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Grab Your Hammer and Score
According to the GrifballHub Twitter feed, there is a new Grifball Playlist live in Reach Matchmaking. Time to go get your flower on! (GrimBrother One 17:54:39 UTC) (permalink)
New Halo Avatar Goodies Incoming?
According to Major Nelson, the Halo Collection on the Avatar Marketplace is slated to get a new addition(s) on July 21. No word yet on what they items may be specifically, but I'm sure we'll find out soon. I'm hoping for the pilot helmet, personally. (GrimBrother One 17:40:24 UTC) (permalink)
Looking ahead
Computer and Video Games wonders whether Bungie can make the jump (back) to multiplatform development, and whether Halo will springboard them to success in a new universe, or hold them back? Tough questions to answer without more data... but don't let that stop you from speculating! (Louis Wu 16:42:44 UTC) (permalink)
SHC's June Montage
Hitmonchan also pointed out SHC, a Halo 3/Reach montage containing footage from the SingleHaloClips community collected during the month of June. Some great plays, nice mix of games. Editing only rarely gets in the way of watching the plays. (Gotta love those spawns on Narrows!) (Louis Wu 16:38:45 UTC) (permalink)
Kratos Plays Halo Reach
Heh - when you get teamed up with the God of War in Reach Matchmaking, you should expect some epic gameplay. Or maybe just insults. (Thanks, Hitmon. Good luck on that midterm!) (Louis Wu 16:33:21 UTC) (permalink)
When Speedrunners Talk
RC Master has been one of the most prolific speedrunners in Reach - and now he's begun to tell you HOW he does it. His first commentated run is now online - in honor of this week's LASO Challenge, he's added commentary to his 20-minute speedrun of Exodus. Definitely worth a watch! (Louis Wu 15:40:04 UTC) (permalink)
Supporting Community Cartographers
FyreWulff pointed out a thread on the Halo Waypoint forums where you can express your support for the Community Cartographers, a group of fans Bungie used to help filter out the best fan-made maps for use in Matchmaking. If you like the idea of fan-created maps finding their way into populated playlists, stop by and weigh in! (Louis Wu 15:38:03 UTC) (permalink)
The Wildlife of Halo: A Fan-Made Field Guide
Postmortem is looking for fans interested in helping him create a very high-quality "Wildlife of Halo" field guide - if this sounds intriguing, you should read his post carefully, and see if you can contribute! This sounds like a fantastic project - here's hoping it works out! (Louis Wu 15:33:23 UTC) (permalink)
Bungie's Farewell: A Dramatic Reading
David Houghton, content editor at GamesRadar UK, gave the beginning of Bungie's Starside Speech a dramatic interpretation. It's a good start, but somebody needs to do the full piece. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to practice my best brooding baritone. (Hitmonchan 15:27:17 UTC) (permalink)
What I Did On My Summer Vacation.
Rooster Teeth's production schedule for Red vs Blue season 9 is an episode a week, for four weeks, then a PSA, lather, rinse, repeat. We watched Episode 4 last week - so this week, you get a PSA. It's a very funny PSA, in which Caboose recounts his adventures with the nice men and women of Noble Team. Thanks, mattroe. (Louis Wu 15:24:03 UTC) (permalink)
Gotta watch your words...
A month ago, Microsoft Game Studios VP Phil Spencer talked to OXM UK at E3. He was hyping Halo 4, and talking about how it will be a return to the story of the Master Chief. The terminology he used might be considered... unfortunate, based on the press this article began generating yesterday. (Not sure why nobody noticed before yesterday, but that's a different question altogether.)
"We kind of lost our way a little bit, I'll say. And that's why I wanted to make sure that at the unveiling of Halo 4, you knew you were playing Master Chief, that John was back. Because Master Chief is the John Wayne character of that universe, and that's who you want to play."
The thread on our forum about this has people a little annoyed that Spencer basically seems to be saying "the direction Halo went in, with ODST and Reach, was not the direction it SHOULD have gone in." Do you think he's right? Do you think that's even what he was really trying to say? Chime in! (Louis Wu 15:21:10 UTC) (permalink)
Armor Locked
Don't forget to check out the 4th and final episode of CruelLEGACEY Production's Playtime machinima series. Awesome stuff, go give it a look! (GrimBrother One 14:28:45 UTC) (permalink)
How To Make a Halo Fan Film
Pete Cooper stopped in to give word that the Operation Chastity feature article in OXM UK has now gone live on the web. Big congrats to them for such a great article, go and check it out! (GrimBrother One 14:25:04 UTC) (permalink)
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