Update: Looks like 343 put up a small preview of two map breakdowns from the guide.(MacGyver10 14:56:22 UTC)
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Halo 5 Prima Guides Available for Pre-Order
Prima, the maker of many official video game guides, just revealed their Halo 5: Guardians offerings this week. It will come in three different flavors: the electronic e-guide, the standard edition and a collector’s guide with an unannounced bonus DLC. Thanks Urban Reflex!
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Halo 5: Guardians Blue Team Campaign B-Roll Video
We’ve seen bits and pieces of the campaign footage now from many different sources, but now we have a lot of bits and pieces of campaign footage in one B-roll video! There’s a lot of Master Chief and the rest of Blue Team wreaking havoc on some Covenant, talking grunts, video of the revive mechanic and some banshee fun! Thanks Apollo!(MacGyver10 14:50:22 UTC)
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ReclaimerHub Covers Gamescom
Mixmasterchief let us know that ReclaimerHub has made some video speculating and summing up both the Halo 5 news and the newly announced Halo Wars 2!(MacGyver10 14:47:38 UTC)
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Halo 5: Guardians Pink Mist Edition
Think you had heard about all the different editions of Halo 5: Guardians? Think again! Across the pond, GAME has a full 1:1 Covenant Needler replica with sound fx from the game and needles that retract as you fire! The Halo 5: Guardians, Pink Mist Edition includes the Limited Collector’s Edition and comes in at a whopping $700 in US dollars!(MacGyver10 21:25:20 UTC)
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Woaf 117: part 4 Noobageddon
The Woaf stopped by today with part 4 of his Woaf 117 series. There’s a lot of wallowing in this one, but will Chief find the leader inside, or will he find nothing but explodey corridors! Check it out on YouTube to find out!(MacGyver10 21:22:43 UTC)
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Halo 5: Guardians LE Console and Controllers Pre-Order
The Halo 5: Guardians pre-order page has been updated with the newly announced LE console and a pair of sweet new XBO controllers. The LE console includes the LE version of the game along with it’s metallic accents and custom sound effects. The new Spartan Locke and Master Chief-inspired controllers include a bonus REQ pack with in-game visors mimicking those of their respective homages. If you’re in need of an Xbox One or controller, now might be a great time to get one!(MacGyver10 17:12:33 UTC)
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Halo World Championship in 2015
As a part of the Gamescom Reveals today, Xbox and 343 Industries announced the Halo World Championship where gamers will compete for a share of $1,000,000 in prize money. You can watch this YouTube video for more information on the competitive series that launches later this year with Halo 5 Arena multiplayer.(MacGyver10 15:42:58 UTC)
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Halo Wars 2 In 2016!
The Surprise announcement of the show, Xbox and 343 Industries have just revealed that Halo Wars 2 will be coming Fall of 2016!Update: For those desiring official proof, here you go!
Update2: And finally, here’s the YouTube video reveal.(MacGyver10 15:28:48 UTC)
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Halo Gamescom Reveals
343 Industries just showed off some new footage and features at Gamescom in Germany during the Microsoft Xbox Briefing. We have a brand new Arena map called Coliseum, new features in Arena multiplayer like player outlines during a match, the Halo World Championship was announced with a $1 Million dollar prize pool, new maps for Arena and Warzone multiplayer shown off and a limited edition Halo 5: Guardians console with the a 1TB hard drive and the digital game included! We’re sure there will be more details soon, but that is just what we’ve seen so far!(MacGyver10 15:14:52 UTC)
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Halo Update 080215 – Gamescom, Power Cores and More
Bravo and company have safely landed in Europe to get ready for Gamescom this week, but for now they’ve teased us with a pretty good update ahead of this week’s reveals. There’s info on their Gamescom schedule, links to the HCS Season 2 recap, Frankie’s short story and Josh Holmes dev blog and a really cool history of the power cores in Halo 5’s new Warzone gametype. Go give it a read at HaloWaypoint!(MacGyver10 21:48:20 UTC)
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Podtacular Special: SDCC Interview with Matt Forbeck
At SDCC, the Podtacular crew had a chance to interview Matt Forbeck on what it was like to write for the Halo universe for the first time, his love for Buck and how Halo 3: ODST inspired him in his authorship of ‘New Blood’. Go check it out and give it a listen.(MacGyver10 21:40:21 UTC)
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Canon Fodder: Lore of The Rings
Mr. GrimBrother One himself stopped by last week to announce the latest Canon Fodder up at HaloWaypoint. There’s trivia, a little Q&A and some information on the textual side of the Halo universe in there.(MacGyver10 21:34:55 UTC)
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Should You Choose to Accept It
Not much of a news item per say about the Halo universe, but thought we’d let you know that Compton pointed out something of interest to Halo fans going to see the new Mission Impossible movie that you might want to see.(MacGyver10 21:32:32 UTC)
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Podtacular 497: Always-On Co-op
It’s been a while since we’ve even touched our mailbag, but we had a few items waiting for us including a voicemail. In addition, we touched on the campaign article written up by Josh Holmes regarding the squad in Halo 5’s campaign and more about how co-op will work. If you have anything you want us to read or play on the show, make sure to hit that ‘Submit’ button or shoot us a voicemail at (240) 200-HALO.
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SDCC 2015 Special: Matt Forbeck
This year packs quite the punch with Halo stories, first of which was Halo: New Blood. At SDCC, we had the opportunity to talk to Matt Forbeck, author of the novella and ask him about his first time experience writing for the Halo franchise. He explains some of the reasons behind his writing process including how Halo 3: ODST inspired him to write the book in such a way that had us re-reading it multiple times just to make sense of what was going on. It also helps that he’s been a long time Halo fan and, like the rest of us, really loves Buck.
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ASE Ep. 163 Marathon Tempus Irae 28: In A Vendetta Kind of Mood
Narc and Blackstar made it aboard the Pfhor ship, but it seems someone already knew they were coming…
We’re doing a new Marathon adventure– this time fighting the Pfhor in Italy of the past in third party scenario Tempus Irae!
Tempus Irae can be played, like the other Marathon games, using the open source Aleph One engine which you can get here for Windows, Mac and Linux:
Tempus Irae and other third party scenarios for the Aleph One engine can be downloaded here:
http://source.bungie.org/scenarios.php#more
We use irons’ Co-Op script, (but not this time) which gives weapons and ammo to both players if either picks any up, and prevents weapon loss on death (so items can’t be destroyed in lava or slime). The script also allows one player to teleport to a destination set by themselves or their partner, in case co-op players run into a problem a solo player would have to restart for.
http://simplici7y.com/items/co-op
Tempus Irae has its own spoiler guide:
http://marathon.bungie.org/spoiler/tempus/
Subscribe to the Narcogen’s YouTube channel for Anger, Sadness and Envy video podcasts:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIof4Cp3-cam7bAFzDEwK_wzSSEya050i
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https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/anger-sadness-and-envy/id266991411?mt=2
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Music used in this episode:
“What About Bob?” by Alexander Seropian, remixed by Craig Hardgrove (intro music)
“New Pacific (Reprise)” by Alexander Seropian, remixed by Craig Hardgrove (outro music)
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Who needs space?
Quirel found some awesome pictures of upcoming goodies from Spartan Games… go check out his post! (Louis Wu 23:18:05 UTC)
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Catching up on RvBS13
The heat here in Seattle has fried my brain; we’re two weeks behind on Red vs Blue Season 13. And that’s no good, because the series is AWESOME. Episode 14, Counseling, focuses on getting people who don’t like each other to find nice things to say about each other (yeah, that doesn’t always work), while Episode 15, Armonia, Part One, gets Carolina to face an old foe. Events are barreling along towards the season finale – go watch!(Louis Wu 23:05:07 UTC)
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What’s Wrong With Destiny’s Story?
How I think Bungie’s development history may have led to that empty feeling where Destiny’s story should be. In the past this would have been a blog post, but since we’re doing mostly videos these days… why not?
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Halo: Escalation #20
Operation ATHENA is underway and Spartan Palmer and her team are deep inside a vault of ancient Forerunner secrets. Check out the continuation of ‘The Absolute Record’ storyline in the latest edition of Halo: Escalation out now!(MacGyver10 15:12:22 UTC)