Podtacular 359: Castle, Soundtrack, Ranks

Posted on April 4, 2013 by Dust Storm

The Castle Map pack is just around the corner meaning quite a big matchmaking update is due. Coinciding with the map pack release is also the Competitive Skill Rank system, showing your true skill to the whole world. This week’s bulletin covers the release schedule for Castle content including the Achievements dropped Tuesday along with the upcoming introductory map videos and Sunday’s live stream. I can tell you from my experience at PAX East these maps will not disappoint those ready for some bigger team gameplay. Enjoy

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Halo 4 Spartan Ops: Exodus

Posted on April 3, 2013 by Dust Storm

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The final chapter in the first saga of Spartan Ops is upon us. Jul ‘Mdama has retrieved what he came for at Requiem ready to be done with the place, putting in motion a deadly plan. Unbeknownst to the Infinity crew, Jul is about to send Requiem on a crash course for its star. The only way Dr. Glassman and Roland have discovered to free Infinity from Requiem’s grasp is to disable two artifacts. Fireteams Crimson and Majestic are deployed to disable these artifacts, but is there enough time for them to complete their task and make it off Requiem alive? Find out for our last episodic coverage of Spartan Ops, joined of course by HaloFanForLife. Enjoy

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Podtacular 358: Sparkast Postmortem

Posted on April 2, 2013 by Dust Storm

On today’s show, we break away from the norm of bulletin updates and talk about the latest Sparkast talking about Silentium and the Halo 4 Postmortem panel given my Josh Holmes at the Games Developer Conference. David Ellis sits down with Author/Writer of the Forerunner trilogy Greg Bear, Senior Writer Chris Schlerf, and Franchise Writer Jeremy Patenaude to talk about the recently released book in the Forerunner saga. In his GDC panel, Josh Holmes talks about the story integration and implementation in Halo 4 helping us understand all the elements that built the Halo experience from deep ties to Halo fiction, to integration of multiplayer into the story side of Halo. We talk about both presentations offering our opinions of the topics discussed. Enjoy

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Podtacular 357: Post-PAX Update

Posted on March 28, 2013 by Dust Storm

We wrap up our PAX East 2013 coverage with one last episode to cover this week’s bulletin where the community asks 343i questions about what was revealed at their multiplayer panel. There are many good questions the community asked, but since there were so many, we did not cover them all. On top of that, we get Brent’s view of what he saw come out of the expo and read off a couple of submissions. Enjoy

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Podtacular 356: PAX East 2013 Recap with Grifball Hub

Posted on March 27, 2013 by Dust Storm

This last weekend was PAX East 2013 and while we already covered the Castle Map Pack with the Ready Up Live crew, we did not talk in depth about the rest of the event or focus heavily on 343i’s panel. With the joining forces of the folks over at Grifball Hub, we bring you our take on the event from Boston. We talk about the Halo 4 Multiplayer panel and the few other things we bothered to go see that wasn’t Halo. Shoutouts to Goosechecka and Kalbelgarian for giving me a place to stay during the event. Enjoy

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Halo 4 Spartan Ops: Key

Posted on March 27, 2013 by Dust Storm

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Dr. Halsey has been abducted by Jul ‘Mdama and thanks to Admiral Osman’s orders, Palmer is all too happy to go out to find and eliminate Halsey after her treachery. Lasky does not feel the same way about having to execute a civilian and sends in Fireteam Majestic to rescue Halsey. Meanwhile, Halsey meets the Librarian who tells her about the Janus key and all it holds that was specifically set aside for her. Will Majestic make it to Halsey before Palmer can execute her? Will Halsey get away with the key with Jul standing just outside? You have to tune in with HaloFanForLife to find out. Enjoy

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Podtacular 355: Castle Unveiled

Posted on March 25, 2013 by Dust Storm

A few lucky community members got invited to an early PAX event to play the Castle map pack. We were given early access to the Mad Catz Unveiled pre-Pax party and got a first look at the maps dropping on April 8th. All maps were playable including Daybreak, Perdition and Outcast in various game modes such as CTF, Slayer and King of the Hill. Among those community members were people from our good friends over at Ready Up Live, those of which you may already know, but are making their debut podcast appearance representing RUL’s presence at PAX. Public Relations SMG90, Creative Manager Drax and community member Micky 126 and I huddled in their hotel room for a late night recording so we could talk about what we took away from the event, resulting in the following podcast. Enjoy

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