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  • There’s a Stosh we should blame

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    ncsuDuncan continues his streak of fantastic Halo parodies – this time, he’s got some artwork done by other HaloGAFfers to back up his phat beats. (Louis Wu 22:34:44 UTC)

  • Curse of the AFK

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    Phat M0nk3y, from Meanscreen Production, let us know about Curse of the AFK – pray you aren’t struck with this! (Louis Wu 22:32:35 UTC)

  • Block Out a Few Minutes to Check Out This Montage

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    Revenant1988 wanted to share a very cool video he came across featuring a Lego-based feature that was created to open up the 2012 Interactive Achievement Awards. It’s a montage of various video games from the past year all done in the beloved construction-toy style. Halo of course plays a small role in it as well. Go and give it a look!(GrimBrother One 22:14:20 UTC)

  • Hanging Out In the Bungie Maleroom

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    Last week, our resident sack-admirer General Vagueness was disappointed by our lack of attention paid towards Bungie’s sweaty mailbag. This week we have the latest collection of Bungie fan inquiries up immediately for your reading pleasure. Some great questions are asked and answered by a grab bag of Bungie warriors. Go nuts! Thanks to DeeJ for letting us know.(GrimBrother One 21:54:54 UTC)

  • HRSotD: Freezing Air

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    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!

    Halo: Reach Screenshot

    Author: goyonaruto

  • Office of Halo Intelligence: Part 5

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    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!

    Office of Halo Intelligence



    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

  • Forward Unto Dawn Podcast Episode Four

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    Forward Unto Dawn Podcast



    From Slightly Live:

    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.


    Forward Unto Dawn Podcast Episode Four

  • Fails of the Weak 75

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    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.


    Fails of the Weak 75

  • Bungie Mail Sack 6.1

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    Now with more Bungie Panel!

  • An Old Bungie Boy’s New Toys

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    While not Halo-specific, news just came down via the Bungie Twitter feed that former Bungie co-founder Alex Seropian has started a new mobile-game development studio called Industrial Toys aimed at the “core gamer”. More info can be found in this article from Pocketgamer. Good luck, Alex!(GrimBrother One 17:31:22 UTC)

  • Friday Caption Fun 41

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    Last week, for our Friday Caption Fun festivities, you provided quips for an image featuring a rather infectious Spartan. Here are the top captions you left for that particular image!

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    “Spartan Blue soon realized that cleaning your visor with an Energy Sword wasn’t the best of ideas.” –AJakway
    “Citizens of Earth and her colonies! We need YOU to camp in the vent shaft on Sword Base! Enroll TODAY!” –That Gunslinger
    “Well, at least now we know what happened to Jun….” –ArchedParasite
    “Humans never die, they’re just infected in action.” –AlfaSirius
    “After getting a splinter in his ear, Jim asked Bill to help get it out. Unfortunately, tweezers were unavailable. –xDeAdlYxGh057xx
    “When he said laser eye surgery, this was NOT what he had in mind.” –Omza
    “Bet you can’t stick it.” –THOMSY Aus
    “Are you sure this is how you clean your ears?” –Windwalker Rangel
    “I used to be a Spartan like you, but then I took an Energy Sword to the face….” –Skylar Stewart



    Now that we’ve wrapped up that picture, let’s start a new one. Up for your captioning pleasure this week is a picture featuring a rather fishy scene. Soak in the screenshot, then leave your witty and relevant quip in a comment. Off you go!

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    Author: SILENCOM

  • Damnation Walkthrough – A Halo: Anniversary Gameplay and Commentary Video

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    From Paul B:

    This is Episode 2 of my Map Walkthrough Guide series covering all the maps that launched with the Anniversary Map Pack. This week the focus is Damnation. Enjoy!


    Damnation Walkthrough – A Halo: Anniversary Gameplay and Commentary Video

  • FUD Talks Flood Assurance

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    Dani stopped in to let us know that Episode 4 of the Forward Unto Dawn Podcast is now live. It’s a great discussion that focuses primarily on Primordium, with a few fun tangents thrown in for good measure. Definitely check it out! (GrimBrother One 14:21:21 UTC)

  • Listen Up! The Bulletin is Out

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    Frankie himself stopped by with news that the slightly-belated Halo Bulletin is now live. This week’s edition features a very cool look at some of the game’s audio production, complete with a new OHI entry by Audio Director for Halo 4, Sotaro Tojima. There’s a very cool video featuring some audio capture in the field as well. Check it out! (As of this moment, Wu hasn’t finished his pottery class, so there isn’t a local version just yet, but when he’s done, I’m sure he’ll put one up between popping bon-bons.) Update: Mmmm, those bon-bons were good! The local version is here. -lwu(GrimBrother One 23:12:11 UTC)

  • HT Halo Anniversary Community-tage

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    Edge, from Halotracker, just finished up a Halo Anniversary community-tage, featuring gameplay from HT members. Under 3 minutes. Go watch!(Louis Wu 22:12:41 UTC)

  • Search for Valhalla

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    Tar Alacrin stopped in to mention Search for Valhalla – a half-hour-long machinima based in Reach. (Surprise, given the title, but…)(Louis Wu 22:09:19 UTC)

  • HRSotD: Master Chief Ticks Off the Empire

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    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!

    Halo: Reach Screenshot

    Author: Larry Tanng

  • Out of the Pillar of Autumn – A Halo: Anniversary Trick

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    From CMNeir:

    The team that brought you Halo 2 Tricks, Halo 3 Tricks, and Halo: Reach Tricks present you with Halo: Anniversary Tricks with a new crew of trickers ready to please.

    In this first episode, we introduce Farmerscott21 and JTPri123 as they show you how to get out of the campaign level Pillar of Autumn. This level sure does bring back memories….


    Out of the Pillar of Autumn – A Halo: Anniversary Trick

  • Triple the Huragok – A Fan-made Plushy

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    Triple the Huragok - A Fan-made Plushy


    From LegendofVelotron:

    A friend of mine and I had been role-playing on my Halo fansite. Basically, Legend was a human civilian captured by the Covenant. She’d learned how to hack, and they began using her for her abilities. At that time, a Huragok became her only companion, helper, and friend. Later, Legend was ‘rescued’ by Spartans, and the Huragok ended up going with them. She came up with the name Triple, for the three pairs of eyes he had.

    And so, my own journey began in a fabric store, searching for material that matched the colors of an image of the Huragok Vergil. After several days of sewing that caused my right thumb and index finger to be VERY sore, I present my finished work, and new friend, Triple.

    In case you were wondering, his back makes a really comfy pillow!


    Triple the Huragok – A Fan-made Plushy

  • Top of the Pillar of Autumn

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    Carnage A51 and PhysicsRemastered are back with another Reach campaign trick – this time, they’re showing you how to get on top of The Pillar of Autumn. The tutorial is long… but pretty clear, and the end result is great! Check it out – then try it for yourself!(Louis Wu 17:42:39 UTC)