Author: halo@bungie.org
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Killing to the Oldies
Yesterday, we mentioned a Halo 4 remake of the Reach map ‘Countdown’. Today, thanks to Halo Waypoint, we’ve got a remake of Halo 3’s Construct. Live in the past!(Louis Wu 22:28:38 UTC)
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Reconciliation
I watched it last night, but forgot to post this morning… Episode 14 of Red vs Blue Season 11 is live, and things are beginning to coalesce. Will Wash be able to finish what he started? Will Simmons be forever haunted by Grif’s dirty socks? Will Frec…
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Halo 4 GotY – plus all the goodies
Halo Waypoint has released a trailer for the upcoming Game of the Year edition of Halo 4 – this content-packed package will be available a week from today! Very nice. Thanks, Jironimo.(Louis Wu 18:19:05 UTC)
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Countdown – now playable in Halo 4
aPK is pretty proud of his Countdown remake – and you can play it yourself, now! It’s available for download from his File Share.(Louis Wu 16:55:59 UTC)
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Halo Reach Glitch/Trick – Sword Base’s Wreckage Area
t00lbox let us know that Termacious Trickocity has remastered their ‘Out of Sword Base’ glitch to show you exactly how to repeat their feats. Very nice work – and the presentation makes it easy to play along! Check it out.(Louis Wu 16:54:18 UTC)
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The Secrets Within: The Fate of Cortana
Flugel Meister has taken another look at Cortana, in an attempt to decide if we’ve seen the last of her or not. Interesting read!(Louis Wu 23:57:04 UTC)
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I tried really hard!
Morpheus pointed out a new Top 5 list at TrueAchievements – it’s made up of Characters You Couldn’t Save, and Reach’s Noble Six is right there in the heart of things. Give it a read!(Louis Wu 23:55:48 UTC)
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Halo 3 – Free in October
It looks like Halo 3 will finally be free to XBL Gold members, beginning on October 16 – it was one of the early promises of the Games with Gold program announced at E3 this year, and if you’re a Gold subscriber, you’ll be able to collect during the se…
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WAC Halo
robofin117 noticed a Garry’s Mod project that features Halo Pelicans, Hornets, and Falcons… looks pretty promising!(Louis Wu 15:42:10 UTC)
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Kicking Halo’s Butt
slYnki has completed a pretty impressive task… he’s done a single-segment, no-deaths Legendary run of Halo (the first one)… in under 2 hours. Wonga! Go read his description, and find links to both the run itself and audio commentary, in his forum p…
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Campaign Theater in Halo 4
Teh Ban Stick is a modder who found a way to enable Halo 4 Campaign films. (The reasons why the rest of us don’t have this feature are hashed out in the forum thread started by gamerguy2002… but it’s still cool to see.) Check it out!(Louis Wu 15:29:0…
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Line ’em up
nillapuddin likes his consistency… so he’s created a full set of cover art for all of his Halo titles, from the original Halo CE right through Spartan Assault. And they’re all available for download, if you’d like to follow suit! Nice.(Louis Wu 12:23…
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The art of replayability
A Metro News reader tackles the question of what makes people replay a game, even though they’ve got a huge backlog of games facing them… and Halo is the example held up. Excuse me, I need to go play…(Louis Wu 12:11:11 UTC)
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Fails of the Weak Volume 158
The AH crew are back with another Fails of the Weak – Geoff and Jack make fun of gamertags and gameplay mistakes in this 158th collection of fails. You can watch it at AH.com or YouTube. Thanks, Nikko B201.(Louis Wu 12:06:18 UTC)
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Versus S02E04: Countdown To Countdown
aPK told us about the latest Versus – he and Clicked face off on aPK’s Halo 4 remake of Countdown, for all the marbles. (Or at least all the teabags.) You’ll have a chance to play this map yourself, come Tuesday! Check it out. (Louis Wu 12:01:58 UTC)
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Essential Interview: Loftus on the Visual Guide
Posting this a little bit late… apologies. Been one of those days. davidfuchs pointed out an interview that the Forward Unto Dawn crew did with Stephen Loftus, focusing on the Scalemaster’s contributions to the recently-released Halo 4 Essential Visu…
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Halo on more than just One device
The VERGE reports that Microsoft showed off Halo 4 running on both Windows PC and Windows Phone through it’s Azure cloud service. A Precursor to next-gen streaming service similar to Sony’s recently-purchased Gaikai service? Guess we’ll see!(GrimBrothe…
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Halo HORSE 146
Nikko B201 let us know about Halo HORSE 146 – Jack and Ray do their best to get a shortened round out of the way so they can go back to GTA V. Watch it on AH.com or YouTube.(Louis Wu 19:37:47 UTC)
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PGCR 179
Robowski let us know about Post Game Carnage Report 179, with talk of a less linear Halo campaign, and GTA V. Go listen! (Louis Wu 19:35:08 UTC)
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No Aversion to Conversion
343 put out the latest Halo Bulletin last night, with a focus on some pretty interesting changes and updates to some popular matchmaking playlists, as well as a very cool look at a new community-borne gametype, “Conversion”. It’s definitely worth a rea…
