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The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

  • Bungie.net Humpday Challenge: Blood Gulch Regulars

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    For PSP – 8 Pages – 540KB

    From Bungie.net:

    Bungie’s planned opponent this week canceled at the last minute, so the Blood Gulch Regulars stepped up and answered Frankie’s call for replacement killers last night.
    Thanks to BOLL(?) for the picture.

  • 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 ›

  • Bungie.net Humpday Challenge: Blood Gulch Regulars

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    For PSP – 8 Pages – 540KB

    From Bungie.net:

    Bungie’s planned opponent this week canceled at the last minute, so the Blood Gulch Regulars stepped up and answered Frankie’s call for replacement killers last night.

    Thanks to XLNC for the picture.

  • Humpday: Blood Gulch Regulars

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    Bungie’s planned opponent this week canceled at the last minute, so the Blood Gulch Regulars stepped up and answered Frankie’s call for replacement killers last night.

  • DropShock Ep 20

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    Bah… missed this last night. DropShock Episode 20 was posted yesterday; just over an hour, 31 mb. Give it a listen.(Louis Wu 18:27:55 UTC)

  • Podtacular Happy Birthday Tribute Video!

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    A Oompa Loompah and a ton of other community members have put together a cool tribute video to the Podtacular 1 year anniversary. Go watch! More discussion in the forums.

  • Lost: Halostyle E 6 – The Average Journey Part 1

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    The MPRRS reviewers have definitely turned up the heat on review times; in short order, the queue has dropped from almost 20 to nearly empty. (There are 5 videos in the queue that are about to be finished, which will drop the queue size to a single movie.) Another passing vid – Episode 6 of ‘Lost: Halo Style’, from Injured Knee Productions. Cinematography, overall production values, and story polish all continue to improve as new episodes are made; this one’s quite good. (If you haven’t seen older ones, we’re hosting episodes 4 and 5, and episodes 1-3 are available at ikproductions.net.) Grab this latest episode, weighing in at just under 48 mb, in either WMP9 or QuickTime formats. Good stuff!(Louis Wu 15:40:46 UTC)

  • Podtacular Happy Birthday Tribute Video!

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    A Oompa Loompah and a ton of other community members have put together a cool tribute video to the Podtacular 1 year anniversary. Go watch! More discussion in the forums.

  • Submit your questions for Matt from Red vs. Blue!

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    I’ll be interviewing Matt from RvB on August 9th, and he agreed to open up the questions to you, the community. So now’s your chance to ask RvB anything you like. Keep in mind I’ll already be covering the basics including how they got started and what RvB’s all about. Beyond that, it’s all you. I won’t be asking him if he likes waffles or anything, so keep it relevant. Just post your questions in the comments of this article and if it’s a good one, I’ll pass it on.

  • Submit your questions for Matt from Red vs. Blue!

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    I’ll be interviewing Matt, the voice of Sarge and others from RvB on August 9th, and he agreed to open up the questions to you, the community! So now’s your chance to ask RvB anything you like. Keep in mind I’ll already be covering the basics including how they got started and what RvB’s all about. Beyond that, it’s all you! I won’t be asking him if he likes waffles or anything, so keep it relevant. Just post your questions in the comments of this article and if it’s a good one, I’ll pass it on.

  • SvF Ep 10 – Flame War: Doppelganger

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    At long last, Sponsors vs Freeloaders has been continued; Episode 10 was released last night. It’s 11 minutes long, and answers a bunch of questions left open in Episode 9 (though it asks a bunch more) – you can grab high and low res WMP9 versions, and a low-res QuickTime version, from the SvF downloads page – and we’re making a high-res QuickTime version available here, as well. Thanks to Yaksha, for posting a heads-up on our forum.(Louis Wu 12:15:09 UTC)

  • Jaheijagaj – Realized

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    Wow – so I’m not even sure what category to put this in. Some time ago, Jillybean described a fictitious board game in a fan fiction she wrote, called The Priestess and the Warrior. It was a regular fixture in the story, as time went on – but it was never described in very much detail. Last night, Dav Flamerock dropped by our forum to announce that not only had he fleshed out the full ruleset… but he’d put together a board and pieces for it, as well. The Microsoft Word document he posted is downloadable from a filesharing site, linked in his forum post – but I’ve also put together a web version that might be easier to read (and is certainly smaller). A fan creation, based on a fan creation, based on a game… there are definitely a lot of layers here. Check it out!(Louis Wu 11:47:32 UTC)

  • Rumor Mill: New Bungie Property At X06

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    Spong says its sources at Microsoft indicate that a new, non-Halo Bungie game will be announced at X06 very soon:


    Speaking to a Microsoft source close to the management of the entire Xbox 360 project today, we were told that, “As far as things stand, Halo 3 is the last game [in the series] and it’s more than just ‘a thing to say’ which I know came as a surprise to everyone [at Microsoft Game Studios not involved with the decision-making process] when it was announced. A new game from Bungie, not Halo 4, will be announced soon and pre-production has begun. So if you’re looking for what to expect at X06, you should be looking at that.”


    It seems Spong doesn’t really believe Halo 3 is the last Halo game, though, as they suggest that George Lucas-style a whole new trilogy will be announced later.


    X06 will be held on September 27 and 28 of this year in Barcelona, Spain.


    As always, keep your sodium chloride handy while reading.



  • Greatest Time To Be In Games– Ever

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    We’re extremely late in mentioning this article, but Gamasutra did an interview with Wideload Games founder Alexander “The Man” Seropian last month as Part 2 of their Tour of Chicago. Seropian’s post-Bungie startup is based there, as Bungie was prior to the Microsoft buyout.


    The article talks about things Seropian likes to do besides playing games, like cook and run, and a bit about what did and didn’t work during the 18 month development period for Stubbs. It also mentions that Seropian thinks this is the best time ever to be working in games development.


    What it doesn’t talk much about is what Wideload is doing next, although there is this brief mention:


    “Here’s something cryptic,” interjects Seropian. “I’ve always been in the business of making games for me.” He proceeds to outline his next title, with impressionistic detail: “I’ve discovered recently that I’ve gotten older. And I’ve got kids at home. And a family. And all the friends I have now are parents of kids my kid’s age.”


    “And they don’t play videogames,” he continues to build. “So I discovered there’s a lot of people like me — who need to have something that doesn’t necessarily have headshots — but something that’s fun to play socially. So we’re working on something like that.”


    So, something fun, something social, something not necessarily a shooter. Anyone have any guesses?



  • I bet you could pull a chapter with that thing.

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    Wonga – very cool tow hitch sighting from Mrs. Doublefire… check it out!(Louis Wu 00:47:15 UTC)

  • It’s M4GIC!

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    In a quick 1-2 approval, the MPRRS shot through the second montage from G2 tah Oochie (aka TnA Gooch). More emphasis on gameplay, less on editing effects – I like ’em better that way. WMP9 version is 45.7 mb, QuickTime version is 46.1 mb.(Louis Wu 00:29:40 UTC)

  • Scotty Doesn’t Know

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    Turtle Mann sent along ‘Scotty Doesn’t Know’, a vid set to the song from ‘Euro Trip’. The MPRRS reviewers gave it the nod, so grab it in WMP9 format (30 mb) or QuickTime format (29.6 mb). Minor PG-13 lyrics warning…(Louis Wu 00:27:02 UTC)

  • Halo Faceplate

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    Today Bungie is pleased to announce the first Halo faceplate for your Xbox 360. The faceplate will be available sometime around October and features the Master Chief in a classic pose set to a blue backdrop decorated with Forerunner geometry. Read on for a full-sized picture.

  • Halo Faceplate – A good look

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    So the first (official) Halo faceplate will be available in stores (for example, links at Gamestop | EB Games) in October; Emerl was the first on our forum to notice this (about a week ago). Overall reaction wasn’t REALLY positive… but maybe that’s because you couldn’t really see the detail in those tiny thumbnail previews? How about a full-sized version? Me… I think it’s pretty snazzy.(Louis Wu 20:08:58 UTC)

  • WSJ looks at Halo 2 Entrepeneur

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    Today’s Wall Street Journal has an article about Tom “Tsquared” Taylor, a Halo pro gamer who set up a business to teach people to play videogames better. I was going to pass on mentioning this, because the online version of this story is unreadable unless you have a paid subscription… but HelixBlue reminded me that the dead tree version is out there as well. Nice to see Halo on the front page of the WSJ!(Louis Wu 16:29:05 UTC)