Author: HBO
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THIS is why I stick around.
Does Mig rock, or what? (Yes, the thread is locked. All 5 songs are gone. I didn’t want to put this on the front page until they were… but the act needed recognition.)(Louis Wu 15:37:37 UTC)
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Ve are NOT losink that ship, darlink!
Bizarre – Sep7imus ran across an interview with Julie Benz (the voice actress who plays Miranda Keyes in Halo 2) – the end of the interview contained questions about Halo 2, and some perplexing information:TVGuide.com: Are you all done with your voice work for the Halo 3 video game? Benz: You know what? I am…
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Go Blue! Woo-hoo!
Gah. I forgot to post this a couple of days ago – but Luke McKay sketched up the newest character in the RvB series, Lil’ Sis. Kind of Pippi Longstocking-ish, you ask me…(Louis Wu 13:41:21 UTC)
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New DA find
rayzer730 was browsing DeviantART, and ran across this image by luxun. Great work! Seems like he does a lot of coloring, as well – check out this pic. (Louis Wu 13:17:20 UTC)
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Friday’s Fanfic
Twelve new pieces for you this week in the Fan Fiction section – new authors, old favorites – go look!(Louis Wu 13:11:35 UTC)
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Sound Arguments
MLG’s released another podcast, this one discussing the National Championships and what helped (or hindered) the top teams in their quest for top honors. 10 minutes, 4.6 mb – go listen. Thanks, 3Suns.(Louis Wu 12:38:15 UTC)
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Happy Birthday… and Godspeed.
Happy Birthday today (and a sad farewell) to vshields ash, who has turned 55 – and has announced his retirement from the Halo community. (It’s real, and it’s time, and though we’re going to miss him, mostly because I won’t be able to say there’s a community member who’s almost 15 years older than I…
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Halo 3 Track Available on iTunes
Marty O’Donnell has released the track from the Halo 3 Announcement trailer as a single, available for exclusive download from the iTunes Music Store. A thread sprang up on our forum last night, with a number of posters expressing everything from disappointment to disgust that this piece is for sale (at a whopping 99 cents),…
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Sprucing up the old 360
Hawaiian Pig won our Design a Faceplate Contest back in August, and he was contacted by a fan named Randy Goth who wanted to use the design to make his own faceplate. HP had to modify the design a bit to fit the template Randy was using – and last night posted the pics Randy…
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Animated Flip Books
Interesting – over at the Halo 3 Forum at Bungie.net, I noticed a thread about animated flip books made by DFlyDen – they look really cool! (You can see the Halo-related ones, along with several other kinds, in videos at GameTrailers.com. They’re not for sale anywhere.)(Louis Wu 23:56:22 UTC)
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XBL-related upgrades at halowiki.net
PEZ wrote to say that the Halo 2 Recent Games Listing and the Halo 2 Live Game Saver have been integrated at halowiki.net – you can now easily see (and save) any games you’re really proud of with just a couple of clicks. Check it out!(Louis Wu 22:39:50 UTC)
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Creative Contests Winding Down
We got word from bryboy remix, reminding us about the Halopeño So Hot Editing Contest, ending in just a few days. (Deadline for submissions is midnight, December 18, and winners will be announced on Christmas day.) As a refresher, all you need are moviemaking tools; the content is provided by HBO’s cutscene library (video) and…
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Halo Base interviews Cody Miller
Legend, from Halo Base, sent word about an interview with Cody Miller, the Halo world speedrunning champion (heh). It’s primarily a discussion of his 3 and a half hour Legendary No-Deaths run that won this year’s Twin Galaxies challenge – it’s a fascinating read! (The Halo Base staff confused Cody with Mike Miller at one…
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GTR’s 2nd Annual Xbox Community Awards ’06
Last year, we mentioned the Gamertag Radio Xbox Community Awards almost in passing – and we even WON one! The site was young, and maybe a little rough… but they’ve really polished things up this past year, and the awards ceremony this year is chock-full of Xbox luminaries, humor bits, and music. There’s even a…
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New footage next week?
Xboxic uncovered a blog post from YLA G, a Microsoft employee who’s part of the Xbox Elite Team Belgium, that reports about a 7 minute Halo 3 trailer to be available on Xbox Live Marketplace next week.The clip will show the emergence of the Brutes as “playable characters” in the game and it will contain…
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They like… something.
Over at Bungie.net, there’s a new article about Certain Affinity, a soon-to-be Bungie Spinoff; Max Hoberman, who’s been the multiplayer design lead for Halo 2 and Halo 3, has been hard at work with a hand-picked crew building the Halo 2 maps that will be released for 360 owners this spring. At some point soon,…
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Bubble Wrap
Paul Maestri sends word that Halo Heads 33 is online – and I must say, it’s rather surreal. Not unpleasant… just odd.(Louis Wu 03:22:06 UTC)
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RvB vid, theme on XBLM
According to Major Nelson, there’s a new Red vs Blue Holiday Video, and a Theme for your 360, available on Xbox Marketplace. (No pictures I can find online, yet.) Thanks, darthbob100.(Louis Wu 18:13:19 UTC)
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Off The Top Of His Head…
Today’s One One Se7en is much more understandable if you’re British.(Louis Wu 15:17:54 UTC)
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Makin’ a Buck
This popped up yesterday, but I forgot to mention it. Apparently, one of the UK sites that has been given a set of beta slots to give away to fans has decided to SELL those slots. Microsoft was not amused, and warned any site caught doing this would be cut off from all future Microsoft…