekly Challenge – it shows you some of the fastest ways to pick up precision weapon kills, and offers tips on outshooting your opponents. Go watch!(Louis Wu 13:27:54 UTC)
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You got beat by a four year old.
bluerunner and his (4 year old) son went into matchmaking to earn a few precision kills – and schooled the competition. Go check out his picture-laden recounting. Made me smile. (Louis Wu 13:27:37 UTC)
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A Halo Far, Far A-Waypoint
Dani stopped by to point out the newest Forward Unto Dawn article – it’s a discussion about how Waypoint could be actually INTEGRATED into Halo t itles, rather than sit alone and isolated as a separate ‘game’ on LIVE. Great concept – go join the conve…
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Reach Theme for Cheap
If you wanted a Reach-themed dashboard on your 360, but 240 MS Points ($3) was too steep for you… check again. Right now, it’s on sale for half price. Thanks to Morpheus, who found this at TrueAchievements.(Louis Wu 13:27:03 UTC)
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Devo’s Extra Halo: Reach Medals
Back in the Halo 3 days, Blackstar released a series of popular medals that weren’t in the original medal chest… but maybe should have been. Now NeoGAF’s Devolution has begun to do the same with Halo: Reach. (I say ‘begun’ – but she’s already got a …
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War (or War) Issue #8
Firestorm12 told us about the 8th issue of Halopen’s ‘War (or War)’ – there’s a fine line between level-headed fear and cowardice, and I think it’s crossed here.(Louis Wu 19:36:54 UTC)
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Stephen Loftus – at large in Seattle
Stephen Loftus finished the writeup of his experience at Halo Fest last month – and in typical Loftus style, it’s chock-full of details. Go relive with him.(Louis Wu 17:41:39 UTC)
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Cell Phone Wallpaper
Stephen Loftus whipped up some simple-but-cool wallpapers for his cell phone – check ’em out (and grab ’em, if you like ’em!). (Louis Wu 15:56:00 UTC)
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No Morale Damage
Frank O’Connor spoke to Computer and Video Games about the departure of Ryan Payton from the Halo 4 team. (The story broke a few weeks ago, and while Microsoft has already released an official statement, this discussion gives you a bit more context.) …
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Waging Wars
Tommy92L is back with Waging Wars – he’s expanding on the techniques he was playing with in Scourge. Great cinematography! Go watch.(Louis Wu 15:00:18 UTC)
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Podtacular Community Collaboration
Dust Storm sent word that this week on Podtacular, they’ll be recording with some of the staff of GrifballHub, along with Rukizzel from the Waypoint forums – the topic of discussion will be how Halo has helped to build a variety of different communiti…