Year: 2007
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Guaranteed!
Today’s Ctrl+Alt+Del takes a pretty funny look at some reactions to the idea that Crackdown is nothing more than a Halo 3 Beta facilitator… looks like Psychophan7 was first.(Louis Wu 13:52:28 UTC)
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Friday’s Fiction
Eight new stories have been added to the Fan Fiction section this week – get to reading!(Louis Wu 13:50:40 UTC)
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Crackdown discs needs to be in drive to play H3 beta
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Unless you’ve been specifically invited into the HALO 3 beta, you will need to have the Crackdown disc in your drive if you’re going to play it. Yes you’ll download it to your hard drive, but you’ll only be able to launch HALO 3 beta via a menu in Crackdown. The HALO 3 beta won’t…
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Crackdown Certificate Reveals Halo 3 Beta Details
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Xbox 360 Fanboy has put up a scan of the invite card you get when you purchase one of the specially-marked boxes of Crackdown that give you access to the upcoming Halo 3 public multiplayer data. It contains the answers to many of the questions that those hoping to get into the beta have been…
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Raising The Proelium Standards
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Registration will open February 12 for the 5×5 Proelium Standards Myth vTFL tournament, part of the events scheduled this year to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Bungie’s Mac and PC RTS game, Myth: The Fallen Lords. Thanks to Zandervix at Myth.Bungie.Org for the news.
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Chicks Versus Dicks In Humpday Action
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Members of the PMS and Cavegirls clans came out to challenge the Bungie guys (and friends) in the latest humpday and came away winners, 6 to 5. The Bungie guys complain they were undermanned, but surely they knew that going in? Details at Bungie.net in KfeckingP’s post.
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Girls rule, boys drool
KP stopped by with word of the latest Halo Humpday Challenge (Halo 2 this time around), whereby a bunch of girls came in and owned the Bungie guys. Lots of swearing (though it seems mostly to be edited out). Psshht…(Louis Wu 23:56:14 UTC)
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More details on H3 Beta/Crackdown workings
Schedonnardus noticed a story at Xbox360Fanboy which shows the invite card that comes with Crackdown – unfortunately for folks who planned to rent Crackdown in order to play the Halo 3 Beta, you’ll need the disc in order to play the beta. (It’s unclear, from the invite card, whether each disc will be limited in…
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Violated Gaming Season 1
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In less than 3 months Violated Gaming has hosted 21 tournaments and given away over $300 in prizes – All over Xbox Live! This week is the first week of the Winter Season and things are really beginning to heat up.
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Violated Gaming Season 1
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In less than 3 months Violated Gaming has hosted 21 tournaments and given away over $300 in prizes – All over Xbox Live! This week is the first week of the Winter Season and things are really beginning to heat up.
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Humpday: Dudes vs. Dudettes
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IRLHD@MS36FTWKPNTDWBFF. What does that mean and why do we love acronyms so much we want to marry them? Answers to those and other burning questions in this week’s Humpday.
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Hairy Situation
Paul Maestri let us know about Halo Heads 46 – Kitty 117 goes in. You gotta wonder about the wisdom of sending in a team of cats to investigate a possible rescue situation…(Louis Wu 20:31:38 UTC)
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Video cards, CPU, motherboard upgrade thoughts
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[Updated and Edited] Over the past couple weeks, I’ve been doing some gaming pc research and decided on purchasing one of the top of the line video cards that will last me a good while. But before I buy it, I’ve found that those cards will not fit on my current motherboard. I’ve got a…
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3D New Mombasa in Google Earth
Jordan117 spent some time with Google SketchUp – and the results are now downloadable into Google Earth. Go check out his New Mombasa suspension bridge!(Louis Wu 18:24:48 UTC)
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Larger Than Life
wheeler posted a photo of his buddy’s wall – pretty nice work! (Larger version in this post.)(Louis Wu 13:36:47 UTC)
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Writing the Halo Screenplay
Gamasutra has a podcast interview with DB Weiss, the most recent Halo screenplay writer. He talks quite a bit about the process, and about working with Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh. My copy seems to have gotten corrupted at about the 28 minute mark – but by then he was pretty much done with Halo…
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Machinima for Dummies teaser
Andras Ostrom is working on a new piece of Halo machinima called ‘Machinima for Dummies’ – you can watch a teaser trailer for it in WMP9 format (22.7 mb) or QuickTime format (17.3 mb). Looks to be a fun project!(Louis Wu 13:17:26 UTC)