Month: August 2008
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Australian Search Habits – and Gaming Prefs
Wow, that stings – in the midst of an article at News.com.au about how more Australians search for gaming links than for porn, there’s a nasty little shot at Halo 3:There are more searches for Call Of Duty 4 than Halo 3 in Australia and the UK, most likely because it is a far superior…
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Master Chief among the top costumes this Halloween
Costume Supercenter, a national chain of costume stores, has released its “Top 10 Halloween Costumes for 2008” – and Halo 3’s Master Chief Jumpsuit made the list. Expect to see a raft of Spartans this October!(Louis Wu 13:55:29 UTC)
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Halo 3 Guitar for GH
Hawty McBloggy noticed a Halo 3-themed custom Guitar Hero controller on eBay – current bid is $26, with five and a half days to go. Rock out as the Master Chief! (Louis Wu 13:54:24 UTC)
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Halo Wars: first of a series
I’m not sure this is really a surprise… but it might be the first time I’ve seen it printed. eddie m found a writeup for the Leipzig Games Convention (in German) that described Halo Wars as “the first console title of the series,” implying a chain of sequels already in the planning stages. I suppose…
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COD4 Back On Top Again
According to Major Nelson’s blog, Halo 3 and COD4 have done the top ten topsy-turvy trick again. Call of Duty 4 is on top (for the moment) and Halo 3 is playing second fiddle.
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Halo 3 fileshare maintenance
Thursday night (PDT, tomorrow) we’ll be doing some upgrades in the datacenter where the file share runs, and it will be unavailable for a short time.
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New features!
Ayup folks. Ben here, just letting you know that Achievement Hunter has had some spiffy new upgrades today. 1. Checkable Achievements If you’ve completed an achievement and you don’t want to see it in the list, you can now check it off and it will fall to the very bottom of achievement lists. This is…
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This one goes to eleven…
Chapter 11 of Red vs. Blue: Reconstruction is now online. It’s hard to believe we’ve already released the eleventh episode of Reconstruction. If Red vs. Blue were an Olympic sport, and episodes were gold medals, then Michael Phelps would be our bitch. Come on, Olympic committee! What do badminton and water polo got that we…
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PGR3 – Tournament Qualifier Part 1 – Qualifying Round
Please enable JavaScript to enjoy this flash-based video. Find out how at this link. Today’s video is a throwback to an Xbox 360 Launch title, Project Gotham Racing 3, and the toughest Achievement they added after release: Tournament Qualifier. When Bizarre Creations added Tournaments to PGR3, this new Achievement was far more elusive, as everyone…
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Achievement Hunter TV Returns tomorrow!
Ladies and Gentlemen, you asked for it, and you shall receive: tomorrow we will be launching the newest edition of Achievement Hunter TV. Geoff and myself will be playing Madden 2009 and trying to rack up some achievements in the best football game released so far this year. Here’s the fun part, since the game…
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Spore Dance-Off Finalists Annouced
The guys being Will Wright’s upcoming opus SPORE recently put up a “dance-off” contest using the SPORE Creature Creator. Over 2,400 videos were submitted and now you can take a look at and vote on your favorites over on SPORE’s YouTube page. I took a look at a few and some are pretty funny. There…
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GTA IV – Endangered Species Part 4 – Algonquin 1
Please enable JavaScript to enjoy this flash-based video. Find out how at this link. It’s Wednesday, so that means we’re going on the hunt for some flying rats again for GTA IV. Today’s video is the first third of Algonquin’s pigeons. Either way, the first half of this series is down and we’ve gotten 96…
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Contest: Qualify in PGR3, win RT shirt!
So hey, we all know you like Achievements. That’s a given, or you wouldn’t know how awesome this site is. Since you do know, we’re gonna do something special. Yesterday’s video was for Project Gotham Racing 3’s Tournament Qualifier, which I thought qualification ended today at 5 AM PST. That’s what you get for editing…
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Boxart Credits
The Multiplayer Blog over at MTV.com has an article discussing what video game box art would look like if they showed the same sort of credits that movies have. A bit too busy for my tastes… but it’s an interesting discussion. It’s here because Halo is one of their examples. Thanks, KP.(Louis Wu 18:03:16 UTC)
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Around The Ring – Episode 4 And Video!
Episode 4 – Yoyorast Island Map Review Download As promised last episode Dust Storm and I take a step away from Sidewinder-esque maps in pursuit of something a little different. In the case of Yoyorast Island completely original. This week Dust Storm and I dive in to explain the mysteries that make this map one…
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Racetracks Map Making Guide
HaloTracks.org presents the Racetrack making guide to end all guides. This guide will present the reader everything they need to know to make their track the best it possibly can be.