Month: March 2008
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Now THAT’S Devotion
James Center got married last weekend… and he and his new wife are such Halo fans that the wedding cake was Halo-themed! Check it out.(Louis Wu 11:55:40 UTC)
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Cowboy Bebop – Halo Style
Took the last half of yesterday off, and came back to a mailbox FULL of mail. Let’s get to it. Sam M recreated a scene from Cowboy Bebop within the Halo engine; you can watch the Halo vid itself, or a side-by-side comparison of the original with its remake, using the YouTube links in his…
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Legendary Map: Avalanche
The second Legendary Map – Avalanche – is revealed and detailed within. A cool classic gets a new look and feel.
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Monochromatic.
Crap. It’s been one of those days. I nearly forgot to post today’s Another Halo Comic Strip entry – which is silly, because I talked to ZZoMBiE13 about it this morning. Anyway, it’s funny, and you should go read it. (Louis Wu 22:48:12 UTC)
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Send in Stuff for This Week’s Show: Multiplayer Tips and Map of the Month: Narrows
Episode 153 has been recorded, we’re just waiting on the good captain of krunkiness to finish ye olde voice mails. In the mean time, it’s time to start rounding up material for the next show. That’s where you come in! We’re looking for your multiplayer tips for this one, especially on Narrows. What’s your best…
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Mass Effect DLC #1 – Batarians
On March 12th, I purchased, played, and subsequently beat Mass Effect’s first round of downloadable content in about two hours. The ferocious alien shown above is a member of the Batarian species within Mass Effect’s world, and this DLC is the first time you encounter them. The first time you see this guy bare his…
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More action panoramas
I’m not sure we have the resources to host EVERY collection of panoramas that gets sent to us – but Matt Banks saw the action panoramas that Logan Rini sent in recently, and let us know that he’s been working on the same sort of thing. He does nice work, so we posted it. Go…
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New map info – you’ll have to wait
Delicious Pie stopped by with word from Luke Smith, over at the NeoGAF forum – apparently the planned map reveal (mentioned in last Friday’s Weekly Update) that was scheduled to go live today will not be posted until tomorrow. Bummer!(Louis Wu 11:20:44 UTC)
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HAFT plot synopses posted
Are you having trouble keeping up with the storyline of Halo Action Figure Theater? There was a two-part plot summary on the site – but it only ran through episode #73 (she’s up to almost 140 now). Luckily, she’s just added two new parts, bringing you almost current. Of course… they might just confuse you…
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Inside Halo Episode 9
Dan the Stick was the first to point out Inside Halo, Episode 9 – Sodagod pays tribute to Mythica.org, hosts an interview with DigitalPh33r (pretty funny), and shows off the five top plays of the week. And, oh, yeah, includes a Val Kilmer montage. If you don’t want to stream it from YouTube, it’s downloadable…
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Recovery One, Part III
More Rooster Teeth goodies – Recovery One, Part III has been released for the general public – and director’s commentary (including interesting discussion about the cast of this miniseries) is available for sponsors. The series has just one more episode to go… I’d forgotten how good it was. Dark – definitely. Not your typical Rooster…
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Grifball – even the Night Elfs are playing
Over at Grifball.com, you’ll find both a highlight reel from the weekend of Social Matchmaking (if you haven’t been watching the highlights reels, you can access them all from that post), as well as the full 192-team league breakout for the 2008 Spring League – games get underway next Monday. See you on the court!(Louis…
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Halo Custom Edition Update
Dennis Powers sent along some stats for the Halo Custom Edition of the Halo Maps website – 56 original multiplayer map designs, 68 modified levels, and 3 single player levels have been added since 2008 began, bringing the total number of assets to 3050. Wow! He also pointed out 4 maps of note – check…
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Cortana… in the flesh
Xboxter, via email, and CaptainOblivious, on our forum, both pointed out the same NSFW naked Cortana at I4U News. (Xboxter actually found her through Kotaku, but that’s neither here nor there.) Pass on this one if your boss doesn’t like naked women on your monitor. Otherwise… she’s pretty amazing.(Louis Wu 21:39:33 UTC)
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EVE Online: Frickin Huge, Frickin Difficult, But Kinda Frickin Cool.
EVE Online This MMOG is about Space, Spaceships, Politics, and Power. It’s comprised of a massive single persistent PvP world that’s hosted on a single ‘supercomputer’ managed by the game developer. It’s huge. Massively huge. Pop out the map interface and you zoom out from your current star system to a view of the entire…
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Inaction Theater
Dennis Powers pays homage to Elnea in the latest Halo CE Chronicles comic. Man… with all this cross-comic referencing, are we gonna be blessed with baby Halo comics? (Wait… we already had those.)(Louis Wu 17:50:45 UTC)
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Spine Destroyer Trailer
SirTopEmHat let us know that the trailer for his new project, Spine Destroyer, has been posted at FileFront. We’ve put up a couple of mirrors (a local copy of his WMP9 version, along with a QuickTime version), because it looks fun. Cloverfield-esque. Take a look! (Louis Wu 16:29:21 UTC)
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Halo: Orions Spartans II
serpx noticed that Halo: Orions Spartans II is now up at Newgrounds. (We mentioned part I back in mid-September.) It’s a little confusing, but if you pay attention, you should be able to get it all. Sounds like this might be the last one, too.(Louis Wu 16:28:00 UTC)
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Gamers for Giving – a success!
Zach Wigal, of the Gamers Outreach Foundation (search our news for more details), let us know that the Gamers for Giving event they held a couple of weeks ago went swimmingly – over 600 participants and spectators were present, and $4000 was raised for a local branch of the Autism Society of America. Go look…
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MA5 Interactive Model
sender let us know that over on the 405th forums, bevbor has made a SolidWorks MA5 interactive model. You’ll need Windows to play with it. 4.3 mb download, password-protected. (Password is included in the forum thread.)(Louis Wu 15:57:36 UTC)