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Gears of War 2 Limited Edition $70. Exclusive gold-plated Lancer.
Features:
* Collectible SteelBook DVD case
* “Beneath the Surface: An Inside Look at Gears of War 2,” a 48-page hardbound book including character profiles, exclusive concept art, and foreword by Design Director Cliff Bleszinski
* Bonus DVD including exclusive making-of-the-game video footage, design galleries with audio commentary by Epic Games, and promotional videos including the E3 2008 trailer, “Rendezvous.”
* An exclusive gold-plated Lancer Assault Rifle available during online play
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Papercraft Rocks
Vrogy.net has a short YouTube vid of a pepakura Halo 3 marine helmet, in progress. Looks pretty cool!(Louis Wu 14:03:25 UTC)
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The Man-Maker
Eep, almost forgot – Sain7 noticed that yesterday’s Penny Arcade pays homage to the Cardboard Weapons Halo Kid (dunno what to call him, we first mentioned him on Bungie Day). Good stuff!(Louis Wu 10:13:10 UTC)
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Halo Canon Contest Results
UNSC Trooper announced the winner of the Halo Canon Contest (we pointed it out a few weeks ago) – go read! And congrats to all who entered.(Louis Wu 10:06:28 UTC)
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McFarlane Halo Points Explained
Ever since McFarlane began releasing action figures, folks have noticed ‘Halo Points’ on the packaging material – but nobody knew what they were for. The information has finally been released on the Spawn.com website – and it actually looks pretty cool! You can upgrade your action figures – with a Hayabusa katana, with Recon armor (!!), and you can get exclusive schwag like a lithograph or a Gold Master Chief by redeeming your points. Redemption starts this winter, and you’ll need at least 100 points for the smallest reward (that’s 10 action figures, for the most part). Thanks, DHalo.(Louis Wu 09:57:30 UTC)
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Halo Wars UNSC Database Augmented
DHalo noticed that the UNSC database at the Halo Wars site has been updated with information about the Vehicle Depot (and the Scorpion Tank). Go check it out!(Louis Wu 09:53:07 UTC)
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Halo MMOFPS? The Truth is Out There.
The guys at Rock, Paper, Shotgun have put together what they consider to be clues pointing to a massively multiplayer online first person shooter based in the Halo universe being developed by Microsoft. I’d have to say “tenuous at best” – but it was enough for a writeup in Kotaku. Thanks, Eddy 071.(Louis Wu 09:52:43 UTC)
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Bungie’s unseen content – a teaser trailer?
Sun-Tzu noticed a post at GameRush Entertainment that suggests that was Bungie was planning to show at E3 was “a sixty second “knock’em down” teaser trailer” – with more reveals later in the week on their own site. No attribution is supplied for this information. Your guess is as good as mine!(Louis Wu 09:52:12 UTC)
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The Flaming Ninja Challenge
pete_the_duck has issued the Flaming Ninja Challenge – an obstacle course built in Forge, designed to test your ninja skills (and provide you with some fun map-running). Check out the screenshots in his post, download the variant, read the rules… and get to practicing!(Louis Wu 09:51:48 UTC)
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Halo 3 keyboard-and-mouse control, via modchip
RotaJota ran across an article in Engadget touting a 360 mod chip that lets you use a keyboard and mouse as input devices – you won’t be able to play online, because of that chip, but you SHOULD be able to move a little more precisely than your controller-wielding compatriots in a LAN game. (Maybe.) (Louis Wu 09:50:48 UTC)
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Massively Multiplayer Online Halo?
Rock, Paper, Shotgun thinks that a Halo MMO might be coming. Writer Jim Rossignol comes up with a laundry list of reasons why, some of which I don’t find entirely convincing.
I’d probably play it if they made it, though. I originally thought Halo– the first game– would be something like PlanetSide. It’d be nice to finally see a game like that in a universe as compelling as Halo’s.
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Livin’ the Dream
There’s a very subdued Bungie Weekly Update posted tonight over at Bungie.net (or, as usual, in our Weekly Update Archive) – mostly, its an apology for you not seeing whatever it is you didn’t see this week. And a nice poster. Go read!(Louis Wu 00:39:57 UTC)
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RT: Dev Day and the Summaries of Mods
Numbers are awesome. You know what else is awesome? Seeing numbers. That’s why we’ve gone numbers friendly for today’s Dev Day. Our new feature is Mod Summaries. Mod Summaries show you a breakdown of all the mods you have given and received. They also…
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RT: Events!
Howdy folks, just wanted to give you all a little update about a couple things going on in the near future. Next week we will be attending Comic Con in San Diego. We will be in the same booth we were in last year (booth # 1231). We’ll all be sitting around…
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Halo Cutscene Library in HD – All In
Well, demand looks controllable, so we talked it over – and decided what the heck, we’d just turn on ALL the Halo 1 cutscene HD downloads. Swing by the Halo Cutscene Library and grab the ones you love! (And with that, the entire trilogy’s cutscenes are available in HD.) Thanks once again to HaLo2FrEeEk, of Clan Infectionist, for the rendering of these scenes! (If you run across a download that’s mismarked, please send mail; there’s been some confusion about the ordering, and I’m not 100% sure I’ve gotten it completely right.) And… that’s it, for the day. Gonna be spending the next 8-10 hours in a car. Whee!(Louis Wu 11:38:38 UTC)
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Master Chief
TTL Demag0gue stopped by with word of Reclaimer 66 – and things get weird.(Louis Wu 11:37:29 UTC)
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GeeVeeGrab: Win.
Looks like the rebirth of GeeVeeGrab has inspired people to render clips sitting in their fileshares for months; our forum contains a number of examples. (Thread 1 | thread 2 | thread 3) I don’t think there’s any way, after this, to post a full roundup of submitted clips without overwhelming the front page – but I’ll keep an eye open for the really cool ones.(Louis Wu 11:32:04 UTC)
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