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If you fancy yourself a part of the Halo community, you’ve no doubt come across plenty of players who call Real 7alk home. If all you’ve come away with from those meet and greets are a few new acquaintances, it’s about time you got a little bit more familiar. Good thing we roped them into this week’s Community Spotlight, eh? Read on to learn about the origins and present day machinations of the men and women who make up Real 7alk in the founder’s own words.

“Real 7alk was born out of pure boredom in the late Summer of ’08. I was sitting around at the computer, listening to the Official Bungie Podcast starring the god-like titans Brian Jarrard and Luke Smith. I thought it would be a fun little hobby to start up a Halo 3 Community Podcast. At the time I was a total n00b and didn’t even know any others existed, so I began pondering how I’d go about creating it. I asked a good friend of mine if he’d be interested in creating it with me, and he was totally on board. And that was that, really.

The fun part began when (somehow) we snagged DigitalPh33r for our very first feature guest on the show. Talk about getting things started on the right foot, eh? And the icing on the cake was our Community’s wonderfully talented screenshot guru Predator5791 appearing on the same show. After doing the interviews, we realized that this was an incredible way to meet some awesome people as we always got along with our guests so well. So well in fact, that our first Community guest, Predator5791, joined our staff almost immediately after our first Podcast was out. This was the thing that literally redefined our Group as a whole.

We continued to have these incredibly talented guests and we developed such a great relationship with them that we built a website, www.real7alk.com, where our members are moderated by these well-known Halo 3 figures in each of their specialty categories. RandomSauce of Halo 3 Mythbusters fame was one of the first on board after Predator, followed shortly thereafter by Bryan Simon (who has since left, but we obviously still love him and continue to want his children.)

So the pinnacle of Real 7alk went from just a cool group of people who liked to talk Halo, to a fansite that lets fans communicate with the very people who inspire them. And at Real 7alk, our staff doesn’t sit on pedestals above our users, we post just as much, and talk just as much nonsense as everyone else. No voice goes unheard on our site.

Our Podcasts remain our direct line of Communication to non-members and registered members alike. When we released our Podcast featuring Hawty McBloggy we began the Podcast Games. In the Podcast Games, our users post to sign up and we play a thrilling Humpday-style series of games that will precede the release of the Podcast. The well-known Real 7alk staff plus our featured guest for the episode versus our members. So far our members have kicked our asses with Hawty and montage extraordinaire Phurion. We’re still waiting to get our revenge.”

Q. What are your favorite maps?
A. It’s hard to really say, other than all of us on the site promote creativity, so of course we love Forged creations on Foundry or Sandbox. You really can’t beat when people can crank out thousands of maps that all have unique gameplay mechanics and bring something fresh to table.

Q. Favorite Gametypes?
A. I think most of us are Objective fanatics. CTF always brings a smile to everyone’s face. Whether it’s an intense stalemate on Avalanche where everyone’s sweating bullets and screaming at each other, or just laughing at the guy who can’t speed-cap the flag in a game of MLG Multi-Flag on The Pit.

Q. What would you like to see in Matchmaking that isn’t?
A. MORE USER CREATED CONTENT! Not just Arena maps for the MLG playlist, throw some in Social Slayer too! Oh, and on a personal note, make secondary colors show in team games, that would be sweet.