Month: February 2008
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Card Sagas Wars?
Merc found a YouTube video that shows off a bunch of characters in a 2D fighter… Master Chief holds his own.(Louis Wu 22:31:30 UTC)
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Netflix Drops HD DVD! Blu-ray Stands.
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I just received this email from Netflix: “We’re Going Blu-ray Dear …, You’re receiving this email because you have asked to receive high-definition movies in the HD DVD format. As you may have heard, most of the major movie studios have recently decided to release their high-definition movies exclusively in the Blu-ray format. In order…
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RT: Forced Enjoyment Week 3
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Hey everybody, Jack here sharing the all the sweet love and warmth I have with all of you. Entries for the first-ever “Halo 3 Scavenger Hunt for Stolen Goods” are now closed. I’ll be digging through the three thousand or so images to pick out…
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Frag a Friend
LordGideon let us know about Frag a Friend, a Halo Nation event being coordinated by PraetoriaGuard. If you are a leader of a Halo clan or community, swing by and sign up! Next game night is February 28, at 9 pm EST.(Louis Wu 20:57:48 UTC)
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Top-Notch Visuals – Halo wins some VES awards
Marty O’Donnell pointed out the 6th Annual Visual Effects Society awards, announced in Hollywood last night. Halo-related winners included Marcus Lehto, Jonty Barnes, Stephen Scott, and CJ Cowan, whose Halo 3 footage took home “Outstanding Real Time Visuals in a Video Game”, and Matthew Gratzner, Alan Scott, Seth Curlin, and Greg Boettcher, whose work on…
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Multiplayer Tips and Map of Month: Construct
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Grab a full sniper and jump off the map with it, so the other team won’t have it. Got better tips than this one? Then send them in… This week we will be sharing with our listeners all the multiplayer tips that you have for the halo nation. Com’on click on the green button to…
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Yes, You Can Has Recon
The auction of Frankie’s Mister Chief Masterpiece, for charity, is going astoundingly well – high bid is now over $1000, with four days to go! If you scroll down to the bottom of the auction, there are a number of questions asked by viewers – the most common of which is “Can I has Recon?”…
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Stuffing the sausage into a sock
Back in November, we listed a bunch of talks to be given by Bungie employees at this year’s Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, coming up next week. Today I heard from Mat “OMG TALK ABOUT ME” Noguchi, who’s now on the schedule… and it looks like an interesting session! Mat’s going to discuss how…
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That’s gonna leave a mark.
Heh – The Onion Radio News has a piece (it’s labeled ‘podcast’, but it’s only a minute long) on ‘blown skulls and nearly-fatal bowel movements’ seen since Halo 3 was released. Funny. Thanks, dzejms.(Louis Wu 19:47:09 UTC)
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Overkill Extermination Mongoose Mowdown
thehomeland ran across someone bragging that they’d gotten an extermination with a mongoose; he didn’t believe it, but the film is still in gizmo777’s fileshare. (It’s slot 1, labeled “WTF!!!”) thehomeland decided to make it more accessible to those without access to the film, so you can watch it on YouTube, or you can download…
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Backseat Driver
Today’s Halo Action Figure Theater takes a turn for the weird. Well… a farther turn. Okay, so we’ve gone completely around now, and have begun spewing pea soup. Go read.(Louis Wu 17:06:18 UTC)
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Entertaining vids for your Monday morning
Obienator found a couple of funny vids from female gamers – you can watch OboeCrazy’s funny ode to ‘Standers’ (folks who join social matchmaking and don’t actually play, assuming that at least some of the time they’ll finish in the top 3 and thereby gain an experience point without having to participate), and you can…
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The Final Run, in LEGO
Very awesome – Nannan Z. has recreated a vignette from Halo 3’s final run (if you haven’t played the game all the way through, this probably contains spoilers) – out of LEGO bits. You can view the piece, from a number of angles, either at MOCpages.com or Flickr. This one’s display-worthy, for sure. Thanks, Unique…
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ITS A TRAP
2phast wrote to say that the next Larry the Marine comic is up – I’m guessing Larry’s gonna have some trouble with this particular strategy.(Louis Wu 14:05:00 UTC)
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Marty O’Donnell – Style Setter
The UK’s Times newspaper has a bit in its online News in Brief this morning about Universal Music that caught my eye:Universal Music, the record company whose artists include Amy Winehouse and Eminem, is advertising for monks to record an album of chants after the popularity of the Halo computer game. Dickon Stainer, from Universal,…
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Podtacular wins “Best Tournament”
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You heard it right!!! The Podtacular community won “Best Tournamnet” at the community award hosted by the Second Foundation guys. The 2007 Summer Season Tournament had a big and positive impact in the halo community to the point of achieving recognition from fellow friends and community members. It was a pleasure to have all the…
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Podtacular All Stars vs Tied the Leader Gunslingers
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On Saturday night, the Podtacular All Stars had the privilege to square off against the Tied the Leader Gunslingers. TTL, the short name for the site, has been around for quite some time. Although we did not have the chance to face off against TTL in Halo 2, we had to take this opportunity. The…
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Episode 148: Callins and Tales from Foxhole
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Download | Shownotes This is my favorite show and this week I get to host it since Foo Mo is in England! Here we talk about and give voice to the people to share the coolest stories they have from their halo time, along with the Halo Nation’s voice mails. CapnKrunk narrates those and makes…
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Seeing Double
Pointless Lists has posted a series of stereoscopic Halo 3 screenshots, using the technique put forth by Kato a few months ago. If you’ve got 3D glasses, take a look! Update: whoa. Guess I should have checked our forum, first – Mike Carson (the guy behind Pointless Lists) mentioned this there about an hour ago.(Louis…