Month: March 2008
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Inside Job
The massive Inside Job, a four and a half minute cutscene weighing in at about 200 mb in HD, is now up for downloading in the Halo 2 Cutscene Library. From a story standpoint, this one can’t be missed. From a gorgeousness standpoint, this one is up there with the best. Go watch! Thanks, as…
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Halo 1 Maps in Goldeneye 007
Ducain forwarded some interesting news from laser – looks like someone’s trying to bring Halo maps into Goldeneye 007. Check out the Hang ’em High movie!(Louis Wu 21:11:16 UTC)
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More Renderosity Art
A couple of months ago, someone (I can’t figure out who) pointed out this picture at Renderosity.com – a very nice render of a Halo landscape, built in Bryce. I asked for, and received, permission to add this to our Misc Art collection, from Orestes, the creator – but somehow, I never actually NOTICED the…
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Sheer Shotguwnage.
Hawty McBloggy found a fun shirt at Split Reason – go look!(Louis Wu 19:13:21 UTC)
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Bornswavia has been Demoted {Part of April Fools}
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Bornswavia has been repeatedly insulting me and I’m well and truly tired of it. As a result he has been demoted to the role of member. If he persists he will be permanently banned from the group.
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Catching Up with CJ
Next-Gen has an interview with CJ Cowan, Halo 3’s cinematics director – read it for a glimpse inside the studio, a look at how the work pipeline has changed over the years, and a positive spin on Seattle’s weather! Thanks, LordGideon.(Louis Wu 17:46:44 UTC)
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Halo Renders at Renderosity
RVideo ran across a pretty impressive artist over at Renderosity.com – Ubald has been creating Halo-related images for a couple of years now. I’ve sent off a request to him to be allowed to mirror the Halo content here, for ease of viewing – but you should look through the links RVideo has supplied, and…
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Halo 3, Legendary, No Deaths
A couple of years ago, Cody Miller announced that he’d finished Halo 2 on Legendary difficulty, with no deaths – if you wanted to watch it in a reasonably viewable form, you had to download a two-gigabyte file. A couple of days ago, we were contacted by SPDN p0iz3n0us, who’s now done the same thing…
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Sizing the Ark
This has been discussed before, but the inclusion of our planet for scale is a nice touch. Stephen Loftus has used a screenshot from Halo 3 along with some previous reference info to estimate the size of the Ark. That’s one big structure!(Louis Wu 13:15:16 UTC)
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Oops, sorry.
I’d like to apologize for a post I made yesterday, tying a UFO sighting to the IRIS ARG. While those images did surface during the ARG, they were shown to be unconnected to the game itself (the only thread I could find on a superficial search was this one). Thanks to DHalo for the heads-up.…
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Stories and Demons
TTL Demag0gue has let us know that Reclaimer Part 38 is now online – Ferial becomes less, rather than more, clear. (The comic has also moved to its own domain. While the old links still work – they’re being redirected to the new site – I’ve updated the links in our news database just for…
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She Died in Eden
Cocopjojo let us know that the second part in an analysis of Halo 3’s Terminals by vociferous is now online at Ascendant Justice. It’s a very extensive and well-researched look at the story of Didact and the Librarian – if you didn’t pay very close attention to the terminals as you ran through the game,…
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Grunt Birthday Party Skull – For Real
EternalDarkWing let us know that a friend created a custom Halo 3 Grunt Birthday Party skull – pics and details can be found at Destructoid. It’s even got the input plug!(Louis Wu 12:44:31 UTC)
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Consider the casket… unsealed.
Dan Baker has stepped up the pace on his Halo comic – Page 3 has been finished, Page 4 has a gorgeous panel on it, and the whole thing, to date, has been made available in PDF format, if you want to print it out yourself. Go see!(Louis Wu 21:56:26 UTC)
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Forge Art Contest Update
Maximum Fear has an update on his Forge Art contest posted on his site – entries are still welcome until April 25, but you can see a few of the best things he’s gotten so far by swinging by his site.(Louis Wu 21:53:46 UTC)
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DGCN – a new Friday Night Tradition
AoD Deadite stopped by to report that the Dispatch Community Game Night #1 went well – you can read a Bungie Humpday-style writeup of the games, as well as see a short trailer showing off some of the gameplay, on their website. (I can’t find a way to link to the post directly, but as…
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Sleek? I don’t think I’d call it sleek.
Not surprisingly, when Wired Magazine took a look at powered suits in honor of the upcoming release of Iron Man, your favorite Mjolnir outfit made the list.(Louis Wu 18:57:30 UTC)
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More AA Area Fun
Rockslider’s expanded the fun you can have with the AA gun megabattle he mentioned last week – now intercept them on their way to the gun. Looks like a blast!(Louis Wu 17:14:10 UTC)
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Winter on Valhalla
Over on NeoGAF, someone posted pictures of Valhalla… under a heavy layer of snow. Looks great! Thanks, DHalo.(Louis Wu 17:07:08 UTC)
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The Riot 93
Sigafoos sent word of The Riot 93 – 30 minutes, 12 mb, with the requisite community news and challenges, along with discussion of the upcoming maps. Good luck to Night Rider 7!(Louis Wu 17:05:37 UTC)