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Halo Custom Edition: Takedown – Project Lawson
MatthewDratt has released Takedown: Project Lawson, a single-player map for Halo: Custom Edition. You can find a trailer here (it’s a year old), a ViDoc showing off some of the characters you’ll interact with (fun!), the actual download from the HaloCE3 website, or more info (screens, videos, discussion, etc) from HaloMaps.org. Again, you’ll need Halo Custom Edition (free, though you need a Halo PC license to use it) – go get started!(Louis Wu 16:38:45 UTC)
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Halo Monk Chant at VGL
Last night, the live-streamed Video Games Live concert took place at San Diego Comic Con – and Marty O’Donnell and Mike Salvatori were there. (Their segment starts around 3:16:30 or so in the Twitch.TV archived video.) It’s focused on Destiny… but at the start of the segment, Marty and Mike perform an impromptu version of the monk chant from the original Halo theme. Fantastic! Go watch.(Louis Wu 16:24:23 UTC)
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Halo 4 Global Championship Playlist Gameplay
ReadyUpLive’s Greenskull livestreamed a play event in the Global Championship Playlist recently – and put together a highlight reel of the evening. Looks like he had a pretty good time!(Louis Wu 16:18:28 UTC)
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Podtacular 383: Mann vs. Demon
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This week continues a line of Halo news that just keeps rolling in. Halo: Spartan Assault is now available on the Windows 8 App store following the career of Sarah Palmer as a Spartan IV. The Halo 4 Championship Bundle is also being showcased at the Xbox One lounge at San Diego Comic Con in a couple of tournaments throughout the weekend detailed in this week’s Halo Bulletin. In light of Halo being at SDCC, a seven page preview of the Halo Initiation comic from Dark Horse Comics is also available for your reading pleasure. Finally, the topping on this podcast this week is a visit from our affiliates Kritzkast. Both Agro and Ruckeydoo join us to tell us what TF2 is and to show off their knowledge (or lack thereof) of Halo. Enjoy
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Anoj’s Top Ten #34: Unusual Kills
There’s another Top 10 from Anoj – this one focuses on unusual kills. This one is especially fun to watch – lots of good stuff. Check it out! Thanks, Jordan Bell.(Louis Wu 21:28:34 UTC)
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Spartan Assault code falls to Section 3
GunRunner48 let us know that Section 3 (the fans devoted to finding all of the hidden codes in Halo 4) have solved another one – this code requires that you unlock the ‘Recruit’ achievement in Spartan Assault. Once you do, you’ll get 10,000 XP and begin the process of unlocking a new empblem in Halo 4. Details can be found here – and the code can be found here. (Louis Wu 21:20:34 UTC)
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If I were making Halo 5 – Part 2
CruelLEGACEY has released Part 2 of his ‘If I were making Halo 5’ thought project – this one focuses on campaign and encounter design, along with enemy AI and level design. Go look!(Louis Wu 21:17:52 UTC)
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Building the Ultimate Halo Game Redux
Gravemind has revisited his ‘Building the Ultimate Halo Game’ essay – you can find a list of the changes he made in his forum post. (Or you could just read the tome on his website.) (Louis Wu 21:17:26 UTC)
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HALOcapped – CTF in 5 minutes or less
MixMaker1 told us about the newest HALOcapped episode – the challenge they set for themselves this time out was to win a CTF match in under 5 minutes – without letting the enemy team score. Go see how they did! (Louis Wu 21:15:11 UTC)
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A Gamers World
AytonHunter stopped in with a new cinematic project called ‘A Gamers World‘ – Live action with a bit of Halo machinima tossed in. Go take a look!(Louis Wu 21:14:57 UTC)
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‘Adorable’? Not sure I’d use that word…
NBC News enjoyed Spartan Assault – go read why! (Louis Wu 21:14:35 UTC)
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Initiation Preview, plus Escalation
Grizzlei told us about a recently-released preview for Initiation #1, the Dark Horse comic focusing on the pre-Halo4 life of Sarah Palmer. (She also mentioned Escalation, yet ANOTHER series coming later this year, as detailed by Wired – but she was beaten to the punch by TDSpiral.)(Louis Wu 21:11:54 UTC)
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AGL 8 Knoxville
This weekend, July 19-21, the Arena Gaming League is holding a Halo 4 Tournament in Knoxville, TN using Gh057ayame’s BR-start settings that can be found in Halo 4’s Team Throwdown playlist. The stream will feature top teams facing off against one another in the fight for a $5,500 first place prize. The tournament consists of both Free-For-All and 4v4 play, with matches being streamed on Twitch.tv all weekend long. Be sure to tune in today and catch the finals on Sunday evening as some of the best players in the world go head-to-head against each other!
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Forum not really down
Apologies to anyone who tried to use the front-page link (or a bookmark that uses that same link) to access our forum in the past few hours. The forum changed servers, and an odd combination of circumstances made that link stop working. (The forum was fine – it’s just that that link no longer reached it.) Everything should be working again – come say hi!(Louis Wu 11:28:09 UTC)
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Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn Nominated for Emmy
Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn was our first venture in the live-action web series world. It was an intimidating step to take but one that we enjoyed immensely. The cast and crew were some of the most talented and amazing that we’ve ever had the pleasure of working with, and we learned many things that we plan on applying in the future. That being said, we’re honored and excited to announce that Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn has been nominated for an Emmy, specifically for Outstanding Main Title Design. To be in the company of American Horror Story: Asylum, Da Vinci’s Demons, Elementary, The Newsroom and Vikings is a humbling experience. More than anything, we’d like to thank you, the people that have supported us, for doing just that.
Now if you’ll excuse us, we need to go check our mail again. Frank still hasn’t received his Lead Actor in a Miniseries nomination yet, but we’re sure it’s coming. At least he is, anyway…
Much love, 343
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Halo 4 – Fails of the Weak 148
From Rooster Teeth:
Jack and Geoff are back with this week’s Halo 4 Fails of the Weak!
Editor’s note: Language is mature. Proceed with caution.
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The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft
