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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Podtacular 636: Pro Battle League

We’re changing things up this week kicking a couple of podcasts off with Kairos from Pro Battle League. PBL is a region-based competitive Halo league with sixteen teams representing different cities across the United States. Heading into the semi-finals of the latest season this weekend, Kairos graciously gives us some history on how PBL started and how it differs from the Halo Championship Series.

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Podtacular 635: Beyond the Infinite

After a couple of weeks, we’re still left in mystery of what lies in the clutches of Halo Infinite, not to be confused with Halo Infinity, Halo: Infinite, nor Infinite Warfare. Community memes and shenanigans around the announcement continue to flood social media and the Halo Wars 2 community-run finals are taking place this weekend. A new area season is coming, the latest Halo Legendary Crate was announced, and a winner of the #HaloChallenge was selected.

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Podtacular 634: Remnants of Slipspace

Halo Infinite has stirred the hearts of Halo fans everywhere as a new take on familiar feelings brings us back into some of the Bungie days of Halo. While we haven’t received more information on the game, some supplementary information has surfaced, but we’re still left without a hint on when the game will release. The MCC Insider is getting constant updates now with people still streaming and 343 requesting feedback wherever they can find it.

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Podtacular 633: The Infinite Possibilities of Slipspace

E3 has finally brought us the long-awaited announcement of the next Halo title: Halo Infinite. Running on the new Slipspace game engine designed by 343 Industries, this game seeks to carry on the story of Master Chief within the Halo universe. What information do we know so far? What details have been hidden away in this game engine demo? Come journey with us as we garner the help of community guest hosts including Masterz from the Halo SPv3 team, David Fuchs and Slightly Live from Forward Unto Dawn, and Sandman, an HCS photographer and streamer.

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