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Watch the HCS All-Star Halo 2 Classic Showdown
HCS All-Star Halo 2 Classic Showdown is live on the Halo Twitch channel. Apparently there will be giveaways too. Go watch!(mastrbiggy 23:23:58 UTC)
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Installation 01 March Update
TheChunkierBean has posted a March update for his free-to-play, Installation 01. Things seem like they are coming along since we last heard about the game. Check it out!(mastrbiggy 22:28:16 UTC)
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Espen Saetervik’s Forerunner City
Espen Saetervik created a breathtaking piece of concept art depicting a Forerunner City. You can check out the rest of his art here.(mastrbiggy 22:26:59 UTC)
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HCS All-Star Halo 2 Classic Showdown
343i announced that on March 19 (this Thursday) they will be hosting an HCS All-Star Halo 2 Classic Showdown. 343i has selected 8 of the top HCS players and the community will vote on which 4 players will match agains the 343 Pro Team in a best-of-5 series. The entire event will be streamed on the Halo Twitch channel.(mastrbiggy 21:47:44 UTC)
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Halo: Nightfall on iTunes
Halo: Nightfall is now available on the Halo iTunes page for purchase or for rental. (mastrbiggy 21:31:30 UTC)
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Halo 3 – Unused/Removed Cinematics Compilation
gamerguy2002 stopped by to let us know about Gamecheat13’s latest video that shows off a few unused cinematics and cutscenes from Halo 3. Go watch!(mastrbiggy 21:30:01 UTC)
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Let’s Play Destiny Co-Op #49: Vault of Glass, Hard Mode
ChrisTheeCrappy takes over sherpa duties and shepherds us through the Vault of Glass, this time on Hard mode, where revives are disabled in death zones.
This video strings together ONLY the successful runs at each stage of the vault, unlike the earlier raid videos. Unlike the first Vault video, we didn’t cheese the Templar by pushing him off the platform (because you can’t anymore) but we did sort of cheese the Templar by wiping and respawning on the upper platforms so we could kill him from a safe distance with snipers and rockets.
For complete stats:
https://www.bungie.net/en/Legend/PGCR/1/4611686018429850686/2305843009221559453/1753241315
https://www.bungie.net/en/Legend/PGCR/1/4611686018429850686/2305843009221559453/1753512424
https://www.bungie.net/en/Legend/PGCR/1/4611686018429850686/2305843009221559453/1754417310
https://www.bungie.net/en/Legend/1/4611686018429850686/2305843009221559453
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Podtacular 465: Halo 5 Beta Breakdown: Spectator Mode
Our latest show comes from the depths of Pax East that took place this past weekend including the grand finals of HCS Season One. To no mere coincidence, this week we talk about one of thenew, highly demanded features in Halo: Spectator mode. While what we experienced is likely to change over the rest of the game’s development, it showed a glimpse of what we could have in the future and what that means to streamers, broadcasters and commentators. The guests on this show are very fitting given the topic as they are as close as it gets to having Spectator mode being the most valued. Our first group comes from our friends over at GrifballHub, Goosechecka and Receptor17. You can see them streaming games with their own improvised Spectator mode used for streaming live Grifball matches on Twitch every Wednesday and Thursday. Our final guest many know as one of the golden eSports casters for gaming, none other than Goldenboy, who casts many HCS tournaments including the grand finals of season one. There are some striking similarities between the two groups yet some distinct feature requests that would be great additions to Halo 5: Guardians.
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Canon Fodder – Novel Ideas
This week’s Canon Fodder is live and it focuses on Halo novels that are releasing this year – there are quite a few, including one by Joseph Staten. Grim also interviews Frankie about his upcoming novel, Halo: Saint’s Testimony. We are also teased about a new community screenshot feature on Waypoint – prepare for your first assignment!(mastrbiggy 21:22:05 UTC)
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ASE Ep. 146 Marathon Tempus Irae 00: Ain’t My Bitch
We’re starting 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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Music used in this episode:
“What About Bob?” by Alexander Seropian, remixed by Craig Hardgrove (intro music)
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More On Escalation
Speaking of Escalation, there’s an interview over at Newsarama, with writer Duffy Boudreau – you can get info about where the series is going, and see cover art from episodes 19 and 20 (which are still a ways off). Nice! Thanks, Grizzlei.(Louis Wu 22:56:30 UTC)
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Canon Fodder – That Escalated Quickly
Eep – looks like we missed last week’s Canon Fodder, which was focused on the comic series Escalation. Grim interviewed Brian Reed, one of the writers involved in the series, and teased out some pretty interesting morsels! Go read.(Louis Wu 22:53:20 UTC)
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The Blind Leading the Blind
Amazing – Twitch Plays Halo is still going, with its crowdsourced run of Halo… and they’ve made it to the trench run on the Maw! (It’s currently offline, but that’s temporary.) Keep an eye on this stream, just to see if they’ll finish! (Thanks to Hoovaloov for the reminder!)(Louis Wu 22:50:20 UTC)
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Remaking the Art of Halo 2 for Xbox One – GDC 2015
Certain Affinity’s Michael Pavlolich gave a GDC talk that detailed the pipeline and tools that allow artists to quickly take concepts and ideas to a functioning in-game model. A good portion of his presentation is focused on recreating Halo 2’s art for the Anniversary edition of the game. It’s a really interesting talk, even for non-artist types. Thanks, SEspider.(mastrbiggy 18:58:11 UTC)
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Xbox One MCC Bundle Announced
Major Nelson announced that Microsoft will be releasing an Xbox One Halo: The Master Chief Collection Bundle this month for $349. The console itself is a standard black Xbox One, but you do get some nice Halo packaging as well as the digital version of MCC. Neat!(mastrbiggy 22:41:37 UTC)
The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft
