Year: 2007
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The new phone books are here!
The Illinois Daily Herald (a suburban Chicago paper) has an article about folks waiting for Halo 3 – and it features two HBO regulars, Toby Dillman and Darren ‘ViralSyris’ Maughan. Nice going, guys! (And thanks to ViralSyris for the tipoff.)(Louis Wu 14:43:52 UTC)
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Paper Master Chief
Very cool. Mike McDermott created a really cool paper master chief – and provided information for creating your own. Spectacular! (The program he used is free, but Windows-based; you can find a link in his instructions.) I found this at Rampancy.net – Narc found it at Kotaku.(Louis Wu 14:01:15 UTC)
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Famitsu loves Halo 3
Sean Pfeil pointed out an article at CVG, which discusses a Famitsu review of Halo 3; one 10 and three 9s from the four reviewing editors – an overwhelming endorsement, especially for a first-person shooter in Japan. (You won’t be seeing too many of these reviews yet; there’s actually a press embargo in place, worldwide,…
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UK Street Date Broken?
Lutzie let us know that the UK chain Argos might have screwed up and broken Halo 3 street date at some of their stores; a quick search around the net turns up a lot of anecdotal evidence, but no first-person accounts (“I picked up a copy!”). It looks like some Comets and Woolworths, too, have…
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Famitsu Gives Halo 3 High Marks
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Okay, so th’ 360 isn’t settin’ sales records in Japan, and th’ Japanese aren’t really known worldwide fer their love o’ th’ Halo franchise, and dinna spare the whip, and a bucket o’ chum! Still, that di’nae stop flagship Japanese gamin’ magazine Famitsu from rankin’ th’ game quite highly. One scorer gave it 10/10, avast.…
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Halo 3 Hits Store Shelves… Somewhere
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A Kotaku reader snapped some photos o’ Halo 3 boxes arrivin’ at some game store, by Blackbeard’s sword. Not long t’ wait now!
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PePaKuRa Master Chief
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Halo fan Mike McDermott created a 3d paper Master Chief usin’ a program called PePaKuRa, and a bottle of rum! Ahoy! For more images, check his Deviant Art page, by Blackbeard’s sword. Story from Kotaku.
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It all start with a good control scheme
Kikizo has an interview with Harter Ryan, Executive Producer of Halo Wars – it’s an interesting discussion about how the game came together, what’s new and what’s not, and where the Ensemble team would like it to all go. Give it a read! Thanks to Narcogen, at Rampancy.net, for the heads-up.(Louis Wu 11:42:32 UTC)
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Bungie.net Upgrading
A quick warning – Bungie.net goes down today around 9 am Pacific (noon ET, 4 pm UTC), for infrastructure upgrades. The news post says the site will be read-only… but in the past, it’s been mostly unreachable during upgrades. We post this to keep you from panicking; the downtime is planned, and what comes out…
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Halo 2 Power Rankings
DPAD lists the first official rankings for Halo 2 pros – see where your favorite team sits!(Louis Wu 11:21:48 UTC)
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Behind a Marketing Campaign
iMedia Connection has a massive article which looks at the marketing campaign Microsoft put together – lots of details about the whos, and whys, and hows. Comments like “Given the appeal of “Halo” to the emo crowd, […]” made me raise my eyebrows a bit… but all in all, a nice summary of the overall…
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Halo 3: The Facts
Curious about the numbers behind Halo? Wishing you could put your fingers on a list of stats about the game? 3Suns found a post at Evil Avatar that might be able to help.(Louis Wu 11:15:21 UTC)
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No longer just a game
KORHAL pointed out an article at PC World that talks about the Halo marketing juggernaut, and how it affects Microsoft as a whole. Worth a read.(Louis Wu 11:13:55 UTC)
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Finish the Fight – Down Under
Chris Hamilton let us know that an Australian site will launch on the 25th – Finish the Fight is dedicated to the competitive Halo community in Australia (though they’ll have content for regular joes, too). Bookmark ’em! (Louis Wu 10:55:27 UTC)
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Midnight Madness – Official PR
The official press release for the Launch Madness events went out yesterday – you’ll find it at dozens of websites (including ours, actually). Major Nelson will be on hand in New York – but there will be bigwigs at all the named events.(Louis Wu 10:53:25 UTC)
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Comic Theme
Brodingo noticed a new theme for your 360 – it’s listed on Xbox.com, but not yet available on Marketplace. It’s based on the Halo: Uprising comic book. (Louis Wu 10:51:16 UTC)
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A Halo 3 SHOE?
PROPH37 found an odd mention on Gilbert Arenas’ blog – apparently, there’s a Halo version of his shoe coming out in the not-too-distant future. No pics yet… but this is the first I’ve heard of it. (Check out the post entitled ‘Introducing the GilIIZero’.)(Louis Wu 10:48:50 UTC)
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GTR Podcast – Halo 3 Interview
Godfree let us know that the current episode of Gamertag Radio contains a bunch of Halo content, including an interview with Francesca Reyes, Editor in Chief of OXM (and the first person outside of Bungie/MS to finish Halo 3). No spoilers. News post (and download link) are on the GTR website.(Louis Wu 10:46:07 UTC)
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The Three Towers Revisited
Over at High Impact Halo (CHECK OUT THAT NEW FRONT PAGE! and be sure to read Ducain’s explanation for how it works!), seven trickers got together and put together a half-hour video revisiting the Three Towers from the level Halo of the original game. This has got to be the definitive TT vid. It’s 212…