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Halo 2A Gamescom Showdown
Depending on your timezone, you may have been fast asleep during the Halo 2 Anniversary Gamescom showdown. No need to fret, there’s a Twitch archive of the entire 6.5 hours of competitive Halo play. You can also watch the rebroadcast of the showdown on the Halo Twitch channel.(mastrbiggy 23:45:59 UTC)
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Dennis Reese talks Halo 3 and Halo 4
Polygon talked with Dennis Reese, senior producer on TMCC, about the technical improvements of Halo 3 and Halo 4. It’s good to see that Halo 3 and Halo 4 are receiving a lot more than just a framerate and resolution bump. Although not explicitly stated, it seems that Halo 3 and Halo 4 might come with the ability to switch between classic and remastered – interesting. Thanks, randomlyrossy.(mastrbiggy 22:01:12 UTC)
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Podtacular 438: Shrine
Continuing our Gamescom coverage, more details about the Master Chief Collection continue to surface from interviews with 343 Industries to YouTubers uploading gameplay footage from Halo 2 Anniversary Multiplayer. Since the Xbox briefing on Tuesday, Xbox put on two different streams to dive further into the information presented during the briefing. Our next glimpse at the Master Chief Collection will be at Pax in two weeks. Meanwhile, we wrap up our Gamescom coverage and can’t wait to get our hands on it in Seattle.
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Newcomer: Episode 2
Remember The Darkness? The Newcomer is back – episode 2 is almost entirely Halo, but those Destiny dweebs are still around! Go watch. (Thanks, Zero.) (Louis Wu 23:15:09 UTC)
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DoG’s Guide to Halo
Den of Geek has put together a Guide to Halo’s Expanded Universe – and it’s a great catch-up tool. Go give it a read, see if you’ve missed anything over the years!(Louis Wu 23:12:26 UTC)
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2014’s Halo Barn Video
LiteVisionsYT uploaded some off-screen footage of Halo 2 Anniversary multiplayer. The beginning of the video shows what the UI looks like and some of the customization options for your Spartan. Thanks, CyReN.(mastrbiggy 22:52:05 UTC)
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2014’s Halo Barn Video
LiteVisionsYT uploaded some off-screen footage of Halo 2 Anniversary multiplayer. The beginning of the video shows what the UI looks like and some of the customization options for your Spartan. Thanks, CyReN.(mastrbiggy 22:52:05 UTC)
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Team Slayer on Shrine Direct Feed
GameRiot posted a full match (direct feed) of Team Slayer on Shrine – looking sharp! Thanks, XBLYourExWife.(mastrbiggy 22:42:01 UTC)
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Catch Up, No Mustard
Is it still Monday? No? This might be late, then. Rooster Teeth released Episode 13 of this season’s Red vs Blue, and the way the pirates are working becomes a little clearer. It’s good to see Freckles again! Go watch.(Louis Wu 22:38:32 UTC)
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RUL Podcast EP 8
CruelLEGACEY dropped by to let us know that episode 8 of the Ready Up Live Podcast is available. In this episode the crew talk about what they’ve been playing, Gamescom news, and spend a good chunk of time sharing their impressions on MCC and the Halo 5 beta info. Go listen!(mastrbiggy 20:02:18 UTC)
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ASE Ep. 122 Vidmaster You Think You’re Big Time? You’re Gonna Die Big Time!
Marathon Infinity’s “Vidmaster Challenge” features remixes of three levels, the first of which is Try Again from the original Marathon. Each level includes grey, upgraded enemies.
A few notes about our playthrough:
We played Marathon and Marathon Infinity on Normal difficulty. We increased the difficulty on Marathon 2: Durandal to Major Damage to compensate for our somewhat higher familiarity with the levels of that game.
Big Time here is being played on Total Carnage; since the entire point of the Vidmaster Challenge is increased difficulty, there didn’t seem much point in not playing it on the highest difficulty.
However, it was clearly designed for solo play where any death means a restart. We use irons’ Co-Op script so that we share weapons and don’t lose them upon death. We had some sync problems on playback as with the earlier vidmaster levels, but here it only prevented me from capturing Blackstar’s chase camera angle. I have no idea why.
I think we’re supposed to kill everything in this mission, although the sometimes inaccurate enemy counter still shows a few remaining when we hit the final terminal.
What a ride!
This podcast uses:
Aleph One, free and open source versions of Marathon for Windows, Mac and Linux at http://source.bungie.org
Remixes of the Marathon soundtrack by Craig Hardgrove at http://themarathonmusic.com
We use irons’ Co-Op script:
http://simplici7y.com/items/co-op
Thanks to the maintainer of the Marathon Story Page, the denizens of the Marathon Story Forum and the Marathon Spoiler Guide:
http://marathon.bungie.org/story
http://forums.bungie.org/story/
http://marathon.bungie.org/spoiler/m2/
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)
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Podtacular 437: Gamescom 2014 Halo Debrief
Gamescom has been a whirlwind of Halo information and juicy details on the upcoming Master Chief Collection. At the end of the Xbox Press event Tuesday morning, Halo took to the stage to tell us about the upcoming Halo Channel App for Xbox one and Windows 8.1 devices, more details on the Halo 5: Guardians Multiplayer Beta, live gameplay demo of Delta Halo, and Sanctuary unveiled as the next map to officially join the Halo 2 Anniversary multiplayer experience. On this impromptu podcast, we discuss everything revealed during the Halo presentation and other information released throughout the day.
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Halo Channel Demo
During Gamescom, Kiki Wolfkill sat down with Geoff Keighley to demonstrate what the Halo Channel is and all the features and services that are integrated into the app. I think it looks pretty great, if only we had a front page that could be integrated into the service. One day, perhaps.(mastrbiggy 20:12:07 UTC)
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The details are in the armor…
…or is it armour? Anyway, MoaHerder from HaloArchives posted an analysis of the Halo 5 beta trailer that points out some interesting things that I completely missed, doh! The most interesting part of the analysis is that MoaHerder highlights that Nihilus Shadow found that one Spartan models has 104 written in braille on the chest plate. It might just be a fun little easter egg, or it might have bigger implications in terms of who we can expect to see in Halo 5. Thanks to zofinda for pointing this out – go read!(mastrbiggy 20:07:39 UTC)
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Watch Halo 2 Anniversary in 60FPS
singhr1 from NeoGAF pointed out that Xbox has direct feed B-roll of Halo 2 Anniversary in glorious 60fps. There’s footage of Delta Halo and some multiplayer footage of Sanctuary (you’ll have to download the videos). So smooth – go watch! Edit: Urban Relfex let us know that Gamersyde has streaming versions in 1080p60. (mastrbiggy 19:43:11 UTC)
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Halo 5 Guardians Beta Trailer
343i released a Halo 5 beta trailer that shows what players can expect to get their hands on in the beta. The beta trailer gives you a first look at some of the maps, weapons, and Spartans models that will be available come December 29th. Waypoint posted some screenshots of the maps and kapowaz took screenshots of the weapons and Spartans shown in the trailer. Exciting! (mastrbiggy 19:34:16 UTC)
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The Halo Channel
During the Xbox Briefing at Gamescom, 343i announced that they would be bringing the Halo Channel to Xbox One. The Halo Channel acts as a centralized hub for all your Halo content, and allows you to access live game broadcasts, community content, manage your Halo career, and more. MacGyver10 pointed out that the trailer for the Halo Channel provides some more info on Agent Locke’s character and shows a possible new skull included in the Master Chief Collection – interesting. You can also learn more about the Halo Channel on Waypoint.(mastrbiggy 19:16:26 UTC)
The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft
