Month: September 2007

Whoa. So you know we post MLG news when we find it (or when it’s sent to us)… but did you know we were looking to make your lives a little better, tournament-wise? MLG Las Vegas kicks off on October 12 – and if you’re not a pro (or even if you are), participating can…

So it’s been a little while since I looked – some of the other participants in the Community Lock-In have now posted writeups. (Mine, if you missed it, was mentioned on Wednesday.) In alphabetical order: Aeropause | Gamertag Radio | Grunts R Us | Podtacular | XBL10kClub I’m sure more are coming. (Louis Wu 21:26:43…

Heh – cool. Noticed at Xbox 360 Fanboy that someone’s discovered what happens on Isolation after you’ve been playing for a while. (Ferrex hinted that there was a change a little while back… now we know what he meant.) (Louis Wu 21:26:03 UTC)

Stuntmutt (fast becoming PostWhore) pointed out that all the blacked-out boxes on halo3.com (in the Characters and Vehicles & Weapons pages) are now filled out. Not surprising – but finished.(Louis Wu 21:05:44 UTC)

Poor Stuntmutt – Halo 3’s been out for 2 days in the UK, and he ALREADY don’t get no respect. Check today’s One One Se7en.(Louis Wu 17:34:29 UTC)

Penny Arcade looks at the lengths people go to nail down achievements – thanks to many, but Stuntmutt was first.(Louis Wu 17:23:56 UTC)

A couple more reviews popped up – Gamestyle gave Halo 3 a 10/10 (thanks, Garry Webber), and TotalVideoGames says it’s only worth 8/10. Update: Stuntmutt (triple post!) noticed a review at Game Revolution (A-). (Louis Wu 17:21:04 UTC)

Online Journalism Review has posted an interview with our own Louis Wu, talking about online communities in general and HBO in particular. It offers a peek behind the curtain at some of the hows whys of HBO. Thanks to the author, Noah Barron, for letting us know it was up. (GhaleonEB 15:03:38 UTC)

Yesterday, we described what you need to do in order to lower your weapon in Halo 3. We got a note from Burnie, over at Red vs Blue, with some followup info; a similar combo (swapping only DPad-Down for DPad-Up) will give you camera global coordinates and look vectors; this info should help you reproduce…

Last Friday’s Bungie Weekly Update contained a section called ‘Sketch’s Build-Your-Own-Halo-Comic’ – it showed off a series of screenshots, with some basic Photoshop filters applied, and suggested that they could easily be turned into a comic. Apparently, V10L3N7 JAY and friends did exactly that – Section 3 is a comic composed of screenshots taken in…

Only three new pieces in the Fan Fiction section this week – could it be that everyone’s playing a new game or something? (See if you can figure out who ‘Angel at the Tomb’ is – here’s a hint, he’s been around for a while.)(Louis Wu 13:26:21 UTC)

TM22 edited a Halo 2 tribute video – 15 minutes long, 170 mb, WMP9 format. You can grab a copy (or watch it streaming) over at Halo3Forum.com… tons of trick moves and grenade bounces – some really nice clips. Thanks, Z. (Louis Wu 12:53:27 UTC)

Wow. Joseph Ryan pointed us to this one-of-a-kind hand-sculpted Halo statue on eBay; polymer clay, almost 12 inches to the top of the sniper rifle. 10% of the sale price goes to the American Breast Cancer Foundation. Opening bid is $200, you’ve got just under a week. (Louis Wu 10:47:51 UTC)

The Emory Wheel reviewed Halo 3 – they found parts repetitive, and some gameplay gripes, but in general liked it a lot. (Louis Wu 10:43:54 UTC)

Kotaku is giving away a TON of Halo schwag – you’ve got a week to answer a bunch of questions, one entry per gamer, with the winner selected randomly from those who answer all questions correctly. Go see!(Louis Wu 10:30:34 UTC)

InformationWeek points to video coverage of the Halo 3 launch event in an article discussing how video games have pushed the development of computer hardware. The whole tone of the article is ‘kids these days…'(Louis Wu 10:27:14 UTC)