Podtacular: The Unofficial Halo Universe Podcast – Détails, épisodes et analyse

In the 20 years Podtacular has existed, we've had the pleasure of seeing the Halo franchise evolve and the community with it. From competitive Halo starting with MLG to Halo: Outpost Discovery, the community is at the heart of the Halo Universe, and it's been our pleasure to cover the universe in its entirety with hundreds of guests and opportunities to make an impact on the Halo community. As a capstone to the current tenure of the podcast, we have the absolute pleasure of having the founder of Podtacular, foomojive, and former hosts GLewis and Lancelot to recount their time hosting the podcast.

Covering the recent events of the Halo World Championships and the announcements of Halo Fest and Halo: Campaign Evolved, JumperScape's Austin, Connor and Shane join us as the curators of the Community Corner at the Halo World Championships. Listeners will become more familiar with them as Podtacular is merging with JumperScape and Dust Storm handing the microphone over to them to host the podcast. As some listeners may have noticed, our releases slowed down over the last several months due to live events happening for the hosts and it was time to find the next caretakers of the podcast. Dust Storm will still pop into shows and help with the direction as JumperScape takes the reigns, but the podcast will have a new home after this episode.

It has been a pleasure to spend our weeks with all of our fans and we hope you will embrace the change as we move to brighter futures and more opportunities for Podtacular to shine.

JumperScape has humble beginnings starting with their Halo audio drama of Tarkov. Since then, they have grown to a multimedia company producing another season of Tarkov in the works, several podcasts, the dramatic retelling of Waypoint Chronicles and more. We have the pleasure of having Austin on again for the fourth time along with two other co-hosts of the Library: Shane and Connor.

It's the 20-year anniversary of Halo 2 and with that, the Halo Community and Infinite is celebrating with a new Delta Arena playlist featuring seven Forged Halo 2 maps in matchmaking. Not only did we get new Forge updates along with the Great Journey operation, but a new weapon, the MA5K rifle from the cover of Ghost of Onyx drops in Infinite multiplayer. The LVL 50 LAN hosted by Puckett is also happening during Halo 2's birthday weekend expecting some old names from the Halo competitive scene making a return.

The second Halo Infinite Technical Preview has concluded along with our first exposure to the newest renovation to Big Team Battle in Halo. We’ve had a couple of weeks to digest what we’ve played and have our impressions ready to discuss. Only having one map on replay makes it hard to properly put into perspective what the overall experience will be at launch, but it does give us some things to think about before launch in December. Season 8 also dropped for MCC with the introduction of new maps, customization, challenges and more!

We’re back off the heels of an exciting Halo World Championship seeing a new Champion rise: Space Station Gaming, along with a very exciting first-ever international champion! Among the competitive festivities were of course the Community Stage and booths, but most of all was being among other Halo Fans. Austin and Connor from JumperScape not only joined us for our special from Seattle but hop on this episode to talk about what they’ve been up to and recap the HaloWC 2024 event and announcements for the future of Halo.

It’s our open-mic special from this year’s Halo World Championships talking about this year’s tournament, panels and experiences. We had the pleasure of having JumperScape, OmnicientWolf, Bobby on this year’s live stream with a surprise, hour-long drop from the GOAT, Goldenboy! It’s quite an accomplishment for a competitive series to last 10 years in the industry, twice (the first-time being Halo under Major League Gaming) and we’re excited for the future of Halo and HCS.

The Halo World Championship is only two weeks away, bringing the best Halo talent together from around the world and entertaining fans. Along with Halo Infinite tournaments, there’s Halo 2, Halo 3, and Halo 5: Guardians tournaments happening as well, opening up probably the most varied tournament experience that we’ve ever seen. The community stage has an excellent line up to experience or watch at home if you can’t make it to Seattle for the event. This is our last planned podcast before Worlds, but Dust Storm hopes to see some of you there!

Community tournaments are a dime a dozen these days in the Halo community, giving players the chance to compete outside the official HCS events, but for those of us, more seasoned players, our skills aren’t as sharp, which is where our guest comes in. Sports fan, teacher and Halo streamer, CardinalRedbird, has put together a series of Boomer and Boomer vs. Zoomer tournaments, offering some unique takes on tournament rules and putting to test the old adage of “age and treachery overcomes youth and skill” (spoiler, it hasn’t… yet). Making her podcast debut, we discuss her Halo career and history behind these unique HCS Grassroots events.

Making our way to the Halo World Championship, the latest Operation for Halo Infinite has dropped bringing refreshes to matchmaking including Firefight update featuring some Reach Forged maps and, of course, sandbox tunings and updates to Forge. After we’re done with the news, we don’t just have one, but two books to review: Shadows of Reach and Divine Wind, meaning Dust Storm is now only three books behind the latest release.

Thanks to 343 dropping a decent chunk of news regarding the upcoming operation, we’re changing direction of our originally planned book podcast to discuss what we can expect dropping into Infinite next week. VIP makes its return to the mainline games since Halo 3 and Headhunter from Halo: Reach is coming in hot a few weeks later. Along with weapon and vehicle tunings, Forge is getting an overhaul with new scripting capabilities including triggering the voice of Halo himself, Jeff Steitzer.