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Game with Fame: Four Bands
More Game with Fame stuff coming up – on October 7, four bands will be online to play Halo 3 with you. Swing by Xbox.com for details, and info on how to get involved. (Louis Wu 14:12:49 UTC)
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Ark panoramas
nomis78 whipped out another pair of Ark panoramas – they’re images we’ve seen before, but the composition on both is pretty nice. Check ’em out!(Louis Wu 14:12:25 UTC)
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Halo Wars on GTTV
According to this GameTrailers TV promo, Halo Wars will be shown this Friday night at 1 am on GameTrailers TV (and after that on GameTrailers.com) – ‘exclusive Campaign coverage’ and more. Thanks, LoneRanger 2.5.(Louis Wu 14:12:00 UTC)
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More Halo Goodies in the Fable II LCE
What the… Ross Mills pointed out an article at Kotaku that details the contents of the Fable II Limited Collector’s Edition – and among the stuff you’d EXPECT in a fantasy game, there’s a listing for “Spartan armor and energy sword”. Now, we already knew about the Spartan armor – but there’s an energy sword, too? Wonga.(Louis Wu 14:10:44 UTC)
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Halo On Mythic Difficulty Walkthrough
Okay, first of all, I know, there’s no such thing as official Mythic difficulty in Halo 3. That’s what people call playing solo, legendary, all skulls on (HSH calls them SLASO to create more acronyms).
Daniel “Tyrant” Morris has posted over at HBO a walkthrough for this mode that makes this possible, and it’s fantastic. If you haven’t read it and you’re a campaign junkie, it’s an absolute must.
UPDATE: Author corrected from Asmodeus to Daniel “Tyrant” Morris.
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Halo On Mythic Difficulty Walkthrough
Okay, first of all, I know, there’s no such thing as official Mythic difficulty in Halo 3. That’s what people call playing solo, legendary, all skulls on (HSH calls them SLASO to create more acronyms).
Asmodeus has posted over at HBO a walkthrough for this mode that makes this possible, and it’s fantastic. If you haven’t read it and you’re a campaign junkie, it’s an absolute must.
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Community Voice
We are having our monthly leadership conference on Sunday, and now is the time to speak up. Think there should be something changed on the site? Is someone due credit for their efforts in the community? Now’s your chance to speak up. If you have something to say, please send me an e-mail at duststorm117(at)gmail(dot)com, replacing appropriate punctuation.
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Microsoft Forms New Halo Studio
According to the intertubes, Microsoft is forging ahead with Halo using a new internal studio. Forming the team are Ryan Payton, formerly of Kojima Productions and the producer of Metal Gear Solid 4; Corinne Yu, former technician at Gearbox; and at least two former Bungie employees: writer Frank “Frankie” O’Connor and animator Nathan “bentllama” Walpole.
Linkdump: Shacknews, Joystiq, GameSpot, GameReviews, HBO, bentllama’s HBO forum post, EDGE Online.
This formation puts Bungie’s independence in a bit sharper contrast. While Keep It Clean shows that Bungie isn’t done with Halo, it is no longer the only thing they are working on. While there were always supposedly other projects in the works while Halo games were in production, none ever reached fruition, and the Halo projects typically consumed the studio’s entire attention come crunch time.
That Bungie’s Halo project is billed as “Halo 3”, indicating an expansion rather than an entire new game, indicates that their commitment to the title will be somewhat less in the past, giving room for new developments.
Presumably the new studio will be 100% devoted to Halo. So the question will become: will fans be just as interested in Halo games not made by Bungie? Will these games be FPS, like the Halo series to date, or something else? Time will tell.
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Fall Tournament Week 1
Okay So, We will be doing a double elimination because there were only so many teams that signed up. There will also be a team with a by this week.
Schedule!:
Equinox vs. Team Strik3 Down
Reflex vs. Your Team
Blain and Simple vs. AoR
By: Winged Warriors
EVERYONE SCHEDULE YOUR GAMES and you can try to contact them, here is a link with the teams.
Also, the scores are due the by this Sunday.
If you have questions feel free to ask.
– Jaba
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Just Add Strategy
Edge has posted a worrying piece on Halo Wars – they wonder if Ensemble has dumbed down (well… de-complicated) the RTS genre in an attempt to appeal to the FPS crowd that is Halo’s main audience at the moment… and in doing so has managed to create a game that appeals to neither Halo’s base nor the typical RTS fan. Here’s hoping they’re worrying needlessly!(Louis Wu 21:50:13 UTC)
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Microsoft’s Halo team – and info on Bungie’s next reveal
I wasn’t going to post this, because much of the information (Payton, Yu, etc) had already been circulated… but then we got a tidbit I hadn’t seen before. So: Edge Online (thanks, Michael Smith), along with ShackNews and Joystiq (thanks, bentllama) are reporting that Microsoft is confirming some of the new, big hires of the internal Halo team at Microsoft Game Studios: Ryan Payton, who worked on Metal Gear Solid 4, is heading up the Peter Jackson Halo project, working alongside Ex-Gearbox programmer Corrine Yu, her husband Kenneth Scott, formerly of Id, David Wu, from Pseudo Interactive, and Frank O’Connor, formerly of Bungie. (And, as we now know, Nathan ‘bentllama’ Walpole, also formerly of Bungie.) A pretty all-star team! Edge also confirms that there will be a major announcement from Bungie at next week’s Tokyo Game Show, with reference to the recently released ‘KEEP IT CLEAN’ teaser. (Louis Wu 20:54:47 UTC)
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Submit your Stuff
We are kinda taking a backwards twist on things starting up. This week’s episode will be Customs and Creations, so send in a description of your favorite map variant, game variant, etc. along with your name to get a chance to be mentioned on the show. Deadline is Sunday afternoon.
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405th Source, Issue 01
Adam Grumbo, from the 405th Infantry Division, let us know that the first issue of the 405th Ezine is now available for download, in PDF format. It’s hefty – weighs in at 21 mb – but it’s chock-full of interesting stuff, and well worth the download for any Halo fan. There are spotlights on costume creators, interviews with community celebrities (author Eric Nylund and actress Kristen Rutherford from the I Love Bees campaign), tutorials, fiction, and more. Like everything these guys put out, this is polished and professional looking; grab your copy now! (Louis Wu 16:01:30 UTC)
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Movin’ On Up
If you were wondering what sort of experience was needed for each playlist advancement (as opposed to the TrueSkill rank advancement), Grunts R Us is here to help. Check out their Playlist Progression Ranking page. Next stop – a dee-luxe apartment.(Louis Wu 14:59:45 UTC)
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Church Art
ZZoMBiE13 continues to bring life to moments and characters from the RvB: Reconstruction series – his latest work is called ‘Ghost Church‘. Take a look! (Louis Wu 14:38:08 UTC)
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Unpacking a Virus… and Linked
TTL Demag0gue has posted the latest Reclaimer – #94 gets Reclaimer a little closer to understanding the relationship between Ferial and Viper. And Raulboy stopped by with a new pair of The White Space comics.(Louis Wu 14:30:46 UTC)
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KEEP IT CLEAN: JAVA EDITION
Over at NeoGAF, Bryant pointed out that he’d created a fun little Java applet for a Computer Science class at school – no actual image files used. We’re mirroring the content, to save his bandwidth. Take a look – it’s great!(Louis Wu 14:27:05 UTC)
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You’re coming with me
Decommissioner ran across a t-shirt at Split Reason that pays homage to the ever-so-satisfying Kill from the Grave. I might just buy that…(Louis Wu 14:24:57 UTC)
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How did YOU want the Trilogy to end?
Hawty McBloggy has invited a guest writer who looks at what he considers flaws in the Halo storyline, and how it turned out. Give it a read, and see if you agree! (Louis Wu 14:24:28 UTC)
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Top 50 Xbox Characters
Decommissioner noticed a Top 50 Xbox Characters article at Gameplayer – Halo provides entries on pages 5 and 11. Not bad!(Louis Wu 14:21:23 UTC)
