It’s time again to take a look at the latest updates from our favorite franchise and what’s happening in the community as we look forward to the next Inside Infinite next week. A new #Ask343 from the Audio Design Team, Community and Playlist updates, and some community musings where we learn that ForgeHub has once again selected Arpod as the first pick of their community spotlight (something’s sus).
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The greatest game since itself, Grifball is getting some premiere treatment as DreamHack has partnered with PlayGrifball.com to host a summer of draft tournaments and we get to play a part! Making a return to his co-host seat, DJBluePDX brings along Rage More Nerd to draw the bracket going into this weekend’s Halo 4 Grifball tournament. DJ and Rage give us the details about all the upcoming events over the next four months and the roadmap to the final tournament in July. You can catch the first three events over on DJ’s Twitch channel: https://twitch.tv/DJBluePDX.
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As the months keep ticking away, we get ever closer to the release of Halo Infinite and this month, we are graced with our first sounds of the Halo Infinite soundscape. A blast of nostalgia mixed in with improved sound design certainly gives Halo that ancient, but powerful feel to compliment the heroic music the audio team is striving for. If you haven’t read up on the latest Inside Infinite, it’s worth the read and listen. We’ve also got another Community Spotlight, the latest from Tashi on designing the Halo Esports ecosystem, Grassroots partners and more!
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In lieu of no live podcast last week, we are please to have another interview, this time featuring Matty McDee, one of the head moderators of the Halo subreddit. With over 600k members and at least 2000 online at any given moment, it’s certainly one of the larger Halo communities. While the Halo subreddit may be a well-known entity, it wasn’t always that way and really didn’t “exist” until the Halo: Reach era of the franchise. In our interview with Matty, we learn a bit behind the history of the subreddit, what it’s main content is, and discuss some of our hopes for Halo Infinite later this year.
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It’s been a couple weeks since we were last behind the microphones, which gives us a chance to dive into quite a bit of Halo news and community updates. A new Community Update, Spotlight, Canon Fodder and Ask 343 was certainly enough for us to dig our teeth into. The community has been doing well also. We won’t have a live show this next week, but we will have another episode with our next guest. Tune in next week to see who that is.
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As promised, 343 delivers another monthly Halo Infinite update and this issue delights us with breathtaking views and vistas of Zeta Halo. Right out the gate, it’s evident that the visual state of the game has changed drastically since the campaign game play demo last summer. To learn more about how the world of Zeta Halo is being brought to life, we get to hear from the art and world teams working on the project with some final thoughts from Joe Staten to round out a shorter, but certainly impactful update.
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Last week while we were learning about the wonderful world of LASO difficulty, we got a new community update bringing some exciting news for the next season of content for Halo: The Master Chief Collection. Not only are we getting our first look at some of the community’s most requested features, but we’re also getting our first map from Halo Online being introduced into the Halo 3 engine in MCC. While customizations are a nice addition, a whole new play-space is something new and will hopefully be a fresh addition to the collection.
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