Author: halo@bungie.org
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BTS: What is the Bump?
Over at the Rooster Teeth website, Burnie’s posted a video that shows off one of the weird glitches in Halo 3 that they (and really MOST) machinima creators need to work around – and some ways of doing exactly that. Education can be entertaining!(Louis Wu 14:44:22 UTC)
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Halo Zapping
zukan pointed out a video on YouTube – ‘Le Zapatabadou’ is a French machinima version of Adult Swim’s ‘Robot Chicken’. As he says, even though the dialogue is in French, it’s not hard to figure out what’s going on most of the time – and some of the sketches are quite funny. Take a look!(Louis…
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Insanity, Not Rampancy
TTL Demag0gue let us know that Reclaimer 113 is live – the Reclaimer meets two more members of the Cavalcade.(Louis Wu 14:06:24 UTC)
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Str8 Rippin Captain gets Star Treatment
According to the New York Times, Tom ‘TSquared’ Taylor’s mug will appear on 175 million Dr. Pepper labels starting in January – the MLG Pro’s deal is the label’s first sports promotion with national distribution. He’s bigger than the Dallas Cowboys! (They only got regional distribution on Dr. Pepper labels.)(Louis Wu 13:35:01 UTC)
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Real Men Go Commando
Episode 2 of ODS Steve is now live at Hawty McBloggy’s – DeepCee’s hapless Helljumper proves he has trouble reading (or at least processing).(Louis Wu 13:34:32 UTC)
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Custom Armor Variants at B.net
Metalingus627 pointed out a thread at Bungie.net that contains a series of artist renditions of new armor perms (fan-made) – some interesting stuff in there!(Louis Wu 13:34:12 UTC)
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Heroes vs Nemesis WP
Linken91 posted a series of ‘Heroes vs Nemesis’ wallpapers, to commemorate a machinima series – if you like your wallpaper with lots of words, check these out. (Louis Wu 13:33:53 UTC)
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New Campaign Panos
nomis78 stopped in with six new panoramas – gorgeous work. Take the time to look at these. Update: looks like radiant penguin has posted his own, today (reminded by nomis78). Some great ones here, too!(Louis Wu 13:31:45 UTC)
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Ultra Kill? Really?
Ross Mills noticed an article at Maxim entitled ‘The 7 Greatest Faceless Announcers in Video Games’ – Halo’s Voice of God renderer makes the list. Some of the ‘memorable lines’ attributed to him, though, might make you wonder. (Louis Wu 13:30:39 UTC)
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Top 10 Halo 3 Moments of Season 2: Episode 14
Anoj108 has posted Episode 14 of his Top 10 Halo 3 Moments series – this one is just a highlights reel from ‘Season 2 (Episodes 8-13). Thanks, urk.(Louis Wu 13:30:16 UTC)
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Halo Wars Art, Hands-on Pieces Continue
More Halo Wars coverage – The Halo Wars website mentions writeups at Joystiq and Xbox360Achievements.com, in addition to the stuff we mentioned a couple of days ago (post 1 | post 2). Planet Halo points out one at TeamXbox, too. And Wired has put up its own piece. On top of this news, the Halo…
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XerxdeeJ – He Works for Them
Bungie.net’s ‘Average Joe’ series of interviews grew yesterday when a discussion with Tied the Leader’s XerxdeeJ hit the front page (thanks, Bryan Simon). deeJ isn’t your average ‘Average Joe’, as far as Halo community members go – but he’s modest enough that you’d almost think he wasn’t really responsible for the success of TTL if…
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Tobias Buckell in the hospital
Aaron Spuler was the first to point out a blog post over at Tobias Buckell’s website – the author of the soon-to-be-released ‘Cole Protocol’ novel was admitted to the hospital recently with heart trouble. Here’s hoping this all turns out well! (Louis Wu 13:27:44 UTC)
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Viral Marketing for Halo 3 Mythbusters
RandomSauce let us know about a video from CO0L Beans – the man risks life and limb to promote the cause of Halo 3 MythBusters on Xbox Live. Funny stuff – but I’m telling you now, if I met him in Matchmaking, I’d still shoot him. (Louis Wu 13:26:59 UTC)
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Halo 3 Mythic Walkthrough: Cortana
It’s Tuesday, so it’s time for another installment of Daniel ‘Tyrant’ Morris’ Solo Legendary All Skulls On Walkthrough of Halo 3 – this week’s info considers Cortana, and the pus-covered ship it takes place on. Lots and lots of movies, lots and lots of tips. When you get through reading this, you might think that…
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DWT Goes Halo 3 Tricking
urk posted a note about Psychoneurosis, a Halo 3 tricking video put together by DWT Productions – some pretty bizarre stuff! (If you swing by High Impact Halo, you can find a high-res download link, as well – it’s a beefy 225 mb, though.)(Louis Wu 17:48:47 UTC)
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Korea beefs up troop armor
DrDoctor pointed out an article at CNET about some new ‘Halo-esque’ armor for Korea’s troops… we’re getting closer to ODSTs!(Louis Wu 17:17:49 UTC)
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Looking back on an Age of Innocence
Ensemble’s Dave Pottinger talked to Shacknews about the closure of Ensemble Studios – and some information about the cancelled Halo MMO (there was a flurry of info about this project back in September). Sounds like they’re pretty unhappy about the closure – and the MMO project had gotten a lot further along than anyone thought!…
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TTL: What the…
XerxdeeJ stopped in to complain about Mondays, and to point out new content at Tied the Leader. Wait… it’s Tuesday again? There’s a full writeup of the honorable profession of Wheelmanning, complementing the Tail-gunner article from last week. And OboeCrazy has put together an October Highlight Reel for the Gunslingers (you cannot see it in…
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Halo 3: I Am the Master Chief
LostRock11 pointed out a rather bizarre, but pretty funny, video put together by Balloon Shop last year just after Halo 3 was released. It made me laugh!(Louis Wu 17:13:01 UTC)