Year: 2008
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Forge Hub 2v2 Face Off Update
Okay, I’m back from a really pleasant weekend away from the internet – thanks to mnemesis for keeping the front page from going blank while I was gone! Time to catch up on backlogged news… first up is an update on the Forge Hub Halo 3 2v2 tourney we last mentioned on August 1 -…
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First Weta Silver Statue auction – winding up
The Master Chief and Grunts statue we mentioned a while ago is wrapping up today. $1675 so far, so if you’ve got that kind of money burning a hole in your pocket and you’d like to have something completely unique in the Halo collectibles world, get to it!(mnemesis 15:33:37 UTC)
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Bungie Weekly Update: From the Mouths of Babes
The Bungie Weekly Update is up (and has been since last night). A bit of info on PAX, and a bunch of tidbits from various people at the studio, giving some tasty yet cryptic hints as to what they’re working on. Go read!(mnemesis 16:31:05 UTC)
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Double D Vision
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I don’t know if you’ve played Soul Calibur IV yet, or if maybe you’ve seen the latest Achievement Hunter walkthrough, but let’s just say that there are assets in the game that are a little…ridiculous. dggeoff
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Is Christmas coming Early this Year?
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I know I’m 3 days late but I finally noticed the epic win sauce that recently ‘leaked’ on to the interwebz!http://www.bungie.net/News/Blog.aspx?mode=news#cid15149
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Need for Speed Race Weekend is on!
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Hey guys, I know there is a lot of negativity towards “beat a developer” type achievements, but here is your opportunity to get exactly one of those this weekend. The “EA Moderator” achievement in Need For Speed Prostreet is up for grabs this weekend. I just got word from one of my EA contacts that…
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Math-tastrophy
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Today’s comic comes in response to the recent announcement regarding the future of Geometry Wars as a franchise. I won’t link it here, because then you’d read the link, and the comic would be kind of spoiled for you – and that’s not fair to you dammit. Also, Luke whipped up a fancy wallpaper for…
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Need for Speed: Undercover Plot Exposed
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I recently had the honor of traveling to that big chunk of country north of the U.S.A. called Canada to check out EA Black Box’s new Need for Speed title coming out later this year. Need for Speed: Undercover will be hitting next-gen systems with some improvements that gamers have been clamoring for, but I’m…
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Oh, What a Wonderful Dev Day
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So today we have two neat things for you guys. Would you like to know what they are? That’s handy, because I was just about to tell you. 1. The Blog We’ve updated our home page yet again (when haven’t we, that’s the real question) to add a new feature: The Blog. This is a…
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Scorpion's Sting Walkthrough
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Happy Friday Everyone, I’ve been looking around the internet lately (as I’m prone to do), and there seems to be a lot of confusion over the “Scorpion’s Sting” Achievement in Soul Calibur IV. Well not any more. I went ahead and threw this little walkthrough together to show you just how easy it actually is…
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New TeamTimeout.com!
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We have a brand new look for TeamTimeout.com! vB Forums! Webcam! Chatbox! Arcade! Sig Store! Much More! Come to the new TeamTimeout.com! Link
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Master Chief meets Bollywood?
Crispy Gamer’s James Fudge pointed us to this news bit about a Bollywood movie that apparently revolves around a fictional designer of Halo 3. As CG says, the trailer mentioned in the article has no Halo content at all… so we’ll have to take their word for it. (A Google search turns up a bunch…
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Technical Lighting paper from SIGGRAPH 2008
Earlier this week, Bungie’s Hao Chen was at SIGGRAPH, the technical computer graphics conference, as an instructor in the ‘Advances in Real-Time Rendering in 3D Graphics and Games’ class. ATI has posted the proceedings of the conference course notes for his work, ‘Lighting and Material of Halo 3’, on their Technical Publications page. (It’s currently…
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With If you could put Blood Gulch in a Canyon
Hawty McBloggy has posted What If, Halo Style: Round 3 over on her site. There are results from last week’s question (a ridiculous number of people want Blood Gulch back), plus a new question, asking you about armor permutations. Go read and comment!(Louis Wu 10:15:16 UTC)