San Diego Comic Con is one of the largest fan-focused conventions in the United States and this year we were able to attend and see what the fuss was all about. We had the opportunity to play real life Breakout, see the Mega Bloks build of Apex, learn about the story supplementing Halo 5: Guardians from the novels and Hunt the Truth podcast, be surrounded by Halo cosplayers and snag some con exclusive swag. We managed to pick up interviews with Stony Props on their Spartan training armor and Matt Forbeck on New Blood that will be releasing later in the week. Huge thanks to Laird for giving us the opportunity to attend and for being our guest for this episode.
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Podtacular 494: SDCC 2015 Special
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Giant Leaps
This week’s Canon Fodder is heavy on real science, in honor of the recent footage of Pluto coming back from New Horizons. Info comes from real scientists, and is a fascinating read. Check it out! (There are also bits on Saint’s Testimony and the Halo Channel.)(Louis Wu 19:35:35 UTC)
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Halo Community Update: Chock Full o’ Goodies
Bravo posted a new Halo Community Update last night – and it’s worth a read. Details about the Halo 5 Limited Collector’s Edition, some fantastic content from San Diego ComicCon (the Breakout Arena Celebrity Match video was a lot of fun), a closer look at Raid on Apex 7, the map turned into a MegaBloks superpack, and some info on the upcoming invitational to be held at Gamescom later this summer. Check it out!(Louis Wu 19:28:28 UTC)
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Ghost in the Mach – um, ComicCon
Wow, pretty awesome – DaFrontlineTrooper posted to Facebook about a Ghost that he and some friends put together in time for ComicCon NZ. Gorgeous!Over the past months myself and a team from Hot Glue Heroeshave been working intensely on bringing to life a Halo:…
Posted by DaFrontlineTrooper (Andrew Cook) on Friday, July 17, 2015Thanks, robofin117.(Louis Wu 19:21:09 UTC)
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Podtacular 493: E3 2015 Special
Our E3 special has finally arrived covering our experience for what was a truly an awesome week, most importantly for Halo. 343 Industries showed off a Campaign gameplay demo and unveiled Warzone, a new 12v12 multiplayer mode with AI combatants. At the Xbox booth, we got to experience Microsoft Hololens on the deck of the Infinity. We’re joined by special guest Unyshek, one of our battle buddies during the crazy week of Halo goodness.
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The Thin Fed Line
Once again, I’m several days behind on the latest episode of Red vs Blue Season 13, and that’s a shame, because it’s fantastic, and you should watch it when it comes out. Episode 13 details the tribulations of the Chorus military, the fears of Carolina, and the plans of Locus. Things are getting scary!(Louis Wu 20:40:07 UTC)
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Woaf 117: Pillow of Awesome
The Woaf stopped by to announce his new series, ‘Woaf 117’. Episode 1 is called ‘Pillow of Awesome’, and it adds a new spin to some familiar footage. Go try it out!(Louis Wu 20:37:50 UTC)
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Extreme Convenant Spawning
Rockslider has explored a little further with his crazy Grunt/Jackal spawning experiments… seems the more you pack in, the weirder things get. Check out the video – it’s a blast! (Well, many blasts.)(Louis Wu 22:59:14 UTC)
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The Silent Cartographer: Evolved postmortem
Ifafudafi wrote to let us know that The Silent Cartographer, Evolved, a Halo PC mod we mentioned back in March, has been treated to a mini-postmortem by lead environment artist Siliconmaster, showing (in video form) how the environments grew from concept to completion. There are also a collection of reflective articles written by team members – the .rar file is on Dropbox. This is a great set of resources to see how a group of fans created a beautiful Halo-related project!(Louis Wu 22:54:11 UTC)
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Tuning Halo 5’s Squad AI
Over at the Team Beyond forums, there’s some interesting information about Halo 5’s squad AI, written by Chris Proctor, systems designer, and posted by Josh Holmes. (Whether you like it or not depends on what you think about playing with smart AI teammates.) Thanks, Bounce-A-Gon. (Louis Wu 23:13:50 UTC)
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Buy a book, get a REQ Pack
Well, that’s intriguing. Bounce-A-Gon appears to have ordered Last Light, a Halo novel due out in September… and it comes with a free REQ Pack for Halo 5. Fine example of cross-promotion!(Louis Wu 23:08:31 UTC)
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Halo sales now on level with Netflix subscribers
Gamespot discusses the latest sales milestone hit by the Halo franchise: 65 million units sold. That’s a pretty big number! (It also means the sales of the Master Chief Collection are below 5 million at this point, since they were at 60 million in October of last year, before it launched. Still a really big number.) Thanks, Gravemind. (Headline, for anyone who cares, comes from here.)(Louis Wu 15:21:32 UTC)
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CE 2015 Live… no longer live
A little late… but MatthewDratt stopped by yesterday to announce that CE3 2015 Live had just wrapped up. There’s a recap on YouTube, and a full livestream (along with a list of projects) on their website. Check it out – really impressive stuff!(Louis Wu 14:59:51 UTC)
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Laughing in Alien Tongues
Revenant1988 stopped by with pics of a new project he’s just polished up… and it’s pretty awesome. Go check it out!(Louis Wu 21:35:14 UTC)
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Custom Trailers: Hunt The Truth
Wow, interesting. Exanubisleader stopped by to point out a project he’s just released – it’s a trailer for Hunt the Truth. Works pretty well! Go watch.(Louis Wu 20:48:27 UTC)
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Selfies in the War Zone Episode 2
Longtime visitors will remember This Spartan Life, a groundbreaking series that used Halo machinima as a backdrop to fascinating interviews with real-world guests. They’re back with a second episode of their newest series, ‘Selfies in the War Zone’ – and the guest this time out is Pete Cooper, superfan whose biggest claim to fame is a full-size Warthog he built for a live action Halo video. He talks about Telekos Protocol and Drone, two graphic novel series he’s been building for a few years. It’s a great discussion, and Damian Lacedamian shows that the format still works wonderfully! Check it out.(Louis Wu 20:34:16 UTC)
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PSA – Warning: Trigger Warnings
This week’s release from the Rooster Teeth team was another PSA – this one takes a close look at Trigger Warnings, and, well… if you need them, don’t watch. That’s all.(Louis Wu 20:06:58 UTC)