Month: October 2008
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AH: Fable 2: The Chicken Kicker
Hey there! So what’s up? You doing anything important right now? No? Good, then you should check out my incredibly awesome Fable 2 Achievement Guide for “The Chicken Kicker.” Click the image above, then hold on to your seats. dggeoff
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Phil – Day Seven: Deja Vu
More machinima highlighted at Bungie.net – check out Phil – Day Seven. The last time we mentioned Phil was back in July, when Phil – Day Three was released.(Louis Wu 20:38:29 UTC)
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Some Halo is loved by IGN readers
IGN put up a reader’s poll for the top 100 games of all time (2008 Edition) – Halo2 came in at #50, and Halo at #15. No Halo 3 at all. Thanks to Planet Halo for the heads-up.(Louis Wu 20:35:38 UTC)
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AH: Halo 3 – Vidmaster Achievement (Gav sucks)
So here’s the deal. Halo 3 dropped a crapload of new achievements with their most recent patch. One of them requires you to beat the final level of Halo 3, cooperatively with four players with the Iron skull turned on and everyone has to finish on…
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TGR looks ahead
TheGameReviews.com has five features they want to see in Halo 3: Recon. See how many you agree with.(Louis Wu 17:22:25 UTC)
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Showin their luv
Funky – over in the Bungie Blog, urk pointed out a tribute vid created by a pair of fans who built a Rube Goldberg-like structure in Foundry. (Louis Wu 16:57:47 UTC)
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Are Critics Gamers?
There’s a pretty interesting read over at Gamasutra – Keith Boesky, a game agent and attorney, former president of Eidos, talks about the disconnect between reviewers and consumers. The interesting thing to me was his point that in most fields of entertainment, stuff with mass appeal is simplistic, while the critics love the quirky, the…
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Halo 3: The Ten Word Review(s)
Ran across a website called ‘The Ten Word Review’ – it collects just that; ten-word reviews of stuff. There are five entries for Halo 3. (They range from insightful to… well, stupid.)(Louis Wu 15:20:32 UTC)
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Beattie on Halo: ‘Almost a responsibility to write it’
FriendlyFire noticed a new interview with Stuart Beattie over at Tom’s Games – Beattie is the screenwriter who’s trying to drum up interest for his Halo spec script. He talks about why he jumped on this project, and why he thinks someone should take him up on his offer. Go read!(Louis Wu 15:17:43 UTC)
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Finding Glitches through Boredom
Wow, this is one of the most useless glitches I’ve seen – but the fact that someone stumbled on it makes it newsworthy. ADD for the win! Apparently, if you jump back and forth between the main Halo 3 menu and a lobby menu, quickly and for a really long time, eventually the background that…
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Blowing S#!t Up the Bungie Way
I’d post the permalink for this, but it doesn’t include any useful information – because the link is in the summary. Bungie has put up a new presentation – this one was done by Effects Art Lead Steve Scott, and it talks about effects and how they evolved in Halo 3. Interesting stuff! The download…