Year: 2007
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THX Victorious in it’s 1st MLG GoW Tournament Match
It was a bumpy road, but Midnight, FoulBreed, Sparda, and I (Oculus) emerged victorious in a 3 game sweep in THX’s first MLG Gears of War Tournament match this Thursday. Our opponent, The Shadow Corporation, had to play a man down due to an internal human resources error. But even with a man down, SC…
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Spelunked
Red vs Blue Episode 88, ‘Spelunked’, is now up for sponsors in Flash format. (Downloadable versions will be up for sponsors on Monday, along with a flash version for free; they’re working on ways to keep sponsor versions from ending up on YouTube before sponsors have seen ’em.) This one focuses on the Red Team…
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The Riot 2006 Halo Community Awards
The Riot, a weekly Halo Community podcast, is hosting its first ever 2006 Halo Community Awards. Go there and vote on your favorite gametype, your favorite machinima, or even the biggest Halo community contributor!
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The grass is always greener
The Bungie Weekly Update is now live over at Bungie.net – and it focuses on grass. Well, grass and other non-rigid stuff that makes the levels look more realistic. Water, weather, fog… all sorts of stuff. No Mister Chief this time around, but there IS a pretty funny grunt dialogue outtake from Joe Staten… As…
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Bungie Weekly update
A short update this week, where we talk about the progress of the graphics. Specifically, the decorators, those little items that make big liefeless worlds into big life-filled worlds. There’s also the first ever combat dialog outtake. Good luck to Chicago and Seattle this Sunday. GO SEAHAWKS!
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A Hopeless Case?
The Brute Video Documentary made some new AI behavior public. I think Stuntmutt may have misunderstood… decide for yourself in today’s One One Se7en.(Louis Wu 20:05:57 UTC)
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Jungle Trigonometry 3
sodaGod has added another video to his Jungle Trigonometry series – Jungle Trigonometry 3. Couple his fantastic camera work with funny skits, and you get a vid absolutely worth downloading. This one has a number of ‘Master Chief is Kind of a Jerk’ segments… and a fantastic longer parody of zombie movies. There’s plenty of…
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Help make episode 100 special
Episode 100 is coming up soon, and we want to make it a memorable one. There are two projects you can get involved in that aren’t very difficult or time consuming but just need some people to help out. Episode 100 Sound Clip Montage Kimo23 has been working on this for a while, but people…
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Young Gamer makes it big – now in the UK
Usul found a nice article about Lil Poison in the Sunday Times, a London (UK) newspaper. The word is spreading!(Louis Wu 19:03:48 UTC)
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New Panoramas from RVideo
RVideo continues his awesome panorama work in Halo 2; there are three new ones in this forum post. The original .png files (hosted on his server) range from 1 to 1.5 mb; I’ve also added much smaller (filesize, not screensize) jpegs, ranging from 120 to 160 kb. They’re all pretty – but Judgement ROCKS.(Louis Wu…
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Friday’s Fanfic
Seven new pieces for you in the Fan Fiction section today – go read. (Remember, submitters – there’s a new ‘max 3 submissions per week’ rule… don’t flood the inbox. Thanks!)(Louis Wu 17:51:14 UTC)
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Nostalgia
We got an email from DeAdLy SeNiX, about a montage video he’d edited (using footage from ThePanzerGnome). It’s got a large backstory, and the video itself is over 17 minutes long. It’s currently being hosted by FileFront, with mirrors from impressed watchers. (You can read the backstory, and find the download links, in this forum…
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Ridonkulous is not a word.
Over at Bungie.net last night, KP posted a Halo 3 Humpday Challenge writeup; it was the Community Team vs the Multiplayer team. The Community team lost – though KP suggests it might have happened on purpose. (Of course, KP also suggests that he gets coffee for Marty every morning not because he has to, but…
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Ms. Pacman. The arcade’s easiest 200 gamerpoints?
I bought Ms. Pacman off of the XBOX Live Marketplace last night after I got home from work. Less than one hour later, I had unlocked all of the achievements and gotten a perfect 200/200 points. As a matter of fact, I got 90 points (including the hard-to-get “Perfect†achievement) in the first level. For…
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The Sublime And The Ridonkulous
Due to one thing and another, including chetz, h4x, modified weapon spawns, beastly brute spiker dual-wielding, and the fact that Ferrex rulz and Staten droolz, the Halo 3 Multiplayer Team defeated the Bungie Community Team 2 games to 1 in the latest internal humpday. See KP’s writeup on Bungie.net for details.
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The Man To Deliver The Keynote
Wideload Games’ Alexander “The Man” Seropian will deliver the keynote address at the Vancouver International Game Summit in May 2007, according to an announcement on MarketWire issued by Reboot Communications Ltd, organizers of the conference. Details on the conference are at the Reboot Conference site.
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Bungie Store to Go Down for Maintenance
This weekend the Bungie Store will be going down for a short period of time, four to five hours, while Sunrise Identity performs maintenance on their servers. During that time you will not be able to use the store.
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The Mongoose – M274 Ultra-Light All-Terrain Vehicle
Bungie has officially introduced it’s latest vehicle addition to the Halo universe. “The M274 Ultra-light All-terrain Vehicle provides an alternate means of transporting messages, documents, and light cargo between units. It may also be used to transport forward observers, reconnaissance personnel and sniper teams. Its proven versatility has made it a vital asset to field…
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Halo 3 Humpday
This week the Bungie Community Team took on the Halo 3 Multiplayer team in a Humpday Challenge. We played a recent build which the multiplayer team itself compiled earlier in the day. Potential for hax and chetz? Astronomical.
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An Army You Could Set Fire To
Nomi is a regular of the irc.bungie.org #hbo channel – and last fall, she was one of the attendees at a LANfest in Ohio, hosted by Tarny. What started as an insert for a Christmas card/thank you note to Tarny has grown into almost a cottage industry – check out her ultra-cool Paper Spartans!(Louis Wu…