From petetheduck:

Last Forger Standing is a multi-week Forge competition following a TV reality show elimination format. These are real contestants in a real contest with a real prize for the winner: 4,000 Microsoft Points!

Last Forger Standing 5 – A Community Forge Competition Show

Just like in your favorite Choose Your Own Adventure book, this week you can craft exactly the kind of weekly challenge experience you want by completing any ten dailies that strike your fancy. Will it be all Multiplayer? Or perhaps Campaign is more up your alley? No matter which page you to turn to, there is a plethora of daily challenges you can take on to complete the requirement for the week. Good luck, Spartans!

Dedication/Time – 25,000cR
Complete 10 Daily Challenges this week.

Don’t forget to check out the forums for other folks looking to group up:

Weekly Challenge Thread

Weekends and webcomics go hand in hand, and there’s no better day to celebrate that relaxing ritual than on Sunday. Today’s
Halo-themed Weekend Webcomic, which you may or may not relate to, is brought to you by Haloside. Enjoy this green-Spartans-can’t-jump-themed strip, and if you have a comic you’d like to submit for possible future inclusion, send it to bsangel[at]halowaypoint.com!

by: Haloside

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: 2.23.12
Office of Halo Intelligence: Part 5
Reach Weekly Challenge – 2.20.12

Videos
Mini Spartans – A Halo: Reach Illusion
Oboe Scores 5 – A Musical Halo: Reach Gameplay Clip
Game Fails: One Too Many Passengers
petetheduck’s Forge Puzzle Results
Bottom of the Elevator – A Halo 3 Trick
tranQ and Friends 5 – A Halo Community Montage
Top 10 Halo: Reach Betrayals and Suicides
Game Fails: Viva Piñata
Halotracker February 2012 – A Halo: Anniversary Communitytage
Out of the Pillar of Autumn – A Halo: Anniversary Trick
Damnation Walkthrough – A Halo: Anniversary Gameplay and Commentary Video
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Fun Stuff
Fan-made Heroes Never Die Wallpaper
Tattoo Tuesday: Guilty Spark
Master Chief vs. AT-AT Walker
Halo IRL: Spartan Powered
Haunted Ganon – Halo Fan Art
Triple the Huragok – A Fan-made Plushy
Friday Caption Fun 41

Community Happenings
Community Member of the Week: AgentPaperCraft
Halotracker’s Games for Troops 2v2 Tournament
Test Night with a Cartographer: 2.22.12
Forward Unto Dawn Podcast Episode Four

Halo: Reach Screenshots
Apocalyptus – Simply Amazing
Tank Beats Everything! – Fun with Forge
Master Chief Ticks Off the Empire – Fun with Forge
Freezing Air – Simply Amazing

Author: goyonaruto

Office of Halo Intelligence, or OHI for short, is a semi-regular diary-type feature brought to you by various members of the Halo 4 development team. Sotaro Tojima, the Audio Director for Halo 4, kindly agreed to write the fifth entry. We hope you enjoy an inside look at the making of our next title!

From the 2.23.12 edition of the Halo Bulletin:

I’m honored to have an opportunity to talk here! I just came back from a weekly music review, and especially this week, I was so excited about one piece of music. This emotional, digitized piece became the second favorite piece of Halo 4 music which we’ve made so far. I can’t wait to share this with you!

Producing the Halo 4 music is very difficult, but such a fun job for me. I know many people, including me, love the previous Halos’ music. Halo 4 will be a story for Master Chief and Cortana. Therefore, we are driving our music production respecting the previous music tone.

At the same time, we are working to establish some freshness in the music because this is a new trilogy and we are a new team.

I love creating game audio because it is a direct communication between fans and the team. I want to communicate with our “own” language of sound and music. Even if having a new language on Halo is very challenging…

My goal for making audio is always very simple. How much can we make people excited and immersed in the story and gameplay experience with our audio? There are three key ways I like to do that:

• Provide a sense of reality with sophisticated sound design to bring you into a believable world.
• Achieve a memorable, dramatic experience with great music and sounds well synced with the story beat and your gameplay.
• Share a delightful memory with all fans providing an iconic melody.

Actually, my real goal is to make you cry!

When I hired the people that make up the Halo 4 audio team, one of the criteria I had was that if you want to work it had to be “for fans more than anything.” And now I have a great team. Everyone is so happy to work hard to surprise you.

Again, it is very hard to achieve a great audio for the Halo universe, but I believe we can do this as long as we don’t forget you are waiting patiently for us. Stay tuned for next update from me, and for more exciting topics in OHI!

-Sotaro Tojima

Postmortem (Isaac) joins Slightly Live (Dani) and DangerousDave (Dave) to talk about Halo: Primordium. Dani espouses bigotry towards cavemen, we talk about CEA, and wish for the good old days when the Flood really were space zombies.

From Rooster Teeth:

Jack and Geoff watch people playing Halo: Reach make oopsies and uh-ohs!

Editor’s note: Language is mature. Proceed with caution.

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