Month: July 2013
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Visualizing the Halo Universe: Round 14
Postmortem announced that Round 14 of his Visualizing the Halo Universe challenge has kicked off – your task, should you choose to accept it, is to envision an ancient human pet described in Greg Bear’s fiction. As always, HBO will deny knowledge if yo…
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Visualizing the Halo Universe: Round 14
Postmortem announced that Round 14 of his Visualizing the Halo Universe challenge has kicked off – your task, should you choose to accept it, is to envision an ancient human pet described in Greg Bear’s fiction. As always, HBO will deny knowledge if yo…
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Halo 4 Matchmaking Update: 7.22.13
Welcome to week 2 of the Halo 4 Global Championship! This week’s game type is Rumble SWAT. To compete, simply register and then hop into the Global Championship playlist in Halo 4 Matchmaking. Included game types are as follows: Rumble SWAT …
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Community Member of the Week: deluca34
Every Monday, we feature a community member who does one or more of the following things: routinely goes above and beyond for their fellow forum members, is a positive and active member of the community, and/or sends me mass amounts of cat pictures. Th…
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Halo 4 Weekly Challenges: 7.22.13
War Games Weekly Challenges Spartan Ops Weekly Challenges Campaign Weekly Challenges Halo 4 Weekly Challenges Discuss
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Top 10 Halo 4 Unusual Kills
From Anoj: Anoj counts down his favorite 10 community-submitted Halo 4 unusual kill clips. Upload your clips to your File Share and submit at Top10Series.com to be featured in future episodes! Top 10 Halo 4 Unusual Kills Discuss
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Halo: Reach Cutscenes – Now in Surround Sound
Cody Miller has been upgrading our Halo Cutscene Library with surround-sound versions of each game’s cutscenes since 2011 – and yesterday, the newest additions went live. The Reach cutscenes are now available in full surround sound, in either QuickTime…
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Halo Custom Edition: Takedown – Project Lawson
MatthewDratt has released Takedown: Project Lawson, a single-player map for Halo: Custom Edition. You can find a trailer here (it’s a year old), a ViDoc showing off some of the characters you’ll interact with (fun!), the actual download from the HaloCE…
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Halo Monk Chant at VGL
Last night, the live-streamed Video Games Live concert took place at San Diego Comic Con – and Marty O’Donnell and Mike Salvatori were there. (Their segment starts around 3:16:30 or so in the Twitch.TV archived video.) It’s focused on Destiny… but at…
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Halo 4 Global Championship Playlist Gameplay
ReadyUpLive’s Greenskull livestreamed a play event in the Global Championship Playlist recently – and put together a highlight reel of the evening. Looks like he had a pretty good time!(Louis Wu 16:18:28 UTC)
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Your Weekly AH Dose
Fails of the Weak 148 (AH.com | YouTube) has 10 entertaining fails and wittty banter. Meanwhile, Halo HORSE 136 (AH.com | YouTube) pits Ryan against the Martinizer for the second slot in Round 2. Go watch!(Louis Wu 21:35:06 UTC)
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Anoj’s Top Ten #34: Unusual Kills
There’s another Top 10 from Anoj – this one focuses on unusual kills. This one is especially fun to watch – lots of good stuff. Check it out! Thanks, Jordan Bell.(Louis Wu 21:28:34 UTC)
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Spartan Assault code falls to Section 3
GunRunner48 let us know that Section 3 (the fans devoted to finding all of the hidden codes in Halo 4) have solved another one – this code requires that you unlock the ‘Recruit’ achievement in Spartan Assault. Once you do, you’ll get 10,000 XP and begi…
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If I were making Halo 5 – Part 2
CruelLEGACEY has released Part 2 of his ‘If I were making Halo 5’ thought project – this one focuses on campaign and encounter design, along with enemy AI and level design. Go look!(Louis Wu 21:17:52 UTC)
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Building the Ultimate Halo Game Redux
Gravemind has revisited his ‘Building the Ultimate Halo Game’ essay – you can find a list of the changes he made in his forum post. (Or you could just read the tome on his website.) (Louis Wu 21:17:26 UTC)
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Tribute
Termacious Trickocity created ‘Tribute’, a collection of glitches, tricks, and launches from Halo 3, Halo 3: ODST, and Halo: Reach. It’s 9 minutes long, and chock-full of amazing moments – absolutely worth a watch! Thanks, Mator. (Louis Wu 21:15:25 UTC)
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HALOcapped – CTF in 5 minutes or less
MixMaker1 told us about the newest HALOcapped episode – the challenge they set for themselves this time out was to win a CTF match in under 5 minutes – without letting the enemy team score. Go see how they did! (Louis Wu 21:15:11 UTC)
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A Gamers World
AytonHunter stopped in with a new cinematic project called ‘A Gamers World’ – Live action with a bit of Halo machinima tossed in. Go take a look!(Louis Wu 21:14:57 UTC)
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‘Adorable’? Not sure I’d use that word…
NBC News enjoyed Spartan Assault – go read why! (Louis Wu 21:14:35 UTC)