Year: 2007
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Spike Grenade
Robt. McLees again contributes to our latest preview of a new Halo 3 weapon. Read on for the UNSC’s latest intel on the Brute’s grenade of choice: The Type-2 Antipersonnel Fragmentation Grenade – or spike grenade, for short.
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North Carolina tourney this weekend
JeBr0nie noticed a writeup for a Halo 2 tournament in North Carolina, coming up on January 27 – top prize is $1,024. Check his forum post for links to more details!(Louis Wu 22:02:05 UTC)
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You Heard It Here First. And Second. And Third And…
In the last couple of weeks, the Hamilton Spectator story about the bear suit guy who made a Halo-like bullet-stopper has shown up on our forum a LOT of times – Stuntmutt gives you an idea how many in today’s One One Se7en.(Louis Wu 15:33:07 UTC)
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And Holding Up the Xbox Banner…
GamesRadar has posted a list of the Top 10 fastest selling titles during their UK Launch Week – 9 of the 10 titles are PS2, the tenth (in 4th place overall) is Halo 2. (Louis Wu 15:29:37 UTC)
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H2Vista Achievements and your XBL Gamerscore
rapture noticed an article at Next Generation that states that not only will there be Achievements to earn in Halo 2 (a fact we already knew), but that those achievements would count towards your Xbox Live Gamerscore, the same as they would if earned from a 360 instead of from Vista. I suppose in retrospect,…
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GoW – the next Halo 2, competitively?
Over at the Advanced Media Network, there’s an article about the potential that Gears of War has as a competitive shooter – with some interesting comparisons between GoW and Halo 2. Thanks to 3Suns for pointing this out.(Louis Wu 15:00:24 UTC)
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Inspiration…
The current issue of the Escapist Magazine has an article on movies that have heavily influenced videogame development – Halo gets a number of mentions, with Aliens leading the pack of movies that, if removed from existence, might kill the game altogether. Thanks to Narcogen, who noticed this over at Rampancy.net.(Louis Wu 14:48:41 UTC)
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Halo Miniatures Update
GFC Danny has updated his Halo Miniatures website with a bunch of new info – if you’re interested in tabletop games, and like Halo (of course you like Halo – why else would you be reading this?), stop by and check it out!(Louis Wu 14:39:04 UTC)
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Gears of Ha… Oh, Forget It
Sane Intolerant pointed out (obliquely) a comic he’d made in answer to a recent Halo, Articulated comic. Pretty funny, actually. And self-fulfilling, even.(Louis Wu 14:37:22 UTC)
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QsK Montage Contest Winner
GH stopped by to let us know that he won the QsK Montage Contest we mentioned back in October – go visit and grab a copy (which weighs in at an appropriate 117 mb). Nice work, overall!(Louis Wu 14:33:54 UTC)
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Get gamerscore points on Live for Window titles including HALO 2 for Vista
After the public release of Windows Vista, Microsoft will soon start shipping PC games that are Live enabled. The XBOX Live service will then been known as just one part of a larger system (think XBOX, XBOX 360, PC, Windows Mobile devices like cellphones, and the Zune). PC games that are Live enabled will use…
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Bad Artists Copy, Great Artists Steal
The Escapist is calling Bungie a great artist in their piece on how the gaming industry shamelessly pillages the film industry, especially in the area of science fiction. The concept of the article: to make a list of movies so influential on the games industry that, if they had not ever existed, the gaming industry…
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Russian Humorist Takes On Stubbs The Zombie
When we heard whispers to expect something “soon” from Wideload, I’m sure nobody had this in mind. Translator Dmitri “Goblin” Puchkov, responsible for many of the best quality dubs of Western movies and television programs into Russian, including some hilarious spoof dubs of films like Star Wars Episode One and Shmatrica, a parody of The…
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Send stuff in for the Halo 3 beta show!
Episode 97 has been recorded and will be released shortly. Unfortunately we can’t have an MLG update segment this time as we’re assembling a new team for that. But we’ll let you know what Halo fans think of Viva Pinata. But on to more important stuff… What do you think will be in the Halo…
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GIA Halo 3 Weapon/Vehicle Design Contest Results
You may have seen the news story a few weeks back about this contest over at Games in Action. Well, the competition closed recently and the results of the winners have just been released. You can check out all of the art work by going to this post.
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Agony
The wheels have started turning. The floodgates are cracked open. A few lucky souls have received their confirmation that they will be a part of phase one of the Halo 3 public beta. As random people receive bundles of joy in their inboxes, the hardcore among the Halo community feverishly refresh their inboxes and listen…
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Beta Acceptances Begin to Arrive
Lots and lots and lots of people are hearing from Microsoft about the Halo 3 beta – here’s one big thread on our forum about it. (We’ve also gotten lots of email from people who got in.) If you haven’t received anything – don’t fret yet, they’ve said word would be coming all this week.…
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RT: The importance of Prenups
Looks like it’s going to snow in Austin tonight. They say there could be as many as 3 inches. Now I’m no expert, but I think that qualifies as a blizzard? Someone from the north will have to confirm that for me. Anyway, today’s comic is below, and shows…
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RT: Heartstrings
Just in case you missed it, Episode 88 is here. Also, today’s comic is posted below. It’s about Jason. I know what you’re thinking, “There’s nothing interesting about Jason.” Typically I’d agree, but in light of this comic, you may change your…