How the Energy Sword Stands Up Against Star Wars’ Lightsaber

For anyone who watched Halo 5: LIVE on launch night of Halo 5: Guardians, you may remember a segment by The Game Theorists on the feasibility of Master Chief’s Mjolnir armor.  They’re back at it again with another theory comparing the Star Wars Lightsaber to Halo’s Energy Sword.  The video breaks down the design of both weapons and analyses their fighting capabilities, regardless of the fighter behind them.  If there’s been some dust collecting on your Halo encyclopedia, you’ll get a nice refresher on how the Energy Sword works and what chances it has in this clash of Sci-fi iconic weapons.

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Machinima Monday: Breakout Song

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Do you ever feel the need to break into song? This one will get you hyped up for Breakout!

Video published by: JT Machinima

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Evil Geniuses wins the Halo World Championship Tour X Games Invitational

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In the second event on the Halo World Championship Tour, Evil Geniuses takes home X Games gold and wins $15,ooo in prize money.  The championship round came down to a final game 7 in a best of 7 series, Team Slayer on Regret against rival team Counter Logic Gaming.  After Lxthul left EG and joined CLG, EGpicked up Commonlyy and having these two teams make it to the finals was what everyone wanted to see.  While CLG did not drop a single game until the finals, EG pulled out the win for the first ever Halo X Games gold medals.

XGames Final Bracket

While the outcome of the X Games Invitational will not affect the standings in current regions, this event possibly gives us a glimpse into what the Halo World Championship Finals may look like.  Unfortunately, the two international teams didn’t make it to the semis, but we’re hopeful we’ll see a few star teams put the US teams to the test.

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Podtacular 524: New Armaments

Infinity’s Armory is just around the corner and in anticipation of the release, 343 has revealed all the REQs and maps coming with the update next week.  We have a few opinions on the new weapon skins coming and discuss content the community would like to see in future updates. We’re trying a new recording format for the show that hopefully produces better audio. Unfortunately, one recording track didn’t record everything so apologies for the quality of audio this week and for it being late.

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Screenshot Caption: “Need a Lift?”

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This one’s been out for a while, but here are the top results.  A lot of you didn’t want to make the climb I guess.  Here’s this week’s screenshot to caption.  Reply/Comment with your best caption.

Screenshot Credit: erickyboo

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Machinima Monday: Put it away!

Someone’s always got to have the flashy weapons.

Video published by: The Great Isaiah

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Podtacular 523: Round Objects

The Community Cartographers are an integral part of the Halo community and with the recent introduction of Forge to Halo 5: Guardians, they are in full swing providing feedback to 343 Industries, creating new maps, promoting community content and teaching us non-Forgers how to do cool things.  We are honored to have Ducain23 (Forge Channel), NOKYARD (GrifballHub/HaloGAF), The Psycho Duck (Halo Customs/ForgeHub), WARH0LIC (ForgeHub), and The Fated Fire on this week’s show discussing their impressions on Halo 5’s Forge since their visit to 343 Industries.  The new features are a gift to many forgers and has received a lot of praise, but there are still some things missing they would like to see get added.

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