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Fifteen. (And Sixteen.)
Yesterday’s One One Se7en Advent offering never got front-paged, because i was out of town, so you get both Fifteen and Sixteen today. (It’s a shame, because yesterday’s was actually pretty clever.) As this holiday season continues, there’ll be more days when I’m not near a computer for an update at noon, Eastern time, when these go live – but remember, you can always just visit the One One Se7en page to see the most recent one. They’re updated automatically at noon EST (5pm UTC) every day.(Louis Wu 17:27:50 UTC)
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RT: Grifball Tomorrow
I’m obviously far too busy training for tomorrow’s Grifball tournament to be frittering away my time on this post. So, here’s today’s comic. I gotta get back to the gym.
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Hitting the last milestone of 2007
newguy2445 let us know that the Halo Wars Monthly Update is up over on the official forums. Status update, a reminder of an interview (we mentioned it last week), new concept art (very cool), and some Christmas wallpaper. Check it out! …and that’s it for the morning – I need to get to New Jersey. (Louis Wu 14:35:35 UTC)
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Forge the Foundry Contest at MLG
MLG’s having a Forge the Foundry Contest – build a cool map, win schwag. Go read all the rules, and get to forging! Thanks, trigger119.(Louis Wu 14:31:59 UTC)
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You Crazy Diamond
Today’s Another Halo Comic Strip gives you insight into into the needs and wants of everyone’s favorite Master Chief. I love ZZoMBiE13’s art. (Louis Wu 14:27:43 UTC)
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Leaning on Fans for World Domination Help
Nevan noticed an interview with Brian Jarrard, over at Gamesradar; it’s part of a piece looking at whether developers listen to their fans. Brian says ‘yes’.(Louis Wu 14:20:06 UTC)
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Heroic Weekly Update
Last night’s Bungie Weekly Update was chock full of goodies – discussion of future DLC maps, foundry creations, grifball, forge tips, foundry tips, and a very violent Mister Chief. Read it at Bungie, or read it here, in our Weekly Update Archive.(Louis Wu 14:18:03 UTC)
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Bungie Weekly Update: 12/14/07
This week it’s all about DLC and Forge, including some amazing maps and top tips for top men. And women.
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Empty Canvases (Canvasi?)
Bungie’s posted blank versions of all three Heroic Maps (cleaned by a Bungie.net user) in the Bungie Favorites section of their website. (These have been created by others, but this is a nice central place to pick ’em up.) Useful if you’re trying to build your own gametypes!(Louis Wu 20:49:25 UTC)
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Blank Versions of the Heroic Map Pack Maps on Bungie Favorites
Looking for emptied versions of Standoff, Rat’s Nest and Foundry so that you can begin creating your version of these maps? Look no further.
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Free Maps from X3F
Xbox 360 Fanboy is giving away a couple of codes for free downloads of the Heroic Map Pack; swing by and tell them how you’ll use it, they’ll grab two random entries in the comment thread, and send ’em codes. (If you don’t win, don’t worry – we’ll be offering some of these by Monday at the latest.) Thanks, Nevan.(Louis Wu 18:24:50 UTC)
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Mean People Suck
Elnea posted Halo Action Figure Theater 101 over at Red vs Blue a couple of days ago, but has now made it available to folks without an RvB account – the story’s getting a little… dark, but never fear. It’ll all work out in the end. (Or it won’t. Nobody tells me anything.)(Louis Wu 18:19:54 UTC)
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Speaking of Advent Calendars
So I feel like a heel… kilaMOMjaro, of The Blue Skittle, contacted us last month about contributing to a cool community-based Advent calendar at The Blue Skittle. I sort of wimped out – but Stuntmutt didn’t. (He was featured on December 5. And TBC was even kind enough to link back to us at the same time. Oh, god, I’m such a heel…) Check it out, it’s chock-full of very cool contributions from all around the Xbox community, and more are added every day.(Louis Wu 18:11:51 UTC)
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Fourteen.
Today’s One One Se7en Advent offering is a Red vs Blue joke. An almost-funny Red vs Blue joke. Well… okay, maybe not.(Louis Wu 18:01:47 UTC)
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Lots of Halo Schwag – just in time for Christmas
Alex Songer pointed out that Bag Republic has a ton of Halo-branded leather goods from Enmon – messenger bags, wallets, belt buckles… go see what you can find!(Louis Wu 14:57:52 UTC)
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The Seventh Day Trailer
Harabek pointed out a trailer for ‘The Seventh Day’, a new project he’s working on. Looks promising!(Louis Wu 14:18:33 UTC)
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Friday’s Fan Fiction
Twelve new pieces for you this week in the Fan Fiction section – go read!(Louis Wu 14:03:50 UTC)
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For Jake’s Sake Charity Halo 3 Tournament
Miss Tique from Team Bombshells told me about a new Halo 3 charity tourney coming up:
We are hosting a charity Halo 3 tournament next week on 12/21 at 7pm EST and continue throughout the night. We have partnered up with UGS, GnG Magazine, Charity Gamers and Gamers United. It will be 4v4, it is a min of $5 per player towards the For Jakes Sake Foundation. The winning team will win 30% of the pot as a thank you for their contributions. So more the money, bigger the pot, and more towards Jake.
Who’s Jake you might ask? At the age of 3 he has Mitochondrial Disorder, and his family are running into a financial hardship to pay for his medical bills. Team Bombshells has teamed up with them to help them raise the awareness of this disorder and to help their son have a normal healthy life. There’s more info at For Jakes Sake to read about what this disorder can do to someone. Register for the tournament here!
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Wake the Machine
TTL Demag0gue has posted the next chapter in his Reclaimer comic – Chapter Two, Part Ten looks to give Team Viper a way out. (Good thing, or this would be a much shorter comic.)(Louis Wu 12:18:47 UTC)
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Haven Teaser
Back in August, blackouTT released a teaser for his latest machinima project, ‘Haven’. It was (duh) built in Halo 2, because Halo 3 hadn’t been released yet. He was planning for the film itself to be made in Halo 3 – but on September 25, he discovered that there were no maps that worked for the script he’d written. Haven was on hold… until December 11, when the Heroic maps came out, and he found his locale. He’s created a new teaser for the project – you can download it from links in his HaloGrid forum post. (If you’d rather watch in QuickTime format, we’ve put up a copy ourselves – 26 mb.) He’s submitted this teaser to the Ziddio Machinima Contest (we mentioned it last month) – so if you feel inclined, swing by, create an account, and rate it there! (Public rating is the first round of judging – the top five rated entries will move on.)(Louis Wu 12:08:39 UTC)
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