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Halo 2 Anniversary Cinematic Launch Trailer
343i released a Halo launch trailer that shows off a good chunk of H2A Blur cinematics, including the ‘Another Day at the Beach’ cinematic – it looks pretty great! There’s also a few videos showing off side-by-side comparisons of the new and old cutscenes. Thanks, The BS Police. TDSpiral also let us know that there is a YouTube version. Go watch! (mastrbiggy 18:48:48 UTC)
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Let’s Play Destiny Co-Op #16: Eye of a Gate Lord
Blackstar and Narcogen are picking up with playing Destiny in co-op mode with the first moon mission: The Dark Beyond. (The Cosmodrome story missions and strike seem largely unchanged from the beta test, at least at their lower difficulty levels).
In this level, we challenge a Gate Lord to steal its eye.
For complete stats:
https://www.bungie.net/en/Legend/PGCR/1/4611686018429850686/2305843009221559453/208569306?_
Subscribe to the Narcogen’s YouTube channel for Anger, Sadness and Envy video podcasts:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIof4Cp3-cam7bAFzDEwK_wzSSEya050i
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Podtacular 448: Extra Life 2014
This past weekend, we joined thousands of gamers around the world in support of Extra Life, a 24-hour charity event where people play video games to raise donations for their local children’s hospitals. We were blessed to reach our initial goal of $500 and we appreciate everyone who donated to the cause. While the event is over, you can still contribute to our Extra Life team. We had a great schedule of Halo gameplay including a shenanigan-filled Halo 3 campaign with the Podtacular staff. If you’re interested in finding out what happened, you can go here.In Halo news, IGN released the final two videos of The Master Chief Collection running at 1080P, 60FPS. Halo 3 look surprisingly good despite the age of the engine, being able to pick out the subtitles in textures and the smoothness of models. Stonetown, the remake of Zanzibar got the in-depth walk-through treatment this week. Halo Fest is returning for the launch of The Master Chief Collection, but not in the way you may remember it if you were at Pax Prime in 2011. Finally, we got a trailer for Remaking the Legend Halo 2: Anniversary documentary that will be premiering on Friday and available for free on Xbox Video and the Halo Channel November 11th.
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Forging a Masterpiece
IGN’s Master Chief Collection offering today is a walkthrough of Halo 2 Anniversary’s Forge… and all I can say is ‘wow’. Go watch. Thanks, Moorpheusl9.(Louis Wu 17:54:01 UTC)
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Gods Among
Kermit found some really slick Halo artwork for sale on Etsy – swing by and see what you think! It’s available in both 11×14 and 16×20, so you can pick how much of your wall it’ll take up.(Louis Wu 17:51:19 UTC)
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ASE Ep. 139 Marathon EVIL 15: Septic Exodus Part 3
We’ve finished with the canonical Marathon Trilogy and are moving on to third party scenarios, starting with EVIL. In this scenario, a UESC ship from Tau Ceti runs into a spatial anomaly that sends them far away where we encounter something dark and evil.
Blackstar and Narcogen arrive at what seems to be the level’s last puzzle but have trouble making the machinery work.
EVIL 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:
EVIL 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
EVIL has its own spoiler guide:
http://marathon.bungie.org/spoiler/evil/
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)
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Halo: Broken Circle chapter 1 excerpt
Grizzlei pointed out a page on the Simon & Schuster site with an excerpt from Broken Circle, the upcoming Halo novel from John Shirley. It’s out next week – go give the excerpt a look!(Louis Wu 23:05:28 UTC)
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I need a spike
AfroRyan noticed an homage to Halo in the game 1001 Spikes – go read his description for details (along with a couple of video links!). Love the audio.(Louis Wu 22:54:33 UTC)
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Halo | The Avengers: Age of Ultron Mashup
Gugga Leunnam mashed up the newest Avengers: Age of Ultron trailer with Halo footage… works pretty well! Go watch.(Louis Wu 19:23:14 UTC)
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Pumpkin Pattern Prodding
You know what else happens next Friday? Our 343 Guilt O’ Lantern contest closes! Have you carved your pumpkin yet? Get on it! Lots of prizes this time around (yeah, I know, I really need to get to posting those on the contest page) – in addition to the oil painting from Frank O’Connor and the Halo-themed headphones, there are monster Mega-Bloks sets, action figures, posters, and special stuff we haven’t even talked about yet! Make sure you don’t miss the October 31 deadline.(Louis Wu 20:09:15 UTC)
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Remaking a Legend – available in 7 days
According to Xbox Wire, ‘Remaking the Legend’, the Halo 2 Anniversary documentary we mentioned last week, will be released next Friday, October 31. Get psyched! Thanks, The BS Police.(Louis Wu 20:06:36 UTC)
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The Maid of Orleans
Arithmomaniac has provided a whole passel of links for people interested in how Halo 4 (and future Halo titles) leverage the cloud to handle the data transfer needs of the game franchise. Several talks from Catie McCaffery, the second person to be hired by 343 for networking. Great stuff for the tech-oriented!(Louis Wu 19:46:49 UTC)
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The Lowdown on Lockdown
IGN wants to help you get up close and personal with Lockdown, the Halo 2 Anniversary remake of Lockout. Go watch! Thanks, Moorpheusl9.(Louis Wu 19:43:09 UTC)
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ASE Ep. 138 Marathon EVIL 15: Septic Exodus Part 2
We’ve finished with the canonical Marathon Trilogy and are moving on to third party scenarios, starting with EVIL. In this scenario, a UESC ship from Tau Ceti runs into a spatial anomaly that sends them far away where we encounter something dark and evil.
Last time, we used co-op to cheat our way through a moving platform puzzle. This time, Narcogen negotiates a sewer maze looking for buttons while Blackstar fights respawning enemies.
EVIL 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:
EVIL 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
EVIL has its own spoiler guide:
http://marathon.bungie.org/spoiler/evil/
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)Marathon,Marathon Infinity (Video Game),Bungie,Bungie Studios (Organization),Cooperative Gameplay (Gameplay Mode),Cooperative Game (Game Genre),Let’s Play
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Halo 4 in 1808p60
Wanna see Halo 4 in 1080p, 60fps glory? Go visit IGN. Thanks, Moorpheusl9.(Louis Wu 22:54:36 UTC)
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The McDonalds of Shooters
According to a newspost on Xbox.com, Halo has driven over 6 billion hours of gameplay on Xbox LIVE. That’s a big number! (I have my doubts about the count… but I certainly don’t have access to logs, so it could very well be accurate.) Thanks to gamerguy2002, who pointed out an article at Kotaku about it.(Louis Wu 22:52:55 UTC)
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The Elite Eight
The newest Halo Bulletin, published last night, discusses the MCC Launch Invitational (a pro tournament taking place in LA just before launch), reminds you to watch the Nightfall trailer (and lets you do so right from the page), previews Halo: Escalation #11, continues the new tradition of Canon Fodder, whereby Grim tells us all about the Halo storyline, and shows off screenshots of Exile. Whew! You can read it on Halo Waypoint, or you can read it in our Halo Bulletin Archive. Thanks to Grizzlei for the heads-up this week.(Louis Wu 22:43:23 UTC)
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