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The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

  • Halo Everywhere Winners Announced

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    On December 1, the Halo Everywhere contest went live. In 2 months, there were 700 artists submitting 1200 entries, and half a terabyte of bandwidth was burned through. On February 1, voting ended, and LordGideon and the crew began sifting through the votes. Today, the winners have been announced – go check ’em out!(Louis Wu 15:24:14 UTC)

  • Haiku (Gesundheit)

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    It’s been years since we had a real Haiku thread on our forum (though someone tried last year) – are they coming back?(Louis Wu 14:01:19 UTC)

  • The Community Awards show

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    Sigafoos dropped us a note about The Riot’s First Annual Community Awards podcast, now available at Second Foundation. Awards are presented by community luminaries (heh), with a musical guest and everything. Congrats to all the winners – and in fact to all nominees; this community is only as strong as the people who help build it. 24 minutes, 10 mb. (RVideo has started a thread on our forum, if you have comments.)(Louis Wu 13:36:39 UTC)

  • Anarchy’s Top Player Picks

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    3Suns pointed out an article on MLGPro.com in which Anarchy makes his list of Halo’s top 20 players, with reasons. Interesting read…(Louis Wu 13:32:51 UTC)

  • HollywoodNHouse in Trouble

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    We hate bad news – but it happens. We got a note from Matt6908, of HollywoodNHouse – they got in over their heads, hosting-wise, and are down for a while. Details can be found on their front page (which is the only page they’ve got for now). Folks – the Halo community is BIG. Catering to it can lead to unexpected expenses; there are many resources available to Halo sites to decrease hosting costs – use ’em. Here’s hoping HollywoodNHouse makes it through this one.(Louis Wu 13:30:50 UTC)

  • Awesome Halo Goodies for Auction Next Week

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    Over at Team Xbox, there’s a press release about the First Annual Dream Awards, a production of Hollywood Arts, a non-profit that reaches at-risk teens through the arts. This year, they’re honoring Tommy Tallarico, the man behind Video Games Live – and the awards ceremony will be a fundraiser for the organization. They’ll be auctioning off all sorts of goodies (this is the auction home link, though nothing’s posted yet – the auction goes live on February 17) – including an audio cameo in Halo 3 (!!), a Master Chief statue, and a tour of the Bungie Studios. (Lots of other stuff too – but that’s the Halo schwag.) The auction kicks off at 7 pm PST on the 17th, and ends on the 24th – keep your eye on that page! Google News was first with this heads-up, but Spec_Ops_Assault wasn’t far behind.(Louis Wu 13:20:48 UTC)

  • MLG 07 Schedule Up

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    MLG has posted their 2007 Pro Circuit cities and dates – the playoff and national locations are still to be announced, but the regular season will take place in North Carolina, New Jersey, Texas, Illinois, and Florida from mid-April through the end of September. Hexudus was the first to point it out.(Louis Wu 13:08:28 UTC)

  • Ghostin

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    Paul “stickygerbils” Maestri wrote to point out Halo Heads 45 – to remind you of that idiot we’ve all played online with. (The sad part is, they rarely understand what the problem is…(Louis Wu 13:05:07 UTC)

  • Be a part of history with episode 100!

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    Wow I can’t believe we’re celebrating our 100th episode this week! We want to make it special and we need your help to do it.

    Future Sport: it’s the sport of the future

    We’ve taken a look back on our one year anniversary. This time we’re gonna look over the horizon at what the future has in store for Podtacular. What do you think will happen with Podtacular and the Halo community? New events, groups, members, tournaments, and an envigorated Halo 3 community? Let us know: click submit news and tips on the right side and type it out. Make your voice heard! Or at least your fingers.

    Deadline is Thursday Night

    at about 5:30pm EST. We’ll also be covering some community awards, a look back at some funny moments on the show with CapnKrunk, and some other cool stuff from the Podtacular community so definitely stay tuned for that. I can’t wait!

  • Episode 99: Crackdown Event with special guests

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    Download | Shownotes

    This show we first cover the crackdown event in Redmond, Washington. Liquilife from the uncle gamer podcast and I get JVB and Vicious696‘s takes on the event and what they learned… straight from the secret lair of Chris Paladino, our buddy from the gamerscore blog. After that we chill with Godfree from Gamertag Radio and Nelson from the Planet Xbox 360 podcast. This is a really laid back show. Time’s about 1:15. Hope you like it!

    UPDATE: The audio mistakes on this episode should now be fixed. Please re-download if you have a messed up version.

  • Filming begins

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    Filming on the Sad Pandas machinima will start saturday Fabruary 10th at 12:00 PM EST

  • RT: The Power of Cross-Promotion

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    First and foremost, if you haven’t watched Episode 89 of RvB, I highly recommend it. According to Matt, it’s “off the chain”, whatever that means. Also, today’s comic is posted below. Fries Please

  • The Riot #34

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    icu noticed that Episode 34 of The Riot was posted a couple of days ago – community news, and more. This is the first ep that’s available in streaming Flash format right from the site. If you choose to download, it’s 15 minutes, 6.2 mb.(Louis Wu 18:36:56 UTC)

  • HP becomes PH

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    Looks like one of the oldest Halo websites out there, Halo Planet (née Battleground: Halo), has been reborn as Planet Halo. Details about what that means to you, the visitor, can be found in this news post.(Louis Wu 15:55:47 UTC)

  • Tied The Leader Tuesday

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    XerxdeeJ stopped by with the Tuesday update of Tied the Leader – you’ll find a clan profile of SBG Omega (you’ll learn what ‘SBG’ stands for), a great writeup of a Turkey Shoot, and a 22 Questions (well, 10, actually) interview with Calyber, of the Frag Dolls. First Class!(Louis Wu 15:44:28 UTC)

  • PezCorner Launches

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    Pezcore kicked off a new gaming blog – the most recent article discusses girl gamers, and what it means to ‘fit in’ to the gaming community. (Halo is mentioned, because the most famous girl clans play it.) He’s looking for feedback – go tell him what you think!(Louis Wu 15:32:52 UTC)

  • When Game Journalists Get Silly

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    Wow. I’m not sure what to say about this editorial at IGN – it basically says “Bungie better make sure the beta is PERFECT, or it will derail the Halo 3 Hype Machine (™®©) and kill the entire game.” Yeah, whatever. Thanks, I guess, to AfroRyan, who noticed it.(Louis Wu 14:53:04 UTC)

  • Bungie Pentathlon: Winter ’07

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    Over at Bungie.net, there’s a writeup of the 2007 Winter Pentathlon – a venerable Bungie tradition involving lots of hand-eye dexterity and beer. (Normally, those don’t go together very well. As far as I can tell, the Pentathlon was normal.) KP’s team, the Mancannons, were bumped out the Halo 3 4v4 tourney early on – KP says it’s because he got lost and didn’t make it to the event in time, but I have it on decent authority that Marty challenged him to a 1v1 match, and the resulting shutout by an ancient musician embarrassed him so badly he couldn’t join his team for the 4v4. Regardless, the writeup is entertaining – give it a read. (And don’t forget to congratulate Bungie on their 15 year anniversary!) Looks like CougRon was first on our forum with a notice.(Louis Wu 14:07:10 UTC)

  • Lifepod #7 Posted

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    MereCatfish let us know about LifePod #7 – this episode of the HaloCE Community podcast has a Map of the Month feature. 24 minutes, 22 mb. Go listen.(Louis Wu 13:51:59 UTC)

  • Limited Training

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    Mister Froggy pointed out Halo, Articulated #11 – I gotta say, I’ve had this exact feeling when replaying old favorites! Good stuff. (Louis Wu 13:44:06 UTC)