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Ready To Blow
Vezuvius dropped by to make us aware of his Machinima Production project called Vezuvius Productions. You can find their YouTube channel here, which includes not just machinima, but also videos on tricking in Reach. Go and give them a look!(GrimBrother One 16:11:31 UTC)
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Halo 4 Concept Trailer
This trailer was shown at the Halo 4 Panel on Sunday morning at Halo Fest. While it doesn’t give too much insight into what we’re going to see in the campaign graphically, it does lead to some speculation on what we might see in the game. Take a watch: we’ll be talking about it soon on the show.
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Kick The Tires and Light The Fires
As a quick note, we want to wish all of the HBO PAX-attendees the safest and most drama-free of travels as they head to their respective homes over the next few days. And and extra dose of John 117-luck to anyone affected by the recent hurricane, may you find your family and homes as safe and sound as possible. Godspeed!(GrimBrother One 07:35:19 UTC)
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30,343 Reasons to Load Up Reach This Week
This is more of a Halo Community PSA than anything, but in case you didn’t notice (as Elzarthebam reminded our forum), this week’s Halo:Reach Weekly Challenge has a payout of 30,343, and is pretty darn attainable. What are you waiting for? Grab a friend and break the bank!(GrimBrother One 07:24:45 UTC)
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Can We Get A Live Reading of This One Too?
For those of you who love awesome things, Episode 10 of Red vs Blue Season 9 is up. I believe MoltenSlowa said it best… HOLYBACONPANCAKEWTPBBQ. Go watch it!(GrimBrother One 07:20:24 UTC)
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Changing The Name May Cost You 800 MSP
Toby Dillman needs some Halo-flavored help on naming a respawn. Drop in, make your suggestions, and congratulate the man! ;-)(GrimBrother One 07:12:43 UTC)
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Get Fired Up, or Get Pooped On
Robofin117 let us know about a new episode of Arby N The Chief. Never dull, sometimes weird, always a good watch. Check it out!(GrimBrother One 07:07:04 UTC)
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Half a Homemade Newb Combo
Having had a lovely dinner with Leviathan and tucked Kermit in, I figured I’d shake off some of the PAX-induced stupor and gather up some of the news that has graced our forum lately. Bear with us as we’ll be going back and sweeping up many a link over the next few days I’m sure. First off is Arithromaniac dropping in to show us his homemade Plasma Pistol complete with signatures from incredibly important people; mainly HBO members. Pretty sweet!(GrimBrother One 07:00:21 UTC)
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Podtacular – Halo Fest Community Panel
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343i and IGN was gracious enough to give us a recording of our panel at Halo Fest. You can still find the video on the Halo Fest Hub over at IGN. We each talked a little about our respective communities and the importance of having strong communities to attract other fans of Halo. Panelists include Goosechecka from Grifball Hub, Redemption from Halo Challenges, Adam Grumbo from the 405th, CMNeir from Halo 3 Tricks, Louis Wu from halo.bungie.org, and myself. Enjoy
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HBO: Karma’s a bitch
The team is in transit today – but we’d like to apologize for the outage on the forum last night (and the apparent outage on the main site, if you were using a mobile browser). Hurricane Irene shut off an AT&T trunk in New York, which disconnected our forum, our mailserver, and our primary nameserver from the internet. Whee! Things should be back to normal tomorrow – there’s already a huge backlog of news, which I WISH I could get to right now. Double whee!(Louis Wu 18:04:51 UTC)
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HBO: We’re having too much fun for news
I’d like to apologize – in this time of massive Halo news, we’re totally slacking on updating YOU, our readers. It’s unusual that MOST of HBO’s updating staff is participating in the same event… so we’re sorry. In the meantime, there are great resources like Forward Unto Dawn (Dani posted a great summary of stuff from yesterday on our forum last night – but beyond that, he does a great job of summarizing the key points from various sources), and the IGN Halo Fest Hub should be on your go-to list for content directly from the show. We’ll be back to normal soon – we promise!(Louis Wu 18:22:47 UTC)
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Halo: SPD Flash Part 4 pages 10-28
Hedgemony posted the second half (well… last two thirds, really) of Part 4 of his Halo: SPD Flash comic. You should read it. It’s not Halo Fest-related… but Hedge doesn’t disappoint. (Louis Wu 17:03:58 UTC)
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14 Video Game Deleted Scenes That Explain Everything
Sl’askia found an article at Cracked.com that contains a deleted scene from Halo 3 (?) that ‘explains everything’. Or not. (Louis Wu 17:03:28 UTC)
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PCGR 87
SK1LL4XED (and Robowski) let us know about Post Game Carnage Report Episode 87 – it went live yesterday. Plenty of Halo discussion – go listen! (Louis Wu 17:03:00 UTC)
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Playtime Season 2 Development Blog Part 4
CruelLEGACEY put up a new segment of his development blog for his machinima series Playtime – this one looks at video editing.(Louis Wu 17:02:39 UTC)
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Halo Fest Friday Roundup
I am really, really appreciative of our forumgoers today – I went through and found that enormous swaths of the new content released yesterday has been chronicled there. Let’s see if I can summarize what’s out there:- Major Nelson summarized the first day’s activities in this post (thanks, Beckx).
- Gametrailers has posted a 343 Guilty Spark walkthrough narrated by 343 Producer Dan Ayoub (thanks, Beckx).
- Kotaku thinks there are secrets visible in plain sight in the Halo 4 informational wall at Halo Fest – thanks, Sqorck.
- IGN has a Halo 4 info summary with discussion from 343 employees – thanks, Sqorck.
- IGN’s Halo Fest Hub has flythroughs of three of the new maps in Halo: Anniversary – thanks, nillapuddin.
- The Behind The Scenes video shown at Halo Fest is up on YouTube – thanks, ElzarTheBam.
- IGN posted a “Why you should care about Reach’s TItle Update” article – thanks, daveMD.
- Halo Waypoint put up a video showing off a SECOND terminal – thanks, Dubbl3.utoo.
- The final map in the Halo: Anniversary lineup was leaked – the article is down, but there’s no reason not to tell you that the map itself is Headlong. Thanks, The Mean.
- The Halo Fest panels that took place yesterday were filmed, streamed, and are now archived on IGN’s Halo Fest Hub – this will be true again today. If you want to see them in real time, watch the stream, but if you have trouble with that, IGN’s doing a great job of getting them online for archived watching quite quickly. Thanks, PsychoRaven.
- necro2607 took a bunch of his own pics of Halo Fest (and a short video) – go check ’em out on Flickr!
The team at Forward Unto Dawn is doing a fantastic job of keeping up with content as it’s released – if you’re not willing to wait a day for us to summarize, or wade through our forum for the individual links, they’ve got a great summary hub. (Thanks, DEEP NNN.) Today’s another chock-filled day… (Louis Wu 16:51:11 UTC)
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Rewatch the Community Panel
Did you miss the chance to watch us live during Halo Fest today? If you did, the recording is up on IGN. bs angel takes the reigns and is joined by Goosechecka from Griffball Hub, Adam Grumbo from the 405th, HC Redemption from Halo Challenges, CMNeir from Halo 3 Tricks, Louis Wu from HBO and yours truly.
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The Envelope Please…
While we will be putting up a crazy amount of newsposts about the ridiculous myriad of experiences going on at our proverbial mecca (aka, Halo Fest) over the next few days, let me be the first to congratulate our own venerable Louis Wu for earning the first ever Claude Errera Community Award, given at the Halo Fest VIP Party tonight by 343 Industries. He took home (well, to the hotel) a gorgeous trophy as well as the first Duke 2.0 Xbox controller, retrofitted to work as a wireless Xbox 360 Controller, for as Frank O’Connor so eloquently put it, his “gorilla hand-sausage fingers.” Congratulations Claude, may this award come to be an inspiration for all of us in the Halo Community to strive to continually improve.(GrimBrother One 07:19:11 UTC)
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Halo Title Update Announced
This is the first time I’ve been able to sit down since getting to Halo Fest to actually update the site. I’m actually currently watching the Waypoint Update panel while typing this up so I’m constantly engaged in Halo Fest. One piece of news that I think is important to everyone is the Title Update for Halo: Reach. Details can be found in the Waypoint forums. Needless to say, I’m very happy about the stuff they’ve fixed with Armor Lock and it makes a lot more sense. Check it out and if you’re at Halo Fest, come say hi.
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Halo 4 Hog – in Forza 4
If you want to get a super-early look at the Halo 4 Warthog… swing by Eurogamer. They’ve got a few pictures of the version that will be released in Forza 4. (No, I didn’t get that wrong.) Thanks, ElzarTheBam. Update: Kotaku’s got video from last night. Thanks again, Elzar.(Louis Wu 14:21:44 UTC)
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