I made it to Seattle for Halo Fest. We’ll be tweeting and posting stuff throughout the next three days, so stay tuned. Also, remember that I will be on the Community Panel at noon, Pacific time.
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No Halo Fest? No Problem!
For those of you who will be attending Halo Fest, you’ll get the chance to see Dust Storm up along with a lot of other community leaders at the Community Panel along with more awesome panels at the event. It is surely something that you will not want to miss. For those who are not able to go, shame on you for calling yourself a Halo Fan… Just kidding. There are going to be plenty of opportunities to get involved with the festivities. As we have mentioned already, 343i has teamed up with IGN to stream the panels from Halo Fest. There is also a new thread on the Waypoint forums where you can post your questions that we will get asked on the panel, so if you have a question that you want me to answer, post away.
If simply watching from the sidelines isn’t enough for you, Kete from The Running Riot is hosting Riot Fest. Riot Fest is taking place on Saturday at 9:00PM EDT (6:00PM PDT) and will have people calling into the show for a little interactive confab between viewers and some of the attendees at Halo Fest. It will be a chance to talk about stuff that will undoubtedly be announced/released at Halo Fest with other people watching from home.
No, I think we’re just getting started.
Getting ready for Halo Fest.
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Tagged 343 Industries, Halo Fest, IGN, Microsoft, Pax, Prime, Waypoint
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Battle Canyon Flythrough
Another new Halo: Reach multuplayer map was unvield this week at GamesCon and this one has been redone a few times. You might remember it as battle creek or one of the maps Podtacular played Bungie in long ago in that Humpday challenge when it was known as Beaver Creek, but in Reach the old time favorite will bear the name Battle Canyon (has a nice ring to it I think.) IGN has the scoop, again, giving us another exciting ‘flythrough‘ of the new map.
What suprises me is that there are actually a lot of things that changed in this remake. The team added a lift to the top of both bases and changed where the teleporters are placed. Thanks to forge those of you who frown upon these changes can put the map back to it’s original battle creek goodness, and the 343 guys will have an ‘anniversary’ edition of the map that we’ll see in match making that’s more like the one we know and love. Hopefully we’ll be getting more of these flythroughs at Halo Fest, and oh yeah Dusty will be there too.
Give us your thoughts in the comments.
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Podtacular 259: MLG Anaheim Recap
This episode was inevitably delayed since I was on vacation and didn’t have all the right stuff to produce an episode. However, here’s a recap of the latest MLG Event that took place in Anaheim. Instinct managed to wipe the boards again, and there are some new changes coming to the circuit for next year. We are joined by nobudy to discuss what happened during the weekend at MLG Anaheim. Enjoy
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Tagged Anaheim, Circuit, Gears, GoW, Instinct, MLG, Professionals, War
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New Reach Maps Playable at GamesCon
Looks like the guys over at 343 industries are getting a little sneaky on us. Instead of confirming what they will be adding and subtracting in the upcoming Title Update to Halo: Reach they’ve been using a playable version of it at GamesCon. The following video seems like it is showcasing two of the new (and awesome) maps that will be coming to Reach Multiplayer when Halo: CE Anniversary this November 15, but if you look closely you’ll be a healthy bit of information (also equally awesome).
In this video, you will first notice that there is in fact no bloom being used when players are using the DMR. Also, something BrentGamer’s been asking for since day one of Reach, is health ‘bleedthrough’ while meleeing. AKA when you melee your opponent it wont just take out their shields all of the time. There are also other nice pieces of new information to be found but do not take my word for it, get to watching!
While we are on the subject of new gameplay videos IGN has a video walk through of the Damnation remake we’ll all see when Halo: CE Anniversary releases. Both of these videos and more information can be found on the new Halo Waypoint bulletin.
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Meet Podtacular CoHost GLewis at a Halo LAN in north Atlanta!
We don’t normally post things like this but I just wanted to get the word out on some Halo related events both Dustin and I are going to be attending. As most of you guys know Dust Storm has been invited by Waypoint to be apart of the Community Panel being held at Halo Fest in the coming weeks. So if any of you are in the area please feel free to stop by and say hello!
In other news, GLewis will be at a Pre-Raleigh MLG Event being held in North Atlanta that you can apart of! We encourage everyone who can to come out to the event to watch some great halo and come meet one of the shows cohosts. The event will feature a 4v4 MLG-Style tournament with a Team Pass to MLG Raligh as the first place prize. It’s $5 to watch and $100 for a team of four to enter to compete. Needless to say I will not be competing in the tournament. All details can be found here!
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