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  • What? Podtacular has it’s own RPG?

    Talk about a creative idea, Twest87 has put together an RPG about Podtacular members! Can you help Lord Hobo be less of a Hobo? Can you frag the truck? Can you find Doc’s painting? Test your skill against some prominent members of Podtacular including DM7000, JVB, Lord Hobo, BrentGamer, Quality Jeverage, Painkilla05, Foo Mo Wive and me. You can download the beta here. Good luck, brave warrior!


  • What? Podtacular has it’s own RPG?

    Talk about a creative idea, Twest87 has put together an RPG about Podtacular members! Can you help Lord Hobo be less of a Hobo? Can you frag the truck? Can you find Doc’s painting? Test your skill against some prominent members of Podtacular including DM7000, JVB, Lord Hobo, BrentGamer, Quality Jeverage, Painkilla05, Foo Mo Wive and me. You can download the beta here. Good luck, brave warrior!


  • Congratulations Team Overrated

    It’s now the end of another successful Podtacular Season Tournament and this time we have Team Overrated taking home the title of champions of this season. Congratulations Team Overrated.

    Before I go into any details of the winners, I would like to take the time and THANK every one and every team that participated and took this tournament serious by trying to schedule their matches, playing their games correctly and avoiding any type of conflicts.
    This was a new experience for me in particular, having teams from other clans/communities and I have to say that It was an amazing experience. Read on…


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    I must thank the Cavegirls, SBG clan for bringing a couple of teams, The Winged Warriors for also bringing a couple of teams and the guys from HaloWiki also. Thank you so much guys for coming and sharing this experience with us, we ejoyed very much having you guys around and I hope we provided at least a little of enjoyment and fun to you since this is what everything was all about anyways.

    I also have to thank all of the podtacular community for helping me and giving me the needed support in special CapnKrunk. This season would have not run as smooth if it wasn’t for him helping me with this new system. Thank you Krunk. I want to also thank every one of the 96 players that entered the tournament. This is huuuuge and I thank everyone that stuck around to make this happen. Thank you Podtacular and friends for all the help and support in another great Podtacular Season.

    With no more delays join me in congratulating Team Overrated, the winners of the 2006 Podtacular Fall Season.
    These guys are certainly 4 of the finest players in podtacular and we’re honored to have them with us. The team work, skill level and commitment to each other and team has brought these guys to top and we hope to see them growing and becoming even better as the days go by here in Podtacular world. Team Overrated came along a hard path beating teams that were not only tough but also SERIOUS candidates to the championship such as Team Us and Team Grunt Inc. Therefore we salute you and congratulate on this amazing milestone. Congratulations Team Overrated.

    I would like to also make note of Team Chicano Clique. They also traveled a hard path beating teams such as Cavetacular and Rampant Fury but thanks to their indisputable team chemistry they never let their main focus of being in the finals get away. Congratulations also to Team Chicano Clique for this great season.

    The games for the final match are as follows and you can check them out by simply clicking on the link bellow.

    One more time Thank you everyone that contributed in a way, whether by donating a prize, making a signature or making sure that I got the correct subject when sending out a PM to me with the games. I appreciate every little thing you guys did. Thank you again Podtacular and Congratulations Team Overrated.

    See you next time.

    Dialpex
    Tournament Director


  • Congratulations Team Overrated

    It’s now the end of another successful Podtacular Season Tournament and this time we have Team Overrated taking home the title of champions of this season. Congratulations Team Overrated.

    Before I go into any details of the winners, I would like to take the time and THANK every one and every team that participated and took this tournament serious by trying to schedule their matches, playing their games correctly and avoiding any type of conflicts.
    This was a new experience for me in particular, having teams from other clans/communities and I have to say that It was an amazing experience. Read on…


    ———-

    I must thank the Cavegirls, SBG clan for bringing a couple of teams, The Winged Warriors for also bringing a couple of teams and the guys from HaloWiki also. Thank you so much guys for coming and sharing this experience with us, we ejoyed very much having you guys around and I hope we provided at least a little of enjoyment and fun to you since this is what everything was all about anyways.

    I also have to thank all of the podtacular community for helping me and giving me the needed support in special CapnKrunk. This season would have not run as smooth if it wasn’t for him helping me with this new system. Thank you Krunk. I want to also thank every one of the 96 players that entered the tournament. This is huuuuge and I thank everyone that stuck around to make this happen. Thank you Podtacular and friends for all the help and support in another great Podtacular Season.

    With no more delays join me in congratulating Team Overrated, the winners of the 2006 Podtacular Fall Season.
    These guys are certainly 4 of the finest players in podtacular and we’re honored to have them with us. The team work, skill level and commitment to each other and team has brought these guys to top and we hope to see them growing and becoming even better as the days go by here in Podtacular world. Team Overrated came along a hard path beating teams that were not only tough but also SERIOUS candidates to the championship such as Team Us and Team Grunt Inc. Therefore we salute you and congratulate on this amazing milestone. Congratulations Team Overrated.

    I would like to also make note of Team Chicano Clique. They also traveled a hard path beating teams such as Cavetacular and Rampant Fury but thanks to their indisputable team chemistry they never let their main focus of being in the finals get away. Congratulations also to Team Chicano Clique for this great season.

    The games for the final match are as follows and you can check them out by simply clicking on the link bellow.

    One more time Thank you everyone that contributed in a way, whether by donating a prize, making a signature or making sure that I got the correct subject when sending out a PM to me with the games. I appreciate every little thing you guys did. Thank you again Podtacular and Congratulations Team Overrated.

    See you next time.

    Dialpex
    Tournament Director


  • Heads Up


    Heads Up

    MereCatfish provided us with this early capture from Bungie’s 7-minute-long Brute documentary. This one shows (along with an Elite and various lines of fire and information about local terrain) alterations made to the heads-up display, with the shield strength bar separated from the motion detector and placed dead center, straight up.


    What appear to be four grenade counters appear on the left: Frag, Plasma, Spike… and Shield?


    Current weapon and ammo information is in the upper right, and the lower right (where normally a single-wield weapon muzzle would protrude) is clear.





  • Heads Up

    Heads Up

    MereCatfish provided us with this early capture from Bungie’s 7-minute-long Brute documentary. This one shows (along with an Elite and various lines of fire and information about local terrain) alterations made to the heads-up display, with the shield strength bar separated from the motion detector and placed dead center, straight up.

    What appear to be four grenade counters appears on the left: Frag, Plasma, Spike… and Shield?

    Current weapon and ammo information is in the upper right, and the lower right (where normally a single-wield weapon muzzle would protrude) is clear.


  • Send us stuff for episode 94: Customs and Callins with special guest KP from Bungie!

    Yeah the cat is out of the bag. KP will be joining us for customs and callins! We’re flippin’ out about having Bungie’s community homeboy on the show. Just to lay it out there, we won’t be answering any questions about Halo 3 on this show because we don’t want KP to get flogged. Again.

    We’s lookin’ for you to send in stuff like this:

    1. Custom games. We’ll be reading the top few customs people send in. Send in a good one and it may get read by the man! Just click submit news and tips on the right side of the page and send it in with your gamertag. Be sure it’s actually fun to play. Cliff diving on lockout doesn’t count.
    2. Halo jokes and funny gamertags. You know you play too much Halo when you go to throw a baseball and you do the throwing motion twice and then stop, and then smack your forehead realizing you just did a real life RRX. Got a good Halo joke? Send em on in! Like the customs we’ll be reading the top few.
    3. Voice mails. It’s the time of the month to dust off the answering machine and play back the voice mails, naarated by CapnKrunk, Got some ideas about the Halo 3 story? Wanna sing us a dorky song? Wanna tell us a joke? Give us a jingle at 206-888-HALO. Don’t miss the train or you’ll have to wait for next month. Can’t stop the train, baby!
    4. Tales from the foxhole. Remember that time when you were going up to grab the flag on relic with 3 teammates and some guy on the other team jumped out and got 3 no scope headshots? Got a cool or funny story like this? Send it on in, we love these! This is one of our favorite segments of the month, it’s like we’re right there wicha. You know, like flapjacks and colla greens.

    Get your stuff in by Friday night the 20th

    at 5:30pm EST. As usual the earlier you get it in, the more likely it will be on the show. Move it, soldier! UPDATE: We’ll be talking about every little detail of the ViDoc bombshell the following week.


  • Send us stuff for episode 94: Customs and Callins with special guest KP from Bungie!

    Yeah the cat is out of the bag. KP will be joining us for customs and callins! We’re flippin’ out about having Bungie’s community homeboy on the show. Just to lay it out there, we won’t be answering any questions about Halo 3 on this show because we don’t want KP to get flogged. Again.

    We’s lookin’ for you to send in stuff like this:

    1. Custom games. We’ll be reading the top few customs people send in. Send in a good one and it may get read by the man! Just click submit news and tips on the right side of the page and send it in with your gamertag. Be sure it’s actually fun to play. Cliff diving on lockout doesn’t count.
    2. Halo jokes. You know you play too much Halo when you go to throw a baseball and you do the throwing motion twice and then stop, and then smack your forehead realizing you just did a real life RRX. Got a good Halo joke? Send em on in! Like the customs we’ll be reading the top few.
    3. Voice mails. It’s the time of the month to dust off the answering machine and play back the voice mails, naarated by CapnKrunk, Got some ideas about the Halo 3 story? Wanna sing us a dorky song? Wanna tell us a joke? Give us a jingle at 206-888-HALO. Don’t miss the train or you’ll have to wait for next month. Can’t stop the train, baby!
    4. Tales from the foxhole. Remember that time when you were going up to grab the flag on relic with 3 teammates and some guy on the other team jumped out and got 3 no scope headshots? Got a cool or funny story like this? Send it on in, we love these! This is one of our favorite segments of the month, it’s like we’re right there wicha. You know, like flapjacks and colla greens.

    Get your stuff in by Friday night the 20th

    at 5:30pm EST. As usual the earlier you get it in, the more likely it will be on the show. Move it, soldier!


  • Something Vidoc This Way Comes

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    Bungie has posted information (TASTY information) about the new video documentary to be released soon – where ‘soon’ means ‘tonight at 2 am PST’. If you don’t have an Xbox 360 and access to Xbox Live Marketplace, don’t fret – there will be options, in the not-too-distant future, we promise. What will you see here? Well, it’ll be your first glimpse of Halo 3 campaign play (though Bungie warns that none of it is set in stone – things can easily change before the final product ships). And lts and lots of other stuff. Get ready.(Louis Wu 23:34:18 UTC)

  • Et Tu Brute?!

    Wednesday morning, at 2am PST (Pacific Standard Time) on December 20th, we went Live on Xbox Live Marketplace with the next in our series of Vidocs – a series of video documentaries about you guessed it, Halo 3. This one’s about Brutes.

  • RT: New Strangerhood Soundtrack!!!

    You might have no idea who I am, but you’ve probably heard me. No, I’m not a secret character on RvB, I’m the guy who does music for RvB and PANICS; along with my band Trocadero, we did the RvB Soundtrack available at the RT Store.

    But this isn’t about…

  • RT: I just flew in from SeaTac

    and boy am I tired! The Austin office attended the Penny Arcade Child’s Play Charity Dinner the other night up in Bellevue, Washington and we just got back into the office. I know what you’re thinking, “They just got back home at 5pm on a Friday,…

  • RT: PSA “Let’s All Go To The Movies”

    First things first — our latest PSA “Let’s All Go To The Movies” is now available online for Sponsors. It’s currently resting on a new server (more on that in a moment), so please be gentle. The last new server we used to host a video became so…

  • RT: Saturday comic

    Today’s comic completes the “Bah Humbug” trilogy. We’ve had a ton of content posted in the last few days, so just in case you missed any of it, here’s a laundry list:

    “Let’s All Go To The Movies” PSA”
    Forbes Video
    And also,…

  • RT: Showtime!

    Our latest RvB PSA “Let’s All Go To The Movies” is now available to the public. Admission is free, so grab some popcorn and some butter-flavored hot oil substitute and enjoy!



  • RT: It’s beginning to feel a lot like…

    Christmas?
    Not in Texas, it’s like 80 degrees today. But anyway, since it is Christmas and all, and I haven’t done it yet, I should probably mention we have a store with stuff to buy for people, including a new CD, and a new sticker pack. I hear both stuff…

  • RT: Kaboom

    Looks like the video server outage from last week led to a cascading set of circumstances that erased all of our video archives. So, we’re restoring from backup now. However, the total RvB archive alone is about 50 GB, so this is going to take a…

  • The Gift – A Halo CE Chronicles Christmas Story

    The Halo CE Chronicles machinima has released a story of Christmas on the first ring world found by man. It’s available in a number of formats at the Halo CE Chronicles’ website.

  • The Gift

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    Dennis Powers sent word of ‘The Gift‘, a Christmas story from your friends at the Halo CE Chronicles. Available in a number of formats – very pretty stuff. (Louis Wu 17:47:01 UTC)

  • Online coop – revisited

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    Drakkari pointed out an interview with Certain Affinity’s Max Hoberman, who made a comment that might or might not have repercussions for yearning Halo gamers:

    I would hope that more games are headed in the direction that we’ve tried to blaze with Halo 2. I’ve seen the start of a trend in this direction, and I’ve seen some huge leaps in online cooperative play, and I hope that this all is a sign of things to come. I think that Halo 3 will set the next standard, but I don’t think the Bungie guys want me talking about everything they have up their sleeve just yet.

    The Halo 3 Data Archive jumped on this quote, and wrote up a speculation article about what he might have meant. Be aware, though, that until this gets clarified by Bungie, you can’t count on Max’s quote meaning what you think it means. Whatever it means, though… it’s intriguing.(Louis Wu 16:54:34 UTC)