The bottom of Keyes, finally reached! Apologies for the tardy mention, but it's worth playing catch-up on this one. Just recently, Spasmodic achieved one of the holy grails of Halo 1 tricking, namely reaching the bottom of Keyes (as was mentioned in the forum). All you need to do is… a whole lot of tricky stuff (duh!), and hey presto, there you are in your own purple paradise. He lays out the development story in the video description too, so be sure to have a read of that.
Grim gets canonized in MCC Reach, and so does AFoA Heh, this is a nifty easter egg. In Halo: Reach, many developers got their names assigned to troopers who would follow you around in the levels. The MCC release added a few names, our hometown boy Grimbrother One among them. But CIA391 points out, by extension that makes this little bit from Levi's A Fistful of Arrows possibly legitimate. Head-canon confirmed!
@GrimBrotherOne now. THIS WAS SNEAKY. You snuck in a A Fistful of Arrows ref in your own easter egg in MCC Reach. xD Like it can't of been a mere coincidence that the GRIM in MCC Reach has the same rank as the AFOR GRIM xD Finder @LairdSVFpic.twitter.com/7hhpmCO62t
Max Hoberman Redefined Gaming As We Know It Through Halo 2, Go Let Him Know We Want to Hear About It! When Bungie created Halo 2, they redefined how we play games online in so many ways that are even today carried on by Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo and even PC! Max Hoberman, the man hehind the revolution, recently asked on Twitter if anyone would be interested in hearing him do a talk on the process, so please go let him know there's interest!
Considering a talk about bringing Halo 2 online and spearheading XBL & console online gaming in the process. Any interest?
Confirm or Bust, DefendTheHouse Takes on Halo 5 Myths Sometimes things work out the way you expect them to, and other times they blow up in a pink shard explosion. The team at DefendTheHouse are back with another 'confirm or bust' of Halo 5 Myths! (Thanks AfroRyan!) (MacGyver10 19:08:28 UTC)
Halo 5 Mythbusters Shows Marines Have X-ray Vision The folks at 'DefendTheHouse' continually put out some cool videos busting the myths of idle, internet chatter. Check out their latest, Halo 5 Mythbusters Episode 5, to see plenty on ricocheting shots, clambering up vehicles and marines with x-ray vision! (Thanks General Vagueness!) (MacGyver10 14:57:59 UTC)
VTHU Round 21 Results The first go at 'Visualizing the Halo Universe' under new leadership looks to be a success! TDSpiral let us know that the results for round 21 are in and up at the website. Go check out the fans take on Thel 'Vadam's ancestor, Ther 'Vadam! (MacGyver10 21:47:01 UTC)
Halo 5 Mythbusters Lay Plasma Grenade Traps and More Some of my favorite fan videos for Halo are the DefendTheHouse series of Halo Mythbusters. They're back now with some Halo 5 love, so go see how you can create plasma grenade traps and how you can ground pound the 'posing spartans' at the end of a match! (Thanks AfroRyan!) (MacGyver10 22:00:51 UTC)
The Best of Halo 3 Mythbusters DefendTheHouse has released a Best-Of video, showing off highlights from their Halo 3 MythBusting days. Memories! Go watch. Thanks, Dust Storm. (Louis Wu 20:31:59 UTC)
Close Combat Against 6 Hunters Rockslider has gone back to Silent Cartographer to see how he would do against 6 Hunters, on Heroic. Heh.
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Ascension - CEM3 RVideo sent word of a pretty nice Halo CE montage released last week - Mint Blitz calls it 'Ascension - CEM3', and it nicely marries impressive Halo play with mellow ambient music. Go watch! (Louis Wu 18:01:12 UTC)
I thought they'd be bigger. Heh - Microsoft sent their full-scale Warthog down to Joint Base Lewis-McChord south of Tacoma... and put US military inside. Go watch the video on Facebook! Thanks, SEspider. (Louis Wu 21:52:56 UTC)
Covenant Banshee - now with Turret! Heh - what would be more fun than a Banshee flying around AotCR? How about a Banshee with a dropship turret? Check out Rockslider's latest exploration. (Sadly, the player has no control over the turret.) (Louis Wu 21:45:32 UTC)
Hustla : Origin : 1st MCC Montage The launch of MCC has rejuvenated interest in making montages - and Hustla released one today. No fancy editing - just clean clips and pretty impressive gameplay! (He's pretty scary with a Halo 2 sniper.) Go watch. Thanks, RVideo. (Louis Wu 23:45:56 UTC)
Hyena's Final Halo 3 Montage: 'Mastery' Wow. I haven't watched a lot of montages recently, but Morpheus pointed us to the final Halo 3 montage from Office Hyena, called "Mastery"... and I must say, I'm impressed. Seven minutes of 'wow'. Check it out!
(Louis Wu 00:15:00 UTC)
The power of branding Heh - The Guardian has noticed that Microsoft is playing off the popularity of the Halo franchise in other aspects of their product empire... and jumped in to help. Their suggestion for a Garageband competitor is awesome. (Louis Wu 19:17:23 UTC)
Into The Trance 2 RVideo let us know about a montage from Kiko Mia - it's called 'Into The Trance 2', and it's 21 minutes of crisp Halo gameplay set to hypnotic music. Go watch! (Louis Wu 20:20:59 UTC)
Halo: Retrospect ZoLA has released a 90 minute documentary called 'Halo: Retrospect' - it's taken him a year to put it together, but it's a pretty impressive look back at the competitive Halo scene. Go watch! Thanks, RVideo. (Louis Wu 23:26:08 UTC)
CE For CF The Halo Forum is kicking off a tournament to raise money for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation - swing by and see how you can join in! Thanks, RVideo. (Louis Wu 18:49:20 UTC)
Look Before You Leap 4 Over at TheHaloForum.com, there's a new Look Before You Leap jumptage from Jump Theory... lovin' it. Go watch! Thanks, RVideo. (Louis Wu 21:44:09 UTC)
Ambivalent Cartographer FyreWulff stopped in to announce a new challenge on Fire Team Zulu - can you complete Silent Cartographer and kill ONLY Elites at the highest tier? Heh. Sounds like fun! (There's a bonus challenge, posted today - can you get a ghost from the bridge at the start of Metropolis to the top of the Scarab at the end?) (Louis Wu 22:36:35 UTC)
Chops III RVideo told us about Chops III - if you don't want to hear a lot of Xbox LIVE verbal abuse, skip this one... but there is some entertaining gaming here, and some very pretty cinematography. (Louis Wu 22:30:38 UTC)
In Memoriam: The Metaltage RVideo sent us a link to a trailer for In Memoriam: The Metaltage. It's only a minute long, but it does a fantastic job of building hype for the final product... go watch! (Louis Wu 21:50:54 UTC)
Threshold A few days ago, RVideo sent us a link for Puba's latest (and maybe last) Halo 3 montage - it's called Threshold, gameplay is by Dkahre and Dutchy, and editing is off the charts. (It's not long at all, so don't let that bother you.) Pretty amazing shooting! (Louis Wu 18:09:43 UTC)
Buck shuts down the Biebs Heh - Alan Tudyk discussed a classic Halo moment at a Fan Q&A during NerdHQ 2014 - he couldn't remember (during the telling of the story) when it took place, but longtime readers of the Bungie Weekly Update will remember Urk's telling of the same story in September 2010, about an incident at a Reach prelaunch event. (Scroll down to "We're in LA!") This one made me smile. (Louis Wu 18:31:19 UTC)
Visualizing the Halo Universe: Writing Round 1 Results Postmortem announced that the results for Writing Round 1 of his Visualizing the Halo Universe are now online... go read! (Louis Wu 05:13:12 UTC)