Month: January 2008
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HAFT Life
Elnea decided to make a retrospective of her Halo Action Figure Theater-related activities; she put together about 3500 photos, set them to Halo-inspired music, and posted the result up on her Mac.com space. Her love for the work is obvious. As is her obsession. (If she’d applied this energy towards, say, world peace, we’d all…
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Mario Meets Master Chief
Hawty McBloggy ran across a video on YouTube showing off a crossover fan game that mixes Mario with Halo. Graphics come from the Halo Zero project (with permission, at this point), and the final game will probably be released this weekend. For fans who can’t choose – now you don’t have to!(Louis Wu 15:38:35 UTC)
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Halo 3 can help you navigate
There’ve been a number of articles over the years pointing out that videogames can help hone skills that are useful in real-world situations – from The Maritime Accident Casebook, there’s a new one. Research shows that spatial awareness, a trait that’s useful in ship handling, is more developed in men than in women – but…
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Next up: Flush.
MTV’s Stephen Totilo thinks that the video game industry in general could learn from the example set by Halo 3 (among other recent games) – sharing is good. Hey – if they learn that lesson, they’ll be right up there with kindergarten classes across the land!(Louis Wu 15:36:00 UTC)
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XBL woes, and your stats, explained
Over at Bungie.net, Achronos explained what’s up with gamertag linking on Xbox Live; apparently, the recent problems have led to some gamertags getting unlinked to their B.net counterparts, but don’t worry, it’s only temporary, and no data is actually lost. Here’s hoping the problems clear up soon! (Louis Wu 15:35:23 UTC)
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MLG Canadian Open on TV this week
According to the Comic Book Bin, the 2007 Ford MLG Canadian Open will be shown on The Score, a Canadian sports network, this coming Thursday, January 10, at 6:30pm EST. It will be rebroadcast a week after that, and G4TechTV Canada will be airing it at 7pm on Saturday. Nice to hear about Halo pro…
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The Hummer HX – Warthog-like?
A new concept Hummer was unveiled ahead of its appearance at the Detroit Auto Show this weekend – it seems to have a lot in common with Bungie’s Warthog. Hawty McBloggy was the first to us with this news, but there’s a discussion thread on our forum, started by Koholint, if you want to toss…
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Joe Staten’s Dulcet Tones on NPR
Joseph Staten, author of New York Times Bestselling Halo novel Contact Harvest, was on NPR’s All Things Considered; listen to the interview within.
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Gamertag linking status on bungie.net
You may have heard that Xbox Live has been having a few issues over the last few weeks. While Microsoft has been working to improve the situation, one small side effect of the Live service delays can be seen on bungie.net. This involves your Gamertag linking to you bungie.net account.
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Sketch’s Foundry Variants
After a brief hiatus for the holidays, I’m back! To kick things off for 2008 I’m ready to unleash my first batch of Foundry variants. Head over the forum and check out the thread I’ve started for descriptions and links to my file share.
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RT: Gus is Dumb
What’s up everyone? Did you catch all the hot Grifball action yesterday/last night? It was hot…flaming even. Speaking of hot, we’ve changed the format of the comic as a test. What do you guys think?
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Joe Staten interview on NPR
NPR did a segment today on the intersction of video games and story, focusing on Halo and story maven (and voice of Grunts everywhere) Joe Staten. You can read the blurb and check the audio here. I heard it myself in the car, but thanks to both prometheus (via email) and pillar of awesome (via…
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Spartans in Disguise
Hawty McBloggy found a Master Chief Transformer on eBay – there aren’t any pictures of it in vehicle form, but it’s pretty awesome anyway. Go look.(Louis Wu 18:34:00 UTC)
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Arby ‘n’ the Chief
Ross Mills let us know about “Arby ‘n’ the Chief”, a new video from DigitalPh33r and a sequel to the ‘Master Chief Sucks at Halo’ series. (Note to Ross: links r gud.) It’s pretty funny, even if a large chunk of it is just a discussion of the value of the Heroic Map Pack. (At…
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OMRA Overhaul
Trigger119 sent word that GamingTV has opened a special forum, devoted to the Online Machinima Rating Association (OMRA). Hopefully, this will increase the usage of this tool, and provide users with a decent filter for released machinima!(Louis Wu 17:52:20 UTC)
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Halo 3 players – SERIOUS couch potatoes
Integrated Media Measurement Inc. has published a study which shows that Halo 3 has NOT eaten into television or movie viewing as was feared a couple of months ago. The number of hours of television watched by Halo 3 players did not change significantly when comparing patterns before and after Halo’s launch (though the fact…
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Disrespectful Video Makes Outrageous Claims
This disgraceful video makes wild claims using very adult language and primitive speech synthesizers. If you are under 18, do not click the following link. If you are sensitive, do not click the following link. If you think grenade spamming is tactical, do not click the following link. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb8rdc-0OpQ
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Infinitely Spawning Warthogs
Rockslider has written up a guide to serious hog destruction; there’s a spot on Tsavo Highway where if you’re patient you can have at least 64 Warthogs to play with at one time. Of course, you’re gonna have to kill a lot of marines… but you know what they say about eggs and omlettes.(Louis Wu…
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Jason Voorhees, Eat Your Heart Out!
ZZoMBiE13 shows you where humans might be behind the curve in the Halo universe in today’s installment of Another Halo Comic Strip.(Louis Wu 16:11:55 UTC)