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  • 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)

  • Development Boredom

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    Heh – today’s Press Start to Play is pretty funny – though it could legitimately be said to contain Halo 2 spoilers. Thanks, Half left.(Louis Wu 13:11:32 UTC)

  • ZE’s Halo

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    We got a note from ZE of ZION ENTITY, who wanted to point out a song he created called HALO. You can hear it on his MySpace page.(Louis Wu 12:34:33 UTC)

  • New content at Dead Man’s Hand

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    Dweezle wrote to let us know about new content at Dead Man’s Hand; there’s a discussion about glitches, and whether they should be exploited or not, there’s an interview with Xbox.com’s TriXie (no Halo content, but it’s a fun read), and there’s a rant about cheating. Give it a look! (And if you’re a writer, with an interest in games… drop Dweezle a line (contact info is in the right column of the blog), he’s looking for you!)(Louis Wu 12:21:11 UTC)

  • Talkin’ to the Chief

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    KLind stopped by to point out a short interview with Steve Downs he’s posted on his blog; a nice look at the actor’s side of the game!(Louis Wu 12:08:58 UTC)

  • Watch those Rockets.

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    This week’s Halo Humpday Challenge was played against the Blood Gulch Regulars – a last-minute matchup that ended in Bungie’s favor. (Maybe they should schedule ALL their matches at the last minute!) The one thing I learned from the writeup is not to talk smack about KP’s mom. Overall, though, it sounded like a lot of fun, on both sides – go read about it! Father Hartley was first on our forum with the news.(Louis Wu 12:05:43 UTC)

  • Friday’s Fanfic

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    Small Fan Fiction update this week – just 10 stories. Check ’em out!(Louis Wu 11:58:09 UTC)

  • Wisconsin Tourney, September 2

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    Video Game Control is running a tournament in Milwaukee, WI in early September; $40pp to register, $2000 prize. More info in this forum post.(Louis Wu 11:52:27 UTC)

  • Weekly Porridge #25: 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!!!

    ‹ Weekly Porridge #24: Not Again…upWeekly Porridge #26: Resting ›

  • Weekly Porridge, SPECIAL ANNIVERSARY EDITION!

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    Podtacular – The Unofficial Halo Universe Podcast
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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!!!



  • Eric Nylund is NOT working on Bungie’s next title.

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    Eric Nylund wrote to squash some rumors that have been floating around; You might have seen the note at SPOnG today that speculated that a new, non-Halo Bungie title would be announced at X06 in Barcelona in September. This came hot on the heels of the pickup of a small tidbit from a Nylund blog post a couple of weeks ago (CVG wrote it up here, SPOnG discussed it here – I can’t explain why these sites are two weeks behind on this one)… and lots of forums began putting these bits together. Bungie’s announcing a new non-Halo title… Nylund, who has a history with Bungie, is working on a new Microsoft title; you can see where the gears started spinning. Stop ’em now; Nylund’s newest project has nothing whatsoever to do with Bungie. That’s straight from the horse’s mouth (well, Nylund’s, anyway – not really nice to call him a horse). Now we just gotta figure out if the SPOnG rumors about X06 are true!(Louis Wu 03:04:42 UTC)