Year: 2007
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Another Friday, Another Top 10
InsideVandy has posted a list of the Top 10 First-person Shooters – Halo 3 comes in second, after Half-Life 2.(Louis Wu 19:07:57 UTC)
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It’s official: Bungie splits from Microsoft. Press Release.
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Press Release: For Release 8 a.m. PDT Oct. 5, 2007 Bungie Studios Becomes Privately Held Independent Company Bungie and Microsoft forge new long-term relationship. KIRKLAND, Wash.  Oct. 5, 2007  Bungie and Microsoft Corp. today announced a plan for Bungie Studios, the developers of Microsoft’s “Halo†franchise, to become a privately held independent company,…
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It’s official: Bungie splits from Microsoft. Press Release.
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Press Release: For Release 8 a.m. PDT Oct. 5, 2007 Bungie Studios Becomes Privately Held Independent Company Bungie and Microsoft forge new long-term relationship. KIRKLAND, Wash.  Oct. 5, 2007  Bungie and Microsoft Corp. today announced a plan for Bungie Studios, the developers of Microsoft’s “Halo†franchise, to become a privately held independent company,…
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Weekly What’s Update – Bungie belongs to Bungie
Whoa. Bungie’s managed to get the Weekly What’s Update up a LOT of hours early; never fear, though, it’s not done. As we mentioned on Wednesday, they solicited Halo 3 questions from the community for this one; they’ll be posting answers all day long. HOWEVER: that is not the big news in this update. The…
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Bungie Announces Independence: Press Release
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Bungie is pleased to announce its new status as an independent developer with a continuing and mutually prosperous publishing relationship with Microsoft Game Studios.
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Bungie and MS heading to Splitsville
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As it was rumored earlier this week, Microsoft has now announced that it will be parting ways with Bungie, at least in terms of being a division of the corporation. Microsoft will still continue to publish and work with Bungie on other Halo-related projects. Quote:“Our collaboration with Bungie has resulted in ‘Halo’ becoming an enduring…
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AVF Rocket Racing Guide
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Having enjoyed Rocket Racing last Friday, I thought I’d write a quick guide to help anyone new to RR.
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10/05/07 Bungie Weekly What’s Update!
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Get the popcorn out. Biggest News Ever. In the return of the Weekly What’s Update.
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Games Still A Backward-Looking Medium
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Daniel Radosh at the New York Times laments the dependence of games on cinematics for storytelling, and alleges they are stunting the medium’s development of its own storytelling vocabulary. While I agree in principle with his point, essentially this is just another “pig pile on Halo” story; since it’s the biggest release in the vicinity,…
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Halo 3 Music Contest at MySpace
Empress Cortana pointed out a contest being run by MySpace – Xbox and Bungie are looking for music to be included “on an upcoming Halo 3 record” (wording further down the page suggests it’ll be an album entitled ‘Inspired by Halo 3’) – if your entry is selected, you’re on the disc, and you (along…
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Halo 3 Number 1 Seller Down Under
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Halo 3 topped the Australian sales charts last week and sits in the #2 space among Xbox 360 games overall, just behind Gears, which it’ll probably pass soon. Interesting that Australia, which is a fairly good market for the Xbox 360, sold only about 12k more copies than Japan, which is not (although it is…
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Gamestop to rake in more than $80M in Halo 3 sales
In this little piece in the Hollywood Reporter about how Gamestop (a retailer) is doing well and Midway (a publisher) is doing poorly, there’s an amazing tidbit – Gamestop will capture 25-30% of all sales of Halo 3, worldwide. That’s a rather huge number; I had no idea they were THAT big.(Louis Wu 13:47:49 UTC)
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Another look at Big Science
A couple of weeks ago, we mentioned Big Science, the guys behind the music used in the ‘Making of Diorama’ video – you can read more about how this gig came to be in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.(Louis Wu 13:43:33 UTC)
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It’s cheaper to visit the HBO forum.
Wow, this is sort of weird. Someone is auctioning off their friendship (as an Xbox Live Halo 3 playing buddy) on eBay – the Buy-it-Now price was set to $4000, but since bidding has actually kicked off, that’s no longer an option. Current bid is $20.50, with a day and a half left to go.…
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Halo Grudge Match – for Insiders
IGN Insider looks at Halo 1, 2, and 3 to see what works and what doesn’t through the series. Unfortunately, it’s not readable without a subscription.(Louis Wu 13:21:42 UTC)
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Halo earns big bucks for kids
Remember that Special Halo 3 Xbox Super Bundle we mentioned last week? The auction finished last night – final price was $8,400. Not too bad for the Boys & Girls Clubs of King County! (They’re the ones this was for.) (Louis Wu 13:18:14 UTC)
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There’s a reason some call it a ‘HaloBox’.
Heh – there’s a story in the Rider News about the popularity of Halo 3; a Gamestop employee describes a customer trading in a Wii to buy Halo and a 360.”He spent $430 just to play one game,” Taylor said. “I guarantee that didn’t happen in any other store except ours.”I guarantee Taylor is wrong.…
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Halo 3, Day 4: Killing Bugs Dead
Jake Seaton’s Mission-a-Day (sort of) walkthrough of Halo 3 was updated last night; Day 4 is now online (in lots of newspapers). He liked the Missile Pod quite a lot. If you missed them, we mentioned Day 3 here, while links to 1 and 2 are here. (Louis Wu 13:11:15 UTC)
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Flood Fails To Dampen Enthusiasm For Halo 3
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If I was apprehensive about anything in Halo 3, it was the Flood. Halo 1 has reached a certain legendary status amongst fans, but even it has a sore spot for many: the Library, where you navigate endless repeating dark corridors with endless hordes only four enemies to fight: Human Flood combat forms, Elite Flood…
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Screenshot Collection
Someone had to do it – a site has been created where someone has been collecting funny screenshots from fileshares, and putting them in one place. (As far as I can tell, there’s zero attribution to the original screenshot taker, which sort of stinks.) What’s amazing to me is the nearly 2000 diggs this has…