Month: February 2013
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Halo 4 Weekly Challenges: 2.25.13
War Games Weekly Challenges Spartan Ops Weekly Challenges Campaign Weekly Challenges Halo 4 Weekly Challenges Discuss
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Play it like you mean it
Nevin ‘CruelLEGACEY’ Douglas was given early access to the Majestic Map Pack last week, and discovered that Halo 4 became more fun when he was playing with people who actually wanted to play the game. Go read his thoughts on the dangers of popularity.(…
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Halo 4 Forge Tutorial – Flood Setup
From Certain Affinity: This video covers how to set up Flood in Halo 4’s Forge mode. In addition to basic setup, we explain how to place weapons on maps with Ordnance and how to set up Dominion automated turrets. Halo 4 Forge Tutorial – Flood Setup …
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Majestic is here
As a reminder, Majestic Map Pack dropped this morning – the 438 MB download is available now for folks who bought the Season Pass (or received it as part of their Limited purchase of Halo 4), or for folks with 800 MS Points to spare. Don’t miss out! (L…
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Spartan Ops… like a bawss
uberfoop posted a writeup filled with lots of images and video clips from a group run last week through Spartan Ops Episode 10 – pretty fun stuff! Go check it out.(Louis Wu 13:45:05 UTC)
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Not too big to fail
Arithmomaniac pointed out that an outage of the Azure cloud service on Friday affected not only Windows users… but also Halo 4 players. Ouch!(Louis Wu 13:44:14 UTC)
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Destiny Concept Artists Posts Images
Freelance artist Kekai Kotaki has posted some of the concept art done for Bungie’s Destiny on tumblr. Be sure to watch their tumblr for future imagery.
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Majestic Map Pack Live Stream Archive
Yesterday morning, 343 Industries live streamed gameplay of the new Majestic maps and showed off some new game types, including Infinity Rumble and Rumble Pro. You can watch the archived version here. (mastrbiggy 09:19:04 UTC)
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Go Beyond Entertainment’s Majestic Map Pack Review
Clicked shares his thoughts on the three maps included in the upcoming Majestic map pack DLC for Halo 4 – he goes over what game types are best suited for each map. Overall, he thinks the pack is worth your money. While your watching Clicked’s review o…
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Destiny News from Ready Up Live
Ready Up Live is another gaming site that follows Bungie games, including Halo (and 343’s Halo 4) and Destiny (as well as a little Minecraft thrown in, if you’re into that sort of thing). Check out their site or their YouTube page for updates. …
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MoreConsole Looks At Destiny
MoreConsole also has some video news and analysis pieces up about Destiny. There’s one about the player classes and concept art, and then a frame-by-frame analysis of the PS4 reveal trailer. Bo…
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Forging Majestic
pete_the_duck shared some videos showing off the Forge options on the new maps included in the Majestic map pack for Halo 4. Go watch!(mastrbiggy 09:14:38 UTC)
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You Got Some Halo 3 In My Halo 4
TheIncomeTaxes and Insane Alpha Beta found what I think is the coolest Halo 4 easter egg so far – they found images of Tsavo Highway from Halo 3 cleverly hidden in some of the Forge piece reflections. You can see the giant storm cloud and even the brok…
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Pathways Out Of A Dark Hole
Dark Jedi from Dark Hole Games has put up a breakdown of the Destiny ViDoc. I’ve added it to the Destiny section of the movies page. Dark Hole Games has a series of walkthroughs and let’s play …
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As Constant As The Morning Star
Last week we saw that Bungie alums Alexander Seropian (Marathon, Halo, Stubbs the Zombie) and Brent Pease (Oni) had formed a new group, Industrial Toys, working on a mobile shooter, Morning Sta…
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Welcome to Majestic
A couple of days ago, we mentioned ‘Welcome to Landfall’ – and then yesterday, Halo Waypoint released ‘Welcome to Monolith’. Today, they finish up the series with ‘Welcome to Skyline’ – if you haven’t checked these out, they’re a great way to get famil…
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Podtacular hits Spartan Ops Halfway Mark
Dust Storm contacted us about Podtacular’s Spartan Ops coverage – they just hit the halfway mark. Here are all five finished ‘casts: Episode 1: Departure Episode 2: Artifact Episode 3: Catherine Episode 4: Didact’s Hand Episode 5: Memento Mori The…
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Playtime Majestic
Nevin Douglas sent word of a new machinima short featuring Majestic, due to drop on Tuesday. Nice backdrop!(Louis Wu 23:41:56 UTC)
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Friday’s Fan Fiction, just one day late
We actually have a policy that we will publish a maximum of three pieces of Halo Fan Fiction per author, in a given week – but the well’s been so dry for so long that we approved all five chapters of Blue 4 that firerwolf dropped off recently. Go give …