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MLG Columbus 2011: Championship
Over at Halo Waypoint today, you’ll find the Championship Finals games from MLG Columbus last year – Instinct against Str8 Rippin. Great play!(Louis Wu 15:40:50 UTC)
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The Art of Video Games
davidfuchs visited the Art of Video Games exhibit at the American Art Museum (it just opened!), and took a bunch of pictures. Some of them, including a Halo-related one, can be found in his forum post – the rest are here. Looks fantastic! (Louis Wu 15:36:19 UTC)
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Banshee Stealing Guide
Folks have noticed that the ‘knock a banshee off the platform’ trick on AotCR is a bit harder in Halo Anniversary than it was in the original game… so Rockslider put together an illustrated guide which might help in pinning down that sweet spot we all THOUGHT we knew about. Go see! (Louis Wu 15:35:16 UTC)
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we rollin elite, we don’t mess with you jackals
Tashi0106 pointed out a new release of Halo rap by T-Money-N-Ca$h Flow… it has its moments.(Louis Wu 15:33:49 UTC)
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Heroes and Helicopters
Bungie has posted a new Mail Sack for your reading pleasure – its questions shed light on some of the oddities present in the Bungie community, while its answers do the same for the Bungie development staff. As always, a fascinating read. Did you know there are still easter eggs to be found in Halo 3 (and other Halo titles)? I’d guessed as much… but it’s nice to have confirmation.(Louis Wu 17:25:55 UTC)
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The Anatomy of Halo: The Library
Halo Waypoint’s ‘The Anatomy of Halo’ series has a new release – this one focuses on the Library. This piece makes me alternate between fascination with the structure, and sadness that in all the fighting I did in there, I never ONCE tried to access any of those peripheral databases, to learn of our galaxy’s history. What a wasted opportunity!(Louis Wu 17:19:39 UTC)
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To Perk or Not to Perk
MaxRealflugel took a stab at theorizing about the customization options we might be seeing in Halo 4 in the latest article at The Secrets Within – go see if you agree with him!(Louis Wu 17:15:58 UTC)
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Waypoint Weekly Wrap-Up – 3.17.12
You’re a busy person, and we have a thing for releasing as much Halo-related content our multi-fingered appendages can handle. That means—assuming you aren’t a speed reading super-soldier—you probably missed a few stories along the way. Not only do we forgive you, but we’ll also happily provide a convenient weekly wrap-up of absolutely everything we covered during the last seven days. Don’t worry about saying thank you. We’d rather you spend that time soaking in the goodness that is this entertaining collection of articles. Off you go!
News
The Halo Bulletin: 3.15.12
Halo Waypoint iOS Update
Reach Weekly Challenge – 3.12.12
Videos
Siege of Madrigal – A Halo: Anniversary Trick
Game Fails: It’s a Grounder to First
This Bitter Earth – A Halo 3/Reach Community Montage
HaloCommunity Salute to Top Gun Pilots
Playing with Fire – A Halo 3/Reach Montage
Sangheili Don’t Surf – A Game of Invasion
Halo: Reach – Achievement HORSE #66
Timberland Walkthrough – A Halo: Anniversary Gameplay and Commentary Video
Halo Community’s Top Ten Halo: Reach Multikills
Fun Stuff
Halo Dubstep Remix – Forward Unto Dawn
The Most Delicious Master Chief Cake You’ll See Today
Tattoo Tuesday: Hail to the Chief
Fan-made Halo 4 Desktop Wallpapers
Halo IRL: The Wort (Wort Wort!) Hotel
Friday Caption Fun 44
Community Happenings
Halo 4 Multiplayer Map Remakes – A ReadyUpLive Video
Waypoint Community Modcast – Episode 11
Test Night with a Cartographer: 3.14.12
Halo: Reach Screenshots
Blood Line – Simply Amazing
Wraparound – Fun with Forge
Serence – Simply Amazing
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Second Traviss Novel coming in 6 months
MixMaker1 noticed an announcement at Tor’s website – the next installment of Karen Traviss’ Halo trilogy (did you know it was the ‘Kilo-Five Trilogy’?) will be out on October 2 – it’s entitled ‘Halo: The Thursday War’. There’s a little bit of information about the book itself in the press release, if you don’t mind a taste of plot and/or motivation. (Louis Wu 19:13:42 UTC)
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The Future of Halo
Hoovaloov took a close look at the Halo 4 First Look trailer released recently – and then bundled what he found in with comments made in subsequent interviews. You can find his writeup over at Tied the Leader.(Louis Wu 19:04:16 UTC)
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ODST Carnage is Better in Groups
Kermit stopped in with an amazing writeup of the Deja Vu Invitational, a Co-Op night that took place back in December. (Yeah, so he’s a little late. Sue him.) Great pics, great videos – go see!(Louis Wu 19:01:41 UTC)
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HRSotD: Serene
HRSotD (short for Halo: Reach Screenshot of the Day) is a daily feature dedicated to the wonders of Halo: Reach screenshots and the artists that capture these amazing images. A variety of shots—all of which are completely unaltered and captured in Halo: Reach's theater mode—are included for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy the varied selection of images, and maybe even find inspiration to make your own!
Author: Apollo Creed 01
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Friday Caption Fun 44
Last week, for our Friday Caption Fun festivities, you provided quips for an image that’s out of this world. Here are the top captions you left for that particular image!
“Wow, flying coach gets worse all the time.” –Link1201
“Rule to live by #728: NEVER prank your friend by super gluing his hand
to the nose of a Sabre right before it takes off.” –Computer Hax0r
“Hold RB to… okay, now that’s just ridiculous.” –ThreeSixXero
“Air Spartans: Guaranteed with more Reach.” –thy ReaperMC
“It had long been Six’s dream to be on Dancing with the Stars. Unfortunately,
when his wish was granted, it was just a tad too literal. ” –Dark SoT Coin
“Saberboarding. Because skateboarding is for Grunts and Marines.” –Darkslayer18264
“It all went well for some time. Then they got to Reach’s asteriod belt.” –Ev1l D3m0n
“Ha ha! Got your nose!” –Antman687
“Skyjack, just as soon as I get a better grip….” –doomagedon109X
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 and his two little friends. Soak in the screenshot, then leave your witty and relevant quip in a comment. Off you go!
Author: XI DARKST4R IX
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Halo Community’s Top Ten Halo: Reach Multikills
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From Erik:The newest edition of HaloCommunity.com’s Top Ten series featuring the best Multikills is now live. It was a tough choice picking this Top Ten as there were so many awesome clips. Enjoy!
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Halo Waypoint iOS Update
We’re hearing from some people who have upgraded to the latest iOS app that they’re having a few problems. Here is some advice to help you settle in, as you get used to the updated app.
ATLAS purchase
Some people are reporting that after updating the app, they’re being prompted to purchase ATLAS again.
No need to fear; you do not need to buy ATLAS again. Just take the plunge, and click Buy! You will not be charged again. You’ll see a message like this, though:
After you tap OK, ATLAS will be back to normal.
Tip: Did you know that you can re-download Halo Waypoint on as many iOS devices as you’d like (your iPad, your iPhone, your iPod Touch)—and if you’ve purchased ATLAS once, you get it everywhere at no additional charge?
Challenges
Some players are having trouble finding Challenges. In the latest update, we changed the Challenges button into a Waypoint button, so that it would be easy to get to the latest news as well as the forums. But Challenges haven’t gone away!
Just tap Service Record, and then tap Challenges.
Please visit the Halo Waypoint section of our forums if you have additional questions!
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Timberland Walkthrough – A Halo: Anniversary Gameplay and Commentary Video
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From Paul B:This is Episode 4 of my Map Walkthrough Guide series covering all the maps that launched with the Anniversary Map Pack. This week the focus is Timberland. Enjoy!
Timberland Walkthrough – A Halo: Anniversary Gameplay and Commentary Video
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The Halo Bulletin: March 15
The Halo Bulletin is up, a little later than usual, but none the worse for wear. There’s discussion of the Halo 4 BR, updates about Halo Waypoint, info about Community Playdates (today is one!), some Halo 4 wallpapers, and one of the best O’Connor/Ellis ‘shops EVAR. Go look! (We have a local copy, on the off chance you have any problems with Halo Waypoint.)(Louis Wu 00:36:35 UTC)
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Podtacular 277
The Podtacular podcasts are coming fast and furious – hot on the heels of Monday’s release, there’s a new episode up now, focused on Armor Lock. Go listen!(Louis Wu 21:23:58 UTC)
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Play with HBO, Get your Picture Taken
munky-058 stopped by with a reminder about Matchmaking Night this evening… and another batch of panoramas from last week’s outing. Great stuff!(Louis Wu 21:20:26 UTC)
The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft
