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Mechs and Unicorns
NeoGAF’s Highlaw whipped up a really cool pic in honor of Halo 4’s launch. Take a look!(Louis Wu 18:23:11 UTC)
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The age of impatience
According to NBCNews, there were more than 10,000 stores that opened at midnight last night to sell Halo 4. Were you at one of them?(Louis Wu 18:14:36 UTC)
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Don’t Say It
If you’re stuck at work, and your copy of Halo 4 is waiting for you at home, just taunting you while you can’t play it… swing by Rooster Teeth’s site for the season finale of Red vs Blue Season 10. It’s one heck of a wrapup. (Stick around for the credits, and beyond – there’s a taste of something new there.)(Louis Wu 14:20:26 UTC)
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It’s November 6. What are YOU doing today?
If you live in America, vote. No matter where you live, play Halo 4. And check this oddness out – I think Mig’s trying to tell us something… (the forum is open again.)(Louis Wu 13:13:52 UTC)
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Podtacular 330: Forward Unto Dawn Episode 5
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In the final installment of Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn, Lasky, Chief and the rest of the cadets are making their way to the extraction point. It doesn’t take long for the Covenant to catch up and set up an ambush for the squat. As chief mans the turret and Silva and Orensky take out the Jackals with precision aim, Lasky is doing his best to drive the Warthog, until smashing into a Jackal and stalling the Warthog. It doesn’t take long for the main force of the Covenant to retreat and send in Hunters. While Chief takes care of the Hunter, the rest of the cadets make it to one of the training bunkers in the woods, where Silva meets her fate from being mortally wounded from a needle rifle round. At this point, Lasky has lost just about everything, and when Chief comes to pick them up after he takes care of the Hunter, he sees what Lasky is facing and say, “I’m sorry,” to Lasky, showing some humanity to this cyborg. They run from the other Hunter where Lasky eventually volunteers to be a decoy for Chief to take out the Hunter with only one remaining grenade. After the Hunter is taken out, Chief calls in the rescue Pelican, and they all get off the planet. Enjoy
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Halo 4 Midnight Launch Call Out
As you head out to get your copy of Halo 4, bring your camera and share your launch experience!
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A Brief History of Halo… Complete
Urban Reflex also wanted to finish up his summary of the history of the Halo universe before Halo 4 hit the shelves for the masses – you can read Part 4: Great Journey and Part 5: Schism on our forum. Again, posting will be reopened tomorrow, so save your feedback!(Louis Wu 22:58:22 UTC)
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I… uh…
MASSAIKUR bought enough Mountain Dew for the maximum 200 Double XP matches… and then made 8-bit Halo-related cap art from the bottle caps. I’m speechless.(Louis Wu 22:17:16 UTC)
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Of Ducks and Donuts
pete_the_duck joined a bunch of Forgers at the offices of 343 this weekend – there’s a writeup on idleduck.com. Pictures, impressions, mentions of donuts – what more do you need? Go read!(Louis Wu 21:38:12 UTC)
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Glad You Came
The Warp Zone guys (remember their last parody?) are back with a new song – Glad You Came, a parody of the hit single by The Wanted. I definitely like it better than the original! Thanks, CyReN.(Louis Wu 21:35:04 UTC)
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HALO 401K
Brad Sears let us know about Halo 401K, a Halo 4 spoof put together by Smiley Guy Cartoons. We knew the Chief could handle Knights… how about DayTraders? Pretty funny – go watch!(Louis Wu 20:57:34 UTC)
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7th Annual Fight Like a Girl Halo Charity Tournament
From Kari:FLAG tournament founders Kari Toyama and Tasha Pettengill are excited to announce the 7th annual FLAG tournament to benefit breast cancer research. This year’s tournament will be held on Xbox LIVE in Halo 4, November 16th – November 18th. In 2011 the community raised over $5,000 to benefit charity and this year we need your help to raise the bar.
Event Details
2v2 Tournament
Grifball Tournament (In partnership with Grifball Hub)
Creative Bundle
• Halo 4 Screenshot Contest
• Haloshop-a-thon
• Halo 4 Forge Challenge
• Halo Fan Art Contest
• Details here: http://www.flagtournament.com/creative-bundle-contest-details/
Event Schedule
Friday, November 16 – Creative Bundle submissions open
Saturday, November 17 – 2v2 Team, Creative Bundle submissions deadline 11:59pm PST
Sunday, November 18 – Grifball
Participate
Registration is now open at http://www.flagtournament.com. There is a $10 per person, per event entry donation. All donations are collected through Razoo and go towards the fight against breast cancer.
• $20 per team for 2v2
• $40 per team for Grifball
• $10 per person for Creative Bundle (donation allows entry in all creative categories)
About FLAG
The Fight Like A Girl Tournament (FLAG) is an annual Halo tournament that raises money and awareness for breast cancer research. Hundreds of gamers come together over one weekend to have fun, play Halo, and donate to our cause.
Kari Toyama and Tasha Pettengill have organized this tournament since 2006. To date, FLAG has raised over $27,000 for breast and cervical cancer research.
Questions?
Please feel free to email info@flagtournament.com
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Halo 4: The Biggest Game Launch in MS History
If you’re looking for a way to ring in the new game with other Halo fans, Halo Waypoint has some information about launch events, taking place all over the world. Check it to see if there’s one near you!(Louis Wu 19:25:47 UTC)
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The War Master
Another HBO community member, TDSpiral, put together a War Master pic to celebrate the impending release. I love it. It’s posted on Facebook, but you do not need a Facebook account to view it.(Louis Wu 19:22:57 UTC)
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Shield and Sword – the Wrapup
There is more Halo 4 content out there than you can shake a Gravity Hammer at – let’s start with some local stuff. Leviathan has been posting a series of thought experiments – he calls the project ‘Shield and Sword‘, and it shows, via text, sketches, maps, and more, how he might have gone about making a Halo-related campaign. The final bits were ready to go this weekend – but we were offline. He posted them on his personal blog, but we’ve put up local copies, so that the full run is visible on our forum, as he intended it to be. Check out Mission Seven: United, and when you’re through, jump over to The Final Threads (missions eight and nine, plus an epilogue). The forum is still closed for comments – but it will reopen tomorrow, so you can add your thoughts then!(Louis Wu 19:07:59 UTC)
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We’re back… (sort of)
Our self-imposed break is over (for the most part) – we’re back, just in time for tomorrow’s launch of Halo 4. Looks like our roundup from Thursday was pretty close to spot-on – we’ll re-list the highlights here:- Forward Unto Dawn Part 5 was pretty amazing. (It’s on Halo Waypoint, too, if Silverlight works for you.)
- Forward Unto Dawn (the website) did a great roundup of Halo 4 reviews that have been released in the past few days. Go see what everyone thinks. (NeoGAF has a thread devoted to Halo 4 reviews, if you’d like to discuss with like-minded people.)
- There are tons of spoilers out there – be careful.
- Halo Waypoint has had a complete overhaul – it’s still running on Silverlight (which means streaming media still doesn’t work for me), but the non-video content is pretty slick. Explore!
- The Rube Goldberg video we posted from pete_the_duck is still amazing – if you haven’t watched it, you really, really should.
- Guilt O’ Lantern entries aren’t ready for voting yet – we’ll get these up just as soon as possible!
We’ll be back with fresh news very soon – keep your eyes open!(Louis Wu 18:01:08 UTC)
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Glad You Came – A Halo 4 Music Video Parody of The Wanted
From TheWarpZone:Halo 4 is here and Master Chief is BACK!
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Halo 4 Launch Event Information
In less than eight hours, we’ll be celebrating the launch of Halo 4 around the world starting with New Zealand, one of the closest countries to the International Date Line. Then, as the sun makes its daily procession around Earth, each consecutive region will host their frenzy of Halo 4 activity, marking the biggest game launch in Microsoft history.
In all, over 10,000 retail stores in more than 40 countries will play host to Midnight Madness launch events. In the U.S. alone, 7,000 retail doors will be flung open at midnight for a few hours to help the most eager Xbox 360 gamers and Halo fans get a jump on the rest of the population sleeping snugly in their beds. In addition to these retail activities, many countries and regions will host public launch celebrations. Europe kicked off launch festivities with theatrical flair in the principality of Liechtenstein earlier this week. Dubbed “Experience Halo”, it was truly a Halo experience to remember. In all, more than 30 marquee launch celebrations will occur in major cities including Tokyo, Sydney, Hong Kong, Dubai, Toronto, Mexico, Germany, Spain, Italy and France. The United Kingdom will host an extra special activity: A spectacular stunt on the Thames in London between O2 Stadium and Tower Bridge. Executive Producer Kiki Wolfkill will be on hand for the festivities. I can neither confirm nor deny that it will be awesome. I can tell you, however, that it will be AWESOME.
For those of us stateside, Midnight Madness will take place in every major metropolitan area at GameStop, Best Buy or Microsoft Stores, to name a few participating retailers. The Microsoft Store in Austin, Texas, will host activities by leads from 343 Industries, Rooster Teeth and Certain Affinity. Best Buy in West Hollywood and Pembroke Pines, California will deliver a $10k cash prize to the winner of their Halo 4 launch night tournament. Here in Seattle, 343 Industries, Xbox 360 and the Microsoft Store in University Village welcomes one and all to join us for an evening of excitement as we ring in the release of Halo 4. Game play stations will be set up so fans can play before the game is available, the Master Chief and our brand-new, built-to-scale Warthog will be available for photo opportunities and 343 Industries – from our Creative Director Josh Holmes and Franchise Development Director Frank O’Connor – will attend the launch event en masse to meet fans and share in the launch excitement. The University Village store will also host very special guests, including the voice of the Master Chief, Steven Downes.
Regardless of where you live or how you celebrate, we hope you enjoy the newest installment in the Halo franchise. We’ll see you soon, either at one of the launch events or on the virtual battlefields of Halo 4!
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Remember Reach – A Halo Rube Goldberg Machine
From petetheduck:I created this Rube Goldberg machine to give Halo: Reach a proper Forge farewell! I hope you all enjoy it. Thanks Bungie and 343 Industries!
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The Halo 4 Mythic Difficulty Guide
From MythicTyrant:A new Halo game is on the horizon, and Skulls have been confirmed (the classic pallet, fortunately). You know what this means: It’s time to evolve our Campaign skills beyond the realm of Legendary and go all out Mythic!
What is Mythic difficulty? The name derives from the Heroic, Legendary, and Mythic ranks of the Bungie forums and the Halo 3 map packs. Mythic, however, was the only “rank” to never become an official difficulty. Since it is deemed to be the highest, the hardest mode the game has to offer needed to earn its title. Thus, Mythic was formed.
More specifically, Mythic difficulty refers to playing the game on Legendary with all skulls activated. We like to refer to this as SSLASO to incorporate both single player and co-op modes. No, that extra “S” wasn’t a typo. Unlike simple SLASO (Solo Legendary All Skulls On), SSLASO stands for “Single-Segment Legendary All Skulls On”, meaning the player must make it through each mission individually on Legendary with all Skulls on, from start to finish, in one go. No deaths. No saves. No reverting to the previous checkpoint in co-op mode. This is a challenge to be feared.
As such, this thread will serve as the main hub for Waypoint enthusiasts to visit for all their Halo 4 Campaign needs. I will be posting the guides for each mission here as they become available. For more information and guides for all Halo games, please check out my home site www.mythictyrant.com as well as Mythic Nation where all Mythic Conquerors and Apprentices (past and present) gather to share even more valuable Campaign information. You can also view all previous Mythic Guides on HBO’s homepage.
I look forward to embarking on this journey with all of you. Godspeed, and as always, I’ll see you on the battlefield!
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