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The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Year: 2006

  • Submit Stuff for Episode 78: Podtacular Update

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    Yayuh, we’re getting those episodes out now before we ask for stuff for the next one! That’s always good. Give us the news not the weather This is the update show and the first thing we’ll be talking about is Halo and Podtacular community news and events and web resources. Know of any? Just click…

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    Yayuh, we’re getting those episodes out now before we ask for stuff for the next one! That’s always good. Give us the news not the weather This is the update show and the first thing we’ll be talking about is Halo and Podtacular community news and events and web resources. Know of any? Just click…

  • Team Carnage – Love it or Hate it

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    Team Carnage, the newest XBL playlist, is now online. You can read a description of all games in the list on Bungie.net – but a short synopsis might be ‘anti-hardcore’. These games are for fun; if you try and play them as though you were playing Team Hardcore, you’re going to get frustrated. (The funniest…

  • LiL Poison Takes on All Comers

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    We got email from Victor De Leon, farther of LiL Poison, the world’s youngest pro Halo player. They get thousands of requests from people wanting to play LiL Poison on Xbox Live, or just to add him to their friends list; obviously, this isn’t feasible. They’ve figured out a way to get more people the…

  • The Bad News Bears

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    There’s a Halo 2 tournament taking place on Saturday, during the Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle this weekend – and according to Frankie, Bungie will be participating. They might even be cheating to win. Be there to watch!(Louis Wu 17:40:40 UTC)

  • Out of Mind 4 on Marketplace

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    Part 4 of Red vs Blue’s Out of Mind series is now available on Xbox Live Marketplace. (It should be available soon for download from the website, as well – but isn’t yet.) Thanks, Apollo Arrow.(Louis Wu 17:33:57 UTC)

  • Podtacular 77

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    Podtacular 77 is out – it’s a monster (apparently to make up for 73 being short), at over an hour and a half. It contains the usual stuff, plus an interview with the guys from Halo2.junk.ws. It’s cohosted by Tinkerbell23, from the Cayote Cavegirls. Thanks, Foo Mo Jive.(Louis Wu 17:29:59 UTC)

  • HBO Playlist

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    The Community Carnage Playlist is now available in Matchmaking and we can finally tell you that this playlist was designed by the folks over at halo.bungie.org. HBO has designed a 6v6 list full of wonky gametypes so if you want to know what you’re getting into when you choose this playlist, read on.

  • Heh – Shinie.

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    Mr Fiddle found a great Homestar Runner Halo parody – check it out on the Homestar Runner Wiki forum.(Louis Wu 16:50:33 UTC)

  • YOU WANT SOME!?

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    Bungie is fielding a team of crack Halo players at the Penny Arcade Expo on Saturday (which takes place between 10:30 and 2:30 in the console tourney room at Bellevue’s Meydenbauer Center in the lovely state of Washington. Be there or be sad.

  • Sneak Peek: August 2006 Matchmaking Update

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    KP posted most of the details of the next Halo 2 matchmaking update in Bungie’s forums recently. They include a major overhaul of Double Team, a decision to keep Team SWAT unranked, and a new and mysterious playlist coming out: Team Carnage! Could that be the aforementioned community playlist? More talk and details in the…

  • Sneak Peek: August 2006 Matchmaking Update

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    KP posted most of the details of the next Halo 2 matchmaking update in Bungie’s forums recently. They include a major overhaul of Double Team, a decision to keep Team SWAT unranked, and a new and mysterious playlist coming out: Team Carnage! Could that be the aforementioned community playlist? More talk and details in the…

  • Sneak Peek: August 2006 Matchmaking Update

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    KP posted most of the details of the next Halo 2 matchmaking update in Bungie’s forums recently. They include a major overhaul of Double Team, a decision to keep Team SWAT unranked, and a new and mysterious playlist coming out: Team Carnage! Could that be the aforementioned community playlist? More talk and details in the…

  • Halo 2 Vista – Looking Good!

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    There’s a really nice progress review of Halo 2 Vista over at Bungie.net – new producer Matt Priestley did the writeup, and really makes me want a machine that can play this game, when it comes out! If you live in Germany, you might get to see it for yourself later this week; it’ll be…

  • Matchmaking changes coming

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    Ninja 0n Fire posted a Matchmaking update on the Bungie.net forum today; details about what’s changing with existing playlists, plus a teaser of the new playlist, now called Team Carnage. Give it a read! And look for the actual update to the XBL playlists sometime later this week. Arachneya was first with a heads-up, via…

  • VOTING NEEDED NOW

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    Wonga – here’s your chance to see Red vs Blue featured on the BBC website! I just noticed a poll on this page (it’s about halfway down) pointing out that there are 4 sessions at the Edinburgh Games Festival that can be covered, but only one reviewer – so it’s up to the readers to…

  • Crimson Halo Gift

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    Gone all day, starting to catch up… first up, a new movie. MaritalBlaze54 created ‘Crimson Halo Gift’, a tribute to Clan 0kinawa’s Crimson Halo series. It portrays a modder being ganged up on by a bunch of non-modders. The MPRRS reviewers liked the camera angles, the video quality, the editing… they weren’t thrilled with the…

  • Episode 77: Customs and Callins and Interview with Halo2.junk.ws

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    Download | Show Notes It’s the Customs and Callins show, where we cover the top 3 customs sent in, we play back the voice mails for the month, and we have an awesome interview with the guys at halo2.junk.ws. With your hosts Foo Mo Jive, JVB, and Tinkerbell23, the first grrrrrl gamer to be on…

  • Episode 77: Customs and Callins and Interview with Halo2.junk.ws

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    Download | Show Notes | Interview Notes It’s the Customs and Callins show, where we cover the top 3 customs sent in, we play back the voice mails for the month, and we have an awesome interview with the guys at halo2.junk.ws. With your hosts Foo Mo Jive, JVB, and Tinkerbell23, the first grrrrrl gamer…

  • Podtacular Radio Episode 5

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    Download It’s time for more music to frag by from DJ Painkilla05. More great mixes of video game remixes, electronica, and 8 bit compositions. In case you guys missed the first 4 episodes, they’re available here. More in the forums. ‹ Podtacular Radio Episode 4up