HCS Season 2 Info and Registration

Posted on April 5, 2015 by Dust Storm

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Season 2 of the Halo Championship begins this weekend and after the results of the first, this next one should be quite the season.  In addition to the $250,000 worth of prize money for this season, we’re looking at a new lineup of Forge maps looking to be included starting the first Season 2 LAN at Iron Gaming Atlanta.  If you have a team ready to go for season 2, then head on over and register.  Here’s what you have to look forward to in this season’s schedule.

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The point structure has been modified since last season to award points to the top 32 teams participating in Online Cups and LAN events.  LANs have a single points ladder instead of a tiered structure.  See below for the point breakdown.

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The Online cups are also getting a few changes that incorporate an open and legendary bracket. The open bracket is open to all teams and is played on Saturday. The Legendary bracket includes the top 8 teams overall who get automatically advance to the Sunday bracket and the top 8 teams from the open bracket.

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Podtacular 468: Hunting the Truth

Posted on April 1, 2015 by Dust Storm

The latest Halo promo pulls a page from the old playbook taking the Hunt the Truth ARG and incorporating an audio drama podcast.  While it’s not quite like the ilovebees campaign back for Halo 2, it has some similarities posing more questions than it answers.  We’re excited to see where this journey goes as we dive into the bullet teaser trailer and episode zero of #HUNTtheTRUTH.

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Podtacular 467: Halo Online Announced

Posted on March 31, 2015 by Dust Storm

When you talk Halo on the PC, you have to go back about 10 years to find Halo 2 Vista still kicking around.  Recent news changes the whole game once again as Halo Online was announced for PC coming to a closed beta in Russia.  There’s no word on whether this will be coming to other regions of the world, but it’s exciting to hear that the PC community, although currently limited, is able to enjoy this franchise once again.  Halo Online is free to play game based off a heavily modified Halo 3 engine with micro-transactions built in.  From the announcement trailer, we got to see some familiar maps and lots of customization for your Spartan armor and weapons.  Now if we can just get MCC to PC, that would be even better.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:03:54 — 46.3MB)

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Halo 5: Guardians Master Chief TV Ad

Posted on March 29, 2015 by Dust Storm

There are two sides to every story and in this Master Chief TV Ad, the roles have been put in reverse.  In this version, Chief stares down an injured Locke as he asks if this is what he wanted to complete his mission while hunting Chief. While Locke’s mission may have come to an end, Master Chief’s is just beginning!  What is the truth? More to be revealed as we continue to #HUNTtheTRUTH.

Halo 5: Guardians is scheduled to release on October 27, 2015.

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Halo 5: Guardians Agent Locke TV Ad

Posted on March 29, 2015 by Dust Storm

The story of our hero takes a dark turn with this Agent Locke TV Ad as he’s staring down an wounded Master Chief in front of a monument to his success.  While Master Chief has saved humanity on countless occasions, now Locke is ready to take the life of the legend to protect us from him.  What is the truth? More to be revealed as we continue to #HUNTtheTRUTH.

Halo 5: Guardians is scheduled to release on October 27, 2015.

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HUNT the TRUTH ARG in Motion

Posted on March 29, 2015 by Dust Storm

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The Halo 5: Guardians Alternate Reality Game, Hunt the Truth is officially underway as earlier this week, following last week’s Bullet teaser trailer.  Since the initial release, an interactive video player allowing scrubbing through the trailer reveals on the bullet a series of labels the Master Chief has had through his lifetime: Son, Abductee, Victim, Orphan, Recruit, Soldier, Warrior, Ally, Hero, Savior, Traitor; with the last being the mystery shrouding the story of Halo 5: Guardians.  In this search of the truth, we are introduced to a military journalist and photographer who has been assigned to an in-depth profile of Master Chief Petty Officer, Spartan 117.

Benjamin Giraud has covered many human-interest stories and was there at the time the Covenant attacked New Mombasa.  Now he’s taking on one of the best stories he could have dreamed upon taking, one in which the outcome was sure to showcase this great hero of humanity. In the primer episode to this ARG, we hear first hand the truth of the matter isn’t as clean as most think, leading Ben to ask questions he never thought he would have to ask. “Who is the Master Chief, where does he come from, and is he keeping us safe?”

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Halo Community Screenshots – 3/26/15

Posted on March 26, 2015 by Dust Storm

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With the recent additions of the screenshot feature in Xbox Upload, Halo screenshots are once again obtainable without the use of a capture card.  While there is still no centralized system to search the best screenshots the community has to offer, this does help bridge the gap for one corner of the community.  We will be highlighting ten of the community’s best screenshots every week and our resident Welshman has kindly offered up his collection to kick things off.  If you have your own screenshots, please share them with us in our forums, Twitter or Facebook.

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