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Island to Island Slide Jump on Forge Island
t00lbox paid tribute to a classic Halo trick, using Forge Island. I laughed.(Louis Wu 17:24:41 UTC)
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Halo Wars Skirmish Automatic Difficulty info
kornman00 has dug deep into the code of Halo Wars and pulled out yet another nugget – he now knows exactly how the Automatic Difficulty is calculated, and how you can maximize it. He even goes so far as to show you what you’ll be facing when you do! Give his post a read. (Louis Wu 17:23:27 UTC)
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343’s Moving Castle
If you want to watch some Castle Map Pack action this evening, in preparation to release tomorrow, 343 will be streaming, beginning at 5pm PDT. Check it out!(Louis Wu 23:00:51 UTC)
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Halo 4 Castle Map Pack Live Stream
As we announced in this week’s Halo Bulletin, we’ll be showing off the Halo 4 Castle Map Pack in a live stream event on Sunday, April 7th at 5PM PDT. The stream will feature designers and other 343 team members playing against one another and providing tips and commentary on the brand new maps. Additionally, we’ll be giving away 10 Castle Map Pack codes during the stream – tune in for your chance to win the Castle Map Pack before it’s officially released!
We’ll be streaming on our official channel, http://www.twitch.tv/343Industries later today! Be sure to follow the channel to know when we’re going live. See you then!
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Halo 4 Lithographs
Deadly Cyclone found a few Halo 4 lithographs for sale – they are pretty darn neat, though I would skip buying the frame : /. Go get them while you can!(mastrbiggy 09:57:05 UTC)
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Drunken Halo 52
Justin Bryce sent word that Drunken Halo episode 52 is live – Travis (and Justin) are joined by one of the founding members of Tea Bag or Die, The Quim Ninja. Go listen! (mastrbiggy 09:49:33 UTC)
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The Forge Perspective
pete_the_duck uploaded Forge walkthrough videos for each of the maps included in the Halo 4 Castle map pack – go check ’em out! (mastrbiggy 09:49:03 UTC)
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Playtime: Castle
Warren and Cobra explore Daybreak, Outcast and Perdition in the latest machinima short from CruelLEGACY Productions. GASP – those are some incredible sky boxes! (mastrbiggy 09:48:22 UTC)
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Deadpoint – Halo PC Trick Jumping Montage
Mator dropped the the forums to share his Halo PC trick jumping montage, ‘Deadpoint’ – I’ve seen quite a few trick jumping videos, yet this video showed off plenty of jumps I’ve never seen before. Go watch!(mastrbiggy 09:47:35 UTC)
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Castle Map Pack Guide
Go Beyond Entertainment released a Castle map pack guide – the crew give the low down on map strategy, weapon spawns, cool jumps and more. Get ready to dominate come Monday! Thanks, CyReN. (mastrbiggy 09:46:54 UTC)
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Myth II 1.8.0 Beta Announced
Project Magma has announced a public beta of the first major new revision to the Myth II engine in three years: version 1.8.0. If you’re the adventurous kind, and already have 1.7.2 installed, head on over to The Tain and pick up the beta version to test.
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Science, Not Shooting
Craig Hardgrove, who is a planetary scientist working for JPL and also a Bungie fan from quite aways back, has written an article for Guardians of Destiny, talking about why he loves Halo, why he hates Call of Duty, and what he hopes to see in Destiny. (Hardgrove is also a fan of Bungie’s Marathon series and even did some remakes of the game’s music.)
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Local Pimpage Failure
Wow, was cleaning up some notes and ran across this – totally forgot to post it a couple of days ago! If you’re anywhere near Kansas City this weekend, be sure to stop by Planet Comicon – our very own Leviathan will be there, and maybe you can get him to draw something cool for you!(Louis Wu 18:36:54 UTC)
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Podtacular’s Spartan Ops coverage – Season 1 Second Half
Back in February, we mentioned Podtacular’s coverage of Spartan Ops – they were halfway through the season at that point. (If you missed any of those episodes, that newspost contains links to all 5.) They’ve finished the ten Episodes at this point – here are the second 5:Once again, HaloFanForLife is on board to help – go listen!(Louis Wu 18:36:19 UTC)
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Fails of the Weak 133
There’s a new Fails of the Weak live on both AchievementHunter.com and YouTube – and it’s actually full of some fun fails! Go watch. Thanks, Nikko B201. (Louis Wu 17:25:08 UTC)
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Area 52 Perfect Dark Remake in Halo 4
FyreWulff has recreated the Perfect Dark map ‘Area 52’ in Halo 4’s Forge – go check out the pics, and then grab a copy and reminisce! (Louis Wu 17:23:22 UTC)
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Castle Previews all live on Waypoint
The Castle Map Pack drops this Monday – and you can get an early look at the maps on Halo Waypoint. The Daybreak preview went live on Thursday, as we told you, and then Perdition went up yesterday (thanks, CARDO 8 ATL), and finally Outcast is live today. Prepare yourself! (Louis Wu 16:59:36 UTC)
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Spectator Mode – Stalking Podcasts
Kete told us about another Spectator Mode podcast – this time he’s spying on Post Game Carnage Report. Block out some time this Tuesday evening! (Louis Wu 16:56:01 UTC)
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Take a girl for a ride
The Lionheart found a piece of Cortana fan art that’s pretty interesting! Quirkilicious (we mentioned his rendition of Cal-141 a couple of years ago) created a piece called ‘Take a girl for a ride‘ – go check it out! (Louis Wu 16:54:22 UTC)
The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft
