Month: December 2006
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Brute Vidoc
7 minutes From Bungle Bungie’s started making video documentaries, which they have shortened to “Vidocs,” about… well, stuff. They’re professional, and are similar to the FilmOasis stuff we have seen before. This specific one is about the role brutes will play in Halo 3, and it shows some campaign footage, and a bunch of sandbox…
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Brute Doc Analysis
Mark MacDonald, of GameVideos.com, gave us a heads-up about a new analysis video they’ve posted, picking apart the Brute Vidoc in minute detail. Downloadable versions are in the hundreds of megabytes, or you can stream it on their site. Looks like a thread has started on our forum – some folks are amused (or unhappy)…
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More Veegie Art
In a Rampancy.net article about the Normal Mapping article at HaloDev, Narcogen noted another cool image by Veegie, over at DeviantART – go take a look, it’s great!(Louis Wu 19:04:30 UTC)
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Rank Honesty
Over at Tied the Leader, there’s not a lot of new content this week (it IS a holiday week, after all), but there’s a thought-provoking article on rank, and what it means to most of us. Check it out! Thanks, XerxdeeJ.(Louis Wu 17:30:27 UTC)
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Another Way into the Beta
Interesting. Over at Joystiq, there’s a note about an ad in the latest issue of Gamepro magazine – if you buy the upcoming game Crackdown (specially marked boxes only) for $60, you also get a Halo 3 Beta invite. (Joystiq’s cynical take is that you’re paying $60 for the invite, and getting a free copy…
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Not So Normal Maps
HaloDev has put up the first of in a series of “Feature Focus” articles. This one, by Talin, is accompanied by a very complex render done by Talin and Veegie and covers the technique of normal mapping to add the appearance of detail to textured polygons. Veegie also produced another, more sedate image of an…
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Not So Normal Maps
HaloDev has put up the first of in a series of “Feature Focus” articles. This one, by Talin, is accompanied by a very complex render done by Talin and Veegie and covers the technique of normal mapping to add the appearance of detail to textured polygons. Veegie also produced another, more sedate image of an…
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Xbox Live Matchmaking Features Unavailable
Xbox Live is telling you to walk away from the television set and spend time with your friends and family in the real world this holiday season. At least, that’s the message one might infer from the fact that for several hours now, subscribers can connect to the services to browse the Marketplace or use…
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Xbox Live Matchmaking Features Unavailable
Xbox Live is telling you to walk away from the television set and spend time with your friends and family in the real world this holiday season. At least, that’s the message one might infer from the fact that for several hours now, subscribers can connect to the services to browse the Marketplace or use…
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Halo 3 Beta Invites Packaged With Crackdown
Trakan, a moderator at the Cheap Ass Gamer forum, has posted scans of an ad for the upcoming Xbox 360 game, Crackdown, in Gamepro magazine. According to the scan, “specially marked boxes” of Crackdown will include an invitation to the Halo 3 multiplayer beta. This seems to be the first sighting in North America of…
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Halo 3 Beta Invites Packaged With Crackdown
Trakan, a moderator at the Cheap Ass Gamer forum, has posted scans of an ad for the upcoming Xbox 360 game, Crackdown, in Gamepro magazine. According to the scan, “specially marked boxes” of Crackdown will include an invitation to the Halo 3 multiplayer beta. This seems to be the first sighting in North America of…
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Podfiction: Halo fan fiction from the Podtacular community
Tired of waiting for Halo 3 for the story to continue? Eager to join in humanity’s epic struggle for survival? Now the story lives on with Podfiction! This project has been around for a little while and seen it’s share of authors, editors and helpers. Started by Infektion X, the tale now continues on through…
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Podfiction: Halo fan fiction from the Podtacular community
Tired of waiting for Halo 3 for the story to continue? Eager to join in humanity’s epic struggle for survival? Now the story lives on with Podfiction! This project has been around for a little while and seen it’s share of authors, editors and helpers. Started by Infektion X, the tale now continues on through…
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HaloDev Feature Focus – Normal Mapping
HaloDev has posted a ‘Feature Focus’ article – the first in a series of articles that will highlight various features of the upcoming Prometheus tool they’ve been working on for a while. This one looks at Normal Mapping (a variant of bumpmapping), and how Bungie uses it – and it has a fantastic example put…
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Warmness on the Soul, and movie administrivia
bryboy remix sent us a link to a movie he’s made that’s being hosted by mythica.org; it’s a music video, set to Avenged Sevenfold’s ‘Warmness on the Soul’ (WMP9, 66 mb). I’m not sure I know what’s going on in it – but it’s pretty; nice camera angles, interesting effects. I’d like to take this…
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And Do They Drink Capuchino?
Wow, that’s gotta be one of the most groanworthy titles for a One One Se7en comic ever.(Louis Wu 13:55:31 UTC)
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A Travesty Against Nature – but oh so cool
Elnea wrote to point out a creation so cool it’s hot – hot pink, that is. She’s done a boatload of work to add Spartan Armor to… Barbie. Yes, Barbie. (Image is just under 200k.) She’s got removable helmet bits (she needs them, because her head is so big that when the helmet is on,…
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UNSCDF Blog
Major Silva stopped by to announce the opening of the UNSCDF Blog, where staffers from that Halo news site can better express their personal opinions. Swing by to read opinions about Ghosts of Onyx.(Louis Wu 13:47:25 UTC)
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Halo news important in 2006, says IGN
Yesterday, Sniping Ajax pointed out that IGN posted their 2006 wrapup video – top 10 gaming news items from the past year. Halo made number 10, mostly on the strength of the X06 info (Halo Wars, Peter Jackson’s new stuff) plus news of the upcoming Halo 3.(Louis Wu 13:45:40 UTC)
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Break Time
Hope everyone had a merry Christmas! Just a heads up: we won’t be recording this week but we will be releasing episode 94 shortly. Have a happy new year!