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Ferrex talks Forge World
Back in March, when the Arena was revealed, Ferrex spent a couple of hours answering fan questions on the Bungie.net forum. We pulled out his answers, reformatted them for easy reading, and posted a local archive. Last night, he did the same thing, this time for Forge World – and once again, we’ve put up a local collection of the questions he answered. (There’s also one pulled from a totally separate thread – but the question – and its answer – are very relevant.) He’s hoping to do another round tonight – but for now, read this batch; it’s chock-full of Bungie goodness.(Louis Wu 13:24:09 UTC)
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Friday Caption Fun, Round 102
It’s Friday, right? So there’s probably a new Friday Caption Fun at Hawty McBloggy’s, right? Right. She’s got amusing responses to last week’s pic, of course, and for this week’s pic, she chose the Blame Stosh replacement pic Brian included in last Friday’s Bungie Weekly Update. Go caption it.(Louis Wu 13:23:20 UTC)
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Fire Team Zulu: Spirit of the Wolf/Raceway
FyreWulff continues his Fire Team Zulu challenges, Forge World bombshells notwithstanding – today’s choices include a Campaign challenge on Coastal Highway, and another on Tayari Plaza. (No Firefight challenges at all this week.) They both sound fun – go try ’em!(Louis Wu 13:22:59 UTC)
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G4’s Liveblog, with Options
We mentioned yesterday that G4 was going to liveblog the Reach Panel at SDCC – they did. If you don’t feel like reading the liveblog replay, Kaboris transcribed the whole shebang on our forum. Interesting read!(Louis Wu 13:22:23 UTC)
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New Firefight/MP screens
ElzarTheBam pointed out a thread on Bungie.net that links to a YouTube video showing off screenshots we haven’t seen elsewhere yet. There’s a warning that there might be Campaign spoilers mixed in here – but I’m pretty sure that’s a totally baseless fear. What you WILL see are shots of an Ivory Tower remake that will cause the nostalgia to roll through in crashing waves. (There are also shots of other, as-yet-unreleased multiplayer maps.)(Louis Wu 13:21:43 UTC)
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ComicCon Video Library
John_117 collected all the video links he could find in one place – swing by and see what you might have missed!(Louis Wu 13:21:08 UTC)
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Acme Archives Direct talks Halo
Halo Waypoint interviewed a couple of employees from Acme Archives Direct, a company that prints Halo artwork (among other properties). Interesting discussion, and gorgeous pieces! Thanks, CaptainTony.(Louis Wu 13:20:18 UTC)
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Show Floor Firefight Shakeycam
GameTrailers has some Firefight video from the ComicCon show floor – same city map Bungie showed off at E3. If you can’t play, at least you can watch. Thanks, AfroRyan.(Louis Wu 13:20:00 UTC)
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Forge World Demo at GameSpot
GameSpot has a great interview with Chad ‘Shishka’ Armstrong, discussing the ins and outs of Forge 2.0 and Forge World. Almost nine minutes of creativey goodness! Thanks again, Minime637. (There’s a writeup, as well, at IGN – no video, but a couple of pages of description – soak it all in!)(Louis Wu 13:19:20 UTC)
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New vids from IGN
IGN posted a pair of vids – one shows off the Armory (at least what’s in it from the start), the other previews Firefight – a bunch of new info about what we’re in for in September. Thanks, Minime637.(Louis Wu 13:18:45 UTC)
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Friday’s Fan Fiction
Only three new pieces in the Fan Fiction section this week – but it’s a pretty interesting variety! Go read ’em.(Louis Wu 13:17:51 UTC)
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AH: More Mass Effect 2 DLC coming! Now with more Liara
[WARNING: Mass Effect 2 Spoilers about the beginning of the game inbound]
The oft rumored DLC that involves Liara and the Shadow Broker is finally coming! In the DLC titled Lair of the Shadow Broker would end the plot thread that started in the Game/Comics involving Liara and the Shadow Broker. For those of you who do not know (didn’t do the Liara quests in the game or read the comic) what happened in the comics is that after the Normandy 1 crashed and Shepard kinda died the Collectors contacted the Shadow Broker in order get his body. Liara found out about this and the proverbial shit hit the fan. She fought against him and most of her team died. THEN in the game (if you help her) you can help Liara start narrowing down where the Shadow Broker is hiding and other things my boozed brain cannot remember.
So that brings us to the DLC. This would (one would assume) bring her tracking of the Shadow Broker to an end with a well written mission and some new dialog! What the pictures show (which I will post at the end) is that she is along for the ride and not squadable. Kinda sad but I would stand to believe that it would kinda mess up the narrative story in the main game. What this means in achievements? I have no clue BUT more Mass Effect 2 DLC means more time that disc gets to spin in my 360.
Release date and price are TBA. OH LOOK PICTURE!
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Forge World Screenshots
To really get a feel for Forge World, which will ship with Reach, Bungie’s posted a few dozen new screenshots – swing by their website and browse! Warning: Gorgeosity Overload Imminent.(Louis Wu 10:06:21 UTC)
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Unboxing Reach
Another video is available today on Bungie.net, or watchable on YouTube; it’s 3 Bungie bigwigs, showing off all the new retail goodies you’ll be able to buy on September 14. (To my knowledge, Bungie’s never done this before… but Reach is a slightly different beast than the games that preceded it.) They perform a full unboxing of the Limited and Legendary Editions of the game, with commentary… along with the unboxing of the brand-new Halo Reach Special Edition Xbox 360 Slim. (That puppy’s pretty slick-looking…) The bundle comes with the 360, 2 custom Reach controllers, and the game, and will sell for $400 – but only for a limited time. Wow.(Louis Wu 10:01:31 UTC)
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Forge World
So yesterday, while your friendly neighborhood site updater was out until 2 am, Bungie turned the Halo world on its ear at San Diego ComicCon. We’ll catch up at some point, but let’s get started with the big stuff… and the biggest stuff was a new ViDoc explaining Forge World. It’s ridiculous, and it’s unexplainable in a paragraph of text, so visit Bungie.net, download the ViDoc in the flavor of your choice (or watch it on YouTube if you must), and then wipe up the drool, because nobody likes walking in drool.(Louis Wu 09:48:07 UTC)
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New Bungie Comic-Con Madness
Bungie is at it again, outdoing themselves with more intriguing vidocs, and two of them! Don’t you feel special.
First up, we got some un-boxing action of the different versions of Reach you can get your hands on. And of course there’s the Xbox 360 Slim Reach Edition.
Second up is probably going to give every forger nostalgia until the game actually comes out. A vast majority of space and tools to help every forger. I’m talking different physics, snap angles, rotations, etc. Bungie has really outdone themselves throwing Forge into one gigantic map. This is a must see for everyone.
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RT: Ready for my close-up!
The office is empty right now, so it fell to me to post the comic, I will now take this time to clarify a few things:
1. I don’t own a Fleshlight. (Brandon does.)
2. Geoff smells like butts.
3. If you are at Comic-Con, go visit Geoff and Gus at booth #1437. Ask them to record an outgoing voicemail message for you. Or just have them do quotes over and over again (in character). Also, ask which one does the voice of Caboose.That is all, have a wonderful day!
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