Month: March 2007
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Hairy Situation Pt. 3
Paul Maestri has updated Halo Heads, with another chapter of the Kitty 117 series. The plot thickens!(Louis Wu 16:34:36 UTC)
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link4044’s Assault Rifle
A few weeks ago, we mentioned a pretty amazing Assault Rifle being built by a fan. He’s added more pictures to the collection, and we finally asked if we could put up a local mirror, organized by date. He said sure, so you should check it out; the work here is astounding. As work continues,…
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Halo 3 Legendary Edition Helmet… still a toy?
Still looks like a toy to me… Source = http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/771/771007p1.html Halo 3 Legendary Edition Revealed Master Chief’s helmet aims to please later this year. by Rob Burman, IGN UK UK, March 7, 2007 – Microsoft has finally unveiled some images, demonstrating exactly what the $100 Legendary Edition of Halo 3 will look like on release…
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GI has Map Editor Info
Game Informer has made a short video available (8.4 mb, WMP9 format), showing a tiny bit of the Map Editor that will be included with Halo 2 Vista (mostly, it’s Jo Clowes discussing some of the features that will be available to mapmakers while the camera pans around a monitor). Thanks, Talin64.(Louis Wu 21:00:29 UTC)
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Halo 2 ARG teaches skills for future games
Wow, cool. Jane McGonigal, one of the organizers of the I Love Bees campaign leading up to Halo 2, discussed lessons learned for future projects in a talk at the Game Developers Conference. When they first began presenting information to gameplayers, lots of people proposed meanings for the info – and while most of these…
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Episodic Halo Series, from Peter Jackson
Over at Gamasutra, there’s some intriguing information about the Peter Jackson/Bungie project first announced at X06 last fall. Details are sketchy (okay, that’s almost an overstatement), but it looks like there will be at least two episodic gaming series, with at least the first being set in the Halo universe. If and when more info…
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Brute Spiker, Modeled
Danny ‘Ephrum’ Medvec has been working on modeling a Brute Spiker, from scratch. He’s sent along a bunch of pics, with more to come as the skinning progresses – check out his work on this page!(Louis Wu 18:47:15 UTC)
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And The Roar Of Cheetahs.
Last Friday, the Bungie Weekly Update contained information about the upcoming Halo 2 maps – and SketchFactor said “I don’t know how I ever played Halo without monkeys.” Stuntmutt comments in today’s One One Se7en.(Louis Wu 17:23:10 UTC)
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Hi-Res Legendary Edition Pics
TeamXbox has posted a few high-res (3000×2400) pictures of the Legendary Edition helmet you can buy when Halo 3 is released – looks pretty nice! Thanks, RevDotNed.(Louis Wu 17:11:31 UTC)
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Halo ActionClix Details
GameTrailers interviewed a representative of WizKids, the folks who will be making the upcoming Halo ActionClix figures, at NYC Comic-Con a couple of weeks ago. He discusses the Halo products, including a tease about an unannounced Halo 3 item. Thanks, Wolverine Monkey.(Louis Wu 17:06:59 UTC)
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Games for Windows Live won’t cost extra if you have XBOX Live
Gamespot is reporting that when you buy Live, you are buying the service for XBOX and Games for Windows. In other words, it won’t cause PC gamers any extra money to play Live enabled games on their PC _if_ they are already subscribed to XBOX Live. They WILL have to pay out money to become…
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MLG Player Commentary: Ghandi
Over at MLGPro.com, the front-page vid is a player match commentary from Ghandi, looking at some footage from MLG Las Vegas last year. I love these things! Thanks, 3Suns.(Louis Wu 16:11:13 UTC)
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Jump Tactics: Transcendence
Jump Tactics have been around for a long, long time; in the early days of Halo 2, they were everywhere, showing off ways to bounce around the multiplayer maps. They’ve been quiet for a long time – but they’ve finally released Transcendence, a jumping montage with some truly incredible footage. There’s some modding here -…
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Private Donut – Pwned
Scott Guthrie works for Microsoft – and recently, he got to be a guest star in a Red vs Blue segment. It’s not a segment I ever saw mentioned over at Rooster Teeth… but if you’re a fan of the show, it’s got some funnies in it. You’ll need to install WPF/E (mac | windows),…
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Halo 2 Vista info dump
Tons more Halo 2 Vista info coming out of the Game Developers Conference – a hands-on at Gamespot (thanks, LoneRanger 2.5), a preview at Shacknews, a hands-on at GamePro, and a summary of new features at Game Informer. Things you might not know yet (or that have changed in recent months):The game is expected out…
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Judging A Game By Its Cover
Frankie O’Connor at Bungie gave an interview near the beginning of this year, and one of the questions I found particularly interesting, especially because I’ve only recently had a chance to play Gears of War myself: XCN: Are you influenced by other games like Gears of War, would you consider implementing some things like the…
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Halo 2 Vista Update
Hired Gun, the Microsoft team responsible for bringing Halo 2 over to Windows Vista, posted a blog update at IGN today. In this latest post you can read about the work they’re doing on the new Live achievements being added to the game.
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Halo 2 Vista Update
Hired Gun, the Microsoft team responsible for bringing Halo 2 over to Windows Vista, posted a blog update at IGN today. In this latest post you can read about the work they’re doing on the new Live achievements being added to the game.
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The Bungie Store: Temporarily Down
The Bungie Store is experiencing technical difficulties, no doubt caused by overhwelming demand for our ridiculously awesome Bungie merch. We’ll update you as soon as the dear old thing is back on its feet. Feel free to send arbitrary amounts of cash directly to me in the interim.