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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
Subscribe to the iTunes channel or RSS feed for shorts and audio podcasts:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/anger-sadness-and-envy/id266991411?mt=2
http://feeds.feedburner.com/AngerSadnessEnvy
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)
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Halo Championship Series Season 2 Finals – Recap
The Halo Championship Series Season 2 wrapped up this past weekend, and the folks over at the Xbox Wire took the time to wrap up the gaming for us nice and neatly. Go give it a read if you want to see who came out on top and walked away with their share of $150,000!(MacGyver10 15:10:04 UTC)
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Hunter/Hunted Halo Shirts at Hot Topic
Everyone’s favorite mall retailer for chain wallets and pop culture tees has some new official Halo shirts available. Choose your side and sport the Master Chief or Locke on your torso!(MacGyver10 15:03:40 UTC)
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He is Forerunner, but He is Not Forerunner
What is Mendicant Bias? Who is Mendicant Bias? Where is Mendicant Bias? As an AI character in the Halo universe, Mendicant Bias has given much to the community as far as discussion goes. Grey101 on our forum wants to engage the community around some of the latest bits of info from both recent lore accounts and Frankie himself. Check out his recent article at the Halo Archive to read his thoughts!(MacGyver10 15:10:29 UTC)
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Games Done Quick Does Halo 3 Game Quickly, Soon
Games Done Quick is an annual celebration of the fantastic world of speedrunning, where video game players maneuver through games as fast as possible for charity. General Vagueness let us know that Speed Demos Archive and Speedruns Live will be running Halo 3 this Thursday around 7:50p. There’s a lot of links in Vagueness’ post worth checking out for all the details!(MacGyver10 15:29:25 UTC)
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Aloe 5: Gardening
As the hype train ramps up for Halo 5: Guardians, other games are escalating their marketing campaigns as well…sometimes by even hijacking Halo 5: Guardians marketing material. Check out some of the spoofs by PvZ2, especially the one Urban Reflex let us know about.(MacGyver10 15:18:25 UTC)
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Saint’s Testimony, a Halo short by Frankie
Despite his follicular deficiency, he writes a pretty good short story! Go check out ‘Saint’s Testimony’, out now in digital formats and a good read on artificial intelligence in the Halo universe! Thanks Arithmomaniac!(MacGyver10 14:27:45 UTC)
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Project Jump – Halo 1 Campaign Series
slYnki let us know of his recent compilation, Project Jump – The Complete Series on YouTube. He combines some jumps from every level of Halo 1 into one 30 minute video. There are some pretty cool tricks in there, check it out when you get the chance!(MacGyver10 14:22:40 UTC)
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