Month: April 2009
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Aesthetic Artist Interviews, Week Three
The latest in jdars’ series of Aesthetic Artist Interviews is now live – screenshot maestro AusQB discusses what draws him to create spectacular Halo 3 screenshots, and provides tips on how to reproduce a pretty cool technique. Give it a read!(Louis Wu 15:42:55 UTC)
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Friday Comic Roundup
Just a few new strips today:According to the Bungie Blog, The Catfish has posted 2501 – Episode 44 (Watcher). anthraxgoon let our forum know that X36 Chapter 2 Issue 12 is live.Elnea put up Halo Action Figure Theater 171 – Bring It! (You know you can’t keep that guy down.)Bloogyo stopped in with word of…
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TPT: How to Suck Less at Halo Vol.2 – Chopper
Jake108 sent word that the Teabag Prevention Team has tackled Choppers this week, in their ongoing efforts to help you suck less at Halo. Go read tips and tricks for staying alive, and killing your foes. Get to da choppa! (HAH, JAKE!)(Louis Wu 14:19:46 UTC)
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Hitchcock would be calling… if he weren’t dead
This week’s Friday Caption Fun, over at Hawty McBloggy’s, contains a pretty cool screenshot – can you come up with a funny caption for it? (There are results from last week’s pic, as well, of course.)(Louis Wu 14:17:50 UTC)
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The Goose Trailer
Ollie1515 dropped by with word of a trailer for ‘The Goose’ for the “Cpt. Jackhammer Movie”. (I didn’t understand that description, either… and the trailer left me scratching my head, too.)(Louis Wu 14:17:22 UTC)
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My Halo Life: Episode 5
There’s another episode of My Halo Life online – the fifth iteration contains a bit over four minutes’ worth of clips from submitters, compiled by the My Halo Life crew. Thanks, urk. (Louis Wu 14:15:29 UTC)
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The Ultimate Halo Game – Discussed
The expansive document we mentioned yesterday, in which Gravemind began to lay down some ideas for ‘the Ultimate Halo Game’, has been getting some feedback – check the forum thread for a lot of discussion from Psychophan7, and swing by Rampancy.net to see Narcogen’s thoughts on the matter. Be warned – bring a BIG cup…
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Friday’s Fan Fiction
Only two stories submitted this week (both dropped off this morning) for the Fan Fiction section. Slow week for writers! Go read. (Louis Wu 14:03:11 UTC)
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Rebutting The Ultimate Halo Game
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Gravemind put all his ideas about what would be the ultimate Halo game. I thought I’d take a look at some of those elements and see which I liked, which I didn’t, and why: My preferred compromise would be a Resistance-style “sectional bar” health system, with the player using health packs to fully restore their…
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The Ultimate Halo Game
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A detail-oriented critic of the Halo series, Gravemind has now collected his ideas into a kind of roadmap for his ultimate Halo game to combine all the elements he finds the best from all three games, as well as eliminating the faults. Interesting read. If y ou don’t like the light text on dark background…
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Treat People Like People
The latest Broken In is online at Bungie.net – Mat Noguchi, a tiny bundle of glowing rage and a damned good programmer to boot, talks about what he does for Bungie, why, and how you can join him. Just don’t get in his way.(Louis Wu 23:35:48 UTC)