Month: March 2009
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More Halo Wars Concept Art
InnerRayg noticed that the Conceptart.org thread that we mentioned a couple of days ago (with Ensemble-employee-posted concept art for Halo Wars) has been updated with another batch of images, from another artist. Check out page 2!(Louis Wu 14:45:26 UTC)
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Master Chief Theater 3000: Episode 302
Pyrosmile has uploaded Master Chief Theater 3000: Episode 302 – the rest of the Pillar of Autumn cutscenes are covered in this one. If you’re a Pyrosmile member, you can watch outtakes on their website.(Louis Wu 14:41:55 UTC)
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Wednesday’s Halo Comic Update
It’s Wednesday, so it’s time for a comic update. Here’s what we’ve got. The Catfish let us know about 2501 Episode 25 (Communication) – not so good for all involved.Elnea updated Halo Action Figure Theater with Episode 158 (Admiral’s Choice) – and some entertaining speculation about council members.Adam Susskind stopped by with word of Chaos…
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Spong Likes Halo Wars, Too
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Another mostly positive review for Halo Wars up at Spong: I still enjoyed Halo Wars. I even enjoyed the cut-scenes that powered the single-player’s short, 15 episode (mission) game along. The simple reason for my enjoyment is that Ensemble Studios (rest its soul) has produced an intelligent game that can be slipped into with or…
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Slashdot Posts Positive Halo Wars Review
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Soulskill has posted a review of Halo Wars over at Slashdot. Generally his opinion was positive. He sums up the game thusly: Ensemble succeeded quite well at establishing a control system that is powerful yet doesn’t fight for intellectual real estate with the actual playing of the game. It’s not a ground-breaking new entry into…
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AH: Sweet Naptime Achievement Guide
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Hey there sexy, I was just sitting here thinking about ways to “woo” you, and I realized what’s totally missing in your life – another Halo Wars Achievement Walkthrough. Have no fear, the Doctor of Love is here – with the “Sweet Naptime”…
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Microsoft Sued Over Technology In Halo?
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Bloomberg News is reporting that PalTalk Holdings Inc. of New York has paid about $200K for patents belonging to Mpath, which reportedly had discussions with Microsoft once upon a time about technology for “ways to control interactive applications over multiple computers”. PalTalk is now suing Microsoft for violating those patents; they say MS had discussions…
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RT: Don't Watchmen
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So, Matt was the first to see Watchmen in the office, and he had some very definitive impressions of it.
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AH: Tank Dropper Achievement
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Hello World, Today’s video is…you know what? I’m just going to say it. It’s fucking awesome. There, that feels better. I find that honesty is always the best policy. Gav and I found creative ways to get the “Tank Dropper” Achievement in Halo…
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More Weight
A detailed look at the fiction of Microsoft and Ensemble’s Halo Wars… It would be unfair to suggest that there hasn’t been an exceptional amount of skepticism directed toward Ensemble Studios’ Halo Wars over the past few months – and there’s likely not been more weight placed on a single Halo title to succeed than…
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Biscuits, gravy, and the Perfect Storm
It’s Tuesday, so it’s time for another Average Joe interview on Bungie.net. Today’s victim is LouieBlack, a driver with H3Wheelmen.com. Go see what makes him go!(Louis Wu 18:14:35 UTC)
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Halopen Pencast 06
Firestorm12 let us know that the Halopen Pencast 06 is now online – including impressions of the Mythic Maps. Discussion and comments always welcome on their forum…(Louis Wu 18:06:43 UTC)
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Applied to Life: Capture the Flag
One of my favorite new series is ‘Applied to Life’ – and they’ve got a new short up. This one is called ‘Capture the Flag’, and it proves you can find excitement in the most mundane of activities. I found it on Bungie.net.(Louis Wu 16:06:13 UTC)
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What’s your handicap?
Greenskull and SMG90 spent who knows how long setting up a golf course on Sandbox – just so they could score a ridiculous hole-in-one from the Sky Bubble to the Crypt… with a LOT of stuff in the middle. Stick with the Bungie Blog – it’ll post these for you so you don’t have to…
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Speed Forging
There’s a whole community of folks that have fun building Forged maps as quickly as possible. Check out this video that showed up on the Bungie Blog for an example. (Forget the Forging… that DRIVING is amazing!) Then check out their YouTube channel for more.(Louis Wu 16:02:38 UTC)
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ForgeHub’s Best of Forge: Fall/Winter 2008
ForgeHub has posted their ‘Best of Fall/Winter 2008/09’ competition – the best of the best, in 16 categories (plus a pair of runners-up in each category) means lots and lots of cool maps to try out! Thanks, urk.(Louis Wu 15:49:47 UTC)