Year: 2010
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Not A Halo Ring
Dani, the man behind Forward Unto Dawn, received an in-game message last night during HaloGAF’s weekly custom games. The message came from his girlfriend, and was facilitated by DiabolicalBagel, a friend. The message resulted in a shiny new ring for Dani, some unprintable words for Bagel, and a pretty cool story to tell to the…
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The Gift of Mercy
Nabsuh let us know about The Gift of Mercy, a machinima project directed by Drift0r that uses Halo 3, Modern Warfare 2, and straight-up CGI to tell a story of misunderstanding and betrayal. Narration is done by bs angel. Overall, a great piece of work – go watch it! (Louis Wu 16:29:09 UTC)
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The Gift of Mercy
Nabsuh let us know about The Gift of Mercy, a machinima project directed by Drift0r that uses Halo 3, Modern Warfare 2, and straight-up CGI to tell a story of misunderstanding and betrayal. Narration is done by bs angel. Overall, a great piece of work – go watch it! (Louis Wu 16:29:09 UTC)
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A strong vision, from the beginning
Marcus is back with more information about the Campaign portion of Halo: Reach, over on the Reach Developer Blog. Give it a read to see the overall roadmap for game development that Reach is using to get from the team’s brains to your Xbox. Go read!(Louis Wu 15:48:36 UTC)
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Spherical Panorama: Valhalla
HaLo2FrEeEk is back with another cool panorama – this time, it’s a 20mb version of Valhalla. Check his forum post for details on how it was created, then swing by to his panorama viewer to play with it! (The Little World version of the map is pretty cool, all by itself.) And if you have…
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RT: PAX Comic
So Griffon and Luke made this one at the hotel bar here at PAX East. I’m told it was a “six drinker”. Figures.
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Podtacular 220 Aftershow
Here’s an excerpt from the episode 220 recording that happened after the show. There was an article that came up on Kotaku that Kete from The Running Riot pointed out. We had an hour discussion about this and Reach. NOTE: This audio has not been censored; you have been warned. Podtacular 220 Aftershow (right click…
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Adding the extra spices
SoundWorks Collection is a site devoted to ‘profiling the greatest and upcoming sound minds from around the world’ – and they’ve posted some material they recorded at the Game Developer Conference this year. The second video on the page is an interview with Marty O’Donnell, talking about where he came from, and how he’s carved…
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HBOFFPotW – 0326
Almost missed this – kabu stopped by to announce that the HBO Fan Fic Pick of the Week is live on the HBOFF forum – (ENS) Rabid_Gallagher wrote it up, complete with pics. It’s EXTREME!(Louis Wu 19:55:53 UTC)
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AH: AH @ PAX
WE’RE HERE! That’s right, Achievement Hunter is at PAX East 2010. Tonight, instead of seeing MC Frontalot tearing it up, I stayed in the hotel room and cut together this little preview for you nice nice folks. Expect a ton of previews and interviews over the next few days coming from me, as well as…
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RT: Rooster Teeth at PAX right NOW!
If you are visiting PAX East at all today, make sure to come by the Rooster Teeth booth and say hello. You can navigate to it on the official PAX East app for the iPhone and blackberry. If you can, you should also check out the Rooster Teeth panel at 3:30 eastern today in the…
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Podtacular 220: Halo 2 Farewell: Campaign Tales
Download | Shownotes A few weeks later and we finally get around to recording this (oops). We are back, diving into the roots of Podtacular. That’s right: Halo 2. We definitely outdid ourselves this time when we wend 2 and a half hours and was still not done. Greg dropped in late from another universe.…
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Halo 3 Cortana, v2.0
MsValentine remade her Cortana costume – a second iteration of the Halo 3 Cortana – for MegaCon 2010, which took place earlier this month. It’s pretty amazing, and you can look through a collection of shots she sent us for a gallery here. If you like what you see… swing by her site and click…
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Surfeit of Talent
Marcus Lehto has updated the Reach Developer Blog with an apology – and some serious excitement. I guess it’s going well!(Louis Wu 14:56:53 UTC)
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Friday Caption Fun – Play on Saturday!
We totally missed Friday Caption Fun, Round 85, posted at Hawty McBloggy’s yesterday. Luckily, she went on vacation, and didn’t notice! Bonus days to post… she’s got last week’s caption winners, plus a new (well, old, but classic) shot up for your captioning pleasure – so go pleasure yourself! (While you’re there, check out a…
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AH: The Weekend Hunt
While Jack and Geoff are away, the community will play! After the success of last week’s community game nights, we’re back for more to make up for lacking the cash or time to make an appearance at PAX East. We want as many community run events as possible, so if you’re planning one, post the…
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AH: Gamers Rapport – 004: Nick o' time
This Week on Gamers Rapport we have a special guest, Sir Nicholas whom is a friend to Fragger, and has been all up ons the Dragon Age: Origins: Awakening Expansion. So we talk about that, Dante’s Inferno, and Perfect Dark on XBLA. Also we discuss the upcoming gaming drought as well as a teensy bit…
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Investments that Pay Off
The Bungie Weekly Update is live (either on Bungie.net, or in our Weekly Update Archive), and it’s full of clarifications about the Player Investment System Reach will have. You need to go read it for answers to your burning questions. (Louis Wu 00:22:20 UTC)