Month: March 2006
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Bye bye game debris
If you check out the latest Bungie Weekly Update (I link to the b.org copy as it loads so clean and fast) you’ll find an interesting tidbit that may spell doom to future ‘prizes’ in the next Bungie game. Noguchi has been “making a pony.” Since he always speaks in metaphor I was annoyed, until…
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Episode 53: Halo 3 and Amaz show!
Download | Show Notes It’s the Halo 3 show, where we read off some of the coolest new Halo 3 speculation yet! We also talk about azaz amaz (you’ll see) and other games that Halo freaks play. With guest hosts JVB and GMan. Pod Art this week comes from Expanded Flame. Whoa, trippy. Also thanks…
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Episode 53: Halo 3 and Amaz show!
Download | Show Notes It’s the Halo 3 show, where we read off some of the coolest new Halo 3 speculation yet! We also talk about azaz amaz (you’ll see) and other games that Halo freaks play. With guest hosts JVB and GMan. Pod Art this week comes from Expanded Flame. Whoa, trippy. Also thanks…
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Friday Fiction
Thirteen new stories in the Fan Fiction section today. Let’s hope that’s not bad luck.
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It wanted a raise, mb
Apologies for the downtime last night; the webserver decided to simply keel over. (The server never went down – just the application.) Things SEEM to be back up and running – I think.
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Clan Training
LegendaryMark wrote up a nice article on Clan Training over at halowiki – go read it for some great pointers. Thanks, PEZ.
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Ceramic Master Chief
boltofaire and a friend decided to make a Master Chief statue in ceramics class – check out some of the in-progress photos in this forum post. Pretty cool stuff!
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Head Monstrosity
Frontline with Suzie continues – Broadcast 16 has Suzie talking to (and being hit upon) by an oversized Captain Keyes. Puts a whole new angle on the getting-taken-over schtick. Go read. Thanks, Rockslider.
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Your will – my action.
Captain Spark released another batch of dialogue snippets – you can grab ’em on his site, or in the Dialogue Databank. (Yes, I know there are others still waiting in the queue – but CS submits so many, I automated the addition of his files; adding ones that are not formatted the same way takes…
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Team 3D Postmortem – Part II
F13ND has written up Part II of Team 3D’s MLG Nationals Wrap article – this one is an interview with OGRE 2. As always, it’s great to see what the pros think about how they played – lots to learn. Go read!
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Halo Haiku
Oscar Gordon put together a few Halo-related Haikus a bit ago, and last night posted a link on our forum. Memories…
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Learning Lessons from the Timmys of our Time
Last week, Mothergoat released the MPD public service announcement – and fans loved it. Today, you can grab just the MP3 – hi-res, 3 mb worth of teh funni. Go listen!
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Honored by a real Talent
Wow. Elnea’s latest avatar… is for me. Awesome piece of work, in fact. I’d tell you to go read about its creation in her RvB journal – but RvB seems to be down right at the moment… so maybe try again later. But in the meantime… thanks, Elnea!
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Malibu’s Most Wanted
Over at the Internet Zillionaire, The Centaur has put together a list of Xbox Live Personality Profiles – and for the post part, it’s people you’ll meet playing Halo. (There are also some pretty funny additions in the comments.) Go read!
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Bite… Chu… there’s a pun there.
There’s a press release flooding the gaming world right now, announcing the existence of Giant Bite Games, a new studio founded by Hamilton Chu, Michael Evans, Andy Glaister, and Steve Theodore, who between them have worked on Halo, Half-Life 2, Counterstrike, and Microsoft’s DirectX technology. The earliest two that showed up in my inbox were…
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Special move: Ice Cream Persuasion
Sketchfactor’s posted a new interview on Bungie.net. The subject is Max Dyckhoff, better known in this community as mad.max, Bungie’s new AI Engineer. The interview goes over a bit of his past, his acclimation to Bungie Studios and what his new job entails.
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Crowds that love, crowds that hate
KrazyGamers wrote an article looking at why so many people hate Halo. If you wonder why, look no further than their closing line: “after all it’s true, any publicity is good publicity.”
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Number One… for how much longer?
So, every week, there’s a new ‘top 10 games played on Xbox Live’ list, and every week Halo 2 is at the top. Some folks are starting to wonder how long it’ll be before something else is number one. Most recent speculator – XboxAddict. Go read.