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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: 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)
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Initiation Preview, plus Escalation
Grizzlei told us about a recently-released preview for Initiation #1, the Dark Horse comic focusing on the pre-Halo4 life of Sarah Palmer. (She also mentioned Escalation, yet ANOTHER series coming later this year, as detailed by Wired – but she was bea…
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Forum not really down
Apologies to anyone who tried to use the front-page link (or a bookmark that uses that same link) to access our forum in the past few hours. The forum changed servers, and an odd combination of circumstances made that link stop working. (The forum was …
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In Halo They Trust
Some new friends over at .bitblastnetwork let us know that Episode 8 of their podcast is something Halo fans might enjoy taking a listen at. It’s a monster coming in at close to 3 hours in length, but if you’ve got some time, definitely go and give it …