Podtacular 643: A Little Bit of Halo

While we’re light again on the news front, we do have another Community Update to cover. This week, more MCC Insider play test times, updates on competitive Halo including HCS, Microsoft Store tournaments and the Halo Wars Championship League, update on Halo: Fireteam Raven deployment around the work, and some other radar blips.

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Podtacular 642: Community Creatives

The community spotlight now has its own home on Halo Waypoint as this week Grim debuts the Spotlight article series featuring the latest artwork, screenshots and videos from Halo fans alike. Once again, a lull in Halo news and a demanding work schedule for Dust leaves us with little to talk about this week.

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Podtacular 641: Final Flight of MCC

The day has finally come when all registered MCC Insiders can finally get their hands on the latest test build. This comes with a number of significant enhancements and changes to the game that, while making some new interesting bugs, brings forth a lot of desired changes. Also, for this weekend only, spend your unused REQ points on Legendary Arena and Warzone XP Boost Packs, perfect if you’re still chasing that 152 rank.

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Podtacular 640: T-Bag to Win

Another week finds us slim on the news front once again so to help fill the void, we are joined by Tazzman from the Bad at Halo Show to give us the info on what the heck the T-Bag TLOCK Tournament is all about. It’s all pretty much in the title, but we have a good banter about it and you should check it out over on their Discord server.

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Podtacular 639: Lighter Than Some

Another light week of news or so we thought until Grim dropped another community update in our laps. Taking a look at some of the recent events, MLG New Orleans saw Splyce keep their number one spot in the Halo Championship Series, announcement of the 2018 season finals, some SDCC happenings and community creations. The latest Halo Icons figure was revealed with an announcement that the third year will pull together all members of Noble Team. A couple of community tournaments have also been announced that introduce some pretty interesting and unique twists.

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Podtacular 638: Halo Shrubbery

We have returned from our break and have been greeted with quite a bit of news. A new MCC Flight has kicked off with some very interesting findings into some missing things in the game, the Halo Wars Championship League had its season one finals, MLG New Orleans is coming up and so much more. There’s plenty of community happenings as well in the latest community update.

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Podtacular 637: The Light is Green for Halo TV

Five years ago at E3, the Halo TV Show was announced alongside Halo: The Master Chief Collection and be a flagship series for Xbox Entertainment Studios. It eventually came to pass that the studio was shut down and we were left with the yearly status update of, “It’s still being worked on.” Thanks to an announcement on Thursday, we’re finally seeing the first signs of daylight from this series with an official announcement from Xbox and Showtime on a production start date in early 2019. In the words of the Prophet of Truth, “There are those who said this day would never come… what have they to say now?”

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