Remember a long time ago, there was a clan called Hollywood Halo that made some excellent machinima? Well, take a look at their latest project: HMV Hell: Reach. Now the question is, does this mark the return of Hollywood Halo in Halo: Reach?
By now, if you haven’t played the campaign, you should be shot back into orbit until you learn of Noble Team’s sacrifice. Obviously, if you haven’t played the campaign and don’t want to be spoiled, don’t listen to this show. With that aside, we start our discussion about Halo: Reach’s campaign and how it compares to other campaigns in the Halo universe. Discrepancies among the events of the book Fall of Reach and the game are discussed as well as we dive into what we like and dislike about the campaign. This is only part one of our campaign show, so be sure to listen in to the next one to get the rest of the juicy details. Guests for this set of episodes are Kete from The Running Riot, and CMNeir and MidgetDance from Halo Reach Tricks. Enjoy
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We have received a Noble 6 Avatar Helmet code to give away to you guys. If you haven’t gotten one yet, here’s your chance. Here’s the challenge: play the campaign level “Lone Wolf” (the one after the credits) on heroic with no skulls on. The person that can last the longest will win the code. To enter, play the level and upload the film of your attempt to your fileshare. Then send a link to it along with your gamertag to duststorm@podtacular.com with “Noble 6 Avatar Challenge” in the subject line. The person with the longest time (excluding cut-scenes) will win. Only one entry per person is allowed. Anyone who submits multiple entries will be disqualified. Good luck.
Deadline is Saturday, October 9th at 21:00 Eastern.
UPDATE: Congratulations to porkchop547 for winning the code.
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Halo: Reach is here and we’re as excited as a little kid on Christmas day. The best Halo Title has a lot to offer from campaign goodness, to matchmaking madness, to forge craziness. We asked you what you thought about the game and you responded with a resounding “OMG”. Joining us for this special episode is the founder, Foo Mo Jive. For the sake of spoilers, we do not talk about the campaign in this episode and are saving it for our next one. Enjoy
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Many, if not all of you stood in lines for two, three, four hours or more at your local games retailer waiting for the game of the year, Halo: Reach. You have received critical intelligence about the human-covenant war and it’s your time to fight for humanity. For those who have received the limited edition, you will find some classified intel that will be vital to understanding the minds behind the Spartan Program. For those veterans who have received the legendary edition, your contributions to the war effort have gifted you the coveted Noble Statue. It is a monument to those who were lost.
You may be wondering where Podtacular falls into this. For those of you who are just finding us, welcome to our community. We hope that you find a welcoming and friendly environment here and on the battlefield. We are focused around our podcast that focuses on the Halo Universe: everything from campaign run-throughs, multiplayer tips, and user created content. For those who are familiar with us, expect some changes all around to Podtacular:
These are just some of the things happening at Podtacular, and we hope you will join us for this adventure into Bungie’s Swan Song to Halo.
Remember Reach
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We are back from our summer hiatus and in full swing as we clear out the mailbox before Reach drops onto our consoles and consumes our lives. We are joined by past guest of the summer: Kete from The Running Riot Podcast, AceofSpadesCard from Cyberline Films and CMNeir from Neir Productions. This is the last show before we make some minor changes all around to reflect the release of Reach. So if you are getting this before you go to your local Game Stop or Best Buy, take it with you and listen while you wait for midnight to arrive. Enjoy.
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Unfortunately Major Nelson has just announced a new pricing scheme for Xbox Live. You can see the new priceing below. As bad as this is, I’m going to be super optimistic and suggest that this may allow massive improvements to XBL. What those could be I can’t say but hopefully they’ll bring us better features than twitter and facebook.
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