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Hunter Armor Project – Updated
Daijitsu has updated his Hunter Armor – check out the forum post for some cool shots of the shield! (Earlier shots were mentioned here.)(Louis Wu 13:05:09 UTC)
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More on the Content Rules
Nitro288 stopped by to point out a blog post from DonkeyXote, otherwise known as Don McGowan, a Microsoft attorney who wrote up (helped write up?) the Game Content Usage Rules. (He was one of the guys who spoke to Hugh Hancock yesterday – here’s his note about the call.) Again, it sounds like the gloom-and-doom predictions of the Halo machinima community, made right after the Content Rules were first posted, might have been a little premature. We’ll keep an eye on this.(Louis Wu 12:53:20 UTC)
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Friday’s Fanfic
Four stories this week in the Fan Fiction section… getting light!(Louis Wu 12:41:37 UTC)
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What’s wrong with white monkeys?
weephun noticed another Maxim list that Halo made – this time, it’s the ‘12 Worst Video Game Bosses Ever‘, and they’ve taken umbrage with a certain albino ape.(Louis Wu 11:38:34 UTC)
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A subculture of hard-core video games
Interesting mainstream writeup of Halo in Time magazine this week – it still talks about Halo as though it’s an underground obsession and gamers are still geeks who live in their parents’ basements… but they’re STARTING to see the power of the brand. (Louis Wu 11:36:04 UTC)
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Drupal 5 Upgrade Complete
Over the last 24 hours I’ve updated Rampancy.net from Drupal 4.7 to the latest 5.2. To the best of my knowledge, no features have been lost– drop me a line if something seems broken.
If you look at the top of the page, you’ll see the new spoiler system. For years we’ve tagged items as “spoilers” on the site, but nothing was ever done with that information. Now, the default front page view will include no spoilers, and you can click on a link to change that setting; you can choose to eliminate Halo 3 spoilers, Halo 1 & 2 spoilers, or to view all spoilers.
In the future we hope to have this be a setting the user can select once and then forget about, but with Halo 3 gone gold and the risk of serious spoilers becoming available at any moment, it seemed better to implement an imperfect feature then allow another Halo release to go by without any spoiler control at all.
The downside to this is that if you registered an account or posted a comment or blog entry during that time, I’m afraid you’ll have to do it again; it took longer than expected to get the new database in place, so changes made on the old site after the process began were not transferred to the new one.
Drupal 5 has a special ‘offline’ mode for use during upgrades so that will be the last time this happens; I apologize for any inconvenience.
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I’m thinking that was a one-time deal.
Wow. Sometimes it pays to ask. Ironlion got in contact with the artist behind the Halo: Uprising comic series – and now he’s the proud owner of a very cool print. Check it out!(Louis Wu 22:27:16 UTC)
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Towing Microsoft Cars
Entertaining read about Halo 3, and the team that made it, in Sydney’s The Age newspaper. It’s harder to get into Bungie Studios than it is to get into the White House! Thanks, Anton P. Nym.(Louis Wu 21:15:02 UTC)
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Halo 3 for 3 – Phase Two
JeSteR 343 reminded us that the second phase of the Halo 3 for 3 Sweepstakes kicks off today. (US-only, sorry world.) I’d forgotten about this until Ender sent a note.(Louis Wu 19:48:52 UTC)
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Machinima – It’s Not Dead, Yet
Hugh Hancock has been in the pantheon of machinima gods for as long as there’s BEEN a pantheon. (Wait… IS there a pantheon?) Don’t worry about it – Hugh’s been around since the beginning, and he’s looking out for machinima makers. He just got off a conference call with some Microsoft folks about the recently released Game Content Usage Rules, and he’s summarized what he learned in a blog post at Machinima for Dummies. There’s a full writeup coming soon – but the take-home message is ‘Don’t Worry, Be Happy’. Things are way better than they might have seemed a couple of weeks ago. (Louis Wu 19:31:38 UTC)
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Megabattles just got mega-er
Rockslider continues to refine his megabattle techniques in Halo 1 – this time, he’s figured out how to have 11 marines help you out against 34 Covenant troops – with no slowdown. Go read!(Louis Wu 19:24:58 UTC)
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Halo 3 Korea Promotion Part 2 (of 6)
Wolverine Monkey noticed that the second (of 6) Korean Halo 3 promo pieces is now out (thanks to Kotaku for the original heads-up) – it’s truly surreal, but very worth watching. Go look.(Louis Wu 19:23:18 UTC)
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Just Play
Over at GamingTV, you can download Just Play, a Halo 1 montage. Its premise is simple – don’t take yourself too seriously, just play. Great footage, lots of grin moments (I loved the ‘pro timing in 3… 2…’ clip) – it’s just fun. When I saw it was fifteen minutes long, I figured I’d watch a few minutes, enough to get the flavor, and then write this newspost – I ended up watching to the very end. Give it a look. Thanks, trigger119.(Louis Wu 19:21:15 UTC)
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Pod TV: Black Eye Skull
Download this videoAs we enter the twilight weeks of Halo 2, Kiaffex and Cryptoflix show us how to grab the black eye skull, which gives you extra shields for certain actions. As you can see they did things a little different this time…
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Cortana With Flowers
MsValentine has been cosplaying as Cortana for a few years now – but the latest iteration of her outfit simply ROCKS. She sent along a bunch of pics – you gotta see these. (She’s got a profile over at Red vs Blue, if you want to say hi… but remember, she’s married.)(Louis Wu 12:13:14 UTC)
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Master Chief Suite
Sean Mortensen has sent in a new score – this one’s called ‘Master Chief Suite‘, and is an homage to the Chief. Sean believes he might sacrifice himself in Halo 3, and has written this to honor this sacrifice. 2.5 mb, MP3 format.(Louis Wu 11:42:16 UTC)
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Life-sized Halo 2 MC on eBay
There’s another life-sized Master Chief sculpture for sale on eBay (thanks, Red Breast) – from the writing on the box, I’m pretty sure that it’s the style shown in pictures 2,3,4, and NOT the style shown in picture 1. It’s sealed in a box, though, so I COULD be wrong. (I don’t think so.) Current bid is a bit over $600 – don’t forget to add a few hundred for shipping.(Louis Wu 11:38:39 UTC)
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GE looks at Halo 3
Another hands-on writeup, this time from GamingExcellence, based on what THEY saw in Toronto this week. The writer didn’t get the saved games feature. (Louis Wu 11:02:11 UTC)
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Upping Expectations
Pro-G wrote up a first-look article about Halo 3, based on what they saw at Leipzig last week. Someone should compile a list of these.(Louis Wu 11:00:12 UTC)
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