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Ditching Carter and Jorge
I keep thinking Rockslider’s reached the end of the experimentation he can do with Jun’s Falcon on Winter Contingency – but he keeps proving me wrong. Latest shenanigans include dumping your Noble buddies for the rest of the level.(Louis Wu 19:40:31 UTC)
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A Fronky Christmas
Hedgemony posted a Christmas card for everyone – well, everyone who isn’t offended by offensive stuff. (We realize that qualification changes the numbers pretty drastically. We apologize in advance.)(Louis Wu 15:42:06 UTC)
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That’s going in my fileshare!
pete_the_duck posted a comic on our forum yesterday that made me laugh out loud. Go see what it does for you.(Louis Wu 15:39:33 UTC)
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Get ODST for just over $10
Looks like Amazon’s having a video game sale today – Buy One, Get One for 40% Off. Halo 3: ODST is on the list, and is currently selling for $18.91, so if you buy any game (on the page) that costs more than that, the ODST price drops to $11.35. Hard to beat!(Louis Wu 18:39:19 UTC)
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Turkeys in 434
The pre-Christmas Halo Bulletin was posted last night – word of a new Dashboard theme, a tutorial showing you how to benefit from ATLAS, info about custom challenges (including some fun ones from community members), a brand-new Sparkast (w00t!), and info about the January Matchmaking Playlist update are all adorned by tons of fan-created artwork (hint: click on images). As always, you can read this in our Halo Bulletin Archive.(Louis Wu 15:22:57 UTC)
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Campfire Stories Season 2 Teaser Trailer
Phat M0nk3y stopped by with word of a Teaser Trailer for Campfire Stories Season 2 – they’re looking for feedback! Go watch.(Louis Wu 15:17:43 UTC)
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PGCR 99
We heard from Robowski that Episode 99 of the Post Game Carnage Report has hit the streets – lots of Reach talk. Episode 100 will be live in early January!(Louis Wu 15:12:32 UTC)
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The Halo CE Chronicles – Fearless Chapter 16
Dennis Powers let us know that The Halo CE Chronicles, Fearless chapter sixteen has been posted. The rescue commences!(Louis Wu 15:10:43 UTC)
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Networking: How a Shooter Shoots
mattroe passed along a link to an article on Kotaku AU about Networking – Halo gets a few mentions. Interesting read! Update: RC Master points out that the article was originally posted at immersedcode.org.(Louis Wu 15:06:29 UTC)
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Last Campaign
ncsuDuncan has an amazing talent for writing parody songs; he visited our forum with new lyrics for George Michael’s Last Christmas (and wouldn’t it be great if someone actually recorded it?). He’s been doing this for a little while on NeoGAF – some songs are funnier if you understand that community, but all are impressive:- A New Forge World
- A clip from a Roxanne takeoff
- Goodbye EazyB (Elton John)
- Merry GAF-mas to you
- The Twelve Days of Reach-mas
I’m sure I missed some – but these should amuse you.(Louis Wu 14:49:53 UTC)
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The Last Sleeper – with ties to Halo and Bungie
So yesterday, GrimBrother One stopped in with a Kotaku link about Kendall Davis, who was working on Halo 4 until he quit to create a comic game. What started as a story with only passing relevance to HBO became more interesting when Hitmonchan did a little digging and learned that the game has ties to Bungie’s Aerospace. Amazing how small a world it is!(Louis Wu 14:47:31 UTC)
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Achievement HORSE #54
Achievement HORSE has a special behind-the-scenes vid (also on YouTube) for you this week; it shows off the office staff, doing their best to play with one hand. (Last week you saw how that looked in-game; this week, you can watch them in real life.) Thanks, 7he grunt w/a plasma pistol.(Louis Wu 14:42:53 UTC)
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Halo Reach Mythic Fails
If you’re in the mood for fails, Tyrant has your back – Mythic Fails is collection of fails and laughs from the Mythic community. Campaign shenanigans at their best! Editing was handled by CruelLEGACEY.(Louis Wu 21:49:27 UTC)
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Montage Mania
Are you feeling like you haven’t seen enough Halo videos recently? (Did you remember to check our Halo Anniversary Terminals page?) In the last few days, there have been a veritable flood of montages posted on Halo Waypoint – if you’re feeling like some video distraction, head on over!- Will To Win 2 is a Halo Reach montage from Scikho with very fast cuts
- Christmas Splatter Montage III comes from Stewie2552, and has (surprise) lots of splatters
- The Fails of Reach – Episode 10 has a couple of fails (and some wins) – mostly it’s CruelLEGACEY showing off some plays he’s proud of.
- Intertwined is a Halo 3 minitage from FatRat – some hefty multikills.
- Halo: Reach Fails 14 (this has some HILARIOUS fails) is the latest from Stewie2552
There’s plenty more – I just went back as far as Monday!(Louis Wu 21:42:35 UTC)
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Huntercaust – is it in you?
By:RC Master is unhappy with the lack of updates in Firefight matchmaking – so he’s trying to jumpstart the process. He’s created a bunch of new gametypes, and has highlighted one he calls ‘Huntercaust’ in an attempt to show why he’s made the decisions he has. Looks like a lot of fun! (Louis Wu 20:41:41 UTC)
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G@M3R – An MLG Mini Documentary
The Real Napsta pointed out a ‘Mini-Documentary‘ from Ke7cHuM showing off some MLG players talking about playing for money. Interesting watch! (Louis Wu 20:41:12 UTC)
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Next time, bid more
So on Sunday afternoon, we got an urgent email from Laird – a charity auction full of Halo goodies from 343 was in the last 2 hours of its 5 day run, and he wanted to get the word out. (I’m still sad we didn’t hear about it sooner.) Severl new bidders came online after our newspost, but when all was said and done, the bundle was won by HBO (well, by me) – and today, it arrived. The box was so chock-full of goodies, it had to be supplemented with a poster tube! Go see what was inside. And the next time you hear about an auction from 343… jump in, ’cause the end result is awesome.(Louis Wu 21:08:04 UTC)
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