Month: March 2007
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Seattle Halo 2 Tourney
The Art Institute of Seattle is hosting a Halo 2 tournament on March 24 – register at any Puget Sound Game Crazy store, with a suggested $3 donation at the door (proceeds to go to the Starlight/Starbright Children’s Foundation). QuickTactical is trying to find out if it’s team-based or FFA – we’ll update this post…
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Drums in the Deep
Bootstrap Boon (and some other HBO Helljumpers) created a new video – it’s actually a recreation of a scene from Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Rings, and he’s done a wonderful job of mapping the original audio to Halo footage. 5:44 long, 52 and a half mb in either WMP9 format or QuickTime…
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Episode 105: GRAW 2 King of the Hill show
Download | Shownotes It’s the King of the Hill show where we compare a hot new game to Halo. Does GRAW 2 stack up to the best? We have some great guests to help answer that question: GLewis is back, and he started sweating so bad he had to towel off when he heard there…
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Oh em gee – no debug stuff
The Bungie Weekly Update is up – droolworthy gameplay description, VERY good news about the Legendary/Limited confusion (see an earlier post), AI and vehicle tidbits, a reminder to archive your Group data because the new website launches next week, and a Crate Gun… wonga. Go read. (Of course, it’s always available in the Weekly Update…
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Bungie Weekly Update
This week we talk about AI and graphics in the Campaign, and talk about the thing on everyone’s minds today – the announcement and revelation of the Halo Legendary Edition. Lots of froth and panic inside. Enjoy!
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Halo 3 SKUs Announced. $129 for Helmet Edition.
So, the final packaging for Halo 3 has been officially announced. Here’s what Louis Wu says about it: Official Halo 3 Packaging Announcement TeamXbox has the official Microsoft press release for Halo 3’s commercial packaging – and some pretty big changes can be found in it. There are still three editions – Standard, Limited, Legendary…
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Dearth Of A Salesman.
Continuing in our commercial vein, today’s One One Se7en looks at another Halo product, and its relationship to Microsoft’s bottom line…(Louis Wu 17:20:45 UTC)
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Official Halo 3 Packaging Announcement
TeamXbox has the official Microsoft press release for Halo 3’s commercial packaging – and some pretty big changes can be found in it. There are still three editions – Standard, Limited, Legendary – but price and contents for the Legendary and Limited Editions are quite different from the older information we got at the end…
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Sound Arguments – Episode 8
MLGPro has put up a new podcast in their Sound Arguments series – Jason and Trunkers take a look at the top team rosters (most changed dramatically at the end of last season), and speculate about what it might all mean for the season. 12:09 long, 11.13 mb. Thanks, 3Suns.(Louis Wu 16:45:38 UTC)
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Halo 3 Packaging Finalized
Legend, from HaloBase.de, was the first to mention that the Halo 3 boxes have been finalized, and press shots are circulating today. You can see a summary of them in this article at HaloBase, and you can see all 6 shots, in high-res glory, on this page. Update: Looks like TeamXbox has ’em up, too…
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Final Boss Give Amateurs a Taste
Final Boss, one of the best teams on the Halo pro circuit, participated in a tournament in Austin, and then gave local fans (who hadn’t been playing in the tournament) a chance to see what it’s like to play a top pro team. Results were predictable… but their opponents had a good time nonetheless. Nice!…
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Joining the Parent Club
Geezer Gamers has an article entitled ‘Joining the Parent Club: Gaming (or not) with a newborn’ – do you have to give up your controller and put down that sniper rifle when your little one comes along? Maybe… maybe not. It definitely changes things, though…(Louis Wu 13:08:41 UTC)
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Friday’s Fan Fiction
Only four new stories for you in the Fan Fiction section for you this week – should be easy readin’!(Louis Wu 13:04:02 UTC)
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Shadowrun to implement Halo’s Party System
There’s a story over at TeamXbox talking about how Shadowrun will feature a party system based on the one developed by Bungie for Xbox Live – according to the UI/Matchmaking designer for the game, Bill Fulton, “we’ve replicated Halo 2’s party system because that’s the best way for friends to play in public matches.” To…
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Microsoft Pushing Bungie For September H3 Release
Ahh, the luxury of being an independent developer and publisher. The luxury to redesign every level in your game at the last minute, while you tell fans you’re just “printing boxes” because you wanted to make the game… well, fun, instead of just done. Those days are over for Bungie Studios, and have been since…
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What Halo 3 Demo?
Game Informer gave Bungie ten questions and Bungie’s own Brian “SketchFactor” Jarrard gave ten answers. A quick summary: “delta”, “stay tuned”, and “what demo?”. For the questions, see the interview.
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Halo 3 prepped for a September release?
boesman pointed out an article at IGN that suggests that Microsoft is pushing for a September release for Halo 3. They claim “two independent sources” for this information – which puts a new spin on the comments by Shane Kim last week at GDC. At that point, I opined that Kim’s comments suggested that Microsoft…
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Ten Questions For Bungie: The Halo 3 Beta
Spec_Ops_Assault noticed an interview with Brian Jarrard at Game Informer, focused on the Halo 3 beta. Some of the information is intriguing – this one’s worth a read! (Louis Wu 19:21:27 UTC)
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Dethroning the King
Does Gears of War have what it takes to overtake Halo 2 on the competitive gaming circuit? Andy Jones thinks so – I think. (The article contradicts itself a few times as you read, so I’m not 100% sure WHAT he thinks.) Go read it for yourself at Amped eSports.(Louis Wu 18:17:33 UTC)