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It's been exactly a week since the last Wrapup but they're on Wednesdays now and I don't like that. Starting next week they'll be back to Tuesdays. Count on it: Primary Announcement: ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) COMMUNITY EVENTS JX and Fiends (Halo 4 Playdate) JX and Fiends was a success over the weekend. Here's what JXZAW had to say about it: The Status Update above was stolen from his Feed. Thank you JXZAW. OLD VS. NEW Here we go! This weekend is the much anticipated Old vs New Community Event by Fishy. It'll have teams consisting of members that joined from 2011 - 2012 pitted against members that joined from 2013 to the current time in 2014. It is NOT too late to join. Be there or be... That's right. SQUARE! PS4 Inaugural Event Edward Kenway and onsokumaru will be hosting our first ever PlayStation 4 Event. The Event will take place over two games (shown above). Read the topic for the date and times. Everyone who attends Community Events gets the Gamer Award: CONTESTS The 343iCF Caption Contest is a contest started and run by Cooliest. The Caption Contest is running all month long so go ahead and took a look at what hilarious comments have been posted so far and please enter one of your own. You have plenty of time, so take it. It is yours, you're welcome. FEATURED INTERVIEWS Vitamin PWN - Here's a blast from the past. He's my 5th interviewee, it's Vitamin PWN! FORGE Featured Map Up above is a map submitted to our Competitive Submissions by JL with help from GSD! This is Castblock. Check out more pictures and the download link by clicking above. GAMING NEWS Titanfall Confirmed to Play at 792p at Launch on Xbox One Titanfall has been released and it is not only addictively fun but makes great use of the next generation of consoles ability to generate excellent game graphics. Running at 792p for now, Titanfall is shockingly beautiful. News brought by our newest News Group member, Edward Kenway. For more Gaming News check out the latest on our Front Page. HOT TOPIC Social media and you! A guide about securing your personal information This post is quality. The Hot Topic this week is a factual guide on how to protect yourselves when you sign up using your social media accounts and was made by one of our newer members, coldfreeze. It's worth the read. Great job coldfreeze. NEW STAFF We've had some changes in our Staff recently that I'm pretty excited about. Everyone congratulate Cooliest on migrating from our News Group to the triumvirate of Promotions and Events! And Edward Kenway for getting that much deserved spot on the News Group! Good job boys Catch ya Tuesday. Now scroll back up and read it all over again. This post has been promoted to an article

The Gravemind of Halo 2 and 3 was just one of many many Graveminds spread out not only through our galaxy, but others in the universe. This one just happened to be a very powerful Gravemind, much more powerful than one that was just made. This one was on a level where it had abilities close to that of Precursors ie. the ability to telepathically talk to John and use transientience to teleport him and the Arbiter to their destinations in Halo 2 and how he does with his Flood in Halo 3. I don't think he was based on High Charity itself to be honest, I think that was just a main focal point for him and a highly concentrated Flood nest where he could send his thoughts. Basically, no I don't think The Gravemind is dead. Not by a long shot.

Cooliest to Promotions and Events and Edward to News Group? You don't say? Well, well congrats to the both of you. No need to tell you how well deserved it is boys. Cooliest, as usual I shall be catching you on the flip side and discussing ideas. Edward! Like we say to all new Staff members... Welcome to the dark side. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MLp7YNTznE

Anarchy it's great to see you back, hope you can stick around for a while! There's been quite a few changes since the last time you were here And tell Ms. Archy I say hello

Absolutely but in a very clever way. Kind of like an anime special haha

Judging by the differences in character appearances I would like to assume this is after Arkham City which is exactly what I've been waiting for. With Rocksteady behind this we can expect several Boss fights, some great easter eggs, more than one enemy of course, a GIANT M. Night Shaymalan twist, and an incredible ending. The twist in Arkham City and the ending had me in awe truly. I mean Origins did an excellent job of adding a twist, probably as good as City, but Rocksteady gives it a darker feel, more Batmanny feel. I'm also hoping to see some new move sets and gadgets along with some classics. Great job Edward.

This guy gives pretty good tips on improving your skill, . You could send him a PM or look through his content for some of his old topics.

Yea two members haven't been awarded with that Award because they were banned, no point in giving it to them

You are correct. I gave Edward his already.

Another week down, let's get into this week's Wrapup: Primary Announcement: Remember, links to threads are found by clicking the images. COMMUNITY EVENTS JX and Fiends (Halo 4 Playdate) JX and Fiends is THIS WEEKEND. Events are always fun! This is unofficial so you will not be receiving the Gamer Award, HOWEVER it'll be as fun as any other Event. Thank you JXZAW and ShadowFiend for hosting! It will be a first come first serve lobby. Although, if there are enough people waiting when they start, Shadowfiend said that they could split into two lobbies. Ninja VS The Forum 2v2 & 3v3 Battle! The Ninja VS The Forum 2v2/3v3 Battle was a great time. Thank you to onsokumaru and the Ninjas for hosting such a great Event and taking on so many competitors. Participants in the Ninja VS The Forum Battle got the exclusive Ninja VS The Forum Award: Winners Day Of: Not Winners Day Of: Drizzy_Dan Unease P34nut Mr. Biggles Coldfreeze GSD Halo 5 2014/Disney Frozen Total Mayh3m UNSC Spartan II onsokumaru Shadowfiend216 JXZAW JL The Terminator Self Destruct Sikslik ShockGazm Spyro Yang Xiao Long OLD VS. NEW It's the Golden Oldies vs the New Bloods. Anyone who joined from 2011 - 2012 against anyone who's joined from 2013 - 2014. Thank you newer members for signing up we have more than enough people now. In fact we might even have enough for more than one lobby if we get some more new members to sign up! Click above for info and to join. Everyone who attends Community Events gets the Gamer Award: CONTESTS The 343iCF Caption Contest is a contest started and run by Cooliest. Look above and tell me you don't want to say the funniest thing on your mind about what that Spartan is thinking. There are rules of course but please submit! FEATURED INTERVIEWS Edward Kenway - Great finder and writer of gaming news and our February Member of the Month. FORGE Featured Map Above is Zed by Zandril and ZER0FLAME. With helps from some huge names in the Forge Community such as WARHOLIC (Previous Staff of THC), The Fated Fire (Runner up in MYM Forge Contest), Charles Stoot (Creator or minigames like Blaze Cave and Green Lantern), Master Debaytes (Creator of the Get A Clue Forge Contest), and Psychoduck (THFE), this map was put together as a competitive map that works for various gametypes such as Slayer, CTF, Oddball, Extraction, and Ricochet. For more great screens and a download link, check out Zan's submission. GAMING NEWS Batman: Arkham Knight The greatest comic book game franchise in history is back and under control of it's original developer, Rocksteady Games. It's Batman: Arkham Knight and it's going to kick some serious Batman nemesis tail. Self Destruct gave all the Batman fans what they wanted by bringing this to us. Find the trailer in his article. ForgeCafe - Let's Banner Together Undr zid, Admin of our Affiliate site, ForgeCafe, is working on getting banner ideas to complement their ForgeCafe Logo. If you'd like to help out and check some of the submissions yourself, click above. Games With Gold - March This month's Games With Gold for Xbox 360 are Civilization Revolution and Dungeon Defenders. I highly recommend trying Civilization Revolution when you can, it's a very fun game. I don't know anything about Dungeon Defenders but hey, this is what Games With Gold is for! News by Adam. "Halo News" coming E3 2014 Halo at E3. Is there anything more exciting? Sure we have huge titles like Titanfall, Batman: Arkham Knight, and many many more but Halo: Xbox One and Halo 2: Anniversary have been on the Halo Community's minds for the past 3 weeks to about a month now. What will it be? Will it be both? BeckoningZebra gives you the inside scoop on what may be to come this E3. Leaked Titanfall Images and Speculation Leaked Titanfall images have surfaced and Cooliest has got you covered. The Xbox One exclusive title, Titanfall is going to be an epic game which includes styles from many of our favorite shooter games. I've only heard good things from people who played in the Beta. Check out the images by peeping Cooliest's article. For more Gaming News check out the latest on our Front Page. HOT TOPIC 343i Community Yearbook A genius idea for us to get a better mental image of each other created by Scotty, it's the 343i Community Yearbook. Above is a real life picture of GSD. This is why he never has a mic when he plays Xbox, it's too hard to get around his ears. A handsome fellow he is though. For more pictures of our stunning members, click on GSD's yearbook pic. MEMBER OF THE MONTH This month's Member of the Month is our special purple dragon now gone pink (minus green). Head of the USF Elections, it's Spyro. This was seen a long ways away by many members. Congratulations Spyro! Image by Total Mayh3m. Announcement thread. MoM Post. YOUTUBE Halo Wars 2 Story Continued Above is a video by our Affiliate from Forge World Maps, Brett. Brett has come upon the description of Halo: Escalation #6 and relayed the info that it is about the Spirit of fire returning, confirming Ardent Prayer's hypothesis from reading the previous descriptions of the graphic comic! Wonderful news. Watch Brett's video above. Thanks for tuning in this week. Sorry it was a day late but you could scroll back up and read it all over again. This post has been promoted to an article

Oh easy, Archer.

This was a very worthy MoM Post Spyro. And you were reluctant to write one but look how this turned out! Remember that the USF Elections are not what got you the MoM title though, your quality and character did as a member of this site

Are you and JXZAW going to host separate lobbies if you get too many messages for invites?

It seems the UNSC Spirit of Fire was the ship they were talking about! According to a video by @Brett, issue 6's description should be out and it seems Escalation might be the continuation of the story of the Spirit of Fire after the end of Halo Wars.

ODSTs won?? Ugh.. As for dual wielding, yes I would like to see dual wielding back. We're Spartans for Twam's sake! We can hold two SMGs with ease! Dual wielding is not hard to balance, it's perfectly fine in Halo 3. I'd certainly like to see it in Halo 5 as long as it's done correctly.

Wow. TRED this map looks awesome on all accounts. I'll be sure to be checking this out for some fun

Sometimes it's my fault sometimes it's not! 65% of the time, all the time, it's my fault.

It's been about 5 months since one of these has come out and I'm ecstatic I got to finish one. This member was bound to get an interview with his passion for gaming news, his rise to MoM, and his story of how he turned over a new leaf. Guys put em together for Edward Kenway! DD: "Edward Kenway, it's good to have you for an interview especially with your newly achieved status here on the site. But before we get into that I wanna talk more about you before you were the MoM and before you were even Edward Kenway. Edward, some people in the community are familiar with you as OMEGA from not too long ago. Also, a lot of people don't know this but you've been here for quite a long time but didn't become active until just last year. What kept you waiting so long and what sparked your interest all of a sudden?" EK: "Well actually, you're correct Drizzy, I have been here quite a while. I joined up around June of 2012, and was here for a bit as your average member on the forums. After a few months, I lost my account on here, as I logged out and my e-mail got hacked, so I couldn't log back in, and I was really bad with passwords at the time. I regained my account when I popped back in around the beginning of 2013, and logged in by Facebook. A decision I regret now, I started getting into the Role-playing scene. During that time, I kind of laid low on the forums, not really 'contributing' per say. Fast forwarding a bit, since a helpful Community Moderator named Church and a close friend in Communications named Bnus began talking to me, I realized what I was doing was wrong, and pulled a 360. I decided to attempt what I'm skilled at, and work on reporting on News for the community. A certain MoM actually really inspired me to aim a bit higher as well, I remember when he was wearing the pink back in the Summer, I think that was the spark that attempted to convince me to join a better crowd, and attempt a better opportunity." DD: "Well you certainly have a knack for finding some great news. I make sure to put one of yours in the Wrapup when I can. When you started posting news, did you think MoM would ever be attainable in your future?" EK: "The idea passed around in my head but I always kind of shrugged it off, my goal wasn't ever to get an award, I just loved posting news, and, evidently, that got me noticed by some staff members like yourself. But no, when I began posting, I never really imagined myself in the position, my heart almost discharged out of my chest when I read my name on that post, because I was so in shock that I got it." DD: "It was truly deserved Edward and I can only imagine the excitement! So since OMEGA is in your past now and you are now Edward Kenway, does it bother you when members continue to call you OMEGA?" EK: "Sometimes it does bring me back to my past, which is what bothers me, not the members who do it. I still regret my past, and try to leave it behind, and usually that name pushes my actions back in my face again. It's incredibly alarming when someone looks at you with the knowledge of your mistakes and your fears. But, I realize it's gotten attached to me though, so the best thing I can do is remember what I did, and prevent it from bubbling up to the top again. But I never really cared what people called me honestly, it even says it on my About Me." DD: "That's a great way to think about it. It's not like any members are trying to disrespect you with it and I feel like you definitely understand that. Does becoming MoM give you bigger goals that you want to achieve for this site in the future?" EK: "Oh yes, definitely, I don't plan on stopping at MoM. I'll still do articles each and every day, still do Events when I can, and still defend the forums the best I can, even long after my MoM title is gone. In the process of doing that, I've set up my own personal goals, to eventually reach to far lengths on the forums. I always admired the now gone Absolute Dog and his status on the site. He was absolutely legendary, known far and wide on here, maybe even more than Twam. It's a high goal, but you set goals not just to reach them, but to gain new skills with them. A goal is much less if it is not a difficult expectation. People don't expect you to reach it, which is what makes the glory when you finally get to it so much sweeter. Which is why I'm aiming as high as AD's status." DD: "How very ambitious of you. So you're looking a possibly long career on this site! So Edward, do you feel you have obligations to the site as its MoM? If so, do you feel like we're expecting something of you as a Community or are you expecting something from yourself as our site's MoM?" EK: "The obligations I feel I have are the same as though I was a normal member, I simply attempt to follow the rules and put out daily content that the community enjoys, really nothing else. Being a MoM didn't bring any "weight" on to me if that's what you're wondering, it's the same, just a different shade on my name. I simply believe that the community (and myself) expects what it normally would, to be a good member." DD: "That's great Edward! And I've noticed you haven't let up at all which shows great dedication. When you get news, what types of articles pique your interest?" EK: "Well, I usually judge by community interest. I started out doing all types of articles back in, I'd say November or December, and then narrowed it down a bit. Really I look for what the community enjoys and reads, which, at the moment, is Titanfall, which is why I post a lot of Titanfall articles. Xbox One articles also get quite a few views, so I do post them regularly as well. It's not really what piques my interest, though that does play a part in it. For example, the recent article about the CEO of Microsoft stepping down, and someone else replacing him, I had seen about a day beforehand, but I wasn't all that interested in it, so I left it to our news group to do, despite the fact I knew it would be popular news among those in the community. I go by articles that are both interesting to me and to the community. I am very interested in Titanfall, despite the fact some think I dislike the game, which I don't, It does look like a cool concept, so since I am interested in Titanfall and so are the majority of users, I will post a lot of Titanfall articles near release." DD: "Catering to your community is what makes for great news Edward and I like that. That's what I try to do with the Wrapups. They can't be serious all the time, our community loves fun and jokes and laughter! Speaking of fun, what are some of your hobbies besides being our MoM?" EK: "Real life hobbies? Well, I'd have to say I do enjoy writing poetry and doing video editing if that counts, haha. I never really do "outdoor" activities. I do enjoy free-running and parkour though, still a novice in that field. My hobbies on the site are pretty much the same lol. Write news, edit videos, work on photos, and just chat. That's really it for me, I have few hobbies compared to most." DD: "Few hobbies but some pretty challenging ones. None of those things are really easy in my opinion. Edward I've noticed that even though you've been writing articles on the site for some months now, they've actually changed a bit. Have you had any help or guidance when writing your articles?" EK: "Actually, yes. I received a Personal Message from the news group member TheCooliestOne telling me he wanted to share the guidelines with me, as well as just give some tips. Then Red actually shared some guidelines with me as well to help out. Both really did an awesome job and I know they're trying to improve my skills." DD: "Like I said, it's showing. And I'm glad you're still putting articles out there even after The Pink Age of Piracy. I know it must be a little bittersweet going from minus green to the sophisticated silver color but what does this mean for your news articles? Will we still be seeing an Edward Kenway piece as often?" EK: "Of course, in fact, I expect double the articles now! When I was MoM, I had a lot of events going on my life as well as on the forums that got in my way. Now, I'm for the most part clear, so I expect instead of the maybe 6 articles a week, about 9-12 a week! Plus, a lot more news has been going on that I've been dying to cover, so expect quite a bit these coming months." DD: "Wow that's a lot. Let's hope your new doesn't get stolen again while you're at school! I certainly look forward to that and I'm glad to hear you won't be declining. So Edward, it's that time now. Time to finish up the interview with this Star of the Community. Edward Kenway, what words of advice or tips do you have for members who wish to seek and write articles the way you do?" EK: "Well, if you're looking to get into writing articles, just know this: Anyone with a passion can write the article, I myself have never taken a single professional writing class, and rather I study the topic that I'm writing about! No matter what age you are, no matter what your writing or grammar is like, if you have the passion to do it, you can! You just have to believe in yourself! That sounded corny, but it's true. If you're having further troubles, ask for some advice from a member of the News Group! Thanks for having me Drizzy_Dan!" No thank YOU Edward for participating. It feels good to get one of these back up again. More interviews with more special members are on the way so don't you fret! I hope you enjoyed this as much as I did. PEACE.

I'm locking this because we have too many Halo 5 Suggestion Threads already. You can copy and paste your suggestion here: http://www.343industries.org/forum/topic/21986-halo-5-wishlist-for-343industries/

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