Month: September 2006
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The Mythical 40-Hour Gamer
3Suns ran across an article at Wired about ‘the Mythical 40-Hour Gamer’, which points out one of the larger difficulties facing developers these days; with more and more older gamers out there, finding ways that make games playable and enjoyable for folks who fit their gaming in between ‘real-life’ activities while KEEPING it enjoyable for…
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Blondi Rocks
Ace Heart noticed a writeup of a local Halo tourney in the Montgomery (AL) Advertiser – puts a smile on my face that a 10-year-old girl came in fourth in her semifinal round.(Louis Wu 12:20:19 UTC)
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We’re Gonna Need A Bigger Banshee
Rockslider’s latest game-within-a-game that he plays exclusively with Halo 1 is called Shark; you use a Banshee underneath a bridge to induce Covenant units to leap off to their deaths. It’s the newest item on Bad Cyborg’s Fun and Challenges page for Assault on the Control Room.
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UNSCDF Interviews Louis Wu
Major Silva of the United Nations Space Command Defense Force (a Halo fansite) interviewed Claude “Louis Wu” Errera of HBO. Asked how there were enough hours in the day for him to keep up with all the news in the Halo universe, as well as delete forum spam, run a business, have a family, and…
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How To Build An A.I.
Brannon Boren made good on his promise over the weekend, putting together a nice little retrospective on the thinking process that went into creating the parts of the Halo Bible that deal with artificial intelligences like Cortana. Just about everything that he mentions is revealed, in one way or another, either through the games or…
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Weekly Porridge #37: I told you so!
Quality Jeverage brings us another Weekly Porridge, showing how the Podtacular crew teamed up recently and proved that when you mess with Podtacular, you mess with US! More talk in the forums. Go Podtacular! ‹ Weekly Porridge #36: Lamb of PodupWeekly Porridge #38: Ex Oh Sicks! ›
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Weekly Porridge #37: I told you so!
Quality Jeverage brings us another Weekly Porridge, showing how the Podtacular crew teamed up recently and proved that when you mess with Podtacular, you mess with US! More talk in the forums. Go Podtacular! ‹ Weekly Porridge #36: Lamb of PodupWeekly Porridge #38: Ex Oh Sicks! ›
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Another learning experience
A certain (now former) staff member recently flipped out, deleting the rec section in the forum and making everyone overlord in Rec B. Believe it or not, this is good news. Our community reacted as a team to recognize this and fight it, and just a day later we are making a variety of positive…
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Hanah Stuart, Exposed
Kotaku hunted down Hanah Stuart, violinist extraordinaire, who made waves a couple of weeks ago as part of a very cool high school Halo music exhibition. It’s a monster interview; it kept coming back to discussion about the music, but it did quite a bit of moving around. Pretty funny stuff – and I’m already…
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Another learning experience
A certain (now former) staff member recently flipped out, deleting the rec section in the forum and making everyone overlord in Rec B. Believe it or not, this is good news. Our community reacted as a team to recognize this and fight it, and just a day later we are making a variety of positive…
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Community Heat Lamp: Chevelle65
BrentGamer sat down with Chevelle65 the other day to ask about moderating the forums, running Halo News, and whether he really drives a Chevelle. Read on for the whole interview… Brent: How did you learn about Podtacular? Chevelle: I was sick of joining clans online just to have them inactive and not even do anything.…
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When the cabin boy gets cabin fever…
KP’s been looking for stuff to do – he updated two somewhat neglected sections of Bungie.net, the Gallery (with a cool ninja-kick screenshot) and the Voting Booth (where you can weigh in on the Bungie Podcast). I’m saddened by early returns in the poll…(Louis Wu 19:07:40 UTC)
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Are You Not Entertained?!
The Gallery and Voting Booth Forums are back with a vengeance today. Select few have been given privileges in both forums to revive them. Just now, something’s been posted in both, so go check them out and expect more in the future!
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Community Heat Lamp: Chevelle65
BrentGamer sat down with Chevelle65 the other day to ask about moderating the forums, running Halo News, and whether he really drives a Chevelle. Read on for the whole interview… Brent: How did you learn about Podtacular? Chevelle: I was sick of joining clans online just to have them inactive and not even do anything.…
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Helm’s Deep.
Stuntmutt takes a novel look at the Ghosts of Onyx cover in today’s One One Se7en. There’s something for everyone!(Louis Wu 17:21:23 UTC)
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Schwagalicious.
j41m3z got a bunch of stuff signed at Thursday night’s Hollywood Bowl VGL show – he scanned a bunch of it for the forum. Lucky!(Louis Wu 13:50:42 UTC)
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HBO Staff – we’re here for you.
Jillybean took some time out from her busy videogame-playing schedule (mostly because she can’t play the games she likes with the video card she has) to process some of the recent story-related content floating around out there (including a pretty intriguing observation from Wado just last night). Check out the Halo Story Page for all…
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Interview with a janitor
Major Silva, of UNSCDF, snagged me for a few questions recently. I hate pointing out interviews of myself – makes me look like I’m tooting my own horn. So don’t read it! Yeah, that’s the ticket! Don’t follow the link, skip it. Don’t go there.(Louis Wu 12:56:49 UTC)
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Ghosts of Onyx, the Audio CD
Tempus Fugit noticed an entry for an audio version of Ghosts of Onyx… real, or Amazon’s mistake? (And if it’s real, who’s reading it?) Nice.(Louis Wu 21:34:34 UTC)
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More to see than can ever be seen.
Wonga. Someone synched the song ‘Circle of Life’, from the Lion King, to the video from the Halo 3 trailer. The amazing part… it works! Go watch at YouTube. Thanks, Retsof-Noraa, for the heads-up.(Louis Wu 21:33:04 UTC)