Watch Every Halo: Reach match from MLG Anahiem!

Posted on August 5, 2011 by The Guardians

Were you like Anorexic Leader and missed last weekend’s MLG event? Well don’t fret because Major League Gaming has you covered! The eSports company recently released the event’s entire VOD libary for FREE! Yes hours and hours of gaming for FREE! You can catch the awesome Halo: Reach action, the cool Call of Duty action, and the popular StarCraft 2 action all on their website.

If you do happen to watch some of the videos or already have please do not forget to submit your thoughts on this past event because we will be going over it with a few special guest hosts on our next Episode! Please submit here or by clicking THE BIG GREEN BUTTON on the top of the page.

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Bungie’s Past, Present, and Future

Posted on August 5, 2011 by Dust Storm

As 343 Industries transitions into power as our new Halo overlords, Bungie is closing the door on it’s beloved franchise and looking towards the future:


In the studio’s newest ViDoc, “O Brave New World”, Bungie employees and Halo community members provide a short history of Bungie and it’s initial ensemble of games from the 90’s (Marathon, Myth, etc.) before moving into a lengthier discussion of the Halo franchise’s history and development. If you have 55 minutes to spare, watching this would be a good way to spend them.

The Running Riot host Kete makes an appearance around the 29:15 mark!

Source: Bungie Studios
See Also: HBO, Kotaku

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We Have Something They Don’t: Luck

Posted on August 3, 2011 by Dust Storm

For some reason, over the past few months, we have received quite a number of spikes in traffic here at Podtacular.  We seem to be hitting marks that we didn’t think we were trying to hit.  First it was Frankie replying to our E3 show, then it was Dust Storm being on The Running Riot, then there was the Podcast of All Halo Podcasts, etc.  Well, prepare to get even more attention, my dear community.  Your host, Dust Storm, has been given the opportunity of a lifetime: a spot on the Waypoint Community panel at Halo Fest.  You heard right, because I had to check twice if I heard right as well (yes, I was speaking in 3rd person before).  I have been presented with a media badge for Halo Fest and will probably get to meet some cool people and get come awesome interviews, but more importantly, I will be sitting in front of thousands of Halo fanatics and more if IGN streams the panel.  So if you are there, please let me know, cause there will be a podcast recorded there.  Also, any burning questions you’ve wanted to ask Frankie, send them in.

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These Aren’t the Sounds You’re Looking For

Posted on August 3, 2011 by Dust Storm

This week’s Halo Bulletin on Waypoint focuses on the new sounds we will see in Halo Anniversary.  While it’s not a complete library of sounds, it does show the difference between the two and the nice sounding upgrades they all got.  You can watch the videos on today’s Halo Bulletin.  My personal favorite is the Rocket Launcher (or noob tube for the haters).

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Win PAX Tickets From Halo Waypoint

Posted on August 3, 2011 by The Guardians

Got another doozie here for you folks. Looks like the guys, and gals, from Halo Waypoint are giving away PAX Prime tickets everyday this week via their twitter account. All you have to do is submit a picture of yourself via twitter holding a sign that says “I want Podtacular to go to Halo: Fest.” … No really submit a picture of yourself holding a sign that says “I want to go to Halo Fest” Selections are at random so please don’t go overboard with the pictures. Though I personally encourage it.

What is Halo Fest you ask? Well if you don’t check the homepage often, or if you live under a rock, it’s the 10 year anniversary celebration 343 is holding at PAX this year in Seattle on August 26th through the 28th. If you’d like to hear part 1 of our celebration check out the Halo Decade Show episode.

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Halo Anniversary Kinect Integration Speculation

Posted on August 3, 2011 by The Guardians

This may be old news but I just came across this today and I wanted to hear what our community thinks about Microsoft putting their Kinect into my Haloz. That’s right, MAI HALOZ. Eurogamer is reporting that Halo: Anniversary will have Kinect Functionality but it wont be groundbreaking, it appears to be something that would not really change gameplay but would add value to the product.

To be honest, I wouldn’t mind doing some virtual t-bagging on those elites. You know show’em whos teh bozz ’round MAI HALOZ. Not everyone seems to be excited about the potential of this marriage but I want you guys to be creative and come up with some cool Kinect Functionality you would pitch to Microsoft. Post your thoughts and ideas in the comments below!

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Halo: Faith Behind the Scenes Sneakpeak

Posted on August 2, 2011 by The Guardians

Whoa do we have an awesome video in store for you people. In the last episode of Podtacular we talked a little about this project named Halo: Faith. If you did not catch the episode you can find it here. For those of you who are to lazy to listen though, Halo: Faith is a fan made MOVIE about the Halo Universe. Not much has been known about the project, with the producers turning on their active-camo, but this past weekend the crew released a very short sneak peak behind the scenes of the upcoming movie on their facebook page.

Needless to say we here at Podtacular cannot wait ’till the movie comes out. Here is a direct link to the video. AWESOME!

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