Month: September 2007
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New Items at Bungie Store
The Bungie Store has been updated today with a few new items. Firstly, there’s a Marathon: Durandal tee to celebrate the launch of the XBLA title. Secondly there’s a Halo mousepad using the image from the cover of EGM’s preview last year. Lastly there’s a set of engravable Halo 3 dogtags, with the chief on…
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Get Some Head
bs angel wrote this morning to tell us about her Halo 3 Countdown activity today, which was baking a Halo 3 themed dessert. She made a pretty cool cake in the shape of a pink Mjolnir helmet. Go check it out and leave your compliments to the chef at Hawty McBloggy. (KP 18:17:52 UTC)
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The Riot 66
Sigafoos let us know that The Riot 66 is available online. 25 minutes of pre-launch goodness for your listening pleasure.(mnemesis 18:16:00 UTC)
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Cortana Shirt at TGS07
FuzzyWhisper made mention of a cool Cortana shirt that Microsoft was handing out at TGS ’07. Sultry!(mnemesis 18:09:46 UTC)
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Matchmaking playlists announced!
They have posted up the matchmaking playlists that are available from day 1 in Halo 3, and they seem to be different to the Halo 2 ones… There’s a description of how the party system will work too, which you’ll need to know about for Wednesday night’s meet!
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John Denver had it right
And… I’m out. That’s all the news from me, for a while. I’ve got to get myself to the airport now, and for the next few days, I’m going to have trouble getting to a place where I can post news. Never fear, though, the HBO crew is on the job, and mail sent to…
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First Halo 3 Review Hits the Web
Press Start Online seems to have broken the news embargo on full reviews of the game by a little bit (That embargo ends at 12:01 pm, PST, today) – but hey, everyone makes mistakes. I don’t think you can write a full review WITHOUT some minor spoilers, so ANY full review we link to should…
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MLG Orlando Update
GotFrag DPAD has a summary of the action yesterday at MLG Orlando; go see how folks are doing! (Louis Wu 08:23:06 UTC)
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Flaming Ninja Armor
SketchFactor posted a cool image of himself and Luke Smith wearing some new armor variants; you can see a screenshot in his Screenshots section on Bungie.net. Because the Screenshots section in general is rife with spoiler pics right now, we’re hosting a LOCAL copy of that particular image, if you don’t want to risk a…
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Halo 3 Player Image Generator
Veegie let us know that his friend Tural has made a program that can generate player images from Bungie.net; it’s a Windows executable. An example of the output can be seen here, and the actual program (52k) can be downloaded here.(Louis Wu 08:12:34 UTC)
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Halo 3 How-To: Matchmaking Playlists
Bungie put up a new Top Story last night – this one is a How-To on matchmaking playlists. Lots of good info in there! As with all their recent How-To guides, you’ll eventually be able to find a permanent link off the Guide page. Looks like Samir Patel was first with the news. (Louis Wu…
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Halo 3 Emblem List
Psychophan7 has put together a page containing all the Halo 3 player emblems, so that you can begin choosing your Spartan customization. simpsonsrule thought this was pretty cool, and sent us a link. He’s right, it’s pretty cool, but the HTML page contains 80 separate images, and weighs in at nearly half a meg total,…
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Gamercast Network Roundtable: Halo 3
I had the chance to hosts a Gamercast Network round table discussion with podcasters from Uncle Gamer, Video Game Show, and Sarcastic Gamer. We talk about their thoughts on Halo 3. This is the first collaborative round table show between the GCN. Hope you like it! Download the audio (MP3)
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Start Another Fight
Louis Wu at HBO is right– Halo: The Future of Gaming is one of the funniest videos, ever. It takes a few minutes to set itself up, and commits a few boo-boos in the process (in 1994 Bungie was in Chicago, not Kirkland, and Halo 1 came out in 2001, not 2002) but those are…
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Halo 3 How-to: Matchmaking Playlists
What are the Day 1 Matchmaking Hoppers? Never played Halo and want to know what Matchmaking is? Get introduced here.
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I think I’d be scared if this happened.
Haloplayer let us know that Countdown Comic #5 is now up at Injured Knee Productions. I think Microsoft might have found a new superhero. (While you’re there, there’s also a link to a Guitar Hero Spartan he created, in that same post.)(Louis Wu 21:49:46 UTC)
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RT: It wasn't me…
Dear Oscar, Today’s comic was not my idea. I swear. It was all Griffon and Luke. Seriously. They made it. Go for them. I can even tell you where they live.
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Nine Outta Ten, Baybee
Heh – Pedro the Penguin noticed that IGN visitors REALLY want some Halo today… because the ‘Most Popular’ sidebar on their homepage changes, we’ve screenshotted it as of about 5 pm, ET, on Saturday September 22.(Louis Wu 21:11:54 UTC)
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Does Normal Count?
Decent musings on difficulty levels… and how they affect reviews, over at PCWorld.com. (For the record – Bungie made me play through on Heroic.)(Louis Wu 21:00:11 UTC)