Month: January 2007
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GoW – the next Halo 2, competitively?
Over at the Advanced Media Network, there’s an article about the potential that Gears of War has as a competitive shooter – with some interesting comparisons between GoW and Halo 2. Thanks to 3Suns for pointing this out.(Louis Wu 15:00:24 UTC)
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Inspiration…
The current issue of the Escapist Magazine has an article on movies that have heavily influenced videogame development – Halo gets a number of mentions, with Aliens leading the pack of movies that, if removed from existence, might kill the game altogether. Thanks to Narcogen, who noticed this over at Rampancy.net.(Louis Wu 14:48:41 UTC)
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Halo Miniatures Update
GFC Danny has updated his Halo Miniatures website with a bunch of new info – if you’re interested in tabletop games, and like Halo (of course you like Halo – why else would you be reading this?), stop by and check it out!(Louis Wu 14:39:04 UTC)
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Gears of Ha… Oh, Forget It
Sane Intolerant pointed out (obliquely) a comic he’d made in answer to a recent Halo, Articulated comic. Pretty funny, actually. And self-fulfilling, even.(Louis Wu 14:37:22 UTC)
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QsK Montage Contest Winner
GH stopped by to let us know that he won the QsK Montage Contest we mentioned back in October – go visit and grab a copy (which weighs in at an appropriate 117 mb). Nice work, overall!(Louis Wu 14:33:54 UTC)
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Get gamerscore points on Live for Window titles including HALO 2 for Vista
After the public release of Windows Vista, Microsoft will soon start shipping PC games that are Live enabled. The XBOX Live service will then been known as just one part of a larger system (think XBOX, XBOX 360, PC, Windows Mobile devices like cellphones, and the Zune). PC games that are Live enabled will use…
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Bad Artists Copy, Great Artists Steal
The Escapist is calling Bungie a great artist in their piece on how the gaming industry shamelessly pillages the film industry, especially in the area of science fiction. The concept of the article: to make a list of movies so influential on the games industry that, if they had not ever existed, the gaming industry…
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Russian Humorist Takes On Stubbs The Zombie
When we heard whispers to expect something “soon” from Wideload, I’m sure nobody had this in mind. Translator Dmitri “Goblin” Puchkov, responsible for many of the best quality dubs of Western movies and television programs into Russian, including some hilarious spoof dubs of films like Star Wars Episode One and Shmatrica, a parody of The…
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Send stuff in for the Halo 3 beta show!
Episode 97 has been recorded and will be released shortly. Unfortunately we can’t have an MLG update segment this time as we’re assembling a new team for that. But we’ll let you know what Halo fans think of Viva Pinata. But on to more important stuff… What do you think will be in the Halo…
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GIA Halo 3 Weapon/Vehicle Design Contest Results
You may have seen the news story a few weeks back about this contest over at Games in Action. Well, the competition closed recently and the results of the winners have just been released. You can check out all of the art work by going to this post.
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Agony
The wheels have started turning. The floodgates are cracked open. A few lucky souls have received their confirmation that they will be a part of phase one of the Halo 3 public beta. As random people receive bundles of joy in their inboxes, the hardcore among the Halo community feverishly refresh their inboxes and listen…
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Beta Acceptances Begin to Arrive
Lots and lots and lots of people are hearing from Microsoft about the Halo 3 beta – here’s one big thread on our forum about it. (We’ve also gotten lots of email from people who got in.) If you haven’t received anything – don’t fret yet, they’ve said word would be coming all this week.…
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RT: The importance of Prenups
Looks like it’s going to snow in Austin tonight. They say there could be as many as 3 inches. Now I’m no expert, but I think that qualifies as a blizzard? Someone from the north will have to confirm that for me. Anyway, today’s comic is below, and shows…
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RT: Heartstrings
Just in case you missed it, Episode 88 is here. Also, today’s comic is posted below. It’s about Jason. I know what you’re thinking, “There’s nothing interesting about Jason.” Typically I’d agree, but in light of this comic, you may change your…
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RT: I’ll take the rapist for 600
It’s Saturday, so you know what that means, time for another comic that exposes Gus for the loveable dickhead he is. Asshole
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RT: Sick Month
I don’t know if you have ever heard of this game called World Of Warcraft, but apparently it’s kind of popular. It’s also the reason Gus gets out of bed every morning. Apparently in WOW (for the first time in his life), Gus gets to be the bully. Every morning…
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B.net Fan Art Update
Over at Bungie.net, the new Top Story is a Fan Art update – and man, is there some amazing stuff in this one. Some of it has already been seen (here, in our own Miscellaneous Art collection), but much is new – and ALL of it is worth looking at. You can chime in to…
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Tribute to Tricking, Part II
Over at High Impact Halo, Ducain pointed out a new Halo 1 tricking tribute vid, done by some of the pioneers… there’s stuff in there I’ve seen before, and stuff I’ve NEVER seen. This game is more than 5 years old now – it’s beautiful to see people still pulling new tricks. Available in a…
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The Riot #32
icu wrote to point out that The Riot #32 is up – Sigafoos and Brathnok are away, so Bitter Irony and i enjoy cheese do the hosting honors. Lots of community info – go listen. 26 minutes, 24 mb.(Louis Wu 15:53:49 UTC)
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The Assault
trigger119 sent word of a new machinima he’s hosting over at GamingTV.org. It’s called The Assault, and he found it because Laird (of SvF and Halo: Unyielding) did some 3D work for it. The voice acting could use some work… and so could the choreography. But the added touches (a communication screen, a Pelican, etc)…