Podtacular 233: Forge World and Reach Campaign Impressions

// Dust Storm // Podtacular // August 9th, 2010 // 7 Comments »

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Last week, we talked about Forge 2.0 and Forge World that was announced at Comic Con. This week, we get your opinions on what was released. A campaign trailer for Reach also got released, showing off more of the beauty of the Reach game engine. JVB and CapnKrunk join us to lighten up discussions with their Bean Burritos. Enjoy.

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Podtacular’s Halo 3 Farewell 3v3 Tourney

// Dust Storm // Community // July 28th, 2010 // 12 Comments »

Podtacular’s Halo 3 Farewell 3v3 Tourney

Halo Reach is 7 weeks away and Podtacular hasn’t hosted a tourney in quite some time. So to break the silence, we are throwing a Halo 3 3v3 Tourney for everyone. Anyone can participate and there will be prizes awarded to the winners. Without further delays, let’s see the details. Read More...

XBL Price Changing as of November 1st

// Painkilla05 // Community // August 30th, 2010 // 1 Comment »

Unfortunately Major Nelson has just announced a new pricing scheme for Xbox Live. You can see the new priceing below. As bad as this is, I’m going to be super optimistic and suggest that this may allow massive improvements to XBL. What those could be I can’t say but hopefully they’ll bring us better features than twitter and facebook.

Community Jam Night

// Lancelot // Uncategorized // August 21st, 2010 // No Comments »

After the Jam Night we had on Thursday, we might as well try to get a few more in before school starts up! I’m looking at Friday the 27th at 7 Pacific, and we can keep it going for about two and a half hours. I’ve collected some funny stuff for the comedy portions of the show. So drop by the Jam Night Thread to let me know if you’re coming.

New Podcast Feeds

// Dust Storm // Community // August 1st, 2010 // No Comments »

I have been reworking some of the podcast feeds since we have three separate podcasts with a few more to come. The Podtacular feed has been offline for a while during this change. iTunes has been updated to point to the correct feed and both new episodes are now up on iTunes. For anyone who subscribes manually, the new feed address for Podtacular is http://feeds.feedburner.com/podtacular/podtacular. Gamer 1 has it’s feed on iTunes as well and can be found at http://feeds.feedburner.com/podtacular/gamer1. Around the Ring will be available later this week. Thanks for the patience.

Podtacular 232: Comic-Con 2010 Announcements

// Dust Storm // Podtacular // July 31st, 2010 // No Comments »

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This year’s Comic Con was big for Halo fans everywhere. Forge World, the biggest Halo map ever was a big surprise to everyone, along with all the new Forge 2.0 features. Bungie also showed off three new maps, one of which is an Ivory Tower remake, popular amongst the hosts for this show. Painkilla, Chickenwaffle and Insane all join us to talk about these awesome developments. Pardon my audio: something is very wonky with my headset and I should have a new one soon. Enjoy

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Bungie Weekly Update: 7-30-2010

// Dust Storm // News // July 30th, 2010 // No Comments »

Bungie just released their Weekly Update with some nice goodies: Achievements, Forge Screenshots, and the blames. The widely discussed mini-wraith has been named the Revenant. They have the Achievements listed out in detail for the world to see. Pictures of the new office: looks better than the old warehouse. Check out the story here.

Halo: Reach “The Battle Begins” Campaign Trailer

// Dust Storm // News // July 29th, 2010 // 1 Comment »

Campaign looks fraggin’ sweet, don’t you think?