Year: 2008
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Plasma Cannon Jamboree
Rockslider has posted ‘Plasma Cannon Jamboree’ over at his Bad Cyborg site (now in a new home) – collect more than 60 plasma cannons!(Louis Wu 19:46:25 UTC)
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Mix’s Pics, Week 8
xMixMasterX let us know that Week 8 of Mix’s Pics is up over at the Social. Go see what community tidbits he found for you this week!(Louis Wu 19:44:23 UTC)
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Spiderman vs Masterchief, page 3
SPU7N1K has posted the third page of Spiderman vs Masterchief – who’s gonna win?(Louis Wu 19:43:05 UTC)
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H3F’s Top 10 Halo clips, v1
Halo3Forum has decided to put out a Top 10 Clips feature, with commenting by Phurion. The first episode has great filming, and some nice plays! Go grab it – 3:13 long, 122 mb in WMP9 format. Thanks, Z.(Louis Wu 19:41:06 UTC)
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DigitalPh33r’s Guide to Making Halo 3 Machinima: Part Two
DigitalPh33r has posted Part Two of his Guide to Making Halo 3 Machinima, a fifteen-minute installment that looks at some of the hardware and software issues you need to consider when making Halo machinima, along with voice recording and acting. Thanks, Higgins113.(Louis Wu 15:36:26 UTC)
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Reminisce Teaser, from Vivid Essence
GR33B stopped in to point out both a teaser for his new machinima, ‘Reminisce’ and a music vid he released a few months ago, ‘Pathfinder’. You can find both over at Vivid Essence.(Louis Wu 15:34:29 UTC)
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Call of Duty 4 Arabic Mixup
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I was playing COD4 tonight and spawned in Ambush. As I ran forward I noticed an Arabic sign in front of me, but it didn’t look right. Upon closer inspection I realized that the characters were written from left to right like western characters. Arabic is written from right to left. I thought that peculiar…
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Three Campaign Players, One Xbox
Interesting – a thread over at High Impact Halo describes a way to get three players on a single Xbox into a Coop Campaign game (normally, you’re limited to two). DollarPwnCenter created a video tutorial for folks who learn visually. Looks pretty cool! Thanks to Cocopjojo for the heads-up.(Louis Wu 23:38:23 UTC)
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Oh, my darling
Jordan117 ran across a picture that answers a 7-year-old question… and ties some very cool dates together. Nice work!(Louis Wu 23:26:59 UTC)
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Friday’s (Belated) Fan Fiction
Since I was out yesterday, the standard Fan Fiction update never happened – there were 9 new pieces in there. Go read ’em!(Louis Wu 15:24:31 UTC)
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Wrong place, wrong time
Today’s episode of Another Halo Comic Strip has ZZoMBiE13 putting forth an alternative ending for Halo 3. I think I would have loved it. (Potential spoilers for anyone who hasn’t finished the game yet.)(Louis Wu 15:12:25 UTC)
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Machinima for Engineers
A great article on the Rooster Teeth crew (focusing on their Halo work, with an awesome opening image) can be found in a somewhat unlikely place – IEEE Spectrum, a professional journal aimed primarily at electrical engineers. Check it out! (It does a nice job of covering machinima in general, as well.) Thanks to RvB’s…
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RPWS Bungie Day
TheChrisD let us know that Rumble Pit World series is holding a special ‘Sevens’ tournament on Cold Storage on Monday, in honor of Bungie Day – festivities start around 8 pm EST. 7 parties, 7 players, 7 minutes before a final with a first prize of $77! Go read the rest of the details at…
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SA’s Two Year Anniversary is Today!
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Today is SA’s two year anniversary! Somebody bring a bottle opener!Read Inside-
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ET’s Top 25 Video Games
darthbob pointed out a list over at Entertainment Weekly – the Top 25 Video Game Classics. Halo came in at #11. (Louis Wu 10:21:32 UTC)
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The Sound of Halo 3
Hawty McBloggy found a video called ‘The Sound of Halo 3’, which attempts to create music from the battle sounds of Halo 3. It has mixed success.(Louis Wu 10:21:11 UTC)
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Finish The Fight, for Bungie Day
Bryan Ojeda recorded a tribute piano piece in honor of Bungie Day. (Louis Wu 10:20:53 UTC)
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Master Chief Theater 3000 – Episode 5
mrsmiley let us know that Episode 5 of Pyrosmile’s Master Chief Theater 3000 (the continuation of Pyroman’s MST3K parody) is now on YouTube. This one shows off the end of Floodgate.(Louis Wu 10:20:24 UTC)
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Determining Object Sizes in Halo 3
Omega spent some time in Pan-Cam mode, measuring stuff. Interesting results! (Looks like Bungie did a little fudging…(Louis Wu 10:18:39 UTC)
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Like a church mouse…
2phast let us know that Larry the Marine has changed to a Friday release schedule – and that Episode 28 is now up. I think there are certain weapons Larry should never be allowed to get his hands on.(Louis Wu 10:18:09 UTC)