Microsoft teams up with IGN on Halo Fest

Posted on August 2, 2011 by The Guardians

Looks like 343 and Microsoft just added an offical media outlet for the upcoming Halo Fest that will be held in the coming weeks and sadly it isn’t us. However, you should be excited to know that IGN will be bringing you, and me, more information on Halo Fest leading up to the event, during the event, and after the event (for some reason??).

Whats Halo Fest you ask? Well, it is an event and party held at PAX Prime in Seattle, Washington August 26 through the 28th. They are throwing this special occasion to celebrate the 10th anniversity of the Halo Franchise! To hear part one of our Celebration head over to the Halo Decade Show, Part 1.

Anyone planning on attending Halo: Fest? How about if Podtacular Hosts a Halo: Fest on Xbox Live where you can play with the hosts and some other cool people from around the community? Tell us what you think in the comments.

For all the information and cool videos IGN has in store for you, head over to their Halo Fest page.

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Instinct Goes Undefeated At MLG Anaheim

Posted on August 1, 2011 by The Guardians

God squad aka WINstinct aka eon Instinct just went undefeated to take MLG Anaheim yesterday. For those of you who were not able to watch this match and many other awesome Halo: Reach matchup’s please stop reading and head over to MajorLeagueGaming.com right now. Really, do it.

We’ll be going over our thoughts from this past MLG in the next Episode of Podtacular and we’d love to hear what you thought about this past event as well! So send in your submissions to be read on the next episode!

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Halo Anniversary Tid-bits from this Past Week

Posted on July 23, 2011 by Dust Storm

This week, Waypoint gave us a few goodies regarding the upcoming Halo Anniversary.  If you haven’t seen it by now, then here’s what’s going down.  Earlier in the week, Waypoint announced a skull that would be available in the campaign for pre-orders: the Grunt Funeral skull.  As one can imagine, the skull is very similar to the Grunt Birthday Party skull, but instead of confetti, it pulls it’s roots from the Halo 2 version of the skull where all grunts, when killed turn into plasma grenades.  You can watch a video of it in action below.

The other bit of news is a video demo of the Halo Anniversary campaign in-action.  It is very convincing that the physics and underlying code has remained untouched, so go check that out on Waypoint.

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Podtacular 258: Future of Halo Media

Posted on July 17, 2011 by Dust Storm

This week the crew talks about the Halo: Faith project. It’s a fan film that we don’t yet know a lot about other than that it will happen around the time frame of the Covenant invasion on Reach. With Halo Legends and now Halo: Faith, we talk about the opportunities that Halo has on the silver screen and adding a constant presence for videos in the Halo realm. This week, we are joined by DaftLink I17 and SIETE CINCO75. Enjoy

Link from Show: Sik Web Pages – Halo: Faith

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Podtacular 257: The Mailbag

Posted on July 7, 2011 by Dust Storm

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There’s been somewhat of a lull in Halo news right now, so this week’s podcast is kinda laid back with us going through our mail and playing voicemails. GLewis finally decides to show up to the podcast, since he apparently has a new job, which actually might allow for a regular set podcasting schedule. Enjoy and Happy Bungie Day

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Podtacular Special: Halo Decade Show, Part 1

Posted on June 28, 2011 by Dust Storm

It’s the show that you’ve all been waiting for, or already did and came and watched us live. This special is one of probably a couple more to come that we are doing in celebration of Halo’s upcoming 10th anniversary later this year. Halo has meant so much to all of us that we decided to get the most awesome lineup of guests we can think of to reflect on what Halo is to the community. We got lots of big names from the community on this recording, including bs Angel, Louis Wu, JVB and many more. If you are any kind of Halo fan, you will enjoy this show and the ones that will follow in the future. Enjoy

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Podtacular 256: E3 2011 Recap, Part 2

Posted on June 23, 2011 by Dust Storm

Wrapping up our E3 coverage, we talk about the remaining press conferences with particular attention to the latest console: the WiiU. We touch a little more on the future of Halo with 343i as well. Enjoy

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