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  • Podtacular nominated for Podcast Awards!

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    We’ve been nominated in the Gaming and Best Produced categories! Voting is now open and will be closed on August 11th. Be sure to voice your opinion for your favorite Halo-lovin’, truck-fraggin’ podcast! Remember you can vote once per day!

    Voting is now closed. The winners will be announced on August 15th.

    NOTE – You will receive an email shortly after you vote with information about the verification of your vote. You must complete the instructions in the e-mail within 24 hours. However, if you are using a Hotmail or MSN address, you may not receive this verification, but your vote will be counted, so don’t be discouraged to vote again. More details and discussion in the forums.


  • Halo.Bungie.Org Faceplate Contest

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    HBO is running an awesome contest open to everyone in the Bungie community. Design a Halo-themed faceplate for the Xbox 360 and you could win one of the recently announced Halo faceplates before you can buy them.

  • A Clan Leader – In Armor

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    Pinkuh continues to turn out beautiful pieces of Halo-related art – today she posted a rendition of PMS PsychoSKitty, a member of her online clan. Gorgeous work! (We’ve added it to her gallery page, as well.)(Louis Wu 02:21:44 UTC)

  • Scarry, Scarry Night- er, Face

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    Another egg – marked off. Check High Impact Halo for the details about Miranda’s scar!(Louis Wu 02:07:27 UTC)

  • Halo Helmet for sale on eBay

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    It’s been a while since we heard from Briar’s Armor – but he’s back, and he’s got a Master Chief helmet (orange) for sale on eBay. Starting bid is $200, auction runs for another week – take a look!(Louis Wu 01:23:24 UTC)

  • The 1UP Show – and an interview about the Haloverse

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    1UP’s video blog, the 1UP Show, put up a new episode focusing on Comic-Con – and there’s a great interview with SketchFactor and Frankie from about 23:40 through 28:20. (There’s a bunch of other Halo-related content strewn throughout the vid – Luke Smith’s drive to get as many Halo action figures as he can, an interview with a well-versed member of the Halo community… but the 5 minutes with Frankie and Sketch are definitely a high point. Thanks, Tempus Fugit.(Louis Wu 01:15:32 UTC)

  • Happy Birthday, Podtacular!

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    Podtacular is celebrating its one-year anniversary – stop by and wish ’em well! (Grab their anniversary montage while you’re there…) Thanks, Laird and KP.(Louis Wu 01:03:50 UTC)

  • Coughing Robots and No Pants

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    The Bungie Weekly Update was posted a little bit ago; it’s got some great coverage of Bungie’s involvement with Comic-Con last week, along with some XBL playlist info (more of that coming soon), and of course a few choice whaaambulance entries. And a Zidane/Mister Chief animation that would have been even funnier if Zidane’s head had been replaced with Frankie’s. Oh, wait… it was! (Please don’t write us telling us it wasn’t. You’ll ruin the bald joke.) Read it at Bungie.net – or read it in our Weekly Update Archive.(Louis Wu 00:36:23 UTC)

  • Bungie Weekly Update

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    This week, a photo-filled recap of the amazing San Diego ComiCon, a look at a brand new and unique matchmaking playlist, more Waaahmbulance entries, an ambitious Mister Chief and a few other tidbits worth popping in for.

  • Design a Faceplate Contest

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    w00t! One contest ends, another begins! Before I explain, let me clear out some old business; it took a bit to secure them all, but we can now announce that the 7 winners of the last 7 on the 7th contest – Sacred Lawnmowers – will be receiving copies of the Halo Graphic Novel. (YES!) Okay – on to NEW business. A couple days ago, we mentioned that Bungie had created an official Halo faceplate for the Xbox 360; the problem is, they won’t be available for purchase until October. However, they’ve got two prototypes that they’re just itching to give away… so here’s your chance! All you have to do is design your OWN cool faceplate (the template is available for download on the Contest page)… and if Bungie thinks it’s the cat’s pajamas, you’ll have your hands on one of these babies before August is over! Go read the contest page for full details; you’ve got 2 weeks to get your entry in. Gogogo!(Louis Wu 22:14:59 UTC)

  • Clone of Weekly Porridge, SPECIAL ANNIVERSARY EDITION!

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    What would a Podtacular Anniversary be without a supersized Weekly Porridge? Nothing, that’s what. So here it is for your viewing pleasure! This week our heroes experience several strange events as they try to celebrate this very special day! More discussion in the Forums. Enjoy!!!



  • WikiRiot Ep 9

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    Sigafoos writes to point out WikiRiot Episode 9 – 40 minutes, 16 mb. Lots of Halowiki-related info, an interview with CoB Relevance, and a call for speech submissions (they’re looking to start an accent archive of Halo players). Check it out!(Louis Wu 19:29:48 UTC)

  • RvB’s Sarge to be interviewed at Podtacular

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    Matt Hollum, the voice of Sarge on Red vs Blue, will be interviewed (along with other cast members) on August 9th, over at Podtacular – and they’re taking questions now. Swing by and toss yours in the hat! Thanks, Laird.(Louis Wu 19:11:02 UTC)

  • MPRRS upgrade – more data for moviemakers

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    In response to some feedback we received from forumgoers, Cybrfrk made some changes to the information submitters get from the MPRRS; it’s all an ongoing effort to improve the overall quality of Halo machinima released to the public. We hope you keep using the system!(Louis Wu 18:46:19 UTC)

  • Recursive Stupidity Strikes Gaming Press

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    If you need any more proof that what goes around, comes around– usually to end up smacking you in the face when you turn around– read this story at Joystiq alleging that not making Halo 4 would be stupid. I saw the story linked at HBO. Interestingly enough, the only citation in the Joystiq story for the idea that Bungie has already “disproven” the “rumor” that Halo 3 will be the last game in the Halo series is– you guessed it– another HBO post, that one following up on forum speculation that a rumored new non-Halo Bungie title and Eric Nylund‘s new Microsoft project were one and the same. Nylund has already nicely put the kibosh on this one in his blog; but more to the point, the HBO post that Joystiq cites is the same one debunking the rumor about Nylund and Bungie’s new projects.


    So a news post at a fansite, citing forum posts at that same fansite, making a speculation based on another gaming site repeating an unsubstantiated rumor and another one citing a vague claim, somehow gets cited as a definitive source for a statement that is in direct opposition to things Bungie has already said more than once, while in the same post discrediting a previous, related rumor-based speculation.


    Sometimes I think Hamlet wasn’t being ironic enough.


    Just in case you’ve managed to get this far without following me: Bungie has said Halo 3 is it. If they get their way, it will be. They didn’t want to make Marathon games forever, they didn’t want to make Myth games forever, and now they don’t want to make Halo games forever. Halo doesn’t need to be, nor should its fans want it to be, the next Final Fantasy. Microsoft will no doubt need Bungie to save its bacon once again, but it will have to be done with new properties; and if everybody is lucky we’ll get a glimpse at what one of those might be fairly soon.


    However, to assume that Halo must continue for another two or twenty games based on being one of the “top thirty” gaming franchises in history is just… stupid.


    Expect to see this on Spong in two weeks, and then on Digg the week later, before finally making the cover of Time Magazine when they name Master Chief the Cyborg of the Year.



  • Podtacular Celebrates One Year of Halo Podcasting!

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    It’s Podtacular’s birthday party and you’re invited! The Unofficial Halo Universe Podcast is celebrating with a special episode. And we might get a huge birthday present: Podtacular is a finalist in the podcastawards.com best gaming show category. Why not go vote for us? Here’s your chance to help a Halo community win best gaming podcast!

  • Halo Kitty

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    Michael Hogsett found this image in a Worth1000 contest – ‘Video games that never got made’. (The same contest contained this image, as well… I think I like the Halo Kitty one better.) Check out the rest of the contest – there are some funny ones in there!(Louis Wu 17:06:06 UTC)

  • How to be dumb (according to Joystiq)

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    Whee! Out with one rumor, in with the next! Joystiq is speculating that from a pure business sense, Bungie would be dumb not to make a couple more Halo games after Halo 3 is released. (In their defense, they admit they have no inside information about this, they realize that Bungie employees have already hinted that this won’t happen, and they understand that Bungie is probably already working on other projects.) Thanks, mercury.(Louis Wu 15:25:08 UTC)

  • Originality

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    QuickTactical and the rest of the Epic Films crew put together ‘Originality’, a vid that discusses what NOT to do with your next Halo machinima project. They submitted this to the MPRRS – but because of a reviewer who simply didn’t get it (and scored it almost 50 points lower than the average), it didn’t pass. Luckily, we have two separate scoring algorithms in place – one averages all scores, while the other drops high and low scores; when the outliers were dropped, the movie passed handily. It’s rather long (almost 13 minutes), and so rather large – so we’re hosting a ‘medium quality’ version (QuickTactical’s terminology) – the WMP9 format is 88.5 mb, the QuickTime format is 89.9 mb. The visual glitches are not a result of the compression, however; they’re due to the capture card – you can grab a high-quality version of this film at FileFront (140 mb, WMP9 format) and see for yourself. Bottom line – this film contains a bunch of machinima cliches to avoid; watch it before you make your next film!(Louis Wu 14:41:16 UTC)

  • The Thief Of Bad Gags.

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    The title of today’s One One Se7en was snagged from a Halo fan – who in turn stole it from a dead guy. Seems sort of fitting, given the content of the strip…(Louis Wu 13:58:07 UTC)