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Month: March 2006

  • Episode 56: Podtacular Update

    Download | Show Notes I know, we’re early. We’re getting back on track for a early in the week show release. So you’ll get episode 57 early next week, hopefully Monday. So this is the update show, where we talk about some community news, some Halo news, and read back some “you know you play…

  • What Number Strip Is This?

    In honor of the 458th One One Se7en, Stuntmutt takes another look at Nicole… though not the look he’d like to take.

  • Light Reading Week

    Well, after deleting the first 6 instances of The Meep’s first chapter (why do people have to go all postal on the submit button?), the solid blocks of unformatted text, and the speculation that belongs on the Story page or our forum, we’re left with 9 Fan Fiction entries this week. Go read.

  • You coulda built Rome a few times.

    Over at Subnova, Funkmon found an article with some stats about Xbox Live – and while it focuses mostly on how the 360 is more tightly integrated with XBL than the original box was, it contains a Halo stat that’s pretty amazing: one third of all hours logged on Xbox Live since the service went…

  • IGN: The Rumor Guys

    Gah. When sites as big as IGN post rumors about Halo 3 release dates, our mailboxes fill up with speculation. According to them, Halo 3 will be released in March 2007, with more info coming at E3. This might be true, it might be garbage… we can’t say. Bungie is still keeping mum about whether…

  • Podtacular Pro clans are evolving

    This is only for the pro clans. If you are in a rec clan or you’re not in a Podtacular clan, everything stays the same. The pro clans are a good idea, no doubt. But they weren’t working in most cases because some small teams just didn’t gel together. So some teams just never played…

  • Podtacular Pro clans are evolving

    This is only for the pro clans. If you are in a rec clan or you’re not in a Podtacular clan, everything stays the same. The pro clans are a good idea, no doubt. But they weren’t working in most cases because some small teams just didn’t gel together. So some teams just never played…

  • Lego Zanzibar

    Kooberz has been building a model of Zanzibar out of Legos for quite some time – but he’s run out of money. He sent along a bunch of pics of the project as it stands… pretty cool stuff! Take a look.

  • Zany troupe, indeed.

    Heh – the Rooster Teeth crew will be doing a film and Q&A session at the upcoming San Francisco Film Festival, in April and May. The title of the film? ‘Cock Byte: Masters of Machinima’ – you should definitely get tickets if you’re in the area. (They go on sale to the general public next…

  • Podtacular’s new audio editor: Ciclonic!

    Big congratulations to Ciclonic (aka ll Jurassic ll) for winning the audio editing contest and being the new audio editor at Podtacular. It was a really tough decision as we had some good entries. Also I’d like to give an honorable mention to the others who tried out: Quality Jeverage, GMan, Fuzy Bunny Feet, and…

  • Podtacular’s new audio editor: Ciclonic!

    Big congratulations to Ciclonic (aka ll Jurassic ll) for winning the audio editing contest and being the new audio editor at Podtacular. It was a really tough decision as we had some good entries. Also I’d like to give an honorable mention to the others who tried out: Quality Jeverage, GMan, Fuzy Bunny Feet, and…

  • Submit Stuff for Episode 57: Halo 3 and Other Favorites!

    UPDATE: After 3 attempts because of audio problems, the curse of episode 57 has been lifted and it has been recorded! Ciclonic’s working on the editing and it should be out soon. —– As usual, Episode 56 has been recorded and is being edited. Which reminds me again, this will probably be the last show…

  • Submit Stuff for Episode 57: Halo 3 and Other Favorites!

    UPDATE: After 3 attempts because of audio problems, the curse of episode 57 has been lifted and it has been recorded! Ciclonic’s working on the editing and it should be out soon. —– As usual, Episode 56 has been recorded and is being edited. Which reminds me again, this will probably be the last show…

  • Living In Oblivion.

    Halo’s always been at the top of the XBL game list – but multiplayer isn’t all you can do with your 360. Stuntmutt looks at what happens when good stuff comes out that isn’t really for Live in today’s One One Se7en.

  • Intellectualizing Halo at UF

    Justin Laufer pointed out an academic conference on video games coming up next weekend at the University of Florida in Gainesville – he’s giving a talk entitled ‘New Cyborg Philosophy: Techno-Religious Hybridization in Marathon and Halo’. Feel the Bungie Love!

  • The Halo-Related Art of Paul Davies

    One piece of artwork that was submitted in January but didn’t get posted in the Misc Art update yesterday was a new work by Paul Davies – and the reason I didn’t post it is because we were in the process of setting up a new Gallery Page for Paul. His work has shown up…

  • Utfoo lives – again

    Amaroq and Ducain put their heads together, and after rubbing the resultant lumps, they managed to create a 100% complete mirror of Frogblast’s website; the seminal trickster had documented most of his work, but the site was up and down, and finally down permanently. Rather than let this work be lost to the bitbucket, HIH…

  • UESC/UNSC Fabric Patch

    Blayne Scott, a hardcore Marathon fan who maintains a couple of pieces of the bungie.org family of sites and who’s created a number of traditional-media items inspired by Marathon in the past, has whipped up a pretty cool Marathon Fabric Patch. (It’s simlar to the one seen on Captain Keyes’ uniform in the first game,…

  • Sheet music – now for schools

    Wow, very very cool. We get email regularly from high school students or teachers looking for sheet music for Halo pieces; we generally send them to Rampancy.net, which has (I think) the largest collection of Halo sheet music on the net. However, most of this is fan-transcribed, and ranges in quality from very, very good…

  • Misc Art Update, Part 2

    I’m STILL not done… but there’s another large batch of stuff in the Miscellaneous Art section today; I’m getting CLOSER to cleaning out the queue. There’s some amazing stuff in this round; I hate to draw attention to specific pics (because I worry that folks will look ONLY at those), but don’t miss Khan’s Forerunner,…