Podtacular 414: Start Kicking Grif

Posted on March 15, 2014 by Dust Storm

The Halo Community is one of great passion, commitment and generosity, so it’s no surprise that our guests from GrifballHub tonight already have a fully funded Kickstarter for a booth at RTX, all supported by the community. Goosechecka and Kalbelgarion give us the four-one-one on what their plans are for RTX this year where Podtacular will be in attendance. If you’re looking to help out fellow Spartans, than head on over to their Kickstarter and drop a few bucks. You’ll get some pretty cool stuff in return. In other community related news, Edgeworks Entertainment has released their full, uncut version of The Codex. If you’re looking for some good machinima from the days of old, this is a must see. You can also listen to Episode 80 of our podcast for an interview with some of the crew. Halo has also sparked some innovation… over on Project Spark that is where SEspider has been working on re-creating the Silent Cartographer mission from Halo: Combat Evolved. It’s very impressive given the current capabilities of the platform. In Halo Bulletin news this week, we get a closer look at the upcoming playlist Proving Grounds and some info on an Environment Artist position at 343 Industries.

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Podtacular 413: Proving Ground

Posted on March 9, 2014 by Dust Storm

This week in Halo news, we get our first glances at the Cortana personal assistant coming to the Windows Phone 8.1 update. The Verge was able to get some time using the new software and pointed out some of it’s features to be expected. Someone has outdone themselves and put together a seven foot long Spirit of Fire out of Mega Blocks. It is a truly amazing feat taking up a laundry lists of Halo Mega bloks sets to put together. In this week’s Halo Bulletin, we have some coverage for upcoming playlist changes, and upcoming play date and new avatar items.

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Podtacular 412: Testing Your Medal

Posted on March 1, 2014 by Dust Storm

We’re currently in a little bit of a low point for news this week and until more rumors surface, if any, we won’t get much until the time E3 rolls around. Not to worry though as we this week’s Halo Bulletin to review and discuss. He have a new issue of Halo Escalation, updates coming to matchmaking next week, and the announcement that the Halo Waypoint mobile applications being discontinued. Also, for those who have been involved with the PC side of Halo, the Custom Map Team as come out with their V3 of their remastered Halo Campaign for The Silent Cartographer.

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Twitch Streaming Drops for Xbox One on March 11th

Posted on February 25, 2014 by Dust Storm


We know it’s been coming for a while, but we finally know thanks to an article posted on Xbox Wire this morning that Twitch Broadcasting is coming to Xbox One on March 11th. What’s also important about that date is the release of Titanfall and its corresponding Xbox One dashboard update that will include the Twitch capabilities. You can already watch Twitch streams on your Xbox One, but now you’ll be able to join in on the streaming fun without any additional hardware. Imagine streaming your next big Halo experience for all to see as you master the campaign, commentate over saved films or possibly spectator mode, or document your Forging experience while others watch how you create your craft. This opens up quite a few doors of possibilities for our next Halo experience on Xbox One and we are excited to see what the community will do with it.

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Podtacular 411: Rumble Rabble

Posted on February 22, 2014 by Dust Storm

The New York Toy Fair has wrapped up and we saw some really cool toys, figures and swag get shown off. To help cover some of the Mega Bloks detail, (which I’m personally interested in) we had HaloFanForLife drop by the show to go over some additional details on the sets. We also go over a few extra things from Crowded Coop that we didn’t cover on lasts show and how much your wallet will hurt after this year. In addition to the toy fair news, we have this week’s latest Halo Bulletin discussing the upcoming matchmaking playlist rotation for Medal Madness on March 3rd. An update to the Xbox One version of Spartan Assault is also coming to fix some stability issues.

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New York Toy Fair – Day One Recap

Posted on February 17, 2014 by Dust Storm

Halo collectors will be happy to see all of the stuff that is coming out of the New York Toy Fair that is going on right now. We’ve had quite a lot get posted from just the first day and we talked about it in our latest episode. More is sure to come, but there are a lot of things in this first batch from the more popular Halo Mega Blok, Todd McFarlane Toys and general swag items that people will want to get their hands on. Here’s the major grabs from yesterday’s Halo Waypoint twitter account and a few other relative tweets.

Todd McFarlane Toys

Halo Xbox One Master Chief prototype
Halo Xbox One Master Chief prototype

Halo 2 Master Chief prototype
Halo 2 Master Chief prototype

Mega Bloks

Electronic Mantis with Wireless Controller prototype
Electronic Mantis with Wireless Controller prototype

Didact prototype
Didact prototype

UNSC Elephant Troop Carrier prototype
UNSC Elephant Troop Carrier prototype

New Mombasa Police Department prototypes
New Mombasa Police Department prototypes

Crowded Coop

Light Up Cortana Chip Keychain
Light Up Cortana Chip Keychain

Infinity Messenger Bag
Infinity Messenger Bag

Bandai Figures

Bandai Commander Sarah Palmer Series 2 SprüKit prototype
Bandai Commander Sarah Palmer Series 2 SprüKit prototype

Bandai Master Chief Series 3 SprüKit prototype
Bandai Master Chief Series 3 SprüKit prototype

The Brick Show

Covenant Scarab Signature Series
Covenant Scarab Signature Series

Prophet of Regret and Company
Prophet of Regret and Company

We will cover more at the conclusion of the Toy Fair and in our next episode.

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Podtacular 410: Toy Affair

Posted on February 17, 2014 by Dust Storm

It just so happens that the rumor mill never sleeps and is never without its crazy side. We mentioned on our last show how Steve Downes confirmed the existence of Halo 2 Anniversary, or so we thought. Since then, IGN has reached out and received some clarification that Downes was simply making a statement based on what people have rumored on the internet, but that’s not all there is to it. We made a post about IGN’s findings yesterday and encourage everyone to go out and develop your own opinion, but we voice ours during the show. In other news, the New York Toy Fair started this week and we have seen some pretty cool things that any Halo fan will want to get their hands on. We’ve just seen our first glances at McFarlane figures, Mega Bloks sets, and other swag goodness.

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