This week’s Halo Bulletin on Waypoint focuses on the new sounds we will see in Halo Anniversary. While it’s not a complete library of sounds, it does show the difference between the two and the nice sounding upgrades they all got. You can watch the videos on today’s Halo Bulletin. My personal favorite is the Rocket Launcher (or noob tube for the haters).
Got another doozie here for you folks. Looks like the guys, and gals, from Halo Waypoint are giving away PAX Prime tickets everyday this week via their twitter account. All you have to do is submit a picture of yourself via twitter holding a sign that says “I want Podtacular to go to Halo: Fest.” … No really submit a picture of yourself holding a sign that says “I want to go to Halo Fest” Selections are at random so please don’t go overboard with the pictures. Though I personally encourage it.
What is Halo Fest you ask? Well if you don’t check the homepage often, or if you live under a rock, it’s the 10 year anniversary celebration 343 is holding at PAX this year in Seattle on August 26th through the 28th. If you’d like to hear part 1 of our celebration check out the Halo Decade Show episode.
This may be old news but I just came across this today and I wanted to hear what our community thinks about Microsoft putting their Kinect into my Haloz. That’s right, MAI HALOZ. Eurogamer is reporting that Halo: Anniversary will have Kinect Functionality but it wont be groundbreaking, it appears to be something that would not really change gameplay but would add value to the product.
To be honest, I wouldn’t mind doing some virtual t-bagging on those elites. You know show’em whos teh bozz ’round MAI HALOZ. Not everyone seems to be excited about the potential of this marriage but I want you guys to be creative and come up with some cool Kinect Functionality you would pitch to Microsoft. Post your thoughts and ideas in the comments below!
Whoa do we have an awesome video in store for you people. In the last episode of Podtacular we talked a little about this project named Halo: Faith. If you did not catch the episode you can find it here. For those of you who are to lazy to listen though, Halo: Faith is a fan made MOVIE about the Halo Universe. Not much has been known about the project, with the producers turning on their active-camo, but this past weekend the crew released a very short sneak peak behind the scenes of the upcoming movie on their facebook page.
Needless to say we here at Podtacular cannot wait ’till the movie comes out. Here is a direct link to the video. AWESOME!
Looks like 343 and Microsoft just added an offical media outlet for the upcoming Halo Fest that will be held in the coming weeks and sadly it isn’t us. However, you should be excited to know that IGN will be bringing you, and me, more information on Halo Fest leading up to the event, during the event, and after the event (for some reason??).
Whats Halo Fest you ask? Well, it is an event and party held at PAX Prime in Seattle, Washington August 26 through the 28th. They are throwing this special occasion to celebrate the 10th anniversity of the Halo Franchise! To hear part one of our Celebration head over to the Halo Decade Show, Part 1.
Anyone planning on attending Halo: Fest? How about if Podtacular Hosts a Halo: Fest on Xbox Live where you can play with the hosts and some other cool people from around the community? Tell us what you think in the comments.
For all the information and cool videos IGN has in store for you, head over to their Halo Fest page.
God squad aka WINstinct aka eon Instinct just went undefeated to take MLG Anaheim yesterday. For those of you who were not able to watch this match and many other awesome Halo: Reach matchup’s please stop reading and head over to MajorLeagueGaming.com right now. Really, do it.
We’ll be going over our thoughts from this past MLG in the next Episode of Podtacular and we’d love to hear what you thought about this past event as well! So send in your submissions to be read on the next episode!
This week, Waypoint gave us a few goodies regarding the upcoming Halo Anniversary. If you haven’t seen it by now, then here’s what’s going down. Earlier in the week, Waypoint announced a skull that would be available in the campaign for pre-orders: the Grunt Funeral skull. As one can imagine, the skull is very similar to the Grunt Birthday Party skull, but instead of confetti, it pulls it’s roots from the Halo 2 version of the skull where all grunts, when killed turn into plasma grenades. You can watch a video of it in action below.
The other bit of news is a video demo of the Halo Anniversary campaign in-action. It is very convincing that the physics and underlying code has remained untouched, so go check that out on Waypoint.
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