Year: 2008
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RT: Gross doesn't cover it…
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Did anyone catch Sports Center last night? I missed it, but wanted to know how extensive their Grifball coverage was. They probably showed “Team Meh” ringing in their second victory in a hard fought battle against “Team Fishsticks”. I’m…
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43 with one blow.
TTL Dren and some friends set up a situation last night in which a single shot with a Spartan Laser garnered him 43 separate medals. Now THAT’S impressive. (It could probably be improved by a few – but please, we’re not going to post a dozen “I got 44!” or “I got 47!” notes. The…
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HAFT finds a new home
On the subject of comics, we’re proud to announce that bungie.org has become home to yet ANOTHER Halo comic strip – Elnea’s Halo Action Figure Theater can now be found locally. Elnea’s done an amazing job of porting over ALL her old HAFT content to a new, easy-to-navigate system based on the ComicPress theme for…
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It IS a small world after all
Happy Birthday to ZZoMBiE13! He turns… um, I dunno how old today, but wish him well anyway. His latest installment of Another Halo Comic Strip melds Halo with Disney’s Fantasia… and it rocks. (He’s also posted an email address, if you need to reach him; it’s been available, subtly, at the bottom of his comic…
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Cutscene Desktops
cheapLEY took a bunch of nice shots in cutscenes, for use as desktop images; you can find some in this post, and more in this one. Nice work!(Louis Wu 17:06:03 UTC)
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Looking back on the lessons of Halo 3
GameCareerGuide.com has an article entitled ‘How Halo 3 Changed Game Development’ – I’m not sure it did what it set out to do (which was to show that Bungie’s handling of Halo 3 has changed how games will be developed in the future), but it IS a nice summary of how well Bungie delivered on…
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Working for the Man
Almost certainly not Halo news (heh), but Psychophan7 noticed a bunch of new job openings on Bungie’s website. Are you good enough?(Louis Wu 16:45:33 UTC)
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McFarlane Series 2 Figures Unveiled
Entertainment Earth has pictures of the next wave of McFarlane collectibles – Check out the Tan EOD Spartan, Tan Scout Spartan, Brute Stalker, Drone, ODST, Red CQB Spartan, and White EVA Spartan. These’ll be here in July, so get your wallet ready! Google was fastest with this news, but Brian Curry wasn’t far behind.(Louis Wu…
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A Halo 3 Gaming Chair
Hawty McBloggy was the first to point out Kotaku’s coverage of a new variant of Ace Bayou’s X Rocker chair, being shown at CES this week – if you must game in Halo colors, this chair is for you. There’s no real info on price yet.(Louis Wu 15:58:36 UTC)
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Tied the Leader Charity Contest: Guess the Census
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Dweezle over at Tied the Leader told me about a charity event being held over there. It’s a pretty cool idea: you guess how many people will be online playing Halo 3 on 1/17 at 1:17 PM. Closest one to the number wins, and all proceeds go to charity.
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As Opposed To An Egg.
Stuntmutt takes a look at one of the best bits of scripted dialogue in Halo 3 in today’s One One Se7en – and points out what got said when you weren’t listening.(Louis Wu 17:27:38 UTC)
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HAFT Life
Elnea decided to make a retrospective of her Halo Action Figure Theater-related activities; she put together about 3500 photos, set them to Halo-inspired music, and posted the result up on her Mac.com space. Her love for the work is obvious. As is her obsession. (If she’d applied this energy towards, say, world peace, we’d all…
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Mario Meets Master Chief
Hawty McBloggy ran across a video on YouTube showing off a crossover fan game that mixes Mario with Halo. Graphics come from the Halo Zero project (with permission, at this point), and the final game will probably be released this weekend. For fans who can’t choose – now you don’t have to!(Louis Wu 15:38:35 UTC)
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Halo 3 can help you navigate
There’ve been a number of articles over the years pointing out that videogames can help hone skills that are useful in real-world situations – from The Maritime Accident Casebook, there’s a new one. Research shows that spatial awareness, a trait that’s useful in ship handling, is more developed in men than in women – but…
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Next up: Flush.
MTV’s Stephen Totilo thinks that the video game industry in general could learn from the example set by Halo 3 (among other recent games) – sharing is good. Hey – if they learn that lesson, they’ll be right up there with kindergarten classes across the land!(Louis Wu 15:36:00 UTC)
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XBL woes, and your stats, explained
Over at Bungie.net, Achronos explained what’s up with gamertag linking on Xbox Live; apparently, the recent problems have led to some gamertags getting unlinked to their B.net counterparts, but don’t worry, it’s only temporary, and no data is actually lost. Here’s hoping the problems clear up soon! (Louis Wu 15:35:23 UTC)
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MLG Canadian Open on TV this week
According to the Comic Book Bin, the 2007 Ford MLG Canadian Open will be shown on The Score, a Canadian sports network, this coming Thursday, January 10, at 6:30pm EST. It will be rebroadcast a week after that, and G4TechTV Canada will be airing it at 7pm on Saturday. Nice to hear about Halo pro…