Alex Wakeford
@haruspis
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Franchise Writer at Halo Studios
Cambridgeshire, UK
Joined October 2011
Update time!. In 2021, I had the pleasure of working on Halo as part of the incredible Community Team—I cannot express enough love towards my wonderful colleagues. It’s been a blast!. Next week, that journey ends and a new one begins as I join the Halo Studios Franchise Team.
So, about that news I mentioned…. Thrilled beyond words to announce that I am joining the incredible Community team at 343 where I’ll be writing about all things @Halo! 💚💙
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It’s funny because John Wick fundamentally doesn’t work without this. Killing 100+ people because you and your car got beat up? Pathetic. But getting revenge for the murder of your late wife’s parting gift to help you move on? That’s an emotional keystone EVERYONE can agree with.
David Leitch reveals that there was major producer pushback on killing the puppy in ‘JOHN WICK’. “We were told, ‘It's bad luck.’ ‘It's bad juju.’ ‘It's 'Old Yeller,' you can't do this!’ ‘No one will want to see this on screen; you're going to alienate the audience’”. (Source:
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Midnight releases, HUNDREDS of physical games on the shelves, renting, pre-owned games…. We’ll never see this kind of ecosystem again 😞.
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my main man gets woken up, a bunch of humans are exactly where they shouldn’t be and their android is speaking his language asking for eternal life to be granted to his CEO, and he is immediately like “we gotta make these motherfuckers extinct like YESTERDAY”. (very valid tbh).
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"Tom Holland is the best Spider-Man!". "No, Tobey Maguire was the best one!". the actual best spider-man:
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A brilliant slice-of-life story that spirals into horror, illustrating how the neoliberal New Republic ultimately never truly beat fascism and was doomed to fall. FAR more politically savvy than you’d expect of The Mandalorian, so it’s only natural that Star Wars fans hate it lol.
The Mandalorian Chapter 19 "The Convert" aired on this day, 1 year ago
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made this mf’s day
Microsoft has confirmed that it's ending support for Cortana on Windows 11 and Windows 10 later this year
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"When I joined game dev, we didn't have any fancy-shmancy assets. We had sticks! Two sticks, and a rock for the whole level—and we had to share the rock!".
I can't keep this knowledge to myself anymore. EVERY SINGLE ROCK on The Covenant is the same rock. EVERY ONE. ALL OF THEM. THERE IS ONE SINGLE ROCK ON THE COVENANT. NOT TWO, NOT THREE, JUST ONE. IT'S JUST ONE ROCK ROTATED, SCALED, AND MOVED AROUND.
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the tarot craze that fan artists collectively experienced in 2014/15 because of dragon age: inquisition was still objectively the best thing ever
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Noble Six isn’t on the cover of Halo: Reach because somebody had to take the picture 📸
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Decided to help Zack Snyder out a bit by changing the "We live in a society" line to what it should've actually been. #SnyderCut
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the pilot hugs chief with such force that it depletes his energy shields
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Ratchet and Clank photo mode, except all the photos are Clank taking selfies like a 40 year old man on a dating app #RatchetPS5 #RatchetAndClankRiftApart #PhotoMode
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On the hot topic of great video game adaptations, putting some respect on the name Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn for this unforgettable scene that serves as the turning point for the story as the Covenant make their presence known. 👀
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not even 72 hours into 2021 and Bean Dad has failed the one objective of twitter dot com
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Halo is for everyone. Drawing lines of segregation in video games is absurd, especially when women in esports already face discrimination—why create a new generation of problems by perpetuating that to trans people?. As the good word of the Master Chief himself says:
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when boy 1 (machine and nerve, mind concluded) and boy 2 (flesh and faith, more deluded) get snatched by a poetic eldritch zombie god for an intervention
how do boys start being friends with eachother???.
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Nothing new or interesting to say that hasn't already been said, but this is. baffling. TLOU isn't even 10 years old. It's got a PS4 remaster. It's a beloved and ridiculously successful game. Its sequel released last year. TV adaptation on the way. What needs remaking???.
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for those who think that the humans were supposed to be there, the star map was actually the engineers saying "see this place? do not under any fucking circumstances go there specifically!!! pass down to future generations pls"
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Thrilled that we got to release the full cover of Halo: The Flood to mark its twentieth birthday! Here it is in all its glory 😍
Let's get you caught up on all the latest Halo news as we look forward to the Site Unseen event next week!. We’ll also give you a guide to make it easier to get your Forge creations considered by the Halo Infinite team for future matchmaking additions. 🔗
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Lady Dimitrescu is confirmed to be approximately 9’6” tall, making her considerably taller than the Master Chief. 👀#ResidentEvilVillage #Halo
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Very specific shoutout to that single piano note which has been announcing the return of the Master Chief since 2006 🙌💚 #HaloInfinite
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if u lock blades with your opponent in close quarters, always remember u can momentarily gain the upper hand by giving them a lil kiss.
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The Halo community is gathered in joyous celebration today for -- *checks notes* -- the return of this specific Forerunner door in #HaloInfinite 🙌
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"They'll pair you with another AI. maybe even another Cortana model, if Halsey lets them." #HaloInfinite #XboxBethesda
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nobody will remember:.- ur salary.- how “busy u were”.- how many hrs u worked. ppl will remember:.- CHIEF, UP AHEAD THERE'S A GAP IN THE TRENCH. AT TOP SPEED YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO CLEAR IT
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sarah palmer in halo 4 when del rio orders her to arrest the master chief
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"Blademaster, bring up the Spartan's Halopedia page. I want to know everything about him. "
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The first image captured from the Webb telescope! The universe really is incredible 😍
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“Spartan Sorel was a man of focus, commitment, and sheer will. I once saw him kill three Banished troops with a screwdriver. with a fucking screwdriver!”
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4 months, 180+ stories, and 100,000 words later. IT'S LIVE!. PREVIOUSLY ON HALO is my most ambitious project yet. It summarises almost every single Halo story (game, book, comic, etc) since 2001 for newcomers and returning fans going into #HaloInfinite.
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One of my favourite things about exploring Seattle was ending up on Zeta Halo 👀
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2009: "what if the phones. rang?". 2021: "what if halo. was infinite?"
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halo is about many things, but it is primarily about falling down a sloped, infinite tunnel in a big car and splattering people who are trying to kill you with hammers
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“They let me pick. Did I ever tell you that? Choose whichever Spartan I wanted…”.
Footage showing Space debris re-entering the earths atmosphere. 🛰️🌎
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68 years old and Alfred Molina doesn’t look like he’s aged a day since 2004…#SpiderMan #NoWayHome
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#HaloInfinite's campaign feels like what you’d get if you combined.✅H1's mystery and atmosphere.✅ODST's hub world and ‘greatest hits’ gameplay.✅H4's depth of emotion in storytelling.✅The scale of the Wars titles, asking “What if you could experience this in first-person?”
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fate had us meet as foes, but the halo 2 promotional condom from 2004 will make us lovers.
Celebrating 20 years of Halo 2 with the promotional condom from 2004
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"Master Chief? You mind telling me what you're doing in Mark V ZETA armour?"
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can’t believe any one of us could have unknowingly matched against or been in a halo 3 custom games lobby with timothée chalamet
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BTB has 'loot caves' - Forerunner doors you can hack with your personal AI to access caches of powerful weapons. LOVE this idea! #HaloInfinite
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Halo Wars has such cosy vibes, from its aesthetic to Stephen Rippy’s score (which, even fourteen years later, I never tire of hearing). After a rough week, a replay of this classic is definitely called for.
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In case you wondered how Halo: Reach's opening scene works. It's literally a bunch of screens next to each other that the cinematic camera cuts between. Game development is magic.
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People complaining about Young Leia really seem to have forgotten that one of Leia’s first lines in Star Wars is telling Grand Milf Tarkin that he smells like shit while captured aboard the Death Star as Darth Vader stands directly behind her lmao
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When you first saw Halo Infinite's campaign, were you blinded by its majesty? 😍 #HaloInfinite
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The two funniest misunderstandings in Halo. - people who thought Arby said "Asshole, you must be silenced". - people who thought Jorge called Halsey "mum"
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People think Halo is a first-person shooter game. They're mistaken. Halo is a game about cool wallpapers.
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new halo infinite screenshot of updated Craig 👀. before after
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"And your son took that from me. Stole that from me. KILLED THAT FROM ME!". This whole minute might be Keanu's greatest performance of all time. This is THE moment I think of when somebody mentions John Wick.
What’s a line delivery you’ll never forget?.
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