Year: 2012

While we don’t highlight editorial-style forum posts very often, I really think you should take a look at this one. Crafted lovingly by our very own long-time contributor Hedgemony, he paints a truly inspiring picture of his very personal feelings towa…

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Rolling Stone has a small piece on Neil Davidge’s move to Halo 4 – always good to be noticed by the big boys! Thanks, Rengaw12.(Louis Wu 21:03:26 UTC)

Game Informer has begun to release its month-long flood of Halo 4 info on its Halo 4 Hub – there’s a trailer for what’s to come (thanks, Pok3R Fac3D), and a great pair of videos focusing on Sotaro Tojima, Halo 4’s audio director: the first is on the hu…

If you listened to the YouTube version of the Halo 4 Soundtrack sample, and wished you’d had a downloadable MP3… David Ellis has your back. Grab a copy from Halo Waypoint here.(Louis Wu 20:16:24 UTC)

Over at NeoGAF, Zeouterlimits kindly compiled the questions (and answers) from the Facebook chat with Neil Davidge earlier today – swing by and read what the man had to say!(Louis Wu 20:14:09 UTC)

Hyokin let us know about some new panoramas over at Community Customs – they’re all about vehicles!(Louis Wu 20:07:03 UTC)

Lord Friendship stopped in with a handmade overhead map of New Alexandria – this is pretty useful if you get lost a lot! Take a look.(Louis Wu 20:05:18 UTC)

The Weekly Halo Bulletin is focused on (no surprise here) Neil Davidge and the Halo 4 music. Pics, the vids linked in other newsposts, and words – lots of words. Go soak it all in! (It’s in our Halo Bulletin Archive, as well – in a MUCH lighter form.)…

If you swing by Halo Waypoint, you can see both the ViDoc that introduces us to Neil Davidge, and a 3-minute collection of Halo 4 soundtrack samples. Awesome!(Louis Wu 15:43:00 UTC)

Complex has an interview with Neil Davidge about his newly-public role as Halo 4 composer – interesting read! Thanks, Hedgemony.(Louis Wu 14:57:31 UTC)

The Woaf let us know that the latest episode of Dust and Echoes focuses on the Halo 4 reveals in the latest Game Informer (on newsstands now!) – go listen!(Louis Wu 13:16:51 UTC)

Kaboris stopped in this morning to point out that Fall of Reach is finally coming out in Japanese! (Louis Wu 13:15:00 UTC)

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RC Master has finished up his gametype critique – there’s a section on Crazy Gametypes, and some closing thoughts. Go read!(Louis Wu 19:17:04 UTC)

The Alpha ELite pointed out a pretty cool little animation by Tim Hijlkema – it lays out 10 video game ‘planets’, including one that’s pretty relevant to this website! The whole video is great – go watch.(Louis Wu 19:14:43 UTC)

Lord Friendship stopped by to announce that the Halo: Reach BOB Guide for the level Exodus is now online – all three Banshee BOBS on this level are shown, along with techniques for taking them out (and even some backstory about why they’re in Banshees…