Year: 2009
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Monday Comic Roundup
Let’s see what we’ve got for you today:Elnea’s posted Halo Action Figure Theater #189 – Fixing a Hole. Wuvvy might have a problem.luke’s latest Grin + Bear It is live at Hawty McBloggy’s – are attitudes towards female soldiers changing?Bloogyo reported some new Xbox problems, so Rat’s Nest is on hold for a while.Go read!…
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Tattoos and gaming and art, oh my!
Hawty McBloggy highlighted another Halo tattoo today – really colorful! Awesome rendition of the image off the cover of the Halo Graphic Novel. Take a look. (While you’re there, check out some information about her upcoming Halo 3 Community Playdate, organized by Xbox.com, and take a look at some very nice Halo: Reach iPhone wallpaper…
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Waypoint Goodies
Halo Waypoint has their new schedule up for the week – they’re going to be spending a significant chunk of time on Halo Evolutions (the short story collection coming out later this month). There are two 7-minute videos up right now – interviews with Kevin Grace, Eric Nylund, Frank O’Connor, and Jonathan Goff, in which…
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Top 5 most incredible war scenes in gaming
MSNBC.com put together a short piece they call the “Top 5 most incredible war scenes in gaming” – the ‘Rolling Thunder’ segment of Halo (the original) made the list. Nice! Thanks, ArteenEsben.(Louis Wu 13:42:30 UTC)
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Old Halo magazine article on sale
essentialparadox let us know that he’s selling a copy of the July 2000 PC Gamer, which contained an article about Halo before the move to the Xbox. (If you want to see the contents of the article, we posted scans of it back when it was released – but if you buy this, you can…
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Podtacular 209: Callins and Tales from the Foxhole
Download | Shownotes It’s been a while since we did a Callins and Tales show, so we decided to catch up on the huge backlog of submissions we had. We were going to have a favorite guest on for such an occasion, but plans didn’t work out too well; so GLewis and I went solo.…
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Happy Birthday, Halo!
CaptainTony reminded us that 8 years ago today, the world got to play Halo for the first time on the (then) brand-new Xbox. Wow, how time flies!(Louis Wu 18:02:07 UTC)
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Solving a five-year-old trick challenge
We got word from grumpy about a Halo 2 trick. Explaining it is non-trivial; if you’re not part of the tricking community, it might be difficult to even understand what’s being done. Way back in late 2004, a special gun, hidden by Bungie just for tricksters, was found on the Halo 2 level Metropolis -…
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Edge of Reason
Chaos Theory’s Adam Susskind has a new machinima for you – swing by his website for Edge of Reason, a seven minute tale of a cop slipping past the bounds of normal…(Louis Wu 15:10:52 UTC)
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Chieftan Leviticus
TDSpiral is back with a new piece of Halo artwork; this one is called ‘Chieftan Leviticus’, and it’s a really nice moody piece. Check it out!(Louis Wu 15:08:38 UTC)
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Robot continues to tweak Halo Wars
Thanks to FyreWulff, who noticed a thread on the Halo Wars forum detailing potential changes coming in a future Halo Wars Title Update. Looks like some Achievements might be getting easier! (Louis Wu 15:01:56 UTC)