Month: March 2007
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Pod TV Episode 7: Grunt Birthday Skull
iPod Version | YouTube version How cool is this? Cryptoflix releases two Pod TV episodes in two weeks! This time he tells us how to get a skull that does something pretty cool: makes enemies’ heads explode like a plasma grenade when you get a headshot! ‹ Official Podtacular wallpaperupPodtacular Radio ›
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RvB 91: Missed Direction
The latest episode of Red vs Blue is now up for sponsors (thanks, Angrist) – Sister gets oiled up and nekkid, Simmons gets jealous, and Caboose tries to get dead. Or not to get dead. Go watch! (Unless you’re not a sponsor – in which case, come back in 48 hours, read this again, and…
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New Podtacular Eps
ImmortalThree reminded us that Podtacular 102 (Customs and Call-ins) and Podtacular 103 (the Halo 3 Show, with George from aeropause.com) are now online – go listen!(Louis Wu 12:47:58 UTC)
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Halo Vicis goes live
We got word from SourceGuy, about a new website on the Halo modding scene – Halo Vicis. Right now, they’ve got a couple of exclusive tidbits you might want to check out – a new app known as H2Core, for working with Halo 2 maps, and a tutorial to help you convert a HaloCE map…
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Monkeys and Cheaters
The Bungie Weekly Update this week has some cool H3 info (chetz and waters), a tiny bit of info about the upcoming Halo 2 maps, and some scary stuff about Marty. Really scary, in fact. And some stuff about Video Games Live. And some more scary stuff about Marty. Go read – either at Bungie.net,…
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Halo Tourneys in OH and WA
Couple of different Halo tournaments mentioned on our forum today – Relentless Azn mentioned a pair of Gamebreakerz tourneys in Kent, Washington on March 23 (2v2) and March 30-31 (4v4), and Scooter let us know about Game Junkie’s “St. Patrick’s Day Massacre” near Cincinnati, OH on March 17. Get to playin’!(Louis Wu 01:41:22 UTC)
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Bungie Weekly Update
Welcome to another Bungie Weekly Update, where we keep you apprised of stuff happening in the creation of Halo 3. This week, animation, grass, water, weather, weapons and more. And Sketch pops in with a little hot dish of Halo 2 mappery.
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Going In Manually.
Some fans have expressed unhappiness with the spate of Halo-branded merchandise being announced in recent weeks… Stuntmutt, as usual, has his own take on the situation, spun off from a comment in last week’s BWU. Check today’s One One Se7en.(Louis Wu 18:09:29 UTC)
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It’s Rumor Week, I Guess
This one’s DEEP in the rumor category – and remember, the Mole is right, at best, about half the time. According to Planet Halo, OXM’s Rumor Mole suggests that Certain Affinity, the team started by Halo Multiplayer Lead Max Hoberman that is currently working on some Halo 2 maps to be released soonish, is ALSO…
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Friday’s Fanfic
Later than usual, but there are now 13 new pieces available in the Fan Fiction section – go read!(Louis Wu 17:49:52 UTC)
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Are you a Gears master? Prove it!
You’ve been practicing, you can no-scope shotgun, grenade tag, beat everyone to the chainsaw, and master the cover system with the best of them. Well now’s your chance to show that you have the skills to compete with the best. Klutch and Ultima Killa are running the first ever Gears of War tournament at Podtacular.…
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It’s getting clearer.
Yesterday afternoon, The J3ster noticed that the static-filled image at the bottom of the HaloWars update had changed; it still isn’t discernable, but it’s getting closer. Keep your eye on it!(Louis Wu 13:24:11 UTC)
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Massed Hunters on Silent Cartographer
Heh – Rockslider’s still at it. New section at Bad Cyborg today – gather 6 Hunters together on Silent Cartographer, and have some fun!(Louis Wu 13:10:48 UTC)
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Halo Wars Is Playable
The February Halo Wars update by Thunder has a lot of fuzzy, censored pictures, but we’re told flat-out that the game is in a playable state, and has been played by Microsoft bigwigs like Shane Kim. Still, he reports there is “a long way to go” and there is still no officially announced release date.
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Halo Music Pops Up In Weird Places
Two strange Halo-related music items of note today: The Scissor Sisters apparently did a video with music somehow “inspired” by the Halo Wars trailer. CVG reports a rumor that the “Halo Mjolnir Theme Song”, the guitar-based Halo 2 theme, will be available as a Guitar Hero 2 add-on.
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Halo 3 Betas Will Come Simultaneously
Don’t believe the rumor going around that those who got into the Halo 3 public multiplayer beta by purchasing Crackdown are going to get a different version of the game, or get it at a different time, than those who gained entry some other way: it’s false. Bungie’s own Frankie busted that rumor to HBO’s…
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The Baby And The Bathwater
Last week I wrote about the website Halo2Sucks.com, a site devoted to discussing why Halo 2, despite being tremendously popular, was not actually a good game in the minds of some people; more specifically, why it was not as good a game as the original Halo. The key points of this argument were laid out…
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Episode 103: Halo 3 show
Download | Shownotes It’s a double feature! We had a strange issue come up that delayed the previous show which shouldn’t happen again. This is the Halo 3 show where we cover all the little tidbits about Halo 3 that have been buzzing around the gaming community. This week we have a special guest: George…
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Episode 102: Customs and Callins
Download | Shownotes It’s the customs and callins show where we talk about the top few custom games people sent in, the top few jokes, some voice mails from the month from CapnKrunk, and some tales from the foxhole. Guest host this week is Dialpex, the community director at Podtacular. Art this week is an…