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Globe Halo Liberty Shoes Available for Pre-sale
When Globe made a special Halo edition of their Liberty technical skate sneaker, it sold out almost immediately. Just like the Spartans themselves, we couldn’t let such a good thing die. A second wave of shoes were produced and they’re shipping to us in January. We’re releasing the first batch of this new inventory for pre-sale on the Halo Waypoint Store today, so get yours before they’re gone again!
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Crimson Map Pack Walkthrough: Wreckage
IGN’s posted their walkthrough of the third Crimson Map Pack map, Wreckage. It looks… well, wrecked. Lots of debris, lots of blue and brown. Lots of particles, sparking circuits, smoke – if you’re used to using map motion to find your prey, this one’s gonna bug you. (If you’re sneaky and like to hide or flank, this map’s gonna be a fave.) Thanks, ElzarTheBam.(Louis Wu 18:06:56 UTC)
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Halo 4, Now with Christmas Lights!
From AwesomeHouseLights:“Awakening” from the Halo 4 soundtrack, composed by Neil Davidge and synchronized to Christmas lights.
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The Big Dumb GUNNER Show, Dec 5, 2012
gunn3r11 sent word that The Spartan Force has kicked off a new YouTube series – it’s called The Big Dumb GUNNER Show, and the first episode is online now. It’s Halo news from behind a desk. (Hey – I heard about something I didn’t know before… Blast Magazine posted a guide to their choices for the best Halo 4 Matchmaking Loadouts. Nice!) (Louis Wu 16:54:27 UTC)
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Halo 4 1.02 TU Change List
Halo Waypoint has a full change list for the Title Update that dropped yesterday – swing by to see what’s changed!(Louis Wu 16:37:17 UTC)
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The work of Tom Scholes
Postmortem pointed out a DeviantART gallery of of an artist who did some fantastic work on Halo 4 concept art. Go check it out!(Louis Wu 16:36:23 UTC)
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Surrounded by stuff… yet isolated.
CruelLEGACEY has posted ‘updated impressions’ of Halo 4 – it’s a followup to his original review. It’s an interesting read, with a lot of food for thought. (The ‘set piece comparison’ vid does a great job of juxtaposing iconic moments from earlier Halos with similar moments in Halo 4.) Go check it out! (Louis Wu 16:34:22 UTC)
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Easy come, easy go.
That poster Davis Beutler won yesterday? He’s selling it.(Louis Wu 16:27:39 UTC)
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IGN’s Tough Love for Spartan Ops
So while IGN is loving War Games, the team that’s looking at Spartan Ops isn’t quite so enthusiastic. Their latest commentary vid covers Episode 5 – they talk a lot about what doesn’t work for them, and how it differs from Firefight. (I found it intriguing that even with all the access IGN gets, these guys, who filmed this on Monday, didn’t realize that the second half of the Spartan Ops season would be coming out in January.) Thanks again, CyReN.(Louis Wu 16:25:42 UTC)
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Fan-made Halo 4 Spartan Ops Graphic Novel: Part 3
From HaloFanForLife:
Here it is folks, the third in a series of comic books from Spartan Ops. Dr. Catherine Halsey is brought aboard the Infinity to investigate a Forerunner artifact. Tension ensues between her and the Spartan IVs…Now in “Spartan Ops Episode 3: Catherine.”
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Halo 4’s November US Numbers
NPD’s sales numbers for November were released yesterday – Halo 4’s US sales for the month hit 3.2 million units. Not too shabby! Thanks, Gesalt. (Louis Wu 16:09:08 UTC)
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A Fan’s Open Letter to 343
RC Master has decided to write an open letter to 343 to explain his feelings about some of the features that didn’t make the cut in Halo 4 – if you swing by his post, you can read the 5-page letter, or simply watch a video of him reading it. Some good points in there!(Louis Wu 16:06:30 UTC)
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IGN shows you Shatter’s layout
IGN’s second Developer Walkthrough of Shatter, one of the three Crimson Map Pack maps coming out on Monday, went live yesterday. It differs from Wednesday’s video by focusing on the map itself – there’s no gameplay here. Thanks, CyReN. (Louis Wu 16:04:14 UTC)
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Halo 4 – A Master Chief Tribute
Dogiojoe sent word of her new video tribute to Master Chief – it contains Halo 4 campaign spoilers, but if you’ve played through already, it’s a nice history of John’s augmentation. Music comes from Halo Legends (well, the versions she used does – the song comes from Halo 2). (Louis Wu 15:59:09 UTC)
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Shatter – IGN’s Halo 4 Crimson Map Pack Developer Walkthrough, Part 2
From IGN:Halo 4 lead multiplayer map designer Kynan Pearson shows off “Shatter” from the Crimson map pack.
Shatter – IGN’s Halo 4 Crimson Map Pack Developer Walkthrough, Part 2
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They should get a McDonald’s sign.
According to this article at GameZone, the Halo franchise just hit the 50 million units sold mark; it’s unclear where this data comes from, but it’s pretty impressive if true!(Louis Wu 21:43:26 UTC)
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Halo 4 TU Change List
The next time you log into Halo 4, you will be prompted to download a title update. This particular title update tackles actual game and gameplay issues, not sandbox tweaks and balances. We have another TU in the works and will continue working on the timing and content of the next one. For now, here is a change list of what was included in today’s title update.
• Implemented general stability improvements
• Fixed glitch where quickly reloading after firing the Boltshot resulted in an instant reload
• Fixed glitch where sprinting prior to activating the Hardlight Shield allowed players to move faster
• Fixed glitch were players could throw a grenade and then immediately sprint afterwards to perform a high velocity grenade
• Fixed glitch where Mantis could fire more rockets without reloading if the machine gun was fired partway through unleashing the charged missile barrage
• Fixed issue where DLC was unavailable for other profiles on the same console
• Fixed issue where DLC disappeared after console reboot
• Fixed issue where players could not unlock Campaign completion achievements when using a rally point other than Alpha for any mission to finish the Campaign
• Fixed issue where players were not given credit for completion of a Spartan Ops Episode Difficulty Challenge when completing it through Matchmaking
• Fixed issue where players with 99 or more Xbox LIVE friends could not get File recommendations
• Fixed issue where loadout configurations were lost if the game was booted and then powered off before passing the “Press START” screen
• Fixed issue where attempting to upload large films to the File Share under poor network conditions caused the upload to fail
• Improved time to load variants with separate profiles
• Fixed issue where moving a profile from one controller port to another after relaunching the game reset loadout settings
• Improved consistency of random ordnance navigation marker display
• Fixed performance issues when launching Halo Waypoint from Halo 4We will update everyone when we have more information about the next Halo 4 TU. If you’d like to read more about this TU or the upcoming Matchmaking playlist update, please check out the 12.06 edition of the Halo Bulletin.
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Achievement HORSE 104
Jack and Geoff are back with a new Halo PIG (the lack of Fileshare functionality makes them not want to do the whole HORSE) – go see some cool new maps (AH.com | YouTube)! Thanks, Nikko B201.(Louis Wu 18:51:01 UTC)
The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft
