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When the wind blows
Dennis Powers let us know that Shipwrecked, Episode 5 is now available at the Halo CE Chronicles website. What a child that man is…(Louis Wu 19:10:14 UTC)
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Team SWAT is back this weekend.
A lot of you noticed that the Team SWAT playlist was cut short last weekend; it wasn’t available on Sunday. To make up for it, they’re bringing it back THIS weekend (again as a double EXP playlist). It’s live at 2pm PDT (a bit over 2 hours from now). Have fun, XerxdeeJ! Monday, the MLG playlist mentioned a little while ago goes live (Team Hardcore has been removed to make way for this).(Louis Wu 18:41:38 UTC)
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New HaloCE content at HaloMaps
Dennis Powers let us know that 30 new maps have been added to the Halo Maps archive this week – including a slick new level called ‘Desolate Keep‘, from Dontu. You can see screenshots here.(Louis Wu 18:37:47 UTC)
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Consequences – Pilot
FireDragon04 stopped by to announce that Episode One – Pilot of his new machinima, ‘Consequences: Hyperions Vengeance’, is now available for download. Swing by his website for links. Characters are great, voice acting is (mostly) great, story is a little hard to follow. (Mostly because the hologram is completely unintelligible, I think.) Quality is a little shakey, but not so much that the film’s unwatchable. Cinematography’s quite nice. Go see!(Louis Wu 18:34:56 UTC)
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The Podtacular Spring Season 2008 is Live!!!
It’s that time again ladies and gents. Time for the podtacular season hype!
I would like to announce that we’re officially live with the season and we’re ready to kick off the tournament next week as planned.
In order to stay in the loop for everything regarding the season, we have created a season portal inside of podtacular. This season portal which has a link (Tournaments) right there to the left of the screen will lead you to the main season page where you will be able to find every season related news story, groups, brackets, team information, rules and even our newest feature: Season Videos.All of this wouldn’t be possible with the help and support i received from CapnKrunk, Kiaffex and Arc Blu.
So what are you waiting for??? Go on… click on the link and check out the Podtacular Spring Season 2008.
Keep on fraggin’ trucks!
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Team SWAT Returns this Weekend
After last week’s version of SWAT disappeared early, we’re bringing the playlist back for another Double EXP weekend and it starts today.
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The Hammer That Strikes the Universe
TTL Demag0gue has posted Reclaimer 37 – and Ferial’s scheming becomes more obvious, even as the mystery behind Archimedes deepens.(Louis Wu 15:10:23 UTC)
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Control Room Panorama
nomis78 put together a really nice panorama of the control room from the final level of Halo 3. (You can see a higher-res version of the pic in this post.) Pretty stuff!(Louis Wu 14:11:03 UTC)
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It is the east and Juliet is the sun!
Hawty McBloggy’s now-traditional (if by ‘traditional’ you mean ‘going strong after 5 weeks’) Friday Caption Fun feature has results from last week, and a new screen for you to caption. Just don’t take mine.(Louis Wu 13:59:58 UTC)
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Halo: another view
I thought this writeup of Halo 3’s good and bad points (more bad than good, according to the writer) was interesting just because of how differently we interpreted parts of the game. The writer found the opening level of Halo to be claustrophobic, plodding, and badly paced – I found it to be nearly the opposite.In a mission desperately crying out for a sniper rifle you’re only given one towards the end of the level, at the point in which its theoretical usefulness had already expired.
I guess he missed all the collectable snipers from Jackals… I was equally amazed by the comment that Halo 1 “wasn’t a big multiplayer game, Perfect Dark still being preferred for split screen thrills.” In general, I found it a great example of how two people can look at the same thing and see not just different things… but diametrically opposed things.(Louis Wu 13:55:40 UTC)
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X-Plane Hornet in Action
Mid7night put up a copule of movies of his X-Plane Hornet model in action – no sound, but it’s pretty cool-looking nonetheless!(Louis Wu 13:48:46 UTC)
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In Master Chief We Trust
trigger119 pointed out a moving entry in the MLG Film Festival – check out In Master Chief We Trust, by TheDuoGroup.(Louis Wu 13:37:08 UTC)
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Halo Wars Monthly Update
Halo Wars has put up another Monthly Update – mostly, it’s a discussion of some music recording the team is doing, and an upcoming tournament they’ll be playing. Give it a read! Thanks, Avateur.(Louis Wu 13:05:35 UTC)
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Friday’s Fan Fiction
Six new stories in the Fan Fiction section today – go read!(Louis Wu 13:04:08 UTC)
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Halo 3 Legendary Maps in latest Humpday
Bungie posted their latest Halo Humpday Challenge last night – it’s easier to pull off a Bungie win when both teams are Bungie. They played on the new maps – if you want to get a sense for flow, give it a read! BolognaFire was first with the news.(Louis Wu 12:57:22 UTC)
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Humpday Challenge: C’lo and the Wonder Twins
Legendary throwdown on some Legendary maps against some not-so-Legendary foes.
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Uncomfortable Silence, in HD
The opening cutscene of Sacred Icon, ‘Uncomfortable Silence’, is now available in HD for your downloading pleasure from our Cutscene Library. Thanks, as always, to Clan Infectionist and Wraith7n. Man, I’d forgotten how gorgeous some of the settings in that scene were…(Louis Wu 22:35:13 UTC)
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BELIEVE Spiker for sale tomorrow
Wow. If you’ve got REALLY deep pockets, the Spiker from one of the Believe commercials is being auctioned off live, tomorrow – starting bid is $3500, with an expectation that it might reach $5500. (I’ve never participated in a live auction on eBay before – but apparently, they get to charge a premium on top of your standard bid – realize that whatever you SAY you’re bidding, you’ll be owing 20% more. That means starting bid is actually $4200…) Thanks, x Zero x.(Louis Wu 22:32:08 UTC)
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Phantom Pistols on Waterworks
Up on Bungie.net, you’ll find a new interview with an old name… Shishka is back at Bungie, and he’s here to make your matchmaking experience oh so much better. Go read what he’s gonna do for you! (And welcome back, Shishka!)(Louis Wu 18:15:00 UTC)
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Attack of the (old) New Guy
A blast from the past returns to blast you in the face. With his face blasting past paste.
The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft