Month: January 2007
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Halo 3 Beta Sign-up Information
Halo3.com has updated to explain the three ways in which you can enlist for the Halo 3 beta. They also note that if you signed up for the beta after seeing the Halo 3 commercial last month, you can expect to hear between January 22nd to 26th.
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Mad World
Hellhawk stopped by this morning with an announcement of a new vid – a music video set to Gary Jules’ version of Tears for Fears’ ‘Mad World’. Very nice synching of Halo action to the song’s powerful lyrics – nice job! I was unhappy with the interlacing on the video, though, so I fixed it.…
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New Map Pack Release from CMT
Over at Bungie.net, there’s news of a new map pack release from the Halo:CE mod group CMT. Four new maps, with custom HUD, new weapons, and more. You can find screenshots and download links on the H2Vista.net forum. Thanks to newDeviLedeT1 for the heads-up. Update: In case the CMT website goes down (180 mb download…
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Halo Dos
IXI CHAM IXI stopped by our forum to let us know about a Halo song created by his cousins Aphrolyph: Sonsketched and Entellekt; it’s called ‘Halo Dos’, and though I’m not particularly a fan of rap, this is pretty well done. We’ve put up a local copy if you’re not excited about waiting for FileFront…
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More Allies = More Baddie Carnage
Rockslider has written up a nice method for doubling the number of allies you have during the Grav Lift fight on Truth and Reconciliation – thanks to Two Finger for the suggestion! Take a look.(Louis Wu 17:17:21 UTC)
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Blasts from the Past
Happy New Year, from the Halo Story Page crew! Jillybean has rooted through the mailbag, and come up with a bunch of Halo-Marathon connection theories (and some other stuff). Go read!(Louis Wu 17:15:40 UTC)
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Halo 3’s Shield Bubble
Over at the Halo 3 Data Archive, there’s an article about the shield bubble from Halo 3 (visible in the Halo 3 Commercial), and how it might be implemented, and controlled, in-game. There are a lot of assumptions (and frankly, some circular reasoning), but the fact is, Bungie hasn’t given us much to go on…
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CMT Releases #1 Map Pack
The Halo:CE mod team, CMT, has done it again. They have released the first map pack of a series. This map pack includes 4 new Halo:CE maps, Coagulation, Icy Swamps, Dissolution, and Fragment. All of these come with a custom HUD, custom weapons, and more.
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Space Dementia – Redone
Back in early December, Jamie98s released Space Dementia, a movie about a guy on a space station who wasn’t in full control of his faculties. It was actually a very well-done vid, but Jamie wasn’t happy with it; he didn’t like the ‘Chapters’ that broke up the action. So he remade and re-released it. You…
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Paper Spartans – Now DIY!
A bit over a week ago, we posted some pictures of some paper Spartans created by Nomi for her friends in the Halo community. Nomi can’t make spartans for everyone – but she CAN show you how to make your own… and, in fact, has done that, with a tutorial and a template you can…
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Encounter (Collaboration)
Veegie (who’s got a gallery here) dropped in to point out a collaborative work he put together with HawaiianPig (whose wallpapers brighten our Wallpaper collection, who’s done quite a bit of Red vs Blue scenework, and who’s won at least one HBO art contest) – the final product is a pretty amazing night scene. (Read…
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Halouvre Update
Prometheus dropped by our forum to point out a sizeable update at The Halouvre – 65 new images, from 3 artists. He also pulled out a few highlights – to his list, I’d add this one; nice pose. (Louis Wu 13:54:40 UTC)
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The tail sort of kills it.
Ross Mills has been playing the recently-released World of Warcraft expansion, ‘The Burning Crusade’. He noticed some similarities between one of the new character types there… and some old friends of ours.(Louis Wu 13:48:47 UTC)
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Say Again?
Mister Froggy pointed out that Halo, Articulated #6 is now online – Julie Benz talked to reporters about the Miranda Keyes character last summer, and the Master Chief has now gotten a chance to toss in his two cents.(Louis Wu 13:46:13 UTC)
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Ling Ling… she’s watching.
The Bungie Weekly Update went live tonight, as it usually does on Friday evenings – and if you’re looking for things to drool over, give this one a read. Sounds like Campaign is coming along nicely, and that the stuff they have planned for dialogue… well, I should be wearing a bib. If, for any…
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Bungie Weekly Update
A fireside chat about graphics, gives way to more talk about combat dialog, which in turn gets to the process of checking out constantly updated versions of the game. Come on in to read about the progress of Halo 3. And some tidbits about Legendary mode.
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Review Frenzy: Heavy Weapon (XBLA)
GLewis and a bunch of others have teamed up to provide high quality game reviews from the Podtacular community. Schweet idea! This review is by OnlyUPS and it’s about a new XBL Arcade game called Heavy Weapon, which is kind of like a side-scrolling space shooter except you’re a tank on the ground. Check it…
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Halo: Halos In Space
Spec ops Grunt found what might be the funniest Halo fanfic ever. Not because of its content – but because of its presentation. (The original is here, actually – thanks, Infinite_7.)(Louis Wu 20:52:07 UTC)
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Bungie: HALO 2 was unpolished. HALO 3 going to be better.
In a recent interview with Edge magazine showing an inside look at Bungie, Chris Butcher (technical lead at Bungie) said that they messed up the schedule and didn’t have a “polishing” time with HALO 2. He said that he hates to play HALO 2 multi-player because of this. He says that HALO 3 is going…
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You’d Give An Arm And A Leg.
Sometimes, Stuntmutt can go too far with his One One Se7en puns. (Wait… sometimes?)(Louis Wu 14:56:53 UTC)