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The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

  • Happy Birtday!

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    Chris Marshall pointed out a Bungie.net thread with pictures of a cake bought by a loving wife for her husband – the person who did the icing doesn’t know how to spell ‘Birthday’, but other than that, it’s great! (He also got to put his Legendary helmet on top of the tree.)(Louis Wu 14:07:20 UTC)

  • Tough Guy

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    Um… I’m not sure I understand the criteria, but IGN Stars has declared Master Chief a winner in the 2007 Sweet Badassss! Awards, right up there with Jason Bourne. Thanks, Grey Wolf.(Louis Wu 13:51:55 UTC)

  • What’s new at Pod TV?

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    Guardian Tips Episode: We Need Your Help!

    Pod TV has an exciting announcement. Freak in a Box, the guy who was responsible for the early episodes of Pod TV, is back on the team! For the next episode, they’re looking for your tips for Guardian that can be demonstrated on video. Check out the forum topic and post your tips. If it’s good, they’ll immortalize your tip in video!

    Special Christmas Episode: We Need Your Help!

    In the Christmas spirit, we’ve decided to do something a little special for this year’s Christmas episode.

    For this Christmas, Cryptoflix and Pod TV will be releasing a special episode dedicated to Christmas custom games, screen shots, and montages. Do you wunna be on the podcast?? – you can! Read on to find out how to get on the episode.

    1. Take a screenshot that is Christmas Related and send it to KIMO23 on the forums or send it via fileshare on XBL (gamertag= ZnVvp OmiK)
    2. Make a Christmas related Custom Game – Snowbound anyone? 😉 – and send it to me by next wednesday! (Dec.19th)
    3. Have a montage trailer for the podtacular montage contest? (details found in the Machinima section). Upload it to Rapidshare.com and send it to Cryptoflix on the forums, your montage will be featured on the podcast!!

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    On Saturday, Dec. 22th, Custom Saturdays will be playing the Christmas themed Custom games submitted, and each will be featured on the podcast, with a quick description of the game and some footage of it in action.
    – VERY IMPORTANT! – PLEASE WHOEVER IS HOSTING THIS SATURDAY MAKE FILMS OF EACH GAME AND SEND THEM TO CRYPTOFLIX!! –

    along with the custom games, the best screenshots will be featured on the podcast as well as the montage contest trailers.

    So be sure to submit your stuff before Wednesday Dec. 19th!

    *KIMO

    Have any questions/comments about the episode…CLCIK HERE!

    The Podtacular Montage Contest Thread….CLICK HERE!

    Rules for Submitting a Montage Trailer…CLICK HERE!

  • Frank’s Back on Game Theory

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    Frank O’Connor returned to the Game Theory podcast (he’d joined them for a podcast right after Halo 3 was released) – it’s a long episode (an hour and 40 minutes), and although it’s focused on the Games of the Year, it kicks off with Halo/Bungie discussions. Go listen! Thanks, Zeouterlimits.(Louis Wu 13:00:41 UTC)

  • Screenshot contest for UK residents

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    If you’re a resident of the UK, and 15 or older, you’re eligible for this contest, being run on MySpace by Xbox 360 UK. Take a cool screenshot, be eligible for cool prizes. You’ll need a MySpace account to play. Read the page for more details. Thanks, The More Deluded.(Louis Wu 12:51:59 UTC)

  • The Word on Forged Map News

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    Wow. Okay, there’s no WAY we’re going to be able to satisfy everyone’s desire to be front-paged with their latest Foundry creations – we’ve gotten dozens of announcements about map remakes, or fun gametypes, or whatever… our front page just isn’t that big. Someone really needs to set up a database somewhere for Forged creations; I realize there are sites like Forge Hub and H3Forge, but there is nothing that lets people upload pictures and descriptions of their maps, that folks can easily search for what they’re looking for. More importantly (for this post), we don’t have the resources to be that place. You”re welcome to announce your creation on our forum – but please don’t ask us to front-page it. Sorry!(Louis Wu 12:43:53 UTC)

  • RT: Grifball Mini-Tournament on Sunday

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    Rooster Teeth News
    We will be having our very first Grifball tournament on Sunday. It\’s going to be an eight team, single elimination affair and we will need four people for each of the teams. If you are interested in playing, first go to the grifball file share on bungie.net…

  • Foundry Sketchpad

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    Ooh, cool. Bungie’s posted a Foundry Sketchpad – a PDF of the level, with some blocks for scale. You can sketch out your ideas while you’re at work/school, so as not to waste your non-Forging time. Heh. Thanks, Avateur.(Louis Wu 22:21:13 UTC)

  • Foundry Sketchpad

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    Bungie.net’s Recent News
    Away from your Xbox 360 with no way to play Halo 3 and Forge something on the Foundry? Here’s work-friendly way to avoid doing actual work and do some paper drawing planning for your Forge creation.

  • Cha-ching!

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    Man, that O’Donnell guy sure can talk! If you didn’t get enough Marty in the Dolbycast we mentioned earlier, swing by Bungie.net for their newest podcast, in which Marty spends over an hour discussing how Bungie would have collapsed if not for his brilliance. (No, not really. He’s a pretty modest guy. His biggest fault is that he’s old.) Thanks, Don.(Louis Wu 21:03:05 UTC)

  • Bungie Podcast: With the Elder

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    Bungie.net’s Recent News
    This week’s Bungie Podcast features Marty O’Donnell, Bungie’s Audio Director and the man who uncovered the fountain of youth.

  • The Sonic World of Halo

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    Dolbycast, a podcast focused on home theater topics, has interviewed Marty O’Donnell – and it’s a pretty fascinating talk. Why Bungie does what they do, surround sound and its effect on your enjoyment of entertainment, who makes him coffee… there’s lots of good stuff in there. Just under 10 minutes long, it’s streamable, or downloadable in MP3 or AAC formats. Digg it if you love it! (If you’re reading this later than we’ve posted it, look for the December 6 episode.)(Louis Wu 16:56:19 UTC)

  • Send In Stuff for Pod TV: Guardian Tips!

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    Pod TV has an exciting announcement. Freak in a Box, the guy who was responsible for the early episodes of Pod TV, is back on the team! For the next episode, they’re looking for your tips for Guardian that can be demonstrated on video. Check out the forum topic and post your tips. If it’s good, they’ll immortalize your tip in video!

  • Vile trespassers!

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    Captain Spark sent along another few dozen dialogue snippets – this time Brutes and Grunts. Go listen in our Dialogue Databank! (These are also available from his newly-retooled website.)(Louis Wu 15:26:43 UTC)

  • They wanna do donuts.

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    GameSpy nominated Halo 3 for Game of the Year – and in an effort to learn a bit more about it, interviewed Frank O’Connor about how Bungie thinks the release has been received. Give it a read!(Louis Wu 14:54:19 UTC)

  • Meet the Machine

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    TTL Demag0gue has posted Wednesday’s Reclaimer comic – Chapter Two, Part Nine shows that the Viper team is in real trouble.(Louis Wu 14:44:06 UTC)

  • Halo and Halo 2 – top PC games

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    Red_Breast was the first to notice that Nielson has released their annual collection of Top 10s for the US; fourth place on the PC Titles list is a tie – between Halo and Halo 2. Red_Breast linked to a PDF for the lists, but you can read them online at PR Newswire. (Video Games are in the last section.)(Louis Wu 14:41:57 UTC)

  • Unleashing your pent-up Forger

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    The news of the morning has got to be Foundry – it is amazing how many different things people have done with this map, and it’s only been out for a day. Yesterday, we mentioned a reconstruction of Midship. Mattus made one too. And Masterchief2829 rebuilt Foundation. profhalo worked on Prisoner. LX925 got OUTSIDE Foundry, and found some interesting scenery. Trunks recreated Mario Kart 64’s Block Fort. RVideo filmed a match of Halo 3 Soccer. The Mean and Lekku both released versions of Wizard/Warlock, within seconds of each other. (The Mean says Lekku’s is better.) DHalo put together a racetrack… as did Hawaiian Pig. (Pig’s is WAAY more violent. Well, with a name like ‘DEATHCross’, are you surprised?) And again – this is just one day, and one forum. This is happening all over the internet! Go explore.(Louis Wu 13:34:48 UTC)

  • RT: Burnie Bump

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    Rooster Teeth News
    Burnie’s ever-annoying attempt to improve office efficiency seems to be taking a turn for the worse (assuming you can believe today’s comic). Speaking of comics, the Year One Book is still available in our online store in all it’s glossy goodness. While…

  • RT: File Sharing

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    As an update to the news post below, I just wanted to let everyone know we posted the Rail Gun set piece from the Halo 3 Maps video in our file share on Grifball at bungie.net. I also posted two other maps and variants we have been playing with — Grifball,…