Author: narcogen
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League Of Extraordinarily Gentlemanly Halo Players
Spartan Jag got matched up with a bunch of quitters in Team Slayer on Xbox Live, but came away with a heartwarming tale of good sportsmanship and good manners involving a group not unknown to HBO’s readers– the Tied The Leader Gunslingers. A good read, check it out. Also be sure to check out TTL,…
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Best Of The Worst
1Up.com obviously didn’t get enough Bungie in their “three weeks of Halo 3” coverage, because now the company is getting a mention again– this time for Marathon. Unfortunately, it’s not a flattering mention. Marathon 2 is featured in their Best Worst Ads 3 feature, on page six, which shows their ad from 1996 that compares…
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FASA Head Wanted Bungie Kept In Chicago
The Escapist has a nice piece on how Microsoft has gone from being a puppy to a big dog in the computer and console game space, and how often that has been achieved through acquisitions. To do so, they spoke with Bruce Shelley of Ensemble Studios, best-known for their Age of Empires series of RTS…
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Microsoft Will Not Go It Alone On Halo Film
Buried near the bottom of an interview by Dean Takahashi over at the Mercury News interview with Microsoft’s president of Entertainment and Devices Robbie Bach, comes the news that Microsoft will look for other studios to make the Halo film with, or give up the project. Does it make sense for Microsoft to be in…
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Want To See Halo 3 Spoilers Something Awful?
Then head right over to Something Awful for their sneak preview of Halo 3 where the Master Chief can kill you with his mind.
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Seventeen Seconds In A War Zone
That’s how long a look 1Up actually got at Halo 3’s campaign mode. They described the area they were in as an outdoor war zone on Earth. They mentioned Covenant air craft that disregarded them, and a new Ghost apparently specialized for use by Brutes. Oh, and the Gauss Hog returns. Other than that… not…
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Halo 3 Multiplayer Screenshots Released
A selection of the screenshots of Halo 3 multiplayer that have been featured in gaming magazines and embargo-breaking European websites for the past week or so are now up at Bungie.net in pretty high resolutions. Inside the main Halo 3 image gallery, Rampancy now has a Halo 3 Multiplayer screenshot gallery for them. Enjoy!
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The 12 Games Of Xbox
Eurogamer is doing a retrospective on the top twelve exclusive franchises for the first Xbox console. Halo 1 and 2 unsurprisingly clock in at #1.
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Xbox 360 Sales May Be Making Profit
Ars Technica notes that recent decreases in the costs of parts and manufacturing may mean Microsoft no longer has to subsidize the sales of their Xbox 360 console with profits from software: they may be making as much as $75 on each console sold, according to iSuppli. Meanwhile, it is estimated that Sony will lose…
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Pfhor For Pfhriday
Four Aleph One netmaps and a Lua CTF script for Marathon fans today over at Aleph One, courtesy of eX and W’rkcacnter.
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Not Just For PCs Anymore
One of the oft-discussed topics among those following the upcoming Halo Wars RTS game by Ensemble for the Xbox 360 console is whether or not a workable interface for a strategy game can be created for a console. Many commenters have offered that RTS games just belong on PCs to be played with mice and…
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It Rings A Bell
1Up’s latest Halo feature is a retrospective on the Halo series. The teaser on their three weeks of Halo 3 microsite mentions the “Halo/Marathon universe” but there’s nary a mention of Marathon there, and as we all know, the two universes are separate anyway. Right? Of course, they’ve also got coverage of yesterday’s revelations about…
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Bungie Announces Halo 3 Public Beta
Bungie commemorates the fifth anniversary of the release of Halo with an announcement that touches on both Halo 3 and Halo 2. First, there will be a Halo 3 television commercial airing during Monday Night Football on December 4th. Secondly, in the spring of 2007 there will be more Halo 2 maps available. They won’t…
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Happy Birthday Halo
Five years ago today, Halo shipped to eager Bungie fans and the unsuspecting masses of Xbox early adopters around the world. To commemorate this (and whet your appetite for whatever big news is to come later) Frankie has put up an Anniversary Panel of game journalists and fansite editors (including HBO’s own Louis Wu) to…
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The Continuing Evolution Of Halo Multiplayer
The newest installment of 1Up’s Three Weeks of Halo 3 looks at player complaints about Halo 2’s online play and how those are being addressed in Halo 3, including weapon spawns, dual-wielding, player icons and more. In particular, Ferrex mentions how the weapon spawn system in Halo 1 was made, and how in Halo 3,…
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An Appropriate Number
1Up continues their “three weeks of Halo 3” online series to accompany their chocked-with-Halo 3-goodness December issue. The latest addition is a Humpday Challenge writeup where Bungie cheats and multiplayer lead Tyson “Ferrex” Green graciously stops at the appropriate number of 7 kills to leave 1Up with some self-esteem. Just not much.
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NBA Player Wants To Cheat At Halo?
Gilbert Arenas of the Washington Wizards spends a lot of time online playing Halo 2. He brings an Xbox 360 to the hotel with him on the road and connects to Xbox Live through their Internet connection. What does he want to do next? According to Xbox.com, he wants to be a modder. “First it…
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Arisen From Coconut-Flavored Ashes
Nick from HaloDev let us know that their site has re-opened with a new backend system and a lovely bunch of coconuts. The site has FAQs for HaloDev as well as for the Prometheus editor, community forums, and developer blogs.
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Ghosts Of Onyx: Show Funk The Story
Funkmon over at Subnova wrote up a scathing review of Eric Nylund’s latest Halo novel, Ghosts of Onyx. Although he gave high marks for writing and story, in the end he wanted fewer new characters and more of the Master Chief– and the reality is the book isn’t about Master Chief at all. For my…
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Funk Reviews GOO
Funkmon over at Subnova wrote up a scathing review of Eric Nylund’s latest Halo novel, Ghosts of Onyx. Although he gave high marks for writing and story, in the end he wanted fewer new characters and more of the Master Chief– and the reality is the book isn’t about Master Chief at all. For my…