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All at Once
A10M1C continues his ODST-themed wallpaper series with an image called ‘All at Once’ – gorgeous. Available in both Standard and Widescreen formats.(Louis Wu 18:35:03 UTC)
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Debate This: Push-to-Talk vs Lag
One of the changes mentioned in yesterday’s Weekly Update was that the ‘push-to-talk’ requirement was being bumped up from 4 players per team to 6 – but that the downside to this change was greater potential lag. Hawty McBloggy wants you to weigh in on this issue in a new feature on her blog called ‘Debate This’ – is the convenience for larger teams worth the potential lag? Swing by and add your voice! (Louis Wu 17:54:32 UTC)
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Bungie Weekly Update – Close-out, 2008
The Bungie Weekly Update went live last night, as usual – pretty impressive given the holiday status, and Washington State’s weather woes. Mostly, it’s a discussion of upcoming changes to the Matchmaking playlists – many of these look to be very helpful. Check it out! (As usual, you can read it in our Weekly Update Archive if you so choose.)(Louis Wu 17:53:20 UTC)
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Hayabusa Armor – and More
Over at the Bungie log yesterday, urk posted a link to a video of some fan-made Hayabusa armor. If you swing by the creator’s YouTube channel, you can find lots and lots and LOTS of Halo stuff – including Halo Wars costumes. Good stuff! (The Halo Wars elite walking through a normal house/neighborhood is fun to watch.) (Louis Wu 17:52:50 UTC)
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HaloCE game Archive 2008 Year End update
Dennis Powers sent along a year-end summary of the Halo Custom Edition game Archive – total assets are nearing 3800 items, with 828 of those added in 2008, and 59 added in December. Notable December additions: Dmt-Cairo Station by DMT Inferno (a model of the Cairo space station as seen in Halo 2), Wet Dunes and Delta Cliffs by Ki11a_FTW, and Danger Valley by Spartan 8 (a large forerunner valley). Go check it all out! (Louis Wu 17:52:03 UTC)
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Friday Caption Fun, Round 29
Yesterday was Friday, so it was time for another episode of Friday Caption Fun over at Hawty McBloggy’s – some great submissions for last week’s pic, plus a new shot for you to play with. Go see! (Louis Wu 17:51:36 UTC)
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New Rules
TTL Demag0gue announced that Reclaimer 131 is now online – we get to meet a new AI (this one working for the UNSC), and glean some additional info about Ferial. There’s still other Halo news in the queue – but that’s going to have to wait, sorry.(Louis Wu 23:36:20 UTC)
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Quality, not Quantity
RuneOfRed takes gamemakers to task for abusing their intellectual property and fans alike. Halo (and Bungie) get off cheap. Go read! (Thanks to him for letting us know.)(Louis Wu 23:35:48 UTC)
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Halo-ize your Google Searches
hurrvish noticed a couple of Halo-themed styles for Firefox (which will affect Google search pages); swing by his post for examples and information.(Louis Wu 23:35:19 UTC)
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DigitalPh33r’s Holiday Special: Part 2
DigitalPh33r has posted Part 2 of his Holiday Special – things get a little more violent than the first part. Thanks, AvatarAang.(Louis Wu 23:33:56 UTC)
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Halo 3: Make Love Not War (Episode 1)
The Bungie.net blog has a mention of an interesting video showing what happens when you try to be peaceful in Halo 3 matchmaking. (Hint: it doesn’t always work.)(Louis Wu 23:33:15 UTC)
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AH: Geoff Wins
Hey kids, it’s Griffon here with a little video interview with Geoff. As most of you already know, he managed to win the bet he made with Burnie by getting 10,000 achievement points in only four of the seven allotted days. Be thankful that you can’t smell…
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Master Chief Theater 3000: Season 2 Finale
“Mind telling me what you’re doing in that theater?”
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New Year Show
Well, it’s been an interesting 2008 for Podtacular this year between the podcast coming and going and everything else that has happened here. But 2009 is looking up to some promising changes. We have the Rec Clan going over a revamp for 2009, new opportunities starting to take shape for the community, and of course, the great podcast that this community revolves around. So Happy New Year to everyone from all the staff here at Podtacular.
To start off the New Year, we are returning with the Callins and Tales from the Foxhole show: a great opportunity to get your submission in with all the holiday stories that have happened over our little holiday break. We are taking everything from Halo 3 Tales, Christmas Day stories, and your Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, New Years callins to our voicemail at 206-888-HALO (4256). So make sure to drop us a line at our voicemail or use the Big Green Button on the front page to submit your tale. Submissions are due Sunday afternoon, Jan 4th.
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Halo Community Live – The After Math
Halo Community Live went smoothly the other night, check out what you missed!
The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft