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Hello all, this was started yesterday but ran over into today. Sorry for the lateness but I promise it's all thriller and no filler. Let's get into it!: Primary Announcement: Unclear on the rules of offsite links? RedStarRocket brings clarity to the situation in: Update: Rule 1F and Offsite Links. COMMUNITY EVENTS Jason's Alive Friday the 13th Community Event Friday the 13th, Cooliest hosts a creepy Community Event full of misfortune... And death... Click above to RSVP. Everyone who attends official Community Events gets the Gamer Award: CONTESTS June Caption Contest June's Caption Contest is here brought to you by Cooliest! The winner of the previous Caption Contest is none other than Twinreaper! Winning Caption: Twinreaper and Self Destruct will get the Caption Contest Award when it's ready! FEATURED INTERVIEWS Interviews with Halotubers: Zandril - By Bnus. "Zandril is an active user of Halo forums and previous MoM of our own site! He has created numerous forge maps some of which have been played in our very own playdates. He also created a Forge Map icon pack used by Forgers all over the Halowebs! On his Youtube channel he does Forge tutorials, Map showcases, and gamenight highlights! Please check Zan out with the links below and read the interview when you can." GAMING NEWS Halo Partners With Astro BeckoningZebra of the News Group has found a cool article about Halo teaming up with Astro to make Halo themed Astro headsets! Leave your comments on this news by visiting BZ's thread. Weekly News Wrapup 5/31/14 Here's the latest edition of Edward Kenway's WNW. He gives you news on The Order: 1886, Dishonored 2, and Destiny. Read his article and leave your comments in his thread. For more Gaming News check out the latest on our Front Page. HOT TOPIC Art Week June 2014 Announcement This month will bring the second Art Week brought to you by The Dumb Marine! He's got some interesting ideas in store for this one. Post your excitement in his announcement thread! MEMBER OF THE MONTH This month's MoM is JXZAW! Er well.. PINKZAW now due to his MoM Wish. But it's him! He's been a member here for over 2 years now. Lately he's been showing off his GFX skills in the Sig Shop v3.0 and has been doing members great favors by making them custom signatures. Great work JXZAW congrats! Announcement thread. MoM Post. TOP 15 Here's the May 2014 Top 15 List: Axilus Prime Yoshi1176 WonderWombat TheRedEyedDevil rrhuntington Zandril Rue Spyro -Sparky- Screech JXZAW Maestro Unease P34nut Self Destruct UNSC Spartan-II With Honorable Mentions to: Gemini Dragons JL Twinreaper Congratulations to everyone who made the list along with our Honorable Mentions . USF ELECTION The USF Election is back and this year it is more intense than ever. It started with the nomination sequence as usual but then Spyro threw in a twist with the USF Pre-Poll! That narrowed it down to only 2 candidates in the running! It's a heated election. Read Presidential Interviews held by BZ here. Read The Presidential Debate posted by BZ here. First Round Candidates: Drizzy_Dan Maestro Yoshi1176 The Stig Azaxx Ledgend1221 D-38 Boss Soviet Bear (Sikslik7) and UNSC Spartan II Final Round Candidates: Maestro Yoshi1176 Cast your vote by clicking the banner above! Someone get Bnus out of the Wrapups.. Scroll back up and read it all over again. This post has been promoted to an article

We're going to pretend like I haven't missed a week and just go through this as usual: Primary Announcement: Please read the following update about usernames and the amount of name changes. USERNAME POLICY. Also note, there's a lot of Bnus in this Wrapup... COMMUNITY EVENTS Invasion of the Mods A really cool idea in my opinion. Bnus will be hosting a lobby for modded gametypes on Halo 4 this weekend. You will also be seeing the return of Invasion at this Event so keep that in mind. RSVP now! MoMy's MoMtacular Playdate Our May MoM has put together a nice unofficial Event for members to get together and play some good old Reach! Join The "MoM" Marine this weekend! P34nut's Bip/Bap.Bam Event Mr.N3wsnut is also hosting an unofficial Event this weekend on one of my favorite Halos: Halo 3: ODST. Get together with P34nut and his co-hosts in lobbies of four and send the invading Covenant to hell in Firefight. Everyone who attends official Community Events gets the Gamer Award: FEATURED INTERVIEWS Insignia Was the only member in the Art Department for a long time and would ran the Sig Shop 3.0 for some time. He's now a Legendary Member on the site. FORGE Featured Map The Featured Map this week is not just a map but a gametype as well. It is Zandril's minigame Roid Run. In Roid Run a giant Flood form follows you and is of course trying to kill you. Get a better idea of what it's actually about instead of me just describing this picture by going to his submission thread. GAMING NEWS Next Halo Announced as Halo 5: Guardians The next installment in the Halo series has been announced and it is HUGE. 343 has promised a lot with this next game. Please read skummgummigubbe's article about the announcement and be ready for E3. A Piece of Halo 5 Concept Art Shortly after the announcement of the next Halo, 343 took to Waypoint and posted the image above. It is concept art for Halo 5: Guardians. Adam gives a good analysis of his own and poses some interesting questions. Check out Adam's post and leave your thoughts. Frank O'Connor Speaks About Leaks Frankie has taken to NeoGAF to reply to a few questions people had about the leaks regarding Halo 5: Guardians and talks about the gaming industry overall. Frank O'Connor handles the situation well providing some good points about leaks and leaking in general. Find his response in EK's article. For more Gaming News check out the latest on our Front Page. HOT TOPIC 343iCF Monthly Video Wrapup: April Monthly Video Wrapup, it's self explanatory and it's awesome. If you missed out on Community Events in April then Bnus gives you the good stuff in his thread containing footage from April's Events. MEMBER OF THE MONTH Every Member of the Month deserves their spot in the Wrapup. I apologize to my buddy TDM for the late feature but better late than never. Congratulations Marine! Announcement thread. MoM Post. YOUTUBE Spartan Setup Ep 1: BeckoningMoth Alright so it HASN'T been over a month like I said and Spartan Setup has finally aired and it was a great debut episode! Bnus started off with some serious loadouts first which was a good call in my opinion and his evaluation of the loadouts was very well done. This episode stars BeckoningZebra1 and Mothman's loadouts. Click above to watch the first episode. Welcome back to the Weekly Site Wrapup. Now scroll back up and read it all over again.

Hello all welcome to the real Wrapup where I don't intend to disappoint you with entries that are months old. But it may happen even without them: Primary Announcement: Did everyone have fun yesterday? COMMUNITY EVENTS Edward's Trinity Events Edward Kenway's first Event of the Trinity will be April 6th and it will be played on Mass Effect 3. Click above for information on the other two Events. Meet Your Maker Community Event Weekend The Meet Your Maker Infinity Slayer Forge Contest was quite possibly the largest Forge Contest in the Halo Community. Brought to you by 343industries.org and The Halo Forge Epidemic, it drew in over 100 submissions judged by a group of members from the community including THE Absolute Dog, THE Spades N AZ, THE WARHOLIC, and THE Psychoduck. I'm talking big names. And even bigger names when it came to participants. Winners included Squally DaBeanz, The Fated Fire, Redemption1272, PA1NTS, and Xinshu. It wasn't quite as big the second time around but it was still up there since participants were allowed two submissions each. If you don't know these names above then wait until you see their work. Find winning maps of the previous MYM Contests here and here. RSVP to the Meet Your Maker Community Event Weekend today. With special guest Drizzy_Dan of course. Ruby and Yang's Community Event On April 19th, get a good game going with the community in an unofficial Event hosted by Yang Xiao Long and Ruby Rose. The Slash Em and Smash Em Event is sure to be a good time. (Directly taken from the Community Event Calendar Thread.) Find the date and times by clicking above. Something's Fishy... I decided to go with this image instead of the one I put in the Calendar thread because I mean look at it. Its description is in the picture. And this was also a great episode. "What are you gonna do with that!?" "Something that should've been done a long time ago." *Fixes squeaky bolt.* Right so the Event by Fishy will be on Halo Wars as I'm sure you couldn't tell from anything I've just said above and there is truly something Fishy going on with it. Find the date and time by visiting the Event thread and RSVP. Everyone who attends Community Events gets the Gamer Award: CONTESTS The 343iCF March Caption Contest has come to an end. And your winner is... SELF DESTRUCT! Winning Caption: Congratulations to Self Destruct who will soon be receiving the brand new Caption Contest Winner Award: Thanks Gryffin for whipping this up for the Contest Find the new Caption Contest for April here. FEATURED INTERVIEWS Redemption1272 . Winner of the Meet Your Maker Infinity Slayer Forge Contest. His map Edifice won first prize and you can definitely expect to be playing on it this weekend at the Event. FORGE Featured Map Fishy definitely saw this one coming. This is Dignitas by Zaelkyria, whom I've featured before in the Featured Map Subsection of the Wrapup for their Covenant Cruiser. This isn't a recreation of any sort, this is an original design with Forerunner influence. Find more astonishing pictures of Dignitas in Zaelkyria's Submission Thread. GAMING NEWS Batman: Arkham Knight New Villain Detailed Rocksteady has announced that there will be a brand new villain introduced to the Arkhamverse that goes by the name of the Arkham Knight. If you want the real details, read Edward Kenway's article. Games With Gold - April Adam brings you up to speed on what games you'll be getting for free this April. They are Hitman: Absolution and Deadlight. Post any feedback on the subject in Adam's article. Halo: Spartan Assault Coming to Steam Yes Halo fans that are also on Steam you have read that correctly. BZ gives you coverage of Spartan Assault coming to Steam. Teaser trailer above. Leave comments on the matter in BZ's article. For more Gaming News check out the latest on our Front Page. HOT TOPIC XCOM: The 343 Files This week's real Hot Topic is a unique one by Promotions and Events Staff, D-38 Boss. Boss wrote play-by-plays of himself playing XCOM: Enemy Within and replaced the characters of the game with member from here on the forum. It's hilarious and easy to read. MEMBER OF THE MONTH And now for a proper congratulations to our newest MoM, Unease P34nut! Congrats P34nut and thanks for dealing with the anxiety of not knowing whether you were really the MoM or not this month! Your new profile pic is great by the way! Somebody think of a new peanut pun for me (Spark). Announcement thread. MoM Post. Thank you for giving this one a chance after reading yesterday's, guys. Did I miss anything? Scroll back up and read it all over again just to make sure.

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

Alright back to weekly let's get into it: Primary Announcement: The Wrapup is now over a year old. January 27th marked the anniversary of the WSW. COMMUNITY EVENTS Boss's Inaugural GTA V Event For his first Community Event as co-head of Promotions and Events, D-38 Boss started off with multiple bangs and explosions in a GTA V Event. According to Boss, the 343i Community killed some randoms, him and JL got into a personal kill fest with each other, and all in all it was a good time. Participants: GermanShepherdD, D-38 Boss, Magical Love, Torrenting, Edward Kenway, Bnus, and onsokumaru Boss's Real (good) Time Strategy Event And for his second Community Event, Boss hosted a crowd pleaser with a Halo Wars Community Event. Nothing but good feedback about the Event and Boss's hosting. The games were great, one even went for over two hours but Flappy Bird got in the way eventually leading to one team's demise. The attendees of this Event will get the exclusive Halo Wars Playdate Award: Participants: D-38 Boss, Yang Xiao Long, Ledgend1221, Vaulting Frog, UNSC Spartan II, Edward Kenway Everyone who attends Community Events gets the Gamer Award: FEATURED INTERVIEWS Gryffin - Art Department Staff and member of the well known YouTube group, the OnlineKnights. FORGE Featured Map Weeeee it's Baby Guardian by Zandril! This miniaturized version of one of the best Halo maps ever created, Guardian from Halo 3, is a special little aesthetic piece Zandril Forged for the modded Gametype Mini Slayer! Visit his thread and take a look at more pics and find the download link for the map and Gametype. GAMING NEWS 343 Partners With Gallery Books Now I don't know much about Gallery Books or what they've published or who they've published for before but I do know one thing: and that's that I love the Halo novels. They're expertly written and go beyond where the games can take you in the Halo Universe so the fact that 343 has made this deal with Gallery Books and plans to keep publishing Halo novels is nothing short of fantastic. News by BZ! French Retailer Confirms Titanfall Beta on Valentine's Day Not too long ago, it was made clear by a Micromania store in France, as seen above, that a Titanfall Beta could be coming our way. Respawn Entertainment has not confirmed nor denied it but it looks this could be true. News relayed by Edward Kenway. Click above to find his thread. ForgeCafe's New Site: Were It So Easy Here's a small video put together by harry c0 at ForgeCafe to help newer members get acquainted with the new layout at their site. Short and sweet. New CEO at Microsoft Big news brought to us by adamj, Microsoft has made some switches not only in their gaming studio but in their main company as well. Bill Gates has given up his position as chairman of the board of directors to be the head tech advisor while Satya Nadella, seen above, is now the Chief Executive Official. What changes could this bring to Microsoft? Leave any thoughts or comments in adam's thread by clicking above. For more Gaming News check out the latest on our Front Page. HOT TOPIC 343i Who Wore It Best? This creative idea came from none other than the mind of the Beckoningzebra. It's really cool. There's a central theme involved and participants have to make a signature and avatar according to the theme. Check in above to vote for who wore it best! MEMBER OF THE MONTH I told you you'd have your nice little minus green spot in the Wrapup this week Edward and here it is! Everyone, our February Member of the Month is not only a talented sleuth when it comes to digging up gaming news but a member who has shown great character and improvement during his time here. Give it up again for Edward Kenway Announcement thread. MoM Post. PODCAST The Podcast is back and revamped to be made official. The Official 343i Community Podcast is a hit. Excellently done, the Staff is excellent, very fluent, no one stumbling over each other. It's a beautiful thing. Included in the Podcast this week was RedStarRocket, Gryffin, Church, and Cooliest. Quite the crew and again, well done. Here's our first official 343i Community Podcast. USF ELECTION Voting has come to a close and the results are in... Your new Forum PRESIDENTS are: Beckoningzebra1 and Vitamin PWN Welcome back to the WSW, now scroll back up and read it all over again.

Well originally I wanted to get this out on Saturday but this turned into a busy weekend and so we skipped a weekend but hopefully I didn't skip any beats. Enjoy: Primary Announcement: I decided to change the way I direct you to links. I tried to provide pictures and hyperlink them for each section and sub-section so I'm not always saying 'Click here! Click here! Find it here!.' It doesn't apply to all the sections however. ANNOUNCEMENT I haven't seen a time limit on this so I assume it's still going and I haven't noticed too much activity with it so hopefully this picture will help! Would you like to test Halo multiplayer for 343 Industries? Would you like to get paid to test Halo multiplayer for 343 Industries? Remember, click the picture above to find Absolute Dog's announcement. DESTINY New Bits of Gameplay Adamj, the king of the News Group, brought us a really cool video from Bungie and it's got some cool snippets of gameplay in it that might possibly tease at competitive multiplayer! YEAH! I already gave a video so I'll give you a link to adam's thread separately here. FEATURED INTERVIEWS The Director - I actually saw him online the other day. Although no longer a Moderator, The Director is defintely someone the newer members oughta get to know. He's a real legend around these forums. FORGE 343industries.org and The Halo Forge Epidemic present: As we all know, The Meet Your Maker Forge Contest is in full swing and it's for the Dominion gametype this time around. Absolute Dog and AbleSir Thomas are certainly part of the judging panel, the rest of whom are unbeknownst to me as of now. Forgers are encouraged to use Zan's Map Marker Pack when submitting a map for optimal display of callouts and weapon placements. Want to test your map for the Meet Your Maker contest? You can join the MYM Test Lobbies hosted every Thursday by AbleSir Thomas. Click here to join. For questions that need answers, report here for the Meet Your Maker Dominion Official Q&A Thread. 343 Industries Community Forge Project SikSlik7's tyrannical reign as MoM may be over but that doens't mean it's too late to support the Community Forge Project. The 343i Community Forge Project is a project that lets the members get together and make their own contributions to the maps made. SikSlik explains it all in his thread. Read and sign up for the CFP here. Ideas can be discussed in the CFP Idea Discussion thread so post yours here. SikSlik7 has created an account for members to friend in order to join the CFP sessions. Send CFP343i a Friend Request on Xbox Live! Participate and support the Community Forge Project! Halo 4 Free Roaming Flood Forge Off The Halo 4 Free Roaming Flood Forge Off is OVER. We had some submissions on 343i.org not sure about ForgeHub and other sites but here's a little preview of our submissions: Your judges: Absolute Dog Donut Elliot Sign up, submit maps, find out prizes, and judging criteria to the contest by clicking the banner above of course. And here's the Q&A Thread! GAMING NEWS Halo 4 Global Championship Final Match Sudden Death http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8l0mONFYdM&feature=player_embedded A totally intense battle in the Halo 4 Global Championship between Elamite Warrior's brother Ace and the all powerful iGotUrPistola. It brought back good memories to see competition like this in Halo. Watch to see the winner and here's a link to TrulyExclusive's thread. Xbox One: First TV Commercial Here's the Xbox One's first television commercial brought to us here by none other than the CooliestRap. Tell him what you think they could've done and what they should've done that could've made it better. Or tell him what you think in general about it in his thread. Xbox One Release Date Confirmed The Xbox One's release date has been confirmed by many across the net. I'm not going to tell you here if you don't know already because I actually want you to visit adamj's article. That's why he makes them. I hope you know what to click to find the article by this point in the Wrapup. PS4 Release Date Also Confirmed The PlayStation 4's release date has also been announced. I won't tell you here so you can read Absolute Dog's article. I'll give you a hint: it comes out before the Xbox One! For more Gaming News check out the latest on our Front Page here. HOT TOPIC Halo Command - Browser Based Halo Strategy/RPG/Text Based Game Started by a member by the name of Glitch100, Halo Command will be a browser based Halo game involving the aspects of Strategy/RPG/TBRPGs which is what makes it very interesting. I support Halo Command because it's just another step towards bringing back the love for the Halo Universe itself and not just the games and multiplayer which is what everyone's been focusing on since Halo 4 came out. This may not be an official 343 game but it is something to look into. Click the picture to get linked to the Halo Command thread. MEMBER OF THE MONTH September's Member of the Month is a very avid Forger. Coming from Forge Cafe, Zandril is a huge Forge enthusiast and it is his favorite thing about Halo. I'll remind you again that the link to his announcement thread can be found by using the picture now. And please, DO congratulate him. He's a great member and Forger. PS. Yes that is the picture that was used when announcing BZ as June's MoM. PLAY DATES I'm trying to make Play Dates come back NEXT SATURDAY. That is the Saturday after this one coming up. I'm going to try to make it a special event and not just some games on one of the Halos. Keep your eyes PEELED! We still want your Play Date ideas. Post them here. YOUTUBE Halo 4 Pan-Cam Feature! Quite a find by a member by the name of Brett on our site. I've used Brett's video's before in the Wrapup so his name might be familiar to some of you whether it's from seeing it here or watching his videos when he posts them himself. Anyway, the pan-cam feature is pretty awesome. It's only accessible through Theater mode. Just watch that video and leave it a like and maybe comment and tell Brett how much you liked it here. Wrapup concluded. Now scroll back up and read it all over again. This post has been promoted to an article

Well originally I wanted to get this out on Saturday but this turned into a busy weekend and so we skipped a weekend but hopefully I didn't skip any beats. Enjoy: Primary Announcement: I decided to change the way I direct you to links. I tried to provide pictures and hyperlink them for each section and sub-section so I'm not always saying 'Click here! Click here! Find it here!.' It doesn't apply to all the sections however. ANNOUNCEMENT I haven't seen a time limit on this so I assume it's still going and I haven't noticed too much activity with it so hopefully this picture will help! Would you like to test Halo multiplayer for 343 Industries? Would you like to get paid to test Halo multiplayer for 343 Industries? Remember, click the picture above to find Absolute Dog's announcement. DESTINY New Bits of Gameplay Adamj, the king of the News Group, brought us a really cool video from Bungie and it's got some cool snippets of gameplay in it that might possibly tease at competitive multiplayer! YEAH! I already gave a video so I'll give you a link to adam's thread separately here. FEATURED INTERVIEWS The Director - I actually saw him online the other day. Although no longer a Moderator, The Director is defintely someone the newer members oughta get to know. He's a real legend around these forums. FORGE 343industries.org and The Halo Forge Epidemic present: As we all know, The Meet Your Maker Forge Contest is in full swing and it's for the Dominion gametype this time around. Absolute Dog and AbleSir Thomas are certainly part of the judging panel, the rest of whom are unbeknownst to me as of now. Forgers are encouraged to use Zan's Map Marker Pack when submitting a map for optimal display of callouts and weapon placements. Want to test your map for the Meet Your Maker contest? You can join the MYM Test Lobbies hosted every Thursday by AbleSir Thomas. Click here to join. For questions that need answers, report here for the Meet Your Maker Dominion Official Q&A Thread. 343 Industries Community Forge Project SikSlik7's tyrannical reign as MoM may be over but that doens't mean it's too late to support the Community Forge Project. The 343i Community Forge Project is a project that lets the members get together and make their own contributions to the maps made. SikSlik explains it all in his thread. Read and sign up for the CFP here. Ideas can be discussed in the CFP Idea Discussion thread so post yours here. SikSlik7 has created an account for members to friend in order to join the CFP sessions. Send CFP343i a Friend Request on Xbox Live! Participate and support the Community Forge Project! Halo 4 Free Roaming Flood Forge Off The Halo 4 Free Roaming Flood Forge Off is OVER. We had some submissions on 343i.org not sure about ForgeHub and other sites but here's a little preview of our submissions: Your judges: Absolute Dog Donut Elliot Sign up, submit maps, find out prizes, and judging criteria to the contest by clicking the banner above of course. And here's the Q&A Thread! GAMING NEWS Halo 4 Global Championship Final Match Sudden Death http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8l0mONFYdM&feature=player_embedded A totally intense battle in the Halo 4 Global Championship between Elamite Warrior's brother Ace and the all powerful iGotUrPistola. It brought back good memories to see competition like this in Halo. Watch to see the winner and here's a link to TrulyExclusive's thread. Xbox One: First TV Commercial Here's the Xbox One's first television commercial brought to us here by none other than the CooliestRap. Tell him what you think they could've done and what they should've done that could've made it better. Or tell him what you think in general about it in his thread. Xbox One Release Date Confirmed The Xbox One's release date has been confirmed by many across the net. I'm not going to tell you here if you don't know already because I actually want you to visit adamj's article. That's why he makes them. I hope you know what to click to find the article by this point in the Wrapup. PS4 Release Date Also Confirmed The PlayStation 4's release date has also been announced. I won't tell you here so you can read Absolute Dog's article. I'll give you a hint: it comes out before the Xbox One! For more Gaming News check out the latest on our Front Page here. HOT TOPIC Halo Command - Browser Based Halo Strategy/RPG/Text Based Game Started by a member by the name of Glitch100, Halo Command will be a browser based Halo game involving the aspects of Strategy/RPG/TBRPGs which is what makes it very interesting. I support Halo Command because it's just another step towards bringing back the love for the Halo Universe itself and not just the games and multiplayer which is what everyone's been focusing on since Halo 4 came out. This may not be an official 343 game but it is something to look into. Click the picture to get linked to the Halo Command thread. MEMBER OF THE MONTH September's Member of the Month is a very avid Forger. Coming from Forge Cafe, Zandril is a huge Forge enthusiast and it is his favorite thing about Halo. I'll remind you again that the link to his announcement thread can be found by using the picture now. And please, DO congratulate him. He's a great member and Forger. PS. Yes that is the picture that was used when announcing BZ as June's MoM. PLAY DATES I'm trying to make Play Dates come back NEXT SATURDAY. That is the Saturday after this one coming up. I'm going to try to make it a special event and not just some games on one of the Halos. Keep your eyes PEELED! We still want your Play Date ideas. Post them here. YOUTUBE Halo 4 Pan-Cam Feature! Quite a find by a member by the name of Brett on our site. I've used Brett's video's before in the Wrapup so his name might be familiar to some of you whether it's from seeing it here or watching his videos when he posts them himself. Anyway, the pan-cam feature is pretty awesome. It's only accessible through Theater mode. Just watch that video and leave it a like and maybe comment and tell Brett how much you liked it here. Wrapup concluded. Now scroll back up and read it all over again. View full article

Thanks for clicking on the Wrapup this week. I'm sorry these have been falling off but full access to the site has been hard for me lately. Primary Announcement: We've got some site stats! Here are some stats taken from April 1st to August 1st. In those 3 months we had 2,430 new members join us and 19,578 posts made. We're still growing! ANNOUNCEMENT Would you like to test Halo multiplayer for 343 Industries? Would you like to get paid to test Halo multiplayer for 343 Industries? Click Absolute Dog's announcement on how you can play test for 343i here. FEATURED INTERVIEWS Flying Shoe ILR - The other half of the Conversion Creating Team. A real down to earth member of the Halo Community. FORGE 343industries.org and The Halo Forge Epidemic present: The Meet Your Maker Forge Contest is back. This time Forgers will be making Dominion gametype maps! Judges have yet to be announced but know that Absolute Dog and AbleSir Thomas will be on the panel. The Meet Your Maker Forge Contest is quite possibly the biggest Forge Contest across all Halo Communities. If you've never joined, then jump in right now. It doesn't hurt to try to get noticed out there! Forgers are encouraged to use Zan's Map Marker Pack when submitting a map for optimal display of callouts and weapon placements. Click the link above the find the Map Marker Pack. Want to test your map for the Meet Your Maker contest? You can join the MYM Test Lobbies hosted every Thursday by AbleSir Thomas. Click here to join. For questions that need answers, report here for the Meet Your Maker Dominion Official Q&A Thread. 343 Industries Community Forge Project SikSlik7's 343i Community Forge Project is a project that lets the members get together and make their own contributions to the maps made. SikSlik explains it all in his thread. Read and sign up for the CFP here. Ideas can be discussed in the CFP Idea Discussion thread so post yours here. Here's his CFP Space Station Discussion Thread for the CFP's first project! Find SikSlik's sketch of the first project here! SikSlik7 has created an account for members to friend in order to join the CFP sessions. Send CFP343i a Friend Request on Xbox Live! Participate and support the Community Forge Project! Halo 4 Free Roaming Flood Forge Off Are you a fan of the Hivemind Flood Gametype? Donut has put together a Forge Contest for Forgers that want to make their spookiest and most awesome Hivemind maps for the new gametype! Testing will be provided by BlOC. Your judges: Absolute Dog Donut Elliot Sign up, submit maps, find out prizes, and judging criteria to the contest by clicking here. And here's the Q&A Thread! Watch out for upcoming Map Testing Lobbies here! Conversion Map Submissions Lastly don't forget to check out our newest Conversion Map Submissions Forum in the THFE Section. Check out what's been submitted so far by clicking here. *Featured Maps will be returning very soon* GAMING NEWS This month's free Xbox Live games are: Crackdown and Dead Rising 2 One's a great third person GTA-esque, character developing game and the other is a zombie infested hell where anything is a weapon. If you haven't played either of these games then get on it because they're absolutely free. Adamj gives you the news here. Good news! The Xbox One will function without the Kinect! You will not need it to play! It's good because I don't want one. Check out Adamj's post here. For more Gaming News check out the latest on our Front Page here. HOT TOPIC A Message to the Community This is Total Mayh3m's masterpiece. A call for the unity of the split and scattered Halo Community that has come a long way since but is still not what it once was. Give this a read and some insightful thought. Mayh3m, Find it here. MEMBER OF THE MONTH It was a unanimous decision who August's Member of the Month would be. Congratulations Sikslik7! SikSlik is a great member who started the amazing idea of the Community Forge Project. If you haven't checked out the CFP look above in the Forge Section! Congratulate him here. Check out his MoM post here! Spades N AZ, our July MoM, has received his MoM Award and was immortalized in our MoM Wall. NEW LEGENDARY MEMBER We've had many members pass on to the ranks of Legendary Member as of lately. This member has made their mark as a legend long before reaching the rank. Total Mayh3m has always been one of the friendliest members on this site and someone I've looked forward to since I've joined. Hail Total Mayh3m and all his glory here. PLAY DATES There are Event ideas cooking up right now. Play Dates will be making a return. US vs. UK and other countries did win the Community Event Poll in July just give it some time. We still want your Play Date ideas! Post them here! That was your Wrapup now scroll back up and read it all over again.