Welcome to Noble

Many, if not all of you stood in lines for two, three, four hours or more at your local games retailer waiting for the game of the year, Halo: Reach. You have received critical intelligence about the human-covenant war and it’s your time to fight for humanity. For those who have received the limited edition, you will find some classified intel that will be vital to understanding the minds behind the Spartan Program. For those veterans who have received the legendary edition, your contributions to the war effort have gifted you the coveted Noble Statue. It is a monument to those who were lost.

You may be wondering where Podtacular falls into this. For those of you who are just finding us, welcome to our community. We hope that you find a welcoming and friendly environment here and on the battlefield. We are focused around our podcast that focuses on the Halo Universe: everything from campaign run-throughs, multiplayer tips, and user created content. For those who are familiar with us, expect some changes all around to Podtacular:

  • A new theme has been developed by our former Administrator, CapnKrunk that will be put into effect very shortly, here and on the forums.
  • The Podcast show format will be changed up to a more formal layout and be getting a sound quality upgrade.
  • Pod TV will be hosted by Dust Storm, pursuing campaign runthroughs and achievement guides. If you are looking to get involved, please post in the forums here.
  • Podtacular is looking for news writers for our homepage. If you have done journalism or think you can write well, then you soon will have an opportunity to put your skills to the test and become a Podtacular content writer.
  • Game nights, Forge groups and the like are being established by the community already. We will have a list of official groups and events when they become available.
  • Podtacular’s first Reach tournament is just around the corner, but this time, since you already have the game, we are giving away copies of the Reach OST.

These are just some of the things happening at Podtacular, and we hope you will join us for this adventure into Bungie’s Swan Song to Halo.

Remember Reach

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Podtacular 234: Podtacular Update

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We are back from our summer hiatus and in full swing as we clear out the mailbox before Reach drops onto our consoles and consumes our lives. We are joined by past guest of the summer: Kete from The Running Riot Podcast, AceofSpadesCard from Cyberline Films and CMNeir from Neir Productions. This is the last show before we make some minor changes all around to reflect the release of Reach. So if you are getting this before you go to your local Game Stop or Best Buy, take it with you and listen while you wait for midnight to arrive. Enjoy.

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XBL Price Changing as of November 1st

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.
XBL pricing

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Podtacular 233: Forge World and Reach Campaign Impressions

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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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New Podcast Feeds

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.

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Podtacular 232: Comic-Con 2010 Announcements

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

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.

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