Author: halo@bungie.org
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Reclaimer – Of Gods and Precursors
TTL Demag0gue stopped by yesterday with the latest episode of Reclaimer – you get some Precursor history! It’s inspired by Greg Bear’s work… but has its own twist. (Louis Wu 16:50:13 UTC)
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Horizon now handles Halo 4 Game Variants
kornman00 pointed out a modding tool being released by Xbox Message Boards (don’t use this if you don’t know what you’re doing, folks) that can actually now edit Halo 4 game variants. Pretty cool!(Louis Wu 16:48:44 UTC)
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Daybreaking News
If you are looking to get just a bit closer to the new Castle Maps coming Monday to Halo 4, check out the new video “Welcome to Daybreak” over at Halo Waypoint. It’ll give you a sweet look at one of the new playspaces you’ll be taking your skills to co…
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CSR U Ready?
The latest Halo Bulletin found its way to the interwebs yesterday. In it you’ll find a whole lot of information about the upcoming implementation of the new Competitive Skill Rank for Halo 4, as well as information about the impending celebration of th…
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Pacific Nerd West Halo 4 Tournament
laird dropped by the forums to let us know that Pacific Nerd West is hosting a Halo 4 tournament sponsored by 343i – according to laird the $5 entry fee goes towards Child’s Play. The event takes place on April 6th – go help out children in need, play …
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Five Halo CE Facts
Yet another video from the guys over at Achievement Hunter, this one looks at five Halo CE facts – pretty interesting stuff, especially the part about Disney imagineers sticking things where they don’t belong ;). Thanks, robofin117.(mastrbiggy 09:55:17…
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MLG Episode 9
John Battle let us know that episode 9 of ‘MLG’ is live – this week Christy confronts her sister. Go watch! (mastrbiggy 09:54:46 UTC)
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Halo HORSE 121
Jack and Geoff from Achievement Hunter are back with another episode of Halo PIG (YouTube & AH) – they check out a bunch of new and interesting maps. Thanks, Nikko B201. (mastrbiggy 09:53:38 UTC)
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I am better. At what? Everything.
Gugga Leunnam created a mashup using audio from the new Star Trek: Into Darkness trailer and Halo 4 footage… it works astoundingly well! I found this on the Halo Waypoint blog.(Louis Wu 20:35:32 UTC)
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Walshy Waxes Philosophical about Competitive Gaming
MixMaker1 sat down with Walshy at PAX East a couple of weeks ago – go watch the interview! (Louis Wu 20:31:37 UTC)
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UNSC Emblem Render Desktop
Firestream whipped up another awesome looking desktop – I don’t want that on my screen, I want that on my DESK. Someone get on that. (Louis Wu 20:30:32 UTC)
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Whoda thunk Halo fans didn’t like sci-fi?
Shacknews highlighted a tidbit from Josh Holmes’ postmortem of Halo 4 given at GDC last week – you may have missed it if you weren’t watching carefully. Looks like some of the cooler unused guns that have surfaced in Halo 4’s code since release were cu…
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Concept Art Cornucopia
I stumbled across Thomas Scholes, a concept artist who did a lot of work on Halo 4, a couple of years back – you can find a whole bunch of his work on his blogspot blog, and much of that work has comments if you swing over to his Tumblr page. There are…
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Something For Every Body
TTL Demag0gue reminds us that the latest issue of Reclaimer is out. It’s getting really good! Go check it out!(GrimBrother One 15:09:15 UTC)
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There Castle, There Cheevo
Halo Waypoint has released the Achievement list for the upcoming Castle Map pack for Halo 4. Most of these don’t look too bad, which is certainly refreshing. Go and see what it’ll take to add another 250 points to your Gamerscore!(GrimBrother One 19:47…
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Grifball’s gonna be at RTX
GrifballHub has launched a Kickstarter to fund a Grifball booth at RTX – and their initial goal of $1600 was met in 2 days! They’ve got some great stretch goals set up – swing by to see ’em, and help ’em get there!(Louis Wu 16:25:40 UTC)
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Playtime S4 Release Date
Nevin ‘CruelLEGACEY’ Douglas has announced the release date for Playtime Season 4 – you can watch it on Halo Waypoint on April 22. More details at his website! (Louis Wu 16:23:08 UTC)
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HaloWars Sounds
kornman00 stopped in with some sounds he extracted from Halo Wars – cool stuff! (Louis Wu 16:19:56 UTC)
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How to craft a perfect world
VG24/7 has an interview with Certain Affinity producer Tom Patter and 343’s Dan Ayoub, discussing the creation of the Castle Map Pack. Go see what these guys think about these maps!(Louis Wu 16:14:03 UTC)
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Clippin’ the Gameplay
A couple of new vides popped up recently, with decent multiplayer clips – first up is aPK with a new Clips of the Week episode; many clips from a bunch of games, including Halo 4. The second is from Clipen – he’s got a nice Running Riot on Team Throwdo…