Year: 2007
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Cool stuff, for folks who could care less
Gizmodo got a pretty awesome bag of Halo 3 schwag from Microsoft PR – if you’re a really big Halo fan, don’t watch the video, it’ll just make you angry. (Some people really don’t deserve schwag, I guess.) Update: lots of people got these – including 1Up (thanks, Haloplayer) and Engadget. Not everyone was a…
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Halo 3 Hands On – Sort Of
Gameplanet breaks the media embargo by a day or so (they’re in New Zealand, so they’re already ahead of the rest of the world) – but it doesn’t matter, because their Halo 3 Hands On has absolutely no information in it.(Louis Wu 00:31:44 UTC)
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Solving small mysteries, one band at a time
Spartan Jag found out that Big Science were the guys who did the music for the ‘Making of Diorama’ video – nice find!(Louis Wu 00:31:12 UTC)
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Infiltrating NPR
Salen Stormwing and pillar of awesome both let us know that NPR did a piece on the Halo 3 marketing campaign during Marketplace this evening – direct download link is here.(Louis Wu 00:28:41 UTC)
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Legendary Edition back in stock at Virgin?
James Cockshull let us know that Virgin Megastores seems to have restocked the Halo 3 Legendary Edition – at least, that’s what their web page says. No guarantees until someone actually GETS one from them – but if you’re in the UK, and you want one of these, this might be a way to get…
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Second Take: The Games That Spawned Halo
Second Take looks back over the games that have paved the way for Halo – pretty thoughtful video. The Game Fuel comedy at the end is a bonus – and pure gold. Thanks, zugy.(Louis Wu 00:22:41 UTC)
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THX’ers begin finishing the fight!
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It has begun. Hushed Casket members are beginning to get their sweaty hands on copies of the most hyped game of all time. At the moment, Bungie does not have any multi-player playlists online. Therefore, you can’t play MP with others unless you’ve got gamers on your list that also have the game. Other than…
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Canadian Animation Studio Renders Assistance
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TeamXbox has the story of Montreal animation studio damnfx, tapped by Bungie to help produce some of the in-engine cinematics of Halo 3. “Having recently worked on two large format stereoscopic films for IMAX theatres, it was refreshing to focus simply on delivering outstanding animation, while letting Bungie’s Halo 3 game engine worry about lighting,…
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New Bungie Podcast: Music and Bungie.net
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New podcast available – loads of waffle, but some info on general news, the musical score and the upcoming improvements on Bungie.net.
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IGN Developer Walkthrough of Saved Films and Forge
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IGN have released a collection of videos from a TGS walkthrough of a saved film of a part of a campaign level, technically there are some spoilers covering part of a level but there are no story reveals in the part shown.
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L For Loser?
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HBO notes that they received a strange image, apparently one of many. Fan project? Another prong of the Iris ARG, thought finished last month? Who knows.
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Selling Gears To Buy Halo
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Chris Martin at Games First writes that between glitchers, hackers, and eight-year-olds, he’ll be turning in his copy of Gears of War to pick up Halo 3 next week. Thanks Louis Wu at HBO.
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Know Your Halo History
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IGN has put together a piece on the history of the Halo franchise; Louis Wu at HBO notes a few inaccuracies they’ve made, but if you weren’t a Halo fan eight years ago you might find some of this “old stuff” interesting.
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Possible Superbounces In Halo 3
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SlashRF notes at High Impact Halo that zOMGWTFUDIED has gotten ahold of an early copy of Halo 3 and discovered what he thinks is a superbounce while dying near the Froman base on Last Resort (Zanzibar).
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Bungie Tripled Server Capacity For Halo 3
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Bungie’s Jonty Barnes, talking to GameSpot at the Tokyo Game Show, mentioned that Bungie had to triple its server capacity to handle the increased load from Halo 3. Not sure whether that meant matchmaking, or community features, or what; but from the latest podcast it seems that stat-tracking will be vastly expanded, and Bungie is…
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Tafiti – Halo-themed search
Microsoft has kicked off a Halo-themed version of Tafiti – go check it out. Tafiti is a search front end from Microsoft; it uses Silverlight (Microsoft’s Flash-like layer) and Live Search to bring you lots of Halo search goodness. It requires Silverlight, which is available (for free) for both Macs and PCs, and it currently…
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Halo Helmet – High Quality, High Price
The frenzy for high-quality Halo armor continues. (Remember that suit of armor we mentioned on September 11? The auction closed yesterday… for a mind-boggling $21,149.00. I mean… Wow.) Cpl. Fin Aeros points out another auction containing material from the same artist – this time it’s just a helmet, and the bidding currently stands at a…
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Believe Ad Satire
karebearstare put together his own parody of the Believe ads – it’s short, it’s cute, it’s available at MLG’s Gameroom and YouTube. Go see what you think.(Louis Wu 10:26:58 UTC)
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Friday’s Fanfic
Even the Fan Fiction writers are pumped up this week – fifteen new pieces for you. Now, I’ve looked at all of them, and made sure that none are OVERTLY full of spoilers for Halo 3… but I can’t be positive that nobody’s snuck in a one-liner somewhere just to be obnoxious. (Seems unlikely, but…
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Painting the Controllers
Littlebigman found a cool little article on Spawn.com which shows how Todd McFarlane created the artwork that graces the two Limited Edition Halo 3 Wireless Controllers. (Louis Wu 10:12:15 UTC)