Month: June 2010
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Collecting Rewards
Interesting interview with Brian Jarrard and Chris Carney over at Gamasutra this morning – they discuss the Halo Reach Beta, and the take-home messages from it. It’s a monster – 6 pages of good questions and better answers, lots of info about how the …
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Vehicular Annihilation
Minime637 was browsing YouTube, and ran across a vehicle montage with some nice gameplay – go check out oaklesss’ Vehicular Annihilation.(Louis Wu 14:52:54 UTC)
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Spartan-II Emblem
Exige created what he thinks Spartan-II emblem should look like… pretty snazzy!(Louis Wu 14:35:35 UTC)
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Fire Team Zulu: Banshee Battle/Post Mortem
Ready for more Fire Team Zulu challenges from FyreWulff? Banshee Battle is a Campaign challenge on Kikowani Station, while Post Mortem is a Firefight challenge on Alpha Site. Pick your poison – and kill some Covies!(Louis Wu 14:31:48 UTC)
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CE United’s 20 Questions for June
Willy’s back with another 20 Questions for the month of June – he interviewed Krewtaun, a guy who makes videos highlighting entertaining dialogue in the Halo campaign. Fun read!(Louis Wu 14:29:15 UTC)
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Stephen Loftus – now on Waypoint!
We missed this when it went live a couple of days ago, but Stephen Loftus’ Scale Comparison can now be found on Halo Waypoint – it’s even got new artwork that isn’t in the HBO-hosted version! If you’ve got Xbox LIVE, swing by and check it out! Thanks …
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MLG – like Make a Wish sometimes
Pennybags stopped in with a heartwarming story from the MLG forums – a community outpouring for a kid who just wants to play with pros. Check it out! (Louis Wu 14:08:40 UTC)
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Firefight on Beachhead
There’s a full game of Firefight, recorded on the map Beachhead, by the Halo Waypoint team – no voiceovers, just gameplay. (Not always very GOOD gameplay – but gameplay.) You get a great sense of the level itself, see what Wraiths can do, and so on. T…
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Double EXP Weekend: Living Dead
Thursdays come awfully fast these days – I totally missed it when one went by yesterday. But if you were paying attention, the latest Double EXP Weekend Playlist went live then – and you can go play Living Dead right now (through Monday morning). Soci…
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Reach Rules at E3
Inside Gaming awarded Halo Reach ‘Best Online Multiplayer’ in their E3 Wrap-Up. Also, Ten FTW looked at the Top 10 Xbox 360 games at E3 2010 – Halo Reach came in at the number one slot. Thanks, The Alpha Elite. (Louis Wu 13:57:58 UTC)
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Friday’s Fan Fiction News
The Fan Fiction section has been augmented with six new pieces – go read ’em! Also on the fanfic front, we got word from MaxRealflugel that a consortium of Bungie.net groups (FanFicFactor, The Mirratord and The Writing Guild) have gotten together to pu…
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Halo Reach: The Final Stretch
The Reach Development team hit ‘ZBR’ (Zero Bug Release) last night at midnight – there’s a note at the Reach Developer Blog discussing the milestone, and a Twitpic showing off Marcus smashing the countdown clock in the back behind the studio. Thanks t…
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AH: Crack'd Own!
Hey guys, we have another slew of Crackdown 2 Pre-chievements ready to go for you today. I bring you three! First up is “Mosh Pit.” Next is “Victory Roll,” which is one of my favorites. Last but not least is the very explode-y “Bomberman” achie…
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AH: Prince of Persia and Duke Nukem
We’ve got two great community videos for you today. The first is from Fragger, and shows in great detail how to get the Got Walkthrough? Achievement in Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands… …and the second is from Mr Gamerscore himself, Brownm…
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AH: Crackdown 2: Car Jump Achievement Guide
The Crackdown 2 onslaught continues with this guide for the Car Jump Achievement. It’s kind of a tricky one.
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AH: Crackdown 2: Car Jump Achievement Guide
The Crackdown 2 onslaught continues with this guide for the Car Jump Achievement. It’s kind of a tricky one.
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Master Chief Stamp
Hawty McBloggy found a pretty cool Master Chief stamp – what a way to add a Halo touch to your correspondence!(Louis Wu 18:35:39 UTC)
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Reach Continues in the News
More Reach coverage – CNet has a 37-minute video podcast in which Reach is played (the Campaign footage is the same as we’ve seen a dozen times during E3, but the Firefight footage is worth watching – Halo footage starts around 17 minutes in), and Joys…