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The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Month: February 2009

  • Pod TV Campaign Runthrough – The Ark

    After heading through the portal, you are met my a fleet of brute ships. While the elites take on the brutes, you and several marines head down to some Forerunner installation trying to find a landing zone for the Dawn. After keys has landed, you make your way to the Cartographer blasting through heavy Covenant…

  • Return of the Chief

    BlueNinja put up a few new panoramas – many of which include Forged maps. check ’em out!(Louis Wu 14:49:05 UTC)

  • Adam Podcast 4 – Making a Marine Helmet

    Adam Grumbo let us know that his Podcast #4 is now up on YouTube. (The first three, which we didn’t know about, are in his YouTube channel if you’d like to watch them.) This focuses on making a Marine helmet (using the ODST helmet we mentioned yesterday)… and also contains a pretty cool contest that…

  • Running the last level of Halo 3 (literally)

    Matthew Rivera stopped by last night with some links to videos showing a team of four friends running the final level of Halo 3… on foot. Yes, on foot. (No, they couldn’t COMPLETELY finish; you can’t make the final jump without a vehicle. But other than that one… wow.) Go watch!(Louis Wu 14:42:24 UTC)

  • Thursday’s Comic Roundup

    Once again, by early morning there are multiple Halo comics updated around the web:Elnea has posted Episode 155 of Halo Action Figure Theater (Baby Doctor (plus some french stuff)) – I can sympathize with the problem in this one, since I have kids too.The Catfish told us about 2501 Episode 20 (Counter-Attack), wherein a strange…

  • HBO gaming… it’s what’s for dinner

    pete_the_duck put together a montage of ‘random little moments’ – there’s nothing spectacular, per se, but watching it brought a smile to my face multiple times. No music, just gameplay. Enjoy! In the same vein, Avateur put up a summary of some HBO-regular-attended gaming nights during the month of February, complete with pics and a…

  • Halo Wars Movie Poster – Updated

    FireDragon04 has updated his ‘Halo Wars Movie Poster’ (the first draft was mentioned last week), and has produced a collection of variants – you can see them all in his forum post. (We’ve put up local mirrors down at the bottom of the post, in case the originals stop working someday.) I think this one…

  • Halo Mythic Map Pack: Assembly Walkthrough

    Red vs Blue has put up a walkthrough, of sorts, of Assembly – go watch it. Thanks to AvatarAang for the timely heads-up last night. (Louis Wu 14:38:47 UTC)

  • Website Downtime

    Some of you may have noticed what Podtacular has been down for two days. Please note that it was not something we did. DreamHost, our hosting provider for the site experienced a Denial of Service attack to their DNS which affected the databases that most of the sites hosted my them run off of. If…

  • RT: Halo Wars Exclusive Video

    Hey everyone, So I’m super excited to present you with our first exclusive video of the upcoming RTS game, Halo Wars. The game comes out March 3rd and to my knowledge (which is not very extensive admittedly), this is the only place in the world where…

  • Applied to Life – King of the Hill – Halo 3

    The ‘Applied to Life’ guy is back with another vid – this one adds some actual Halo footage ‘so it would be easier to relate to Halo’. Personally, I think it would have been better with just the live footage… but hey, he’s the guy making the cool vids! Thanks once again to urk for…

  • It’s you and me, Megatron…

    Bootstrap Boon created a Ghost Transformer – wouldn’t it be cool if your Elite could morph like this?(Louis Wu 21:34:23 UTC)

  • I got a NOOO Scope

    Another episode of Anoj’s Top 10 Halo 3 Series – Episode 25 looks at no-scopes. The randoms at the start are great, but they’re all pretty fun. Thanks again, urk. (Louis Wu 21:33:11 UTC)

  • Bungie Favorite Tribute

    AmX15 created a tribute to Bungie Favorites – screenshots, some short film clips. Thanks, urk.(Louis Wu 21:32:41 UTC)

  • Community Spotlight: Black Water Ops

    It’s Wednesday, so it’s time for another Community Spotlight at Bungie.net, and a new batch of files in the Bungie Favorites section – this week it’s Black Water Ops, a Bungie.net group dedicated to fair play and fun. Go read about how they formed, and get a look at the files they’re proud of in…

  • Mythic ODST Pictage

    koolaid51x made a screenshot montage out of some of the submissions for the Bungie.net ODST screenshot contest last week… swing through for some epic shots.(Louis Wu 21:31:48 UTC)

  • Mongoose Splatter Montage

    i like pie727 made a Mongoose Splatter Montage, and the Bungie Blog highlighted it. Ride it, baby! (Louis Wu 21:31:14 UTC)

  • Flag Captured

    The goatnet boys went up against some other Mythic holders last night on Orbital… and Devin Olsen posted a bunch of screenshots and a gameplay vid for your viewing pleasure. Go watch! (Louis Wu 21:28:27 UTC)

  • Team Mythic Playlist is Live

    For the lucky few that have the Mythic Map Pack a bit early, Bungie has put up the Team Mythic playlist – Team Slayer, Team BRs, Team SWAT, Multi-Flag BRs, Neutral Assault, and Grifball. Enjoy! Looks like CaLL Me ZeNy was first on our forum with the news.(Louis Wu 21:28:06 UTC)