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Halo 5 Video: A Hero Reborn
Last night, VAVA Mk2 let us know that a new Vidoc would be releasing according to the Halo and IGN Facebook pages. Looks like that video is up now and live at IGN.com! There’s some awesome insight not only into the Spartans we’ll see featured in Halo 5: Guardians, but also the making of 343Industries as a game developer. One of my favorite Vidocs in a while!(MacGyver10 15:23:54 UTC)
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Flip the Halo Channel on Your Smartphone
Our illustrious leader let us know that the Halo Channel app is now available to download on your iOS and Android devices. You have to use your Xbox Live account to login, but the UI is pretty sweet and you’ll now have access to some killer videos on your handheld!(MacGyver10 15:19:39 UTC)
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Fan Vid Halo Legends Abridged Series Finale
Cheeseburger Williams let us know the final installment of the eight part web series, Halo Legends Abridged is up. Good luck teddy bear charms and robot spartans had me really confused for a bit, but it’s an entertaining video! Check it out here on YouTube.(MacGyver10 19:35:24 UTC)
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Warthogs in Sword Base, Covenant on Falcons, Mass Hysteria
Halo: Reach is still providing some amazing new videos as Termacious Trickocity has released the final installment of their Meta Stability Series: Meta Stability 3! Two and a half years in the making, 150 plus hours of tricking, 6 months of editing resulting in a 10 minute video that I think most Halo fans will appreciate! Check it out on YouTube!(MacGyver10 19:28:32 UTC)
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Authentic UNSC Spartan Supplies
Ever wanted to dress like a casual employee of the UNSC? Looks like Musterbrand, a company that specializes in ‘everyday cosplay-ish threads’, has reached a deal to start carrying items from within the Halo universe. Thanks Revenant1988!(MacGyver10 19:23:56 UTC)
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Let’s Play Destiny Co-op #64 Prison of Elders: Forever Eater
teelGaribaldi joins Blackstar and Narcogen to bring down Vex Gate Lord Quodron, the Forever Eater, in a level 34 Prison of Elders activity.
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CE3 2015 Live – Halo Mods Showcase
CE3 Live is an annual showcase of some pretty amazing Halo: Custom Edition mods brought together by the community and shown off during a livestream. This is the 6th year making CE3, and as the post in our forum shows, they have some pretty cool Halo mods coming in this year!(MacGyver10 18:42:17 UTC)
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Expect a Lot of Bangs
Rockslider is back with some more Megabattle craziness! He and his 11 marines tackle the Covenant with some various tactics and weaponry. Check out the linked post for your flavor of video!(MacGyver10 18:33:06 UTC)
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Prepare to SSD – More
Bones has added to the prize pool for munky-058’s Forge Contest (we mentioned it last week), and extended the submission deadline – go check out his cool comic for all the details!(Louis Wu 21:18:27 UTC)
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So Chief, Tell Me About Your Mother
The Escapist recently started a new series with video game characters spending some time on the couch of a therapist. Our mjolnir wearing hero spends some time talking about teabags and his dearly-departed, AI sidekick in an episode from last month. Thanks General Vagueness!(MacGyver10 14:05:32 UTC)
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Assessing the Early Halo 5 E3 Build
Digital Foundry, the infamous division of Eurogamer that focuses less on fun gameplay and more on comparing who has more inches, has an up-way-too-early Halo 5 performance article based on gameplay and videos from E3. While I believe they jump to conclusions way too early on videos of a build that are from three months ago and still today four months out, there is some interesting conversation nevertheless. Thanks SIX min WHISTLE!(MacGyver10 13:51:56 UTC)
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Rampancy.net Channel Update July 2015
Just a quick update video showing what will be going up on the channel this week, and also a news item– we’ll be on vacation starting Thursday, July 9. Videos will resume on July 27.
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Happy Fourth!
If you’re in the US, we hope you’re enjoying the beautiful weather and the grilled meats on this Independence Day. If you’re not… enjoy what you’ve got! We’ll be back soon.
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ASE Ep. 161 Marathon Tempus Irae 25 & 27: Hang To Dry & Repository 9
With our co-op scripts disabled to prevent going out of sync, Blackstar and Narcogen must rely on skill and determination to deal with waves of Hunters and Troopers teleporting behind them.
Also, our apologies– this video and the previous one were posted out of order. This one will remain at the top space in the queue until the next is posted, and then we’ll put back into the proper order.
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, 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/
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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
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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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Scarab Tactics
This week’s Canon Fodder gets you up to speed on the lesser-known tidbits about Scarabs, shows off Grim’s favorite armor variant as an intro to a fan-response segment asking about your favorite armor (with a tiny teaser about upcoming goodies), and provides details about the SDCC panel we mentioned earlier. Thanks to munky-058 for the heads-up.(Louis Wu 21:53:08 UTC)
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The Game Informer Show: The Halo Edition
Game Informer has an interesting episode of The Game Informer Show, with both a pair of 343 employees (Josh Holmes and Tim Longo) and a pair of folks who USED to work on Halo (Jaime Griesemer, Marty O’Donnell). It’s a Halo extravaganza! Go listen. Thanks, Bounce-A-Gon.(Louis Wu 21:48:40 UTC)
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Armor customization discussion
Over at Beyond Entertainment, Josh ‘Sal1ent’ Holmes posted a note about the armor customization choices coming in Halo 5. It’s not clear from the reaction of our own forum whether the final system is a step back from previous games, or whether people are misunderstanding his words. Go weigh in with your own thoughts! (Louis Wu 21:45:41 UTC)
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Insight and Sneak Peeks, Incoming
Gamespot has a little bit of information about the Halo 5: Guardians panel at San Diego Comic-Con next week. Swing by for details! Thanks, Urban Reflex.(Louis Wu 21:40:35 UTC)
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Let’s Play Destiny Co-op #63 Prison of Elders: Broken Legion
Blackstar and Narcogen once again team up with Stuntmutt in the Prison of Elders, this time to take on Valus Tra’ug and the Broken Legion.
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