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Reliving old menus
Wow, neat. Halome.nu has put all main menus from Halo titles online – Halo, Halo 2, Halo 3, Halo 4, Halo 3: Mythic (!!), Halo 3: ODST, and Reach. It’s mostly for the music; you can’t interact with the menus themselves. Still… cool! Thanks, Bounce-A-Gon.(Louis Wu 23:34:40 UTC)
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Watching a 50-covie stack form
Rockslider continues his exploration of enemy overload – wanna see a stack of 50 covenant enemies? You can watch them drop in! Craziness. (You know it’s just the clear-out at the end you want to participate in…)(Louis Wu 23:30:12 UTC)
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Batman makes him sweat
Gametrailer’s Michael Huber is tough to stomach in large doses, but if you can handle a minute, swing by ‘The E3 of Dreams – Huber Hype‘ and jump straight to 1:30. He talks to Ike Amadi about Halo 5, Spartan Locke, and Batman. Thanks, Grizzlei! (Louis Wu 23:28:23 UTC)
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The Know talks Halo 5
Rooster Teeth sat down with 343’s Chris Lee and Kevin Franklin to discuss Halo 5, and its presence at E3 – in a 20-minute interview, they cover everything from gameplay to the Hololens demo. Tons of great little details – if you missed this when it was live-streamed, watch the archive now! (Louis Wu 23:23:24 UTC)
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The Sprint – now on YouTube
If you’ve heard good things about The Sprint: The Road to E3 (the ViDoc series 343’s been publishing on the Halo Channel on the Xbox One), but don’t have the ability to watch it on the Halo Channel, Bounce-A-Gon has your back – they’ve posted it on YouTube, and he’s linked all 4 episodes so far. Go watch – it’s great!(Louis Wu 23:18:06 UTC)
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Splitting up the Reach Statue
tadboz decided his Halo: Reach Legendary statue was too bulky – so he decided to break it apart, and create new bases for each model. The final products are really cool! Go take a look.(Louis Wu 23:11:26 UTC)
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Locke – a man with two sources
Over on reddit, LairdM put together a few sources that suggested that Mike Colter might not be voicing the character of Locke any more in Halo 5 – that he might have been replaced by Ike Amadi. A followup by Frankie, on NeoGAF, confirms this – Colter is still the FACE of Locke, while Amadi is his voice. Thanks to Car15 for the heads-up! (Louis Wu 23:00:38 UTC)
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Under Locke and Keynote
This week’s Canon Fodder is meaty – everything from a look at Armigers (the Promethean Soldier we saw in the reveal) to a peek at new armor variants coming in Halo 5, to a reminder about why you want to check out the latest Sprint on the Halo Channel. Go read – get excited! Thanks, Grim, for coming by to let us know it was up! (And hey, while I’m here… let me say that I’m thrilled that HBO has gotten a new voice in MacGyver10, who jumped in and saved our front page from looking totally empty during E3 – welcome!)(Louis Wu 18:58:37 UTC)
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ASE Ep. 160 Marathon Tempus Irae 24: You Gotta Sin To Be Saved
More Catholicism-flavored puzzles from Cosimo in this episode, at least before the game goes out of sync.
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/
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
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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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Halo and Hand Cramps
Looks like TeamBeyond landed a pretty sweet interview with Josh Holmes of 343 Industries going into great detail on the new Warzone multiplayer mode, Req Packs, Arena multiplayer and more. Some of the highlights (or lowlights in some cases) are spartan customization, further req card explanation, no offline LAN support and on-map powerups are returning. Bounce-A-Gon put up a summary and started a discussion in our forum as well.(MacGyver10 16:08:08 UTC)
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From the Pages, In Step Player 3 and Player 4
The latest novel in the Halo series came out this week, called ‘Hunters in The Dark’ from Peter David. Not only does the cover feature the super-rare, super-awesome blind wolf, but apparently the pages on the inside have some pretty cool words too! Check out the spoilerific discussion in our forum if you’re so inclined!(MacGyver10 15:55:27 UTC)
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Play to Win, Not Pay to Win
There’s been some concern and discussion in our forum and around the internet on the new Warzone Req Packs introduced in Halo 5: Guardians. Our timed exclusive GrimbrotherOne who now sits on the throne at 343 Industries pointed to an article Josh Holmes shared on Waypoint to help clarify these new Req Packs.(MacGyver10 15:51:00 UTC)
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Team Coco vs HBO (the TV channel, not the real one)
Conan O’Brien and the cast of the HBO show Silicon Valley squared off in some Halo 5: Guardians Arena multiplayer this week on the Clueless Gamer segment. I feel like watching Team Coco play would be like playing on a team with Wu and Stuntmutt.(MacGyver10 15:40:44 UTC)
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Cortana on HoloLens Kickstarter in 2016?
One of the surprises at E3 was a Halo 5: Guardians briefing with HoloLens that many were able to experience before trying Warzone multiplayer for the first time. Ryan Mccaffrey tried it out and wrote about his experience over at IGN.(MacGyver10 15:33:31 UTC)
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The Art of Halo 5: Guardians
Urban Reflex let us know in our forums that the Art of Halo 5: Guardians is up for pre-order on Amazon. The book goes into detail on many of the characters in the upcoming video game, most excitably for me, a look into bringing back the Arbiter in his new role for Halo 5!(MacGyver10 15:18:13 UTC)
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Statues, Steelbooks and Spartans
If you’ve seen enough of Halo 5: Guardians this week already to know you want it this fall, Grizzlei in our forums posted the pre-order info from Xbox.com so you can reserve your gaming experience. She also pointed us to a tweet from Rob Semsey, Senior Comms Manager at 343 Industries, informing us the Limited Collector’s Edition comes only with a digital download of the game this time.Update:Looks like Engadget has a few pictures of the LCE statue featuring the Chief and Locke!(MacGyver10 15:02:08 UTC)
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Spawning Season for Grunts and Jackals
Rockslider on our forums continues to pull some awesome gameplay from Halo: CE, and with the craziness that is E3 this week it could have been overlooked! Check out his video on spawning a ridiculous number of covies, that then receive a little cyborg treatment courtesy of the Chief! You can also get more info in his post on our forum.(MacGyver10 14:54:07 UTC)
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