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The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Month: January 2007

  • Jungle Trigonometry 3

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    sodaGod has added another video to his Jungle Trigonometry series – Jungle Trigonometry 3. Couple his fantastic camera work with funny skits, and you get a vid absolutely worth downloading. This one has a number of ‘Master Chief is Kind of a Jerk’ segments… and a fantastic longer parody of zombie movies. There’s plenty of…

  • Help make episode 100 special

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    Episode 100 is coming up soon, and we want to make it a memorable one. There are two projects you can get involved in that aren’t very difficult or time consuming but just need some people to help out. Episode 100 Sound Clip Montage Kimo23 has been working on this for a while, but people…

  • Young Gamer makes it big – now in the UK

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    Usul found a nice article about Lil Poison in the Sunday Times, a London (UK) newspaper. The word is spreading!(Louis Wu 19:03:48 UTC)

  • New Panoramas from RVideo

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    RVideo continues his awesome panorama work in Halo 2; there are three new ones in this forum post. The original .png files (hosted on his server) range from 1 to 1.5 mb; I’ve also added much smaller (filesize, not screensize) jpegs, ranging from 120 to 160 kb. They’re all pretty – but Judgement ROCKS.(Louis Wu…

  • Friday’s Fanfic

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    Seven new pieces for you in the Fan Fiction section today – go read. (Remember, submitters – there’s a new ‘max 3 submissions per week’ rule… don’t flood the inbox. Thanks!)(Louis Wu 17:51:14 UTC)

  • Nostalgia

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    We got an email from DeAdLy SeNiX, about a montage video he’d edited (using footage from ThePanzerGnome). It’s got a large backstory, and the video itself is over 17 minutes long. It’s currently being hosted by FileFront, with mirrors from impressed watchers. (You can read the backstory, and find the download links, in this forum…

  • Ridonkulous is not a word.

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    Over at Bungie.net last night, KP posted a Halo 3 Humpday Challenge writeup; it was the Community Team vs the Multiplayer team. The Community team lost – though KP suggests it might have happened on purpose. (Of course, KP also suggests that he gets coffee for Marty every morning not because he has to, but…

  • Ms. Pacman. The arcade’s easiest 200 gamerpoints?

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    I bought Ms. Pacman off of the XBOX Live Marketplace last night after I got home from work. Less than one hour later, I had unlocked all of the achievements and gotten a perfect 200/200 points. As a matter of fact, I got 90 points (including the hard-to-get “Perfect” achievement) in the first level. For…

  • The Sublime And The Ridonkulous

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    Due to one thing and another, including chetz, h4x, modified weapon spawns, beastly brute spiker dual-wielding, and the fact that Ferrex rulz and Staten droolz, the Halo 3 Multiplayer Team defeated the Bungie Community Team 2 games to 1 in the latest internal humpday. See KP’s writeup on Bungie.net for details.

  • The Man To Deliver The Keynote

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    Wideload Games’ Alexander “The Man” Seropian will deliver the keynote address at the Vancouver International Game Summit in May 2007, according to an announcement on MarketWire issued by Reboot Communications Ltd, organizers of the conference. Details on the conference are at the Reboot Conference site.

  • Bungie Store to Go Down for Maintenance

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    This weekend the Bungie Store will be going down for a short period of time, four to five hours, while Sunrise Identity performs maintenance on their servers. During that time you will not be able to use the store.

  • The Mongoose – M274 Ultra-Light All-Terrain Vehicle

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    Bungie has officially introduced it’s latest vehicle addition to the Halo universe. “The M274 Ultra-light All-terrain Vehicle provides an alternate means of transporting messages, documents, and light cargo between units. It may also be used to transport forward observers, reconnaissance personnel and sniper teams. Its proven versatility has made it a vital asset to field…

  • Halo 3 Humpday

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    This week the Bungie Community Team took on the Halo 3 Multiplayer team in a Humpday Challenge. We played a recent build which the multiplayer team itself compiled earlier in the day. Potential for hax and chetz? Astronomical.

  • An Army You Could Set Fire To

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    Nomi is a regular of the irc.bungie.org #hbo channel – and last fall, she was one of the attendees at a LANfest in Ohio, hosted by Tarny. What started as an insert for a Christmas card/thank you note to Tarny has grown into almost a cottage industry – check out her ultra-cool Paper Spartans!(Louis Wu…

  • More Awards for the Machinimators

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    Deomitrus wrote to point out a press release from the Sentinel Machinima Awards – this is a new awards project intended to replace the ‘Rockets on Prisoner’ Awards. (Well, ‘replace’ is probably a bad word, since Funkmon has said he intends to continue that particular tradition… but the idea is certainly understandable; the Sentinel Machinima…

  • Halo: The Fall

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    Ruben Gonzalez sent along a screenplay adaptation of Eric Nylund’s ‘The Fall of Reach’ – he’s looking for feedback from Halo fans. Give it a read, then stop by our forum and let him know what you think!(Louis Wu 15:41:18 UTC)

  • More Gender in Halo 2

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    Heh – this is one of the reasons I like this community so much. Cody Miller resurrected an older post from DanteThePoet, about gender usage in Halo 2… and the resultant thread is actually pretty highbrow, given the potential for crude humor. If you’re interested in how women are portrayed in Halo 2, you might…

  • More LAN reportage

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    rapture wrote up his own version of the Undead JANLAN 2007 event last weekend (the one Mintz went to only to get a front-page mention for) – comments can go either after the story itself, or in response to his forum post.(Louis Wu 15:01:15 UTC)

  • MLG Content

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    Tons of new stuff at MLGPro.com – you’ll find Player Match Commentary from Strongside (it’s currently the default video), plus Part II and Part III of the 2006 Halo Retrospective, plus the Division I Quarterfinal Wrap-up. That should keep you busy… (Louis Wu 14:54:27 UTC)

  • A Small Experiment

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    Just so viewers know, I’ve enabled an interstitial ad on the site. It’s the first such ad requested on the site, through the AdBrite service, which I haven’t actively used since mid-2005; I found that Google AdWords was sufficient to chip in enough small change to make me feel that the site isn’t just a…