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Community Custom Carnage on Camera
If you’ve never join in one of the HBO-grown Community Customs events, MixMaster1 stopped by with an awesome reason to start doing so. Check out the awesome highlight video he put together from the last event. Great editing, cool music, and commentary from the players in-game! An excellent watch with some pretty darn hilarious moments. Check it out, and keep an eye on our forums for the next event so you can participate yourself!(GrimBrother One 18:59:31 UTC)
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Weekend Webcomic: Halo Problems
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 will undoubtedly quack you up, is brought to you by pete_the_duck. Enjoy this rather fowl strip, and if you have a comic you’d like to submit for possible future inclusion, send it to bsangel[at]halowaypoint.com!
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So these two grunts walk into a bar…
Leviathan wants to give away an Avatar Energy Sword – swing by his post to see how you can get in on the action! (Really, he wants you to create a funny picture… but he figures the sword is a nice incentive.)(Louis Wu 16:31:44 UTC)
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Waypoint can fill your Sunday
If you’re feeling like watching some Halo videos or checking out some cool screenshots, but don’t know what’s new, Waypoint has what you need. Check out the Waypoint Weekly Wrap-up for links to all the new content they’ve posted this past week (some we’ve already covered, plenty we haven’t). If that’s not enough for you, there’s also some cool Featured Content that isn’t in that list: HaloTracker’s January Top 5 covers No-scopes, a replay of a classic Vintage Fisticuffs highlights the original game’s Two Betrayals level, and the Stride Championship Series is up to Match 5, with Roy and Lunchbox fighting iGotUrPistola AND Ogre 2. Content out the yin-yang!(Louis Wu 16:28:27 UTC)
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Arby ‘n’ the Chief – Behind the Scenes: Part 2
There’s a new Behind the Scenes video from Jon CJG, showing how he records Arby ‘n’ the Chief – interesting watch! Thanks, Ogan Panavo.(Louis Wu 16:26:05 UTC)
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Podtacular 269: Halo CEA Review
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The long-awaited Halo: CEA Review show is here. Everyone listening has probably played the game by this point, but just in-case you haven’t, we have community leaders GrimBrother One and Rukizzel on to give our opinions about 343′s version of the game that started a generation. Enjoy
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Waypoint Weekly Wrap-Up – 1.7.12
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: 1.4.12
Tor Books Announces the On-sale Availability of HALO: PRIMORDIUM
Greg Bear 2012 Tour Schedule for Halo: Primordium
Hollywood and Games – A CES Panel
Reach Weekly Challenge – 1.2.12
Videos
Winter Wonderland – A Halo: Reach Map
Halo Community Christmas Montage 2011 – TheHaloForum.com Edition
CBA Can Help – A Halo: Reach Machinima
Halo Community Christmas Montage 2011 – HaloReachForum.EU Edition
Heroes Never Die – Halo Kinetic Typography
Slim and Shady’s Assassinations 2 – A Halo: Reach Yointage
Secret Doors and Panels – A Halo: Reach Epic Forge Tutorial
Seizure Of Power – A Halo: Reach Montage
Halo: Reach – Achievement HORSE #56
Dover Mx – A Halo: Reach Racetrack Review
Two-wheel Warthog Driving in Halo: Reach
Fun Stuff
Open It…. When You Need It
Tattoo Tuesday: Master Chief vs. Kratos
Halo IRL: Master Ninja
How to Make Machinima, Part 1 – by CruelLEGACEY
A One-of-a-kind Halo Present
For the Kids!
Friday Caption Fun 34
Community Happenings
Forward Unto Dawn Podcast Episode Two
Community Member of the Week: DABIGESTBOB
GrifballHub Celebrates Grifball’s Fourth Birthday!
Beating Cancer Quick
2v2 Anniversary Tournament – Hosted by The Cleaning Crew Clan
Halo: Reach Screenshots
Happy New Year! – Fun with Forge
Abduction – Fun with Forge
Green Goblin – Simply Amazing
Batman – Fun with Forge
Regret – Simply Amazing
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It’s a Grim Day
GrimBrother One has been an integral part of HBO for a while – but today, you can find him elsewhere around the web. Over at Xbox.com, he’s the focus of the latest Gamer Spotlight – read it for some insight into the man himself. (I’m not sure what the ‘XXX’ underneath his home state of Florida, at the top, signifies… I worried at first that it would be a pornographic interview, but that turned out to be a baseless fear.) Thanks to SonofMacPhisto for pointing this out. When you’re finished there, swing by Grim Times Indeed, a personal blog maintained by Grim – his latest post is a look back at the amazing year that was 2011. Did he PLAN for this newspost to appear on the 7th? I don’t know, but I wouldn’t put it past him.(Louis Wu 12:00:34 UTC)
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Play HCEA, Fly to LA
Wow – I’m not sure I understand how Halo Anniversary plays in all this… but G4TV has an announcement about a sweepstakes being conducted by Xbox LIVE, in relation to the upcoming movie Underworld Awakening. If you download the official Gamer Picture during the prize period (one of which ends tonight, and the next of which starts tomorrow), you will be entered into a sweepstakes whose winner will fly to LA in May for an Attack of the Show episode. Apparently, there’s a dusk-till-dawn session of Halo Anniversary being scheduled this weekend as part of this promotion – but I can’t find any info about that specifically. Thanks, ElzarTheBam!(Louis Wu 11:51:35 UTC)
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Play HCEA, Fly to LA
Wow – I’m not sure I understand how Halo Anniversary plays in all this… but G4TV has an announcement about a sweepstakes being conducted by Xbox LIVE, in relation to the upcoming movie Underworld Awakening. If you download the official Gamer Picture during the prize period (one of which ends tonight, and the next of which starts tomorrow), you will be entered into a sweepstakes whose winner will fly to LA in May for an Attack of the Show episode. Apparently, there’s a dusk-till-dawn session of Halo Anniversary being scheduled this weekend as part of this promotion – but I can’t find any info about that specifically. Thanks, ElzarTheBam!(Louis Wu 11:51:35 UTC)
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Duck Tales
Two new comics from pete_the_duck since we last visited Idleduck.com – The Social Network involves the Bungie Webmaster, and Forge Humor made me love that duck. Go read!(Louis Wu 11:39:36 UTC)
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Wonder If He Got The Daily Double Kill
Earlier today Tex dropped in to our forums with word that she had just witnessed some Halo in her Jeopardy. A bit later, Mr. Sci-Fi from his Twitter feed found someone with video of the culturally cross-pollinating event. Cool stuff… I just hope he wagered “I <3 Cortana" at some point. Check it out!(GrimBrother One 07:20:18 UTC)
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It’s Better With Kinetic
Prominent Halo Community member (and taker of cool panoramas) FourteeTwo let us know via his Twitter feed about a very cool kinetic typography video set to the epic speech in the recent Heroes Never Die ad campaign for Halo: Anniversary. Very cool stuff, definitely go and check it out!(GrimBrother One 05:31:48 UTC)
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Wait, I’m Sure I Saw That In Legends Already
A loyal HBO reader sent in word of a new Gundam-style Spartan build by the fabulous mdgelo. The result looks amazing. Go and check it out!(GrimBrother One 05:18:56 UTC)
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Reach – Done Quick for Cancer
Don’t forget – Cody Miller will be running Reach on Legendary for Awesome Games Done Quick in just a little while – watch him, and contribute to their cause (Prevent Cancer Foundation)! (He’s currently speed-running Mirror’s Edge, watching it makes me dizzy.)(Louis Wu 21:05:22 UTC)
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Fails, fails, and more fails
Wanna watch some fails? Fails of the Weak Volume 68 is live on YouTube, and the Best of 2011 episode of Game Fails (including some great Halo fails) is up at both AchievementHunter.com and YouTube. Thanks, hezekiah!(Louis Wu 20:05:41 UTC)
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Next Up: LEGO Grifball
I stumbled across a Halo 3 Gravity Hammer, made with LEGOs – pretty nice!(Louis Wu 19:49:26 UTC)
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Bring Metamucil on this Ride-Along
If you swing by Bungie.net, you can read about The Marty Army, the very first Bungie Fanclub (and one that boasts more than two thousand members). And to help you know Marty better, there are questions asked by group members and answered by the Elder One himself. He’s a funny man. With a lot of answers.(Louis Wu 19:47:39 UTC)
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HRSotD: Regret
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: GlazZz ODST
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Friday Caption Fun 34
Last week, for our Friday Caption Fun festivities, you provided quips for an image featuring a festive but potentially awkward situation. Here are the top captions you left for that particular image!
“This is it baby, hold me.” –The Little Moa
“Mistletoe? Wort’s that?” –oO DREWISH Oo
“Awww…. but all I got you was this sticky grenade….” –Coux73
“No, no! Mistletoe does not count when it is radioactive!!” –The Demon 0u812
“General Blarg was the first Sangheili to volunteer for the “Christmas” inter-species relations program.
He missed something in the fine print.” –Darkslayer18264
“Look Ma, no jet pack!” –Raging Striker
“Unfortunately for the Spartan, ‘kiss’ in Sangheili roughly translates into ‘Energy Sword to the face.'” –AnalogPh33r
“… and then he looked down.” –Prosperity Park
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 heavily customized Warthog. Soak in the screenshot, then leave your witty and relevant quip in a comment. Off you go!
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