Year: 2007
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In ur pockets, stealin ur lunch money
Bungie.net has a new Humpday Challenge writeup online – there aren’t any custom games in the Beta, so Bungie just went into BTB Training and kicked a whole bunch of patootie. Painful destruction – almost unfair. Fun writeup, though. Thanks, mercury.(L…
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Humpday Challenge: Into the Wild
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We braved the wastes of Live and came away the conquerors of souls. Warning: Agony and Tears within.
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RT: Revenge
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If you read today’s comic you (like Gus) will learn a valuable lesson. Speaking of Gus, he has asked me to mention that we will be appearing (and by me, I mean Kathleen and Nico) at Fanime in San Jose, California this weekend. Fanime is hands-down one …
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Talk, talk, talk
eddie m noticed a story at halobase.de – a popular German comedian recorded 1200 lines (in 2 days) for a single marine character in Halo 3. Gonna be a lot of dialogue!(Louis Wu 18:22:39 UTC)
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Free Zune from GTR
Gamertag Radio has hit 100 episodes – and to celebrate they’re giving away a free Halo 3 Zune. To win, send in an honest review of Episode 100 (yeah, you have to listen to it first), and they’ll let you know the random winner is next week!(Louis Wu 17…
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H2V – info all ’round
A bit more Halo 2 Vista info: Official release date in Europe seems to be June 8, and halo2pc.org has some useful info for folks. There are directions for manually downloading the recent patch for folks who are having with the auto-update, and some ti…
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Around the World, Halo-Style
A roundup of Halo coverage around the net today:PunchJump – ‘smart mayhem’Reuters – a console beta trend? (Thanks, JeSteR 343)Journal and Courier (Lafeyette, IN) – super happy awesome fun times, returnedStar News Group – ‘New Halo Glows’Pretty positive…
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Gamertag Radio Achieves The Century Mark.
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I want to give a special congratulations to the pioneers of ‘Indie Podcast’. Our friends from Gamertag Radio have released their 100th episode. I remember listening to them from the very beginning. They are the reason why I found Podtacular, so I owe…
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Break time
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In preparation for a few major weekend gaming events JVB and I will be attending this weekend, we’ll be taking a break this week on the podcast. Next week’s show should have some pretty interesting stuff in it though! Thanks for your patience as we ta…
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Serious H2V Delay
Wow. According to Microsoft’s Life Cycle Support page, Halo 2 for Windows Vista won’t be available until July 4, 2007. That’s a heck of a recall! Thanks, Aj Collins. Update: TheGhost writes to say that that page has been up for at least a month, and so…
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GD talks to Frankie
GameDaily interviewed Frank O’Connor a little while back – nobody told us about it until today (thanks, Impervium) – mostly common-knowledge stuff about the Beta at this point, but hey – go read!(Louis Wu 21:43:10 UTC)
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Guitar Hero 3: Wireless Axes Ready to Burn…Through a TV Near You
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Great news, according to TeamXbox: Not only will we have some wireless guitars, but new songs from Alice Cooper, Kiss, Beastie Boys, Smashing Pumpkins, and Tenacious D. Too bad we had to wait through the second generation of guitar hero before we coul…
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Rule of 3 – Finally
w00tw00tw00t! The Rule of Three contest winners who still haven’t received a beta code finally have a way to get in to the beta! Read this. (Louis Wu 17:49:55 UTC)
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Halo 3 At Night
Mariachi (who’s clearly pushing for the Daily Postactular, but currently only has a Triple Post) has put up a couple of photoshopped images; they show off Halo 3 Beta maps… at night. First was High Ground, followed quickly by Snowbound. Personally, I…
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Sorting the wheat from the chaff
Also at Bungie is a new top story – Frankie interviews Kari Erickson, Bungie’s recruiter, about what it takes to get a job at the Best Microsoft Game Studio Evar. Thanks, Stuntmutt.(Louis Wu 17:28:17 UTC)
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Whaddaya wanna know?
Over at Bungie.net, a news post suggests you can submit questions to this week’s Bungie Weekly Update in this forum thread. (I’m pretty sure Achronos meant ‘subject’, rather than ‘succept’ – but maybe Bungie knows more words than me.) Thanks, calmkille…
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Rule of Three Update!
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Still waiting for a code to arrive in your Inbox? Did your spam blocker filter you from fun for the last week? Finally, there’s a solution.
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Work at Bungie: Getting Past the Gatekeeper
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This recruiter holds a key to getting inside these walls. Here’s how to impress her and how to alienate her completely.
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Beta: We’re Taking Your Questions
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Are some things about the Halo 3 Public Beta confusing you? Do you want to know more about a feature or why you keep getting owned in Oddball on Snowbound? Here’s where to ask.
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Re:Loading.
Stuntmutt looks at buttons in today’s One One Se7en. I hate to say it, but I have the same problems he does.(Louis Wu 16:33:55 UTC)