Podtacular 721: Poncho Dirt

Posted on February 22, 2020 by Dust Storm

This week it’s just Dust Storm and Godzilla T behind the microphones as we not cover Halo: Retribution, not cover Halo: Shadow of Intent, but Dirt from Halo: Evolutions. Needless to day, we found after the fact that we had already discussed these books, so we had a change mid show. In addition to the story, we talk about the recently released Halo 5 concept art, latest community update and spotlight Waypoint articles, and other community musings. Next book we’ll read (and we’ve check this time) is Halo: Smoke and Shadow.

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Machinima Monday: Sentinel | Revelations

Posted on February 17, 2020 by Dust Storm

We had the pleasure of showing off the trailer of this machinima at Halo: Outpost Discovery in Philadelphia and we’re excited to see it finally see the light of day. Sentinel | Revelations continues the story started by Sentinel | Project Renegade. After the UNSC get word of a Forerunner AI on the planet of Ragnok, the Sentinel Renegades are sent with Raven to stop the UNSC.

Video Published by: Sentinel Halo

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Podtacular 720: Rebirth

Posted on February 17, 2020 by Dust Storm

Another week and yet another interview here on the podcast mixed in with our regular show. Unfortunately the community spotlight was delayed, but there’s plenty more community content and events happening that were worthy of note. We’re please to have some of the folks from Corona Interactive to talk about Project: REBIRTH, a cinematic Halo fan project. As guests, we welcome SierraI07, Rythaze and RatDadJoe and they are kind enough to give us more details on what kind of a project they are trying to put together and have releasing later this year.

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Podtacular 719: Interview with RealLifeSpartan

Posted on February 11, 2020 by Dust Storm

This year, we started our Streamer Showcase Saturday and we had the pleasure of highlighting RealLifeSpartan. We’ve been entertained by his personality and presentation we couldn’t not try to have him on the podcast, and he agreed! This special episode is learning more about the man behind the armor on screen: how he got involved with streaming Halo, what his hobbies are, what aquatic life he likes, and anything else we could fit into one hour. Give him a follow on Twitch and Twitter.

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Golden Monitor Awards Winner Highlights

Posted on February 9, 2020 by Writing Spartan

The first ever Golden Monitor Awards has wrapped up. Thanks to many votes and many participants, the Golden Monitor Awards was a success and showcased a large amount of talent in the Halo community. 

This post will summarise all of the categories and the winners in each of them, along with linking to the appropriate video per award. For more details please visit the Golden Monitor Awards Twitter Account.

Please click on each image to be taken to the Machinima, Song or Channel that won the award, or that is related to the winner of the award.

Award: Most Passionate Voice Actress in a Lead Role

Winner: Megan Salinas
Machinima: The Ark Part III

 

Award: Most Passionate Voice Actor in a Lead Role

Winner: Bradley Gareth
Machinima: Promised Land Part III

 

Award: Most Passionate Voice Actress in a Supporting Role

Winner: Alifluro
Machinima: Shift 2

 

Award: Most Passionate Voice Actor in a Supporting Role

Winner: WindLightHub
Machinima: Huntress II: Lineage

 

Award: Most Authentic Original Screenplay

Winner: SCP: First Contact
Creator: Evan Royalty

 

Award: Most Distinctive Cinematography

Winner: Ghost of Babel
Creator: JL Simmons

 

Award: Most Creative Editing

Winner: SCP: First Contact
Creator: Evan Royalty

 

Award: Most Elaborate VFX

Winner: Shift 2
Creator: Matteoarts

 

Award: Most Elaborate Animation

Winner: Installation 07
Creator: Jerry Freeman

 

Award: Most Coordinated Sound Design

Winner: Ghost of Babel
Creator: JL Simmons

 

Award: Most Coordinated Original Music Piece

Winner: Legacy Orchestra
Music Piece: Everything Matters

 

Award: Most Coordinated Original Soundtrack

Winner: Aaron Weatherford
Music Piece: Huntress II: Lineage

 

Award: Most Creative Completed Series

Winner: Installation 07
Creator: Jerry Freeman

 

Award: Most Creative Ongoing Series

Winner: Arby N’ The Chief
Creator: Jon Graham

 

Award: Most Beloved Pilot Episode

Winner: Wasteland
Creator: Marc Antonio Rios

 

Award: Most Creative Short Film

Winner: Stalker
Creator: GrumpyElite

 

Award: Most Creative Unique Picture

Winner: Shift 2
Creator: Matteoarts

 

Award: The 2019 Most Improvement Award

Winner: Ascend Hyperion

 

Award: The 2019 Most Potential Award

Winner: Devaulte

 

Award: The 2019 Community Award

Winner: Halo Film Club

That’s a wrap folks. You can watch the full video of the first Golden Monitor Awards below. Let us know what you think on the Podtacular Discord Channel, Podacular Twitter Account or Podtacular Facebook Page. We’d love to hear if you agree with the winners.

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Podtacular 718: Community Catch-up

Posted on February 9, 2020 by Dust Storm

There’s no topic of the week for this week’s show as we were catching up on the numerous edits and fan project updates we didn’t get to last week. Fret not, there’s still a lot of good discussion from the latest community musings (we speak of course of thinks like the grappling hook), Halo updates and other community content. Have a topic you want us to cover? Have someone in mind we should interview? Have a funny, cool, amazing, interesting story to tell from a Halo experience? Come share them with us in our Discord server: https://podtacular.com/discord or send us an email: submissions@podtacular.com.

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Streamer Showcase: Lady Echidna

Posted on February 8, 2020 by Dust Storm

Welcome back to Saturday and our latest community highlight series and to continue our series, we’re sticking with Twitch for our next streamer.

Lady Echidna has been playing Halo 5: Guardians daily for almost a month at the time of this post playing a mix of ranked and social, but if you take a moment to watch her game play, you can see why she’s earned Diamond and Onyx ranks. Her stream presentation is very clean and simplistic for an easy watching and she is very engaged with viewers both in chat and those who join her for games.

Lady Echidna streams on Twitch weekdays in the evenings and on weekends usually starting in the morning. You can subscribe to Lady Echidna on Twitch and follow her on Twitter and Instagram.

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