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Arbiter
HBO regular TDSpiral is spotlighted today on Halo Waypoint’s Fan Art Focus – his Arbiter is nothing if not majestic!(Louis Wu 18:48:12 UTC)
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Halo 4 Friday Caption Fun 9
Last week, for our Friday Caption Fun festivities, you provided quips for an image featuring a particularly interesting vehicle. Here are the top captions you left for that particular image!
“Blue team was halfway to Florida when they realized that they forgot to screw the turret onto the roof.” –EZcheeZ217
“I think our DIY Warthog is missing something. Check the box again.” –sarcasmbully
“Missing tire? That’s okay. We just saved 15% by switching to GEICO.” –L3roy J3nkins96
“When I joined the Corps, we didn’t have any fancy-shmancy tanks! We had sticks!
Two sticks and a rock for the whole platoon, and we had to share the rock!” –Prophetic Onion
“Are we there yet?” –ReachTim
“At least Kat isn’t driving…” –TD Appocolapse
“The all new Puma 2.0! Elbow Grease and Headlight Fluid sold separately.” –Arag0rn117
“What is love? Baby, don’t hurt me!” –DSight
“Ready. Set. Camp!” –Dillon Dunlap
“ROOOOAADD TRIP!” –o Chappel
Now that we’ve wrapped up that picture, let’s start a new one. Up for your captioning pleasure this week is an image featuring a Spartan in need of assistance. Soak in the screenshot, then leave your witty and relevant quip in a comment. Off you go!
Author: BlackLotus 0103
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Halo 4 Mythic Difficulty Guide – Reclaimer
The Tyrant is back with another chapter of his Halo 4 Mythic Guide; this one’s a little out of order (Infinity is non-trivial, he’s saving it for a bit). Go read Reclaimer, a guide which will help you beat the level which introduces both the UNSC Mammoth and the Covenant Lich to the Halo vehicle universe. Good stuff!(Louis Wu 18:36:08 UTC)
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Thanks that make you go hmm…
demoncarnataur stopped in with a link to a NeoGAF thread that’s looking at a game recently rated by the Korean Game Rating Board. The name is ‘Bootcamp’, and the description is pretty intriguing:“A TPS game based on ‘Halo’ universe where player complete various types of missions.”
It is slated for PC/online release… no date given. Will this appear in the US as well? Only time will tell. Update: Gamefront reached out to Microsoft and received a confirmation regarding the games existence. According to a Microsoft spokesperson, ‘Bootcamp’ isn’t part of the Reclaimer saga and won’t appear on the newly announced Xbox One console – interesting! Thanks, wwm0nkey.(Louis Wu 18:07:08 UTC)
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Another look at FUD
In light of the recent announcement that Stephen Spielberg will be building a Halo TV series, Eurogamer has gone back and reviewed Forward Unto Dawn, last year’s webseries (that was later released as a DVD). They weren’t particularly kind… thanks, CARDO 8 ATL.(Louis Wu 18:04:30 UTC)
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Halo HORSE 128
Rooster Teeth released their latest Halo HORSE tournament video – this episode features Joel and Geoff. You can watch it on AH or YouTube. Go check out what crazy maps they compete on! Thanks, Nikko B201.(mastrbiggy 17:10:52 UTC)
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High Charity Child’s Play Stream
Laird let us know that High Charity will be doing a stream for Child’s Play starting at Noon CST. Viewers have the chance to win a Master Chief prop helmet signed by 343 Industries staff (shown at the 2-minute mark.) Go watch for a chance to win cool Halo swag and support Child’s Play.(mastrbiggy 17:08:44 UTC)
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Halo 4 – Fails of the Weak 140
From Rooster Teeth:
Jack and Geoff continue their tradition of mocking your gaming inadequacy. Enjoy this week’s episode of Fails of the Weak!
Editor’s note: Language is mature. Proceed with caution.
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Halo Theme – Lindsey Stirling and William Joseph
From lindseystomp:
Lindsey Stirling and William Joseph present their amazing cover of the Halo theme song.
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Destiny On PC: Not Yes, Not No
Urk from Bungie tells IGN that everything Bungie does on the backend for Destiny is platform agnostic, but the company still has not definitively announced, nor definitively denied, versions of the game for other platforms like PC or Mac.
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Pathways Into High Definition
YouTube user toolsmyth (Bo Lindbergh in the Marathon Story Page’s forum) has posted some gameplay from the first level of Bungie’s first shooter, Pathways Into Darkness, now available in the App Store for the Apple Macintosh.
Leyvin360 on YouTube also has a Let’s Play series for the game that he started last year.
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ASE Ep. 29 Never Burn Money Marathon 1 lvl 3
Narcogen and Blackstar play Level 3 of Bungie’s classic sci fi shooter, Marathon: Never Burn Money. Leela tasks us with recovering three chips to repair the Marathon’s defensive system, and on our own we attempt to reach an isolated and cryptic terminal that may hold the secret to the identity either of the mysterious security officer who is the player’s avatar, or the even more mysterious door-controlling Durandal we have yet to meet.
We’ve gotten some useful feedback on past episodes, and I’ll just acknowledge it here:
Yes, we are rusty. I haven’t done much mouse and keyboard FPS gaming since the Unreal Tournament days, and it shows. Hopefully we’l get into a groove and I hope to ratchet the difficulty up a bit as we play. Right now we’re on normal, hopefully we can get up to Total Carnage before the game is over.
Yes, we missed some spots. We missed a garbled terminal and a hidden door in the first level; I’ve gone back to record that and it’ll be in a future episode. In level two I made the easy grenade hop and put it after the credits, but didn’t make the big one. In this level, we made a couple of attempts to do the grenade climb to reach the Gheritt White terminal, but failed. For that, I am bringing in a ringer. More on that later.
UPDATE: This video of Never Burn Money by Vidmasters Challenge shows the same level in the original Marathon engine, at Total Carnage difficulty. The player reaches the room where the grenade climb is at 01:30. The player actually does the climb twice– once to reach the 3X shield recharge from the floor, and a second time to reach the ledge with the terminal.
For more information on this level, visit the Marathon Spoiler Guide:
http://marathon.bungie.org/spoiler/m1/2.shtml
For more information on the Gheritt White terminal, visit the Marathon Story
Page:http://marathon.bungie.org/story/gheritt.html
This podcast uses:
Aleph One, free and open source versions of Marathon for Windows, Mac and Linux at http://source.bungie.org
Remixes of the Marathon soundtrack by Craig Hardgrove at http://themarathonmusic.com
Subscribe to the YouTube channel for Anger, Sadness and Envy video podcasts:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIof4Cp3-cam7bAFzDEwK_wzSSEya050i
Subscribe to the iTunes channel or RSS feed for video and audio podcasts:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/anger-sadness-and-envy/id266991411?mt=2
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Music used in this episode:
“What About Bob?” by Alexander Seropian, remixed by Craig Hardgrove (intro music)
“fatman” by Alexander Seropian, remixed by Craig Hardgrove (gameplay background music)
“New Pacific (Reprise)” by Alexander Seropian, remixed by Craig Hardgrove (outro music)For original Marathon soundtracks as well as Craig Hardgrove’s remixes, visit Craig’s Marathon Music page:
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ASE Ep. 29 Never Burn Money Marathon 1 lvl 3
Narcogen and Blackstar play Level 3 of Bungie’s classic sci fi shooter, Marathon: Never Burn Money. Leela tasks us with recovering three chips to repair the Marathon’s defensive system, and on our own we attempt to reach an isolated and cryptic terminal that may hold the secret to the identity either of the mysterious security officer who is the player’s avatar, or the even more mysterious door-controlling Durandal we have yet to meet.
We’ve gotten some useful feedback on past episodes, and I’ll just acknowledge it here:
Yes, we are rusty. I haven’t done much mouse and keyboard FPS gaming since the Unreal Tournament days, and it shows. Hopefully we’l get into a groove and I hope to ratchet the difficulty up a bit as we play. Right now we’re on normal, hopefully we can get up to Total Carnage before the game is over.
Yes, we missed some spots. We missed a garbled terminal and a hidden door in the first level; I’ve gone back to record that and it’ll be in a future episode. In level two I made the easy grenade hop and put it after the credits, but didn’t make the big one. In this level, we made a couple of attempts to do the grenade climb to reach the Gheritt White terminal, but failed. For that, I am bringing in a ringer. More on that later.
For more information on this level, visit the Marathon Spoiler Guide:
http://marathon.bungie.org/spoiler/m1/2.shtml
For more information on the Gheritt White terminal, visit the Marathon Story
Page:http://marathon.bungie.org/story/gheritt.html
This podcast uses:
Aleph One, free and open source versions of Marathon for Windows, Mac and Linux at http://source.bungie.org
Remixes of the Marathon soundtrack by Craig Hardgrove at http://themarathonmusic.com
Subscribe to the YouTube channel for Anger, Sadness and Envy video podcasts:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIof4Cp3-cam7bAFzDEwK_wzSSEya050i
Subscribe to the iTunes channel or RSS feed for video and audio podcasts:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/anger-sadness-and-envy/id266991411?mt=2
http://feeds.feedburner.com/AngerSadnessEnvy
Music used in this episode:
“What About Bob?” by Alexander Seropian, remixed by Craig Hardgrove (intro music)
“fatman” by Alexander Seropian, remixed by Craig Hardgrove (gameplay background music)
“New Pacific (Reprise)” by Alexander Seropian, remixed by Craig Hardgrove (outro music)For original Marathon soundtracks as well as Craig Hardgrove’s remixes, visit Craig’s Marathon Music page:
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First Live Action Trailer For Bungie’s Destiny
This “live action” trailer for Destiny promotes the first gameplay reveal coming up at E3, as well as emphasizing how central cooperative play is to Bungie’s new game… “the power of the pack is the wolf, and the power of the wolf is the pack.”
Actor Giancarlo Esposito (“Gus” from Breaking Bad”) here plays a character seemingly telling a bedtime story about the Guardians. Perhaps he’ll have a voice role in the game itself?
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Podtacular 369
Dust Storm sent word that the latest Podtacular is online – it was recorded right after the Xbox One reveal, and discusses lots of the stuff that was talked about there (including Halo TV). Go check it out!(Louis Wu 20:10:27 UTC)
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Rock Paper Scissors, Revisited
pete_the_duck is trying something new with his Forge with Pete series – two videos, one showing off the map, and a second showing how it all works. We mentioned his Rock Paper Scissors vid a couple of weeks ago – but now you can see a 10 minute Forge walkthrough, too. Pretty cool!(Louis Wu 19:48:36 UTC)
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Halo 4 Essential Visual Guide – Another Look
dk books has put up a page for the Halo 4 The Essential Visual Guide, due this October in the UK (September in the US). There are new samples, not shown in the Waypoint preview a couple of months ago – looks awfully pretty! Thanks, Quirel.(Louis Wu 19:45:27 UTC)
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343 Snapshot: Operation Rappel
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!
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The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft
