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HB 619: In Which Bravo Trashtalks BS Angel (Again)
After a one-week hiatus (the community team were all pretty busy at E3 last week), the Halo Bulletin is back, and full of fun stuff. There’s some news about an upcoming tournament with half a million dollars in prizes (!!), a summary of the goodness that was E3, some matchmaking update details (both this week and next), and a screenshot spotlight on one of the most underappreciated characters in the Halo game series. As always, you can read it on Halo Waypoint or in our Halo Bulletin Archive. But read it!(Louis Wu 18:18:44 UTC)
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Push It To The Limit
Edge, from Halotracker, sent word of Push It to the Limit, a new montage combining Reach and Halo 4 footage (and even a few Halo 3 clips) from the HT community, put together by Krayte. Some great action in here! (Louis Wu 18:12:33 UTC)
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343 Snapshot: Much A-dough About Muffin
Halo is a fictional universe. However, the place where it’s created is not. Serving as home to both Mister and Master Chief, little else is known about the inside of our studio…until now. Enjoy a teeny tiny peek inside 343 industries, and if you have a hankering to see or learn about something that isn’t overly top secret, send it to bsangel[at]halowaypoint.com and we’ll see what we can do! This week, FistOtheUnicorn wanted to see “the inside of the break room fridge or your morning coffee-making wares with donuts”. We went with our version of the latter.
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Forever: A John and Cortana Tribute
Also a couple of days ago, AssaultGodzilla released Forever – it’s a tribute to John 117 and Cortana, and their special relationship. As always, awesome synchronization. Go watch – he tells an interesting story!(Louis Wu 18:04:41 UTC)
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Reclaimer – a summary
We are WAAAY behind on our coverage of TTL Demag0gue’s Reclaimer comic – our last mention was on July 7. Since then, he released Metarch, A Game of Patience, Phoenix Reborn, and Preemtion – Ferial does a fine job explaining what he’s been doing these last few millenia. Go read!(Louis Wu 18:00:11 UTC)
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PGCR 167: Mendicant Bias
Robowski and friends hashed out the clues from the Xbox One Halo trailer (and announced a new podcast) on their latest episode of Post Game Carnage Report – go listen! (Louis Wu 17:55:16 UTC)
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Revisiting old friends
RC Master has finished up his Spartan Ops series – so he’s gone back to revisit older games, and provide commentary for runs he hadn’t done before. You can check out his speed run of The Package, as well as his 13-minute run of Pillar of Autumn (both from Reach), now with new commentary. (The rest of his Reach Legendary runs are in this playlist.)(Louis Wu 17:53:56 UTC)
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HaloCE3 2013
Recently, Matthew Dratt let us know about Halo CE3, an upcoming live streamed show based on Halo Custom Edition – they will be showing off brand-new content from the Halo Custom Edition community. This will take place on July 13, at 4pm Eastern – you can find a trailer to pump you up on YouTube, or just swing by the HaloCE3 website. Looks pretty slick!(Louis Wu 17:50:30 UTC)
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Halo 4 – Achievement HORSE #132
From Rooster Teeth:
This week’s episode of Halo HORSE brings you a gripping match between Miles and Patrick.
Editor’s note: Language is mature. Proceed with caution.
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Halo 4 Customs Minigame Competition – Voting Now Open
From HaloCustoms:
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know about our ongoing minigame competition, the quest for the penultimate minigame. There were 32 submissions, but only one can be crowned champion, and win the title of “The Best Halo 4 Minigame”. There are, however, real prizes to be had for our fair contestants.
The person who wins the title will be awarded a unique and custom modded controller, courtesy of GamerModz.com. It’s Halo-themed and optionally includes their SPS-X2 rapidfire modification. They’ll also win a Halo-themed Xbox skin (shown below), which is super sick. You should click through to that link to find out more about them, because they’re awesome. Really. In total, this top prize is worth roughly $200. PRIZES! YEAH!
Second, the top FIVE maps will win a Ghost prop for their Xbox avatar dude, courtesy of 343 Industries. In addition, in each round of voting, one person who has playtested the maps and then voted will be awarded a Ghost prop, coming out to FIVE more Ghost props.
I like to imagine now you’re asking yourself: “So how do I participate?” The answer is quite simple! Just head on over to the minigame boards on the site, download the maps, and vote for your favorites. There’s also a live bracket that will update with each round, so you can track your favorite map. I encourage you to bring your friends in, help your favorite map win the contest and the goodies involved! The more votes you can get, the more chance your favorite map has to win!
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Halo 4 Plays of the Week, Episode 3 – Team Throwdown
From HT Edge:
Here is the third episode of Halo 4 Plays of the Week. This episode goes over a few Team throwdown clips. Enjoy!
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Podtacular 377: Gaming Regressed
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We missed the matchmaking update last week because of E3 and the lack of the normal Halo Bulletin, so we decided to go over the changes. You can now play as mini Spartans in the Team Action Sack playlist. There are some other changes as well, but we’re here to talk about today’s Microsoft update to their DRM policy. The change includes pulling back on essentially everything that was said DRM related at the #XboxReveal removing things like your online game library, family and friends sharing with up to 10 people, instant access to your library of games from any Xbox one and the 24-hour check in. Games will be able to be bought, sold and traded as it currently stands today with the added bonus of no region enforcement of discs. Throughout the day, websites started hinting at this press release and it finally came to fruition, however, there are mixed views about whether this was the right move on Microsoft’s part, as adequately summed up over at Gizmodo. What’s your opinion? Shoutouts to Drax from Ready Up Live and HaloFanForLife (HaloFanForLife.com) for joining the discussion. Enjoy
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Halo IRL: Spartan Transportation
Halo is a fictional universe. However, sometimes we catch sight of things in real life that remind us of our favorite science fiction video game franchise. This particular series, titled Halo in Real Life, showcases those very moments. Enjoy the subtle Halo references sometimes spotted when out and about in the real world, and if you have a picture you’d like to submit for possible future inclusion, send it to bsangel[at]halowaypoint.com!
As seen and taken by Shane
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Indirect’s Halo 4 Top Ten, Episode 8
From Indirect:
The eighth installment of my new Halo 4 top ten series is now live. I hope you all enjoy!
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Waypoint Weekly Test Nights: 6.19.13
From AgentPaperCraft:
Hello, Waypoint goers! With the addition of community-made content into Matchmaking, custom maps and game types have become an integral part of Halo’s Multiplayer. Forgers and game type creators often work hours, days and even months on their content before it’s considered for Matchmaking, and it’s usually the lack of having a ready player-base to test their maps that it takes so long. So I offer an option to our Forgers, a place to bring your maps and game types to have them tested and reviewed by a group of the top Forgers around. You’ll receive top-notch forging tips and tricks to wow your players, improve map spawn and flow, provide a better map experience and get your name out there. You’ll also get to work directly with the Community Cartographers, a select group of community Forge enthusiasts who work with 343 Industries in the search of top-quality content for Matchmaking consideration. Every Wednesday night at 6PM ET, get an invite by sending “AgentPaperCraft” a message over Xbox LIVE, or leave a comment in the Test Night Thread.
Hope to see you there!
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Awesome Halo 4 Kills and Funny Deaths, Episode 2
From TheHarbinger427:
“Awesome Kills and Funny Deaths” is all about showing off you, the community. Check out the second episode of this series!
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Grifball Court-Sculptors Wanted
Goosecheka let us know that Grifball Hub is running a contest for Grifball ‘court-sculptors’ – your Grifball court might even be featured at the RTX LAN Grifball booth! The contest is open until next Tuesday. Head on over to the Grifball Hub website for more details. (mastrbiggy 10:15:34 UTC)
