Podtacular 264: Community Collaboration

Posted on October 1, 2011 by Dust Storm

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One thing video games are good at is bringing people together, even if they are hundreds of miles away. Halo, on the other hand, not only does this well, but provides a vast variety of ways to enjoy the game, which leads to many different kinds of communities. In this episode, two other great communities are represented: Grifball Hub and Halo Waypoint. We are joined by community leaders Goosechecka and Pup from the Hub, and Rukizzel from Waypoint. Enjoy

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That Frozen Familiar Feeling

Posted on September 29, 2011 by Dust Storm

Last night, bs angel delighted us with this week’s Halo Bulletin, which highlight the Prisoner remake: Solitary.  It’s interesting to see how different the map looks, but it plays almost exactly the same from it’s Halo: CE counterpart.  Playlist details are now out on what changes we will see on the October 4 playlist update.  Go have a read.

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Community Collaboration (Submit)

Posted on September 27, 2011 by Dust Storm

This week, we will be recording with a few people from GrifballHub and Rukizzel from the Waypoint Forums.  We will talk about how Halo has helped build so many different communities and how they are all intertwined with each other.  We’ll be reading your tales from the foxhole, talk about any customs you send in, and some of the random e-mails sitting in my inbox.  Recording is Friday.

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Podtacular 263: Reclaimer’s Speculation

Posted on September 24, 2011 by Dust Storm

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We were all dazzled by what we saw from the Halo 4 panel at Halo Fest, but we really haven’t had the chance to speculate here on the show what we might expect to see from the upcoming Halo Reclaimer Trilogy. So we decided to take the Halo Lore master from HBO, GrimBrother One and speculate on what we could possibly see in the new games. We are also joined by Elusive Eagle from Spirits of Fire. If you’re at all interested in discussions that break down what we saw in the Conception Art Trailer, you’ll want to take a listen. Funnyboy and Zant117 from the community also join us. Enjoy

Book Order Discussion

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Data Drop Three

Posted on September 24, 2011 by Dust Storm

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If There Are Explosions in the Forest…

Posted on September 22, 2011 by Dust Storm

bs angel dropped us another Bulletin last night featuring the remake of Timberland for Halo CEA: Ridgeline.  This map comes from one of the classic Halo: PC maps and is a pretty good pick for a remake (I still think Chiron TL34 would have been cool…).  There are some pretty screenshots of the environment and is probably one of the prettiest maps we’ve seen in Reach so far.  On a Forge note, people will be glad to hear that trees are now a forgeable item for Ridgeline (like there weren’t enough trees already).

The Title Update also hit this week, but you won’t see any immediate changes.  In order to celebrate a little though, Waypoint has released a Zero Bloom Slayer Game Variant for download.  There’s also a nice wallpaper for Halo CEA that you should go download and put to use immediately.

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Not so Grim is this Story (Submissions)

Posted on September 20, 2011 by Dust Storm

This week for Podtacular, we are going to be talking about the Halo story, including the games and books.  We will speculate on what we might see in the terminals from Halo: CEA and in Halo 4.  We will be having HBO’s GrimBrother One on the show to help in the discussions.  We want to know what you guys think about the Halo storyline as well, whether it’s your favorite campaign memory, and interesting book fact, or your speculations on the coming stories.  We will be recording on Thursday so get your submissions in.

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