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Podtacular 853: Boarding Action Evolved
Season 3 brings along three new multiplayer maps, weapons, equipment, matchmaking improvements and story lines that has piqued the community’s interest and hopefully is the start of renewed interest in Halo Infinite. The shakeup at the studio hasn’t seemed to … Continue reading
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Podtacular 852: Countdown to Season 3
The largest content update is about to hit Halo Infinite since launch, and a lot of folks are happy with what’s coming. A new BTB map, two Arena maps, Escalation Slayer, Shroud Screen, Bandit, Armor, Narrative and more are on … Continue reading
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Podtacular 851: Pay to Guest
Dust Storm and Godzilla T are joined by two of Podtacular’s Patreon supporters: PensHalo and Confal. As long time members of the Podtacular community, they share a lot of the same Halo interests as our hosts. With the recent changes … Continue reading
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Infinite Season 3 gets a trailer
Today 343 released a trailer for Halo Infinite‘s third content season. There’s new maps, weapons, modes, and some featured community Forge content to check out. It drops March 3rd. (fuchsdh 00:49:46 +0000)
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Remember Reach and Wars with some Canon Fodder
Haruspis dropped a new Cannon Fodder today, focusing on the Halo Reach-themed event recently featured in Infinite, as well as the recent sixth (ed. note: time has no meaning!) anniversary of Halo Wars 2. Feast on some lore tidbits, concept art, and a absolute banger of a trailer song. (fuchsdh 21:25:28 +0000)
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Podtacular 850: Community Surprises
In a last minute surprise before season 3 comes to Halo Infinite next month, 343 has introduced the Community Collection playlist, bringing community Forged content to Matchmaking in an evergreen playlist that will be continuously updated. After a lot of … Continue reading
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343 details upcoming Halo Infinite changelog
Halo Infinite is getting an update next week that addresses some bugs and makes some game balance tweaks. On Halo Waypoint, they’ve provided a preview of the update for perusal (if you’re a sweaty competitive player, you’ll probably want to take note of some changes.) (fuchsdh 20:54:30 +0000)
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Noble Intentions and Forge maps come to Infinite
Yesterday, Halo Infinite got two major updates. First, the game now features a “Community Collection” Forge playlist. Second, the “Noble Intention” event is live in the game, with a free battle pass to unlock some Reach-inspired armor. As a bonus for lore fans, there’s a short story in audiobook form to tie into the event. (fuchsdh 19:06:25 +0000)
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Podtacular 849: All But Starting From Scratch
According to a recent Bloomberg report, 343 Industries is “all but starting from scratch” when it comes to the future of the Halo franchise, with now over more than 90 confirmed departures from 343 along with additional contractors, it seems … Continue reading
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Podtacular 848: The Road Ahead
Halo is staying in house with 343 industries as Pierre Hintze announced last week after more than 60 full-time employees were let go, but with that many people gone, there’s sure to be some slowdown of certain development and support … Continue reading
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Podtacular 847: Hard Hitting Layoffs
Hard news hits this week as a result of Microsoft letting go 10,000 employees over the next six months, starting this week where over 60 343 employees, mostly from the campaign team, were let go. This sudden announcement has a … Continue reading
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Podtacular 846: Terminal Velocity Chief
The Halo Championship Series for Season 2 is kicking off in Charlotte, NC in February as balance changes and new maps enter in for the latest competitive Halo experience. We also take a look at the next two missions in … Continue reading
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Podtacular 845: Infinite Year One
It’s been a quiet few weeks as 343 is finally starting to come back from the holidays. This gives us a chance to take some time to reflect on the first year of Halo Infinite and the roadmap that we … Continue reading
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Podtacular 844: Winter Wrap-up
We draw upon the close of 2022 and a year of Halo Infinite. After a tumultuous launch for Halo Infinite, we have Campaign Co-op, Forge, Custom Games Browser and a whole lot of quality of life improvements that we’ve received. … Continue reading
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Podtacular 843: Holiday Cheer
Halo Infinite has now been out for a year and through the ups and downs, it’s safe to say we’re finally at a point where we’d consider it a full game with Forge, Campaign Co-op and the surprise drop of … Continue reading
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Season’s tidings bring Halo content updates
As the year ends, 343i has released some content updates. The Winter Update for Halo Infinite has dropped, bringing welcome additions like a custom game browser. But that’s not all; MCC also gets an update, with added skulls, match rejoin, and Steam Workshop support. Get to downloading and enjoying the new content! (fuchsdh 14:27:37 +0000)
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Firefight CE: Behind the Scenes
After over 20 years of Halo fandom, I love that I can still be impressed by creations from the community. A recent release, Firefight CE, has definitely ticked that box… and recently Rockslider has posted an interview with its creator, Mango0fDoom, which sheds quite a bit of light on the development process, and makes the end result even MORE impressive. Go give it a read! (You can comment on our forum – the thread’s been there for a while, but this holiday season is playing havoc with our news-writing abilities.) (Louis Wu 20:30:46 +0000)
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Podtacular 842: Forging A New Infinite
Forge has been out for just a little over a week and the amount of content the community has come out with in such a short time has been incredible! From remakes to mini-games to prefabs to new maps, forgers, … Continue reading
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343 wraps up the month with a chock-full community update
On the heels of the Winter update, Infinite‘s birthday, Halo 4‘s tenth anniversary, and more, Haruspis brings the latest Community Update to Halo Waypoint. If you’ve been out of the loop (there’s a new Halo novel coming, Forge and Campaign Co-op are here, etc.) this is a great way to catch up. (Louis Wu 13:12:48 +0000)
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Want Firefight in Halo: CE? This mod has you covered
Rockslider stopped by with word of a pretty cool Master Chief Collection mod—bringing Firefight to Halo: CE. You can check out the trailer embedded below. (fuchsdh 01:51:10 +0000)
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