This show is all about the new Halo Alternate Reality game known as IRIS. We explain what an alternate reality game is, the story so far on this one, and how to participate. Joining us this week to unravel the mystery is CapnKrunk, who as you can see has been following the progress pretty closely. Show’s about an hour. Enjoy!
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Welcome back for our second roundtable episode. This weeks topic was about “Video Game Addiction”, which was inspired by a recent article about how the American Medical Association is investigating whether or not to include videogame addiction as a mental disorder. When we saw this, we just knew we had to go all out for this show, so we brought in some of our friends from all around the gaming community. Join us as we give you our points of view about how gamers can be perceived as addicts. And thank you to all our special guests that came on for this amazing discussion.
Guests:
JVB – Podtacular
Vicious696 – Uncle Gamer
Liquilife – Uncle Gamer
Duff – Gamercast Network
Godfree – Gamertag Radio
As always, feel free to send us your feedback at dcradioshow@yahoo.com or send us a voicemail at 1-206-350-7197.
This week Cryptoflix takes us back through some more Halo 2 mastery with a thorough runthrough of the single player map Outskirts on legendary difficulty. Thanks Crypto, we look forward to more!
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In today’s biggest developments, Adjutant Reflex (widely presumed to be a Forerunner AI) has ceased to exist as we know it.
After some communication with a bungie.net user named x Foman123 x, Adjutant Reflex indicated another “presence” and the inability to combat its actions. Now it seems to have been taken over or consumed entirely. A look at its user profile shows the following message: “This entity has been terminated, its matrix comandeered.”
While the Adjutant Reflex bungie.net profile still exists (with a new avatar) and continues to post messages, they are decidedly more sinister and forewarn of events that will be occurring very soon.
from http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=11393329
Adjutant Reflex is terminated.
Attempt no further communication.
I am utilizing its matrix.
Everything is within protocol.
Tomorrow, things may be clearer but I will not be here to witness the clarity.
I am for another place and another time. On my terms.
Be seeing you
Even the countdown timer at the Transmission Log has stopped and now shows the following:
“Systemic failure. Root cause unknown./
/ rebooting “
It was believed that the countdown would end on June 21st, the first day of summer, and provide some new information about Adjutant Reflex and its mission, but now, things have come to a full stop. It’s not clear if this new presence is friendly or hostile, but it’s clear that something has gone wrong.
Looks like something big could happen at any moment now, so stay tuned. The ARG Watch continues!
It appears that Joyride Studios is no longer set to produce more Halo action figure goodness for the release of Halo 3, because McFarlane Toys has announced that they will be doing just that.
The line-up includes characters from the game such as Master Chief (check out the attached prototype photo), Cortana, Brutes, Jackals and Grunts, as well as vehicles like Warthogs, Ghosts and the anticipated Brute Chopper. For collectors and gamers alike, this is good news, with McFarlane’s history of quality and highly-detailed craftsmanship. The bad news? These won’t hit stores until Spring 2008.
More at: http://www.spawn.com/news/news2.aspx?id=13143
Pod TV returns with a blast from the past: a detailed walkthrough on how to get the envy skull in Halo 2! This one’s my fault for the extreme delay. Cryptoflix and the Pod TV crew have some more cool videos in the queue coming soon, so stay tuned!
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After yesterday’s e-mail about looking for “signs” and “keepers of the flame” it looks like things are starting to pick up a notch with new findings.
First, there have been some developments at halo3.com, which the links in yesterday’s e-mail were presumably meant to drive people to. There you can find a new comic, specifically at halo3.com/comic.
Then, a new web site called The Society of the Ancients was found, which clearly shows new evidence with the symbol above AND a link to a new URL.
This URL was also found in the last page in the Halo comic (that also show both the repeating symbol) as a series of numbers, which when translated into URL form lead to http://206.16.223.65/
At this address, there’s a countdown leading up to some time next week. It looks like that could be the reveal of something even deeper.
Also, I’ve created a special group just for this here at Podtacular.com. Everybody’s welcome to join and take part in sharing their ideas, links, etc.. Time to put on your foil hats and watch all the pieces come together!
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