Year: 2008
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Bungie.net Front Page Displays Superintendent Countdown
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If you have not yet seen the Bungie.net homepage, check it out now and come back to discuss in our forum!
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Rock Band 2 set list. 84 songs. All master tracks.
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Microsoft has revealed the set list for Rock Band 2 (due out in mid September). All songs are master tracks; not covers. This is going to rock: AC/DC – “Let There Be Rock” AFI – “Girl’s Gone Grey” Alanis Morissette – “You Oughta Know” Alice in Chains – “Man in the Box” Allman Brothers -…
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Keep it clean!
Looks like the Bungie announcement has been pushed off a bit – if you visit Bungie.net, you’ll see a Superintendent-related countdown page, with a timer that runs out at 10 am PST, Wednesday morning. That doesn’t mean there won’t be cool stuff announced at E3… just that Bungie’s stuff probably won’t be there. Update: Jordan117…
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Frozen Assets.
It’s been a while since you’ve heard from him… but Stuntmutt’s still alive. There’s a new One One Se7en up that takes a look at Cold Storage; takes him a couple of panels to warm up, I think.(Louis Wu 15:18:58 UTC)
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Triggers Down beats Str8 Rippin in Orlando
Congratulations to Triggers Down, winners of MLG Orlando. There are tons of news snippets and pictures at MLGPro.com – but if you want a quick summary of how the top teams did, you could visit the Xbox Users Group – easy-to-read, covers the highlights.(Louis Wu 15:16:37 UTC)
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Field of Play
TTL Demag0gue let us know that Reclaimer 65 is now up. The plot thickens!(Louis Wu 14:02:36 UTC)
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Halo ‘Blue’?
The rumors continue to fly about what may, or may not, be announced today at the E3 press conference – the latest tidbit was unveiled by Joystiq, who received a listing from a Wal-Mart intranet document. All we have is a name (Halo “Blue”), a category (M-rated shooter), and a date (September 30, which Joystiq…
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The Prodigious Permutation
GeneticSpartan stopped by with news of The Prodigious Permutation, a new machinima project he’s released. Nice piece of work! Great cinematography, great effects, funny story. I’m loving this next generation of Halo machinima! The video, available at FileFront, is in WMP9 format, and weighs in at just under 150 mb.(Louis Wu 13:31:41 UTC)
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More Halo Wars artwork
DHalo noticed an article on Halo Wars over at the 360 Magazine – it contains a nice writeup, and a bunch of new screenshots. (Most of the new ones are concept art shots like this one – but there’s also this shot, which was just added (in a larger format) to the Halo Wars site…
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slYnki and Herbie, sittin’ in a shade…
Over at High Impact Halo, slYnki has released a video showing off what might be the first live launch of a Halo 1 grunt – 7 years down the road. It was originally part of a large montage of Halo 1 tricks – I told Ducain that it was cool, but a little long. He…
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Squad Based Halo Game Without Master Chief?
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The rumor mill is working overtime as this year’s scaled-down E3 approaches. The latest comes from “sources” who are reporting to GameSpot’s Rumor Control column that Bungie will announce a new, “grittier” Halo universe game: a squad-based shooter that follows a group of ODSTs and doesn’t feature the series’ iconic Spartan warrior, the Master Chief.…
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Level 4 – Painting The Town Red
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Alright, let me start of by saying that if you are on insane, you are screwed. Go home. If you are already at home, leave. This level scared me away from the game (and these walkthroughs) for a long time, but now I am back to save those of you stalling here. My apologies, but…
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Gamespot Gets In on the Rumor Game
Gamespot has its own wild rumors about what’s going to be announced this week – their guess involves a squad-based tactical shooter without the Master Chief at all. Hmm… thanks, BlueNinja.(Louis Wu 21:15:32 UTC)
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Guessing about the goodies at E3
XboxOZ360, an Australian site, has 10 unconfirmed exclusives from E3 ’08 – Bungie’s mysterious Superintendent comes in at number 3, and Halo Chronicles, the Peter Jackson title, is at number 1. Let’s see how right they are!(Louis Wu 21:11:53 UTC)
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Microsoft cuts 360 prices. 20GB $300. Adds 60GB SKU for $350.
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Microsoft has increased the storage capacity for it’s Premium system SKU bundling a 60 GB hard drive instead of a 20 GB hard drive. The Premium system is still $350 even with the added hard drive space. The 20 GB SKU dropped in price to $300; a $50 savings. Buy a 20GB system from Target…
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Forge Hub: Minigame Amber Alert!
TrueDarkFusion let us know that ForgeHub has a new edition of Musings of the Truth – he discusses the phenomenon of minigames (created in Forge) and looks at possible reasons for their recent decline. Check it out!(Louis Wu 16:42:17 UTC)
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MLG Pro Player Questions
MLG asked their pro players a bunch of questions going into the Orlando competition, and posted the answers throughout Friday and Saturday. They’re not all grouped at this point – but you can read all 8 questions and their answers by following these links: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6…