Year: 2007
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The Olympics of Halo
Games in Action has kicked off ‘The Olympics of Halo’ – an online tourney. Swing by their forum for rules. Prize announcements coming later.(Louis Wu 19:18:35 UTC)
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QsKGlobal.Com $250 Montage Contest with Relaunch
QsKGlobal.Com, a machinima and montage hosting site, has relaunched with a brand new look and design. With the new site, comes QsK’s Second Montage contest sponsored by Xbox-Media.Com. With the total prize pot being at least $250 USD, there is guaranteed to be some good competition in this one…
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MC in Paint
Wow – sorahn noticed a YouTube vid showing someone recreating the Master Chief in MS Paint. There’s something amazing about being able to create artwork that looks this good with a tool like Paint… (I could do without the soundtrack, though.) Update: here’s the second part of the drawing. Thanks, newDeviLedeT1.(Louis Wu 18:43:35 UTC)
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Legend 3 – Sort Of
Years ago, Mike Miller created ‘Legend’, and a followup, ‘Legend 2’ – these were basically Halo 1 campaign montages showing some really elegant gameplay at Legendary difficulty – the trick wasn’t so much the difficulty, but the style with which the gameplay was performed. He was good enough that we asked him to create a…
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Learning Battlefield 2142
A friend introduced me to Battlefield 2142 for the PC this weekend. I have to say, I was glad to be able to use the PC for gaming again, and had some interesting finds about returning to the keyboard and mouse. For starters it looks like, for the mouse, my brain has switched preferences from…
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Learning Battlefield 2142
A friend introduced me to Battlefield 2142 for the PC this weekend. I have to say, I was glad to be able to use the PC for gaming again, and had some interesting finds about returning to the keyboard and mouse. For starters it looks like, for the mouse, my brain has switched preferences from…
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Random Acts of Beta
Paul Maestri wrote to point out Halo Heads 43 – what happens when someone you think doesn’t deserve it (as much as you do) gets access to the Halo 3 beta, and you don’t? Well, there’s always something you can take heart from…(Louis Wu 16:48:50 UTC)
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Halo Drumline Show
GetOverITEnor found a cool film showing Center Grove (Indiana) High School’s entry in an Indoor Percussion competition in 2005 – it’s a drumline show featuring Halo music. Fantastic show! (As a side note, FancyShmancy inspired me to do some hunting on the last high school band vid we posted, last week – turns out it…
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Bungie’s Angels
Obienator, who released ‘Gameplay May Change During Online Play’ last year (and garnered high praise for it), has released a teaser for the sequel, ‘The Haxor that Loved Me’ – you can watch it at YouTube from that forum post, or you can download higher-res versions. (Louis Wu 16:22:21 UTC)
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Everything You Wanted To Know, But Were Afraid To Ask… Again
Bungie has the Waaambulance, where people who have been banned from Halo 2 matchmaking write in nearly incomprehensible questions and complaints, and Bungie makes fun of them. I don’t have the power to ban players from Halo 2 matchmmaking, not that I would if I could. What I do have is some search logs that…
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Wish List Rebuttal
Ducain over at High Impact Halo put up a wish list for Halo 3. I thought I’d take some of his points and respond to them: ones I liked, and ones I didn’t. Thanks to Louis Wu at HBO for the notice. Click “read more” below on the front page for the entire text. read…
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Player Match Commentary: Fonzi
Over at MLGPro.com, you’ll find a front-page-linked video of Fonzi, doing player match commentary; watch him discuss strategy over video of himself playing in tournament play. Thanks, 3Suns.(Louis Wu 23:09:10 UTC)
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What do you Want? And When do you Want it?
Ducain has put together his ‘pie in the sky wishlist’ for Halo 3 single player; things he wishes would show up in the upcoming campaign. Give it a read – and let him know what you think (either as a comment to that HIH newspost, or in the thread he started on our forum).(Louis Wu…
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The Riot 33
Sigafoos writes to say that The Riot 33 has been posted – community news, Mandy Patinkin, and Equilibrium (the 2002 Sci-Fi movie). And stuff. 23 minutes, 10 mb.(Louis Wu 19:25:09 UTC)
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Panoramic Sunday
RVideo has been panoraming again (yeah, I know it’s not a word) – this time, he jumped into a modded skin for Zanzibar, and got some spectacular sunset shots. Check ’em out!(Louis Wu 17:07:25 UTC)
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That ‘Thing’…
Frankie stopped by the NeoGAF forum yesterday to state pretty definitively that the ‘new thing’ (mentioned in this week’s Bungie Weekly Update) is NOT video-related… which pretty much rules out flycams, spectator cams, and all the other variants that have been the frontrunners in the speculation threads on OUR forum, at least. Thanks, Drakkari.(Louis Wu…
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Montages for Money
QsKGlobal has overhauled their website, and they’re kicking off a new Montage contest – you’ve got about 6 months, and there’s currently $250 in the prize pool (though they’re hoping that will go up). Check it out!(Louis Wu 17:01:16 UTC)
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Everything goes better with Rockets.
Rockslider continues to document new and fun ways of fighting battles you’ve been through a thousand times. Check out his rejoined landing battle on Silent Cartographer.(Louis Wu 16:59:29 UTC)
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Spare him his life.
Dojorkan grabbed a really nice image, and turned it into an icon. (You can see it textless, as well.) Perfect!(Louis Wu 16:56:50 UTC)