Podtacular 786: Fiesta Frenzy Announcement feat. ForgeHub

Posted on June 29, 2021 by Dust Storm

In partnership with ForgeHub, we are pleased to announce the Fiesta Frenzy event consisting of a Forge Contest and Competitive Tournament around the Super Fiesta game modes in Halo 5: Guardians! We’ve always wanted to do a Podtacular hosted tournament and for anyone who has joined our Fraggin’ Fridays, we love our wacky and fun game modes. With that said, we’ve concocted something that probably shouldn’t see the light of day, but we’re charging head first mixing the casual and competitive with one last hurrah before Halo Infinite comes in full force. Both the Forge contest and the tournament have $2000 prize pools and the tournament will be open to everyone. For more details on the Forge contest that starts today, check out ForgeHub for the announcement and come back in September to register for the tournament!

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Podtacular 785: Live Service Smashing

Posted on June 25, 2021 by Dust Storm

The Infinite hype train keeps going as this podcast started out on Twitch with a level 5 hype train. No doubt the community is looking forward to the game this holiday season. Halo Waypoint has the latest Inside Infinite providing a few more details around the Live Service experience for Halo Infinite and our first look at the upcoming new Halo Waypoint experience. To go along with Inside Infinite, we’ve got season 7 of MCC launching with Elite, bringing more customizations for Halo 3 elites Halo: CE modding tools, the Halo 4 Champions Bundle content and more. It’s also time for the third DreamHack Grifball tournament meaning DJBluePDX and Rage More Nerd are back for another drawing and recap before the final event next month.

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Podtacular 784: Infinite Delivers at E3

Posted on June 21, 2021 by Dust Storm

It’s been quite the week for Halo Infinite news and the overwhelming positivity is certainly a nice change a scenery and breath of fresh community hype! For those playing along at home, we got a Infinite Campaign feature lead in by Joe Staten and our first looks at Multiplayer and the widely anticipated Big Team Battle 2.0. Needless to say, the native support for BTB along with the Academy, Customization and crazy game play we saw this past week was enough to get us very excited for the holiday release and flighting later this summer. If you haven’t registered for Halo Insider, now is the time to do it! Joining us again from the 405th is NobleofDeath16 and MightyMarkProps, and we’ve also got some returning guests CIA391, Ducain23 and Writing Spartan, and new to the guest list is Patman Gaming.

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Podtacular 783: E3 Infinite Hype

Posted on June 14, 2021 by Dust Storm

Due to some unfortunate technical issues, this podcast that was originally supposed to release on Friday is being posted on the Monday after the Xbox and Bethesda Showcase. So, while this is coming out after the showcase, here’s our pre-E3 thoughts on what we were hoping to see from the showcase related to Halo Infinite. We were joined by 405th members NobleofDeath16 and MightyMarkProps along with some special returning guests CMNeir, Fuchs, Hoss Sauced and from the Podtacular community, MHCosplay. Tune in later this week for our post-E3 thoughts and reactions with even more guests!

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Podtacular 782: Infinite News Delay

Posted on May 29, 2021 by Dust Storm

We were anticipating the latest Inside Infinite update this week on Halo Waypoint, but the surprise announcement of the Xbox and Bethesda Showcase coming up on June 13th has made other plans. Although we were hoping to welcome back Godzilla T with some new juicy Infinite news, we take a look at the latest official updates and some initial thoughts on what we hope to see during the showcase.

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Podtacular 781: Dream Smash and Run

Posted on May 22, 2021 by Dust Storm

After the smashing success of the first of DreamHack’s DJBluePDX Grifball Summer Series, it’s back this weekend with Halo: Reach. Back in his co-host seat, DJBluePDX is joined by the owner of PlayGrifball, Rage More Nerd again to draw the bracket for the second tournament in the series. After an action packed Halo 4 tournament, we’re looking forward to seeing what the differences in Reach will bring to the game play. Tune in on Saturday over on DJ’s stream on Twitch for the best in Grifball action.

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Podtacular 780: Put A Pen In It

Posted on May 15, 2021 by Dust Storm

This week is a bit of a slower news week, so we reached out to probably the biggest and longest time supporter of the show, PensHalo. While this isn’t his first time on the show, he’s been single-handedly supporting the podcast and community and is big into the lore of Halo. Pens has an extensive timeline that breaks down the chronological order of the games, novels, comics, ARGs, audio recordings, movies/videos and anything related to the official lore. We’ve got the playlist updates for the month of June, a sneak peek into Season 7 flight content and a new Canon Fodder. Next week, DJ and Rage will return for the second Dreamhack Grifball draft, so tune in live on Twitch at 8:30P Eastern on Thursday if you want to be part of the recording.

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