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THX Gallery Migrated to Flickr
The THX gallery at http://hushedcasket.com/gallery/index.php has been migrated to our Flickr group at http://flickr.com/groups/51172396@N00/. If you have photos to contribute or you notice a set of photos from the gallery that was overlooked, ple…
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Podtacular 2006 Fall Season Tournament is now accepting signups!
Our first successful season of Halo is behind us. Now it’s time to pick your teams or join a team for the next season! Because of all the fun everyone had last season, there has been a huge amount of interest in participating in this one. The winners get interviewed on the podcast, get special userbars and special ranks in the forums. And you get a virtual trophy! Matches take place once a week but you can schedule the match any time in the week that works for both of your teams, so it’s not a strain on your schedule. See here for all the rules designed to make it a fun and fair season. (We learned a lot from last time!) Signups are only available until October 2nd, so whether you have a team picked out or not, go over to the signups page and we’ll get you set up!
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THX Gallery Migrated to Flickr
The THX gallery at http://hushedcasket.com/gallery/index.php has been migrated to our Flickr group at http://flickr.com/groups/51172396@N00/. If you have photos to contribute or you notice a set of photos from the gallery that was overlooked, ple…
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Episode 80: Tips Show and Codex Interview
Download | Show Notes
It’s time to help you level up and stay there with Halo 2 gameplay tips and specific tips for our Map of the Month: Lockout. With guest host Ju Blaine. We also have a great interview with guys from The Codex machinima series toward the end too. This one also includes our new segment intros, so keep an ear out for those right before each segment. This week’s pod art was modified by Captain Italy. Thanks! And as usual, thanks to Ciclonic for editing audio. This one weighs in at about 1:11 of audio goodness. Enjoy!
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Podtacular Ep 79
Podtacular Episode 79 was released a week ago – we apologize for the delay in reporting this. Thanks to Laird for letting us know (and we’re sure it’s not JUST because he was the guest-host!). Go listen.(Louis Wu 22:03:33 UTC)
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Podtacular 2006 Fall Season Tournament is now accepting signups!
Our first successful season of Halo is behind us. Now it’s time to pick your teams or join a team for the next season! Because of all the fun everyone had last season, there has been a huge amount of interest in participating in this one. The winners get interviewed on the podcast, get special userbars and special ranks in the forums. And you get a virtual trophy! Matches take place once a week but you can schedule the match any time in the week that works for both of your teams, so it’s not a strain on your schedule. See here for all the rules designed to make it a fun and fair season. (We learned a lot from last time!) Signups are only available until October 2nd, so whether you have a team picked out or not, go over to the signups page and we’ll get you set up.
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Episode 80: Tips Show and Codex Interview
Download | Show Notes
It’s time to help you level up and stay there with Halo 2 gameplay tips and specific tips for our Map of the Month: Lockout. With guest host Ju Blaine. We also have a great interview with guys from The Codex machinima series toward the end too. This one also includes our new segment intros, so keep an ear out for those right before each segment. This week’s pod art was modified by Captain Italy. Thanks! And as usual, thanks to Ciclonic for editing audio. This one weighs in at about 1:11 of audio goodness. Enjoy! Oh and here’s an illustration of my headset fix.
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Gamerscore Blog says Podtacular is a “must hear”
This past Friday, John Porcaro at the awesome Gamerscore blog talked about his addiction to podcasts and included Podtacular on his list of must hear podcasts. If you didn’t know, Gamerscore blog is written by members of the Microsoft Games marketing team. It’s good to know Microsoft is listening!
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Species Episode 1 – Finally
Several months ago, a movie was submitted to the MPRRS – but the submitters stated in the description of their movie that they had a higher-resolution version they wanted to use if the movie passed. It DID pass, and we sent them a note, asking for that higher-res version. After a few days went by, we tried again. No response, either time. After the second attempt, things got busy – and the movie totally slipped off the radar. Until last week. The submitters – the MjR37 Team – sent along an email, explaining that a drive crash killed all their existing high-res work, which is why we never heard from them. They’re working on HD versions of FUTURE episodes of this series, however, and asked us if we’d be willing to point out the website to the Halo community at large. Of course we would – this is a vid that passed the MPRRS, after all! The series is known as ‘Species’, and all episodes to date can be found on this page. You should start with Episode One, though – that’s what was submitted to the MPRRS, and it’s what we’re hosting. (Save their bandwidth – use ours; we’ve got both QuickTime format – 44.4 mb – and WMP9 format – 41.2 mb.) It’s called ‘Where the End Begins’, and it looks at a team of soldiers who are suddenly faced with an alien invasion. Great use of mods. If you like the series, they’ve got Episode Two, as well as a trailer for Episode Three, up for download. Fun stuff, all around!(Louis Wu 20:02:34 UTC)
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Gamerscore Blog says Podtacular is a “must hear”
This past Friday, John Porcaro at the awesome Gamerscore blog talked about his addiction to podcasts and included Podtacular on his list of must hear podcasts. If you didn’t know, Gamerscore blog is written by members of the Microsoft Games marketing team. It’s good to know Microsoft is listening!
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Kashmir Review – and why it matters to you
If you swing over by LatinoReview.com, you’ll find a review of a spec script for a project called ‘Kashmir’. You might wonder why this is showing up on a Halo website – Kashmir is a drama about some soldiers who go hunting a terrorist. Well… the answer is pretty simple; Kashmir is a project written by DB Weiss, in order to show his ability for scriptwriting… so that he could get the job of rewriting the Halo script. And apparently, it’s quite good. Check out the review, along with some information about how the whole system works, over at LR.com. Thanks, El Mayimbe.(Louis Wu 19:05:34 UTC)
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DropShock Ep 23
DropShock Episode 23 has been posted – 75 minutes, 35 mb. Discussion of the book cover, and the new armor, discussion of future Bungie stuff, and plenty of the standard features. Check it out.(Louis Wu 19:04:36 UTC)
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The New Guy
Paul Maestri writes to point out Halo Heads 5 – he looks at the new character on the Ghosts of Onyx cover. We still don’t know who that guy is… but Paul takes a shot at it.(Louis Wu 18:58:41 UTC)
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HBO’s Dialogue Databank
For several years, HBO has been accumulating dialogue from the two Halo games in their dialogue databank. Unbelievably, they continue to add significant batches of clips on a regular basis. Drop by and check out another of HBO’s vast resources.
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She Speaks For Many…
Today’s One One Se7en looks at the Halogen situation. It’s good to laugh. Next time we’ll use someone other than Stuntmutt.(Louis Wu 16:52:03 UTC)
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Air’s too thin to hold the scent.
Captain Spark turned in another 26 dialogue snippets for your perusal – you can grab them at his (newly-overhauled) website, or browse them individually in our Dialogue Databank.(Louis Wu 15:17:41 UTC)
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More Jackal Audio
It’s been known for a while that Jackal snippets are created from reversed audio (as Halo 1 Elite snippets were) – but decoding them has been a bit more difficult than the Elites were, because they’re more tweaked. RVideo took a shot at 6 of them – did a great job, too. (His post contains a link to Halo2Forum.com – or you can check out local versions in this post.) These will eventually find their way into the Dialogue Databank.(Louis Wu 12:35:18 UTC)
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Why do Helljumpers fall from above?
Luke McKay whipped up a new piece of art this morning – someone should set this to music. He posted it to his RvB image collection – we’ve added it to his gallery here.(Louis Wu 12:14:19 UTC)
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DeviantDustbunny
Dustbunny27 stopped by to point out that there’s a bunch of Halo-related stuff over in his DeviantART gallery – a cel shaded look with MS Paint, and lots of pixel art. Check it out!(Louis Wu 12:00:41 UTC)
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Halo Theme Song School Talent Show
A bunch of friends put together a pretty cool entry for their high school talent show… great video game music (primarily from Halo). Even Marty liked it! Go watch. Thanks, Eastbeast314.(Louis Wu 21:09:04 UTC)
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