From ScottScores:
Made this in Photoshop last week for school. Hope you guys like it! Any feedback is much appreciated!
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Get Silentium… signed
Greg Bear will be signing copies of Silentium in Seattle this evening – swing by MrKevinHurd’s post (or the University of Washington Book Store website) for details!(Louis Wu 19:20:28 UTC)
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Perdition – IGN’s Halo 4 Castle Map Pack Developer Walkthrough
From IGN:Certain Affinity walks us through the ins and outs of Perdition, an industrial map that almost made it into Halo: Anniversary.
Perdition – IGN’s Halo 4 Castle Map Pack Developer Walkthrough
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Tattoo Tuesday: Halo Friends Forever
Some people show their love for Halo by playing the games. Others get a relevant image permanently placed upon their body. Enjoy this particular example of a Halo-related body modification, and if you have a picture you’d like to submit for possible future inclusion, send it to bsangel[at]halowaypoint.com!
As seen on Leif and Adam
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Beyond Top 5 Halo 4 Plays, Episode 2
From Beyond Entertainment:
Beyond Entertainment is proud to showcase the second installment of our Top 5 Sickest Clips. With commentary by Walshy and editing by Jazzy, you’re going to need to strap yourself in for one hell of a ride! Want to be featured in the next Top 5? Submit your clips here. If your clip has a chance, it will appear at http://youtube.com/gobeyondclips and can be selected from there.
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Castle Map Pack – Perdition Walkthrough
IGN has a walkthrough of Perdition – the second of three maps in the Castle Map Pack. Looks like it was originally going to be part of the Anniversary Map Pack for Reach, but didn’t quite make it – it’s back now for Halo 4, and looks amazing! Go check it out.(Louis Wu 16:19:56 UTC)
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Podtacular 352 – Beyond Halotainment
From Dust Storm:Every now and then another Halo community pops up. Most of the time, they start off small and grow gradually but a few times they explode, which is what has happened to Beyond Entertainment. With a similar start to The Halo Council, Beyond Entertainment was started by a few competitive Halo players whose focus is to bring together parts of the Halo community through quality entertainment. Within their month of existence, they’ve gained popularity across multiple communities, but it’s likely we haven’t seen the bulk of their offering yet. Joining the podcast to talk about Beyond Entertainment is Cyren, GH057ayame and Saucey. Enjoy!
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Havin’ a Bud, drawin’ the game
Isaac Hannaford was one of a number of artists who drew custom art for fans at last weekend’s Emerald City Comic-Con – and he put up a blog post about it, showing off a couple of the pieces he drew. Awesome! Thanks, Black Six.(Louis Wu 13:46:14 UTC)
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Reaching Happiness, Part 2
uberfoop is back with the second half of his ‘So, Reach is a pretty cool game’ retrospective (the first half went up a bit over a week ago). Screenshots, video, discussion… a great look at the Reach campaign! Go reminisce.(Louis Wu 13:43:37 UTC)
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Halo 3 on PC? Yeah… no.
You may have seen the latest ‘Halo 3 is coming to PC’ rumors, fueled by the presence of an entry for Halo 3 in the latest AMD beta drivers – but Microsoft says it ain’t happening. Again. (There’s a thread on our forum, if you want to discuss it.)(Louis Wu 13:41:25 UTC)
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A new Sparkast from 343
343 released Sparkast 017 yesterday, to celebrate the release of Silentium – Greg Bear, Chirs Schlerf, and Jeremy Patenaude join David Ellis in the discussion of the book, and of the Forerunners that inhabit it. (I’ve linked to the podcast page, because there doesn’t seem to be a way to link directly to a specific podcast, but you want the one that’s dated March 18.) Thanks, Canecutter.(Louis Wu 13:33:04 UTC)
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A look at the making of the Halo 4 Terminals
A press release for a product called iPi Soft led to a couple of interesting articles about the personnel (and software) behind the Halo 4 Terminals. The Sequence Group, the design studio responsible for the terminals, used both full-motion capture (using iPi Soft) and low-budget alternatives like Kinect units to put together the final product we saw when the game was released. (If you haven’t seen the Terminals, we have them archived in our Cutscene Library.) Always nice to get a peek behind the curtain! (Louis Wu 21:01:03 UTC)
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Out of Slumber
TTL Demag0gue’s Reclaimer comic has been in stasis for 18 months – but the addition of Halo Waypoints File Browse functionality has awakened it. Go swing by to read the (re)kickoff of the series! (Louis Wu 20:53:55 UTC)
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Down Low and Close Up
Rockslider had a little fun with 343 Guilty Spark on the library – go watch!(Louis Wu 20:49:53 UTC)
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Community Member of the Week: A Blues fan
Every Monday, we feature a community member who does one or more of the following things: routinely goes above and beyond for their fellow forum members, is a positive and active member of the community, and/or sends me mass amounts of cat pictures. This week our Community Member of the Week is A Blues fan. Read a little more about him below, then hit his profile to learn the story behind his love for the blues!
Gamertag: A Blues fan.
Origin of Gamertag: I’m a Chelsea FC fan. They’re a football/soccer club in the English Premiership. Their nickname is ‘The Blues’, hence my name. I do also like Blues music, though, so that works too!
Current clan/community: Halo Waypoint.
Halo game(s) you are currently playing: Halo 4, Halo Wars.
Favorite map, game type and playlist: I love playing FFA Regicide on Haven as I find that game type and map combo pretty manic and fast paced.
Least favorite map, game type and playlist: Probably Team Snipers on any map as I find I’m only good with a sniper if people don’t move and I have a few seconds to line up the shot; i.e. I suck with the Sniper.
Preferred control scheme: Default; sensitivity: 7; non-inverted.
Halo weapon specialty/preference: I’m trying to increase my use of the difficult weapons as I enjoy having goals to complete and I’m currently trying to get weapon commendations. I’ve mastered the Plasma Pistol, Storm Rifle and Pulse Grenades as I thought I’d try with the hardest ones first! I’m currently working through Suppressor.
Halo playing style (offense, defense, sniper, driver, etc.): I’m pretty much a Lone Wolf and like to do my own thing in games. I used to worry about my K/D in objective games but now I just relax more, have fun and go for the objective as well, which means I’m more offensive nowadays.
Favorite Halo character: Master Chief, of course! Although I do like the Rookie and Buck from ODST and think Lasky is a great character, too.
Favorite Halo book: Contact Harvest was a nice story with the relationship between the two AI playing out the way it did (nice in a sad way).
Favorite Halo quote: “When I joined the corps, we didn’t have any fancy-schmanzy tanks, we had sticks! Two sticks and a rock for the whole platoon – and we had to share the rock!”
Anything else we should know? I’m a father of three who’s been with Halo since Halo: CE launched on the original Xbox. My two sons like playing Halo with me, but the wife and daughter aren’t really interested, being more into their Wii fitness/singing games. My first online experience was Halo 2. I have over 11,500 games of Halo 3 and 4,500 games of Reach under my belt. I have all Xbox-related Halo achievements except for Runnin’ the Show on Halo Wars, which is proving to be quite elusive!
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Outcast – IGN’s Halo 4 Castle Map Pack Developer Walkthrough
From IGN:Certain Affinity walks us through the ins and outs of Outcast, one of the large scale maps in the upcoming Castle Map Pack.
Outcast – IGN’s Halo 4 Castle Map Pack Developer Walkthrough
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Castle Map Pack Walkthrough – Outcast
Certain Affinity sits down with IGN for a walkthrough Outcast, one of the new Halo 4 maps included in the Castle map pack – looks pretty. Thanks, GunRunner48.(mastrbiggy 17:29:34 UTC)
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The Bottom of the Elevator, Remastered
The Superwaffle came in with another ridiculous Halo 3 trick – a drop to the bottom of the Crows Nest final elevator. It took 6 equipment jumps to make it down there (with 4 separate players) – I’m amazed it only took them 3 hours. Go watch the video!(Louis Wu 22:34:00 UTC)
