Month: January 2015
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New Blood
Halo Waypoint has news of a new Halo fiction release – Matt Forbeck has written ‘Halo: New Blood’, coming in early March. This book will tell the story of Gunnery Sergeant Edward Buck (the star of Halo 3: ODST and a bit player in Halo: Reach). For more…
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The power of branding
Heh – The Guardian has noticed that Microsoft is playing off the popularity of the Halo franchise in other aspects of their product empire… and jumped in to help. Their suggestion for a Garageband competitor is awesome.(Louis Wu 19:17:23 UTC)
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Let’s Play Destiny Co-Op #39: Gather Their Dust
With Omnigul, the Will of Crota, defeated, Eris gives us a new quest chain to fill Xur’s shiny new urn with dust bunnies of d…
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The Name of the Thing
Stephen Loftus has released a couple of images that might help you if you’re not up on your ship nomenclature. These are great! Swing by his UNSC Ship Callouts page for full details.(Louis Wu 21:35:14 UTC)
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Drunken Halo Centennial
Justin let us know that Episode 100 of the Drunken Halo Podcast is now online – they’ve gone meta to celebrate! Listen to this one for a nice highlight reel of the podcast through the years. (It’s got a very special ending, too.) (Louis Wu 21:33:49 UTC)
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Mid-air turret ramming
Hmm… that title sounds vaguely pornographic. Don’t worry – it’s not. Rockslider returned to the Dropship Turret Removal technique he played with a while back (1 | 2 | 3 | 4), discovering that the turret is rammable in mid-air, leading to some interes…
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Let’s Play Destiny Co-Op #38: The Will of Crota
Having taken care of all of Crota’s various body parts (as well as their servants) it’s time to go after the Witch we’ve been…
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She’s more human than you think
Grizzlei pointed out a pretty interesting article at Microsoft.com, focusing on Cortana. Go give it a read!(Louis Wu 22:44:37 UTC)
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HaloStarscope stuff – sort of
HaloFanForLife has highlighted a few new tidbits you can collect from the HaloStarscope.com website – wallpaper and ringtones are up for your perusal! (You might need to grab the versions he posted on his website – the actual site is offline at the mom…
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The next MCC content update drops soon
343 Industries posted new content update notes on their website this weekend – swing by for full details. Several critical matchmaking issues are addressed. (Louis Wu 22:24:28 UTC)
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Pax 2014 – Biased Cat’s Quest for Halo
I got an email from Armin Mortazavi, who, with his brother, had done some filming at PAX last summer. The video product (a search for anything Halo) finally went online in December; I didn’t know about it until the email arrived. Go see what they found…
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Stay outside that swing range!
Interesting – Lord Zedd added Gutas to Reach’s Firefight mode, just for giggles. With no long-range attacks, the fights are not as varied as I’d expected… but they still look like they’d have added some spice to the mode! Thanks, gamerguy2002.(Louis …
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Podtacular 458: Tangential
The Halo 5: Guardians Multiplayer Beta is coming to a close within the next few days and we’ve been enjoying every moment of it, but with it’s inevitable end, we begin to focus on the Master Chief Collection again and … Continue reading →
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Let’s Play Destiny Co-Op #37: The Heart of Crota
Knights and Wizards dispatched, Eris gives us a new three-part quest to destroy the Hand, Eyes and Heart of Crota. This epis…
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Free month of LIVE for early MCC users
Did you log in to play the Master Chief Collection during its first month after launch? If so, you should receive a free month of Xbox LIVE Gold as part of your apology compensation for the early problems the game had. The messages announcing this star…