Year: 2006
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Free Xbox 360 repairs – a little late
Not strictly Halo-related – but it affects a lot of Halo fans, so it’s going up. Dolbex posted a note on our forum, pointing back to his blog, which in turn points to an article at IGN; all of this is about a new policy whereby Microsoft will fix any broken Xbox 360 consoles purchased…
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The First Halo 3 Humpday Challenge
WOW… Don’t you wish you were there? Yes.. It looks like the bungie guys are having a lot of fun during the test of this amazing new game we’ve been waiting for. This week they took on each other there and had a blast playing some games, having some fun and just testing what will…
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Tsquared talks to Boost Mobile
Boost Mobile has an interview with Tsquared – he reminisces about the tourneys that got him going in the Halo Pro scene, he discusses the pro circuit, and he tells a fun story about a cop with a Halo-playing son. Thanks, 3Suns.(Louis Wu 12:09:48 UTC)
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Halo Sucks.
Wow. Ferrago has a story about online gaming, and mostly, it’s just a screed about how crappy Halo 2 multiplayer is, how many problems it has, and how silly Bungie is for not having figured out how to fix those problems yet. (They also blame some of the problems on the “lack of an established…
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Gamertag Database Returns
Parallel to the changes that we made in how the Bungie Timeline works, letting you search, filter and sort entries according to different criteria, we’ve now revamped the entire user profile system. Among other things, this allows us to bring back the Gamertag Database with much better features than before. The new Gamertag Database allows…
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Flowing Alcohol and Face Stabbings
Over at Tied the Leader, there are a couple of new articles – there’s a writeup of their Third Annual LAN Party (a shindig involving players from all over the US), and a 22 Questions interview with KP (who knew the guy was also Shishka?). Give ’em a read! Thanks, Dweezle.(Louis Wu 11:38:51 UTC)
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The First Halo 3 Humpday Challenge
WOW… Don’t you wish you were there? Yes.. It looks like the bungie guys are having a lot of fun during the test of this amazing new game we’ve been waiting for. This week they took on each other there and had a blast playing some games, having some fun and just testing what will…
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Halo: Portable Podcast Episode 5
38 MB, 1:07 hours. (link) Like we promised, this podcast is way better. We dub it “The Apology Podcast,” so that means it has to be good, with an extra dose of guilty humor. We discuss all the breaking Halo news from Sept. 3 – Sept. 15, plus a bunch of community stuff. Well, as…
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Crouching Diaper, Hidden Dingdong
Embarrassed that Stuntmutt guessed their Humpday Challenge strategy, the entire Bungie team (except for KP) hid this week when it came time to meet their opponents… so the Challenge never took place. However, KP gets paid by the word (I think he’s up to three cheerios per at this point), so in order to earn…
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The First Halo 3 Humpday
This week the Humpday Challenge went internal with three head-to-head Halo 3 matches at Bungie Studios. Six men, three maps and an unlimited amount of vague descriptions. Don’t expect to find screenshots or new info on maps, weapons or multiplayer modes in here.
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The Spartan Effect: Episode 1 (Redux)
Rookie Rabbit Productions sent along ‘The Spartan Effect: Episode 1’ for review; they said they didn’t need hosting, so we posted a note about this earlier today… but apparently, even just the HTML hits were killing them, so we pulled the post. I’ve gotten local versions posted, however, so I’m putting this back. It’s the…
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Return to Innocence
Landon ‘LaP’ Pratte submitted a somewhat different movie to the MPRRS – it’s called ‘Return to Innocence’, and it’s set to Enigma’s eponymous song. He used Halo CE to create this film (and did all the acting/filming himself); many of the shots had to be created with camera scripts and AI enemy scripts. There are…
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The Denial Twist
RipHamilton32 submitted ‘The Denial Twist’ to the MPRRS – guy tries for girl, blows it, but gets it right the second time. SERIOUS compression – this two and a half minute, full-size movie weighs in at a paltry 7 mb. Grab it in WMP9 format or QuickTime format.(Louis Wu 12:58:14 UTC)
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As if it were from an old dream…
Ace Heart dug up some pretty cool pictures of Fort Jesus, in Mombasa – they might remind you of something.(Louis Wu 12:55:04 UTC)
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Know Your Bungie History
As part of the most recent technical upgrade, we’ve revamped the appearance and functionality of the Bungie Timeline. Now, all entries are presented in an easier-to-read table format, and users can change the sort order from earliest to most recent. The table also displays which game the event is associated with and which platforms each…
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Makin’ Money at Fanfic
Not specifically Halo-related, but our Fan Fiction community is reasonably large, so… Looks like this weekend’s Wall Street Journal had an article about the rise of fan fiction in popular media – and how Fanfic writers were even, in some cases, getting publishing deals. The article itself is only available to paying subscribers online -…
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The top 10 things people want to see in Halo 3
Podtacular has had 1 hour shows once a month since January called the “Halo 3 show” where we talk mostly about what people want to see in Halo 3. There have been hundreds and hundreds of suggestions, and these are the ones people want to see the most. Digg this story on digg.com! I intentionally…
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The top 10 things people want to see in Halo 3
Podtacular has had 1 hour shows once a month since January called the “Halo 3 show” where we talk mostly about what people want to see in Halo 3. There have been hundreds and hundreds of suggestions, and these are the ones people want to see the most. Digg this story on digg.com! I intentionally…
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Turf Drifting
Halo Heads 9 was posted today – now THAT looks like a fun game!(Louis Wu 17:22:27 UTC)