Month: January 2009
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Halo 3: Randomized Dominance
Over at PopMatters, there’s an interesting critique of Halo 3 – the main premises seem to be that 1) the best way to win is to exploit the (always-present) weakness in your opponent’s weapon of choice, and 2) anyone, of any skill level, can get kills in any game, due to the inherent strengths and…
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AH: Skate 2 – On Top of the World
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Again, I’m being lazy and posting videos that have been in the archive for a few days. Today you get “On Top of the World” from Skate 2. This one takes a bit of time to get as you have to beat every downhill race to unlock “S.V. Peak”…
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Chronicles of ODS Steve: Enter Sunef
It was hard to beat Hawty’s heads-up about the latest ODS Steve episode – she sent it along two hours before the strip was actually live. That said, there’s a thread on our forum, started by the light show, which might prove fun over time… (Louis Wu 15:13:56 UTC)
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Happy Halodays Grand Winner
mrsmiley let us know that the Grand Winner in the Happy Halodays screenshot contest has been announced – if you swing by, you can also see the other four finalists! Great pics. (Louis Wu 15:12:50 UTC)
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Project Sonic – A Halo 3 Trick Jumping Machinima
Hawty McBloggy pointed out a really cool Halo 3 machinima called ‘Project Sonic’ – it’s a Halo 3 trick jumping vid, with some very slick editing. (Watch this one in HD, if you can.) A couple of the jumps dropped my jaw – I gotta wonder if there was some funky Forge stuff going on.…
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Dead Technology
It’s Wednesday, so it’s time for another Reclaimer – Episode 142 brings the Reclaimer some new info.(Louis Wu 15:09:06 UTC)
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Halo Wars Mag Image
Ole forwarded a scan of a slick Halo Wars image from GameReactor, a Danish gaming mag. (This image is also the front cover of the January OXM, here in the US.) Nice pic! (Louis Wu 15:08:23 UTC)
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Blow: Stories In Games Are Just Hot Air
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Jonathan Blow, One man creator of the oh-so-pretty Braid platformer, as amazing for its interesting gameplay as its surreal visuals, says, essentially, that videogame stories are bad and probably wouldn’t get much better with better writers since trying to tell a story in a game is a bad idea. One might wonder whether he’s paraphrasing…
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AH: Just the Facts Ma'am
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I got curious about some stuff this morning, so I decided to do a little “counting”. Since our inception, Achievement Hunter has generated 231 videos over 58 games (not bad!). From what I can tell, the game with with most videos is Dead Space,…
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AH: Three Crackdown vids
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Yes, that’s THREE videos you see. Click the images to get to them.When AH held a contest a while ago, with a spot as a Hunter and an HD capture card going to the winner, I submitted a bunch of videos on Starwars: The Force Unleashed, and…
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Videogames Beat DVDs… Except, Not Really
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The gaming and tech press are all aflutter with the news that videogames beat DVDs… except they don’t, at least, not in all the areas that matter. The data that lead to the “games beats movies” conclusion, much like the one-day comparisons of game blockbusters like Halo 3 to the one-day takes of top films…
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Risk: Halo Wars Edition
According to Joystiq, A company called ‘USAopoly’ is releasing a themed edition of the board game Risk, using Halo Wars as a template. Cool! Thanks, Nevan.(Louis Wu 22:39:18 UTC)
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Blood Gulch Chronicles, Ep 1 (Comic)
Luke McKay found an old comic showing off a drawn version of the very first Blood Gulch Chronicles scene – we’ve added it to his gallery here. That really was some classic stuff…(Louis Wu 22:10:59 UTC)
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Hot Springs
Dennis Powers let us know that Shipwrecked 52 is now online – the ring holds surprises…(Louis Wu 22:09:10 UTC)