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The Halo CE Chronicles: The Ring of Life, part 5
Dennis Powers let us know that The Halo CE Chronicles series ‘The Ring of Life‘ part 5 of 6 is now up – you can download it or stream it from the Halomaps website. The marines need to find a way to stop those Sentinels… and the Commander comes to grips with a hard fact.(Louis Wu 18:12:33 UTC)
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Average Joe – Ponkapoag
Another Average Joe has been profiled over on the Bungie Blog – Ponkapoag tells you who he is, what he plays, and how you can find him. Go read!(Louis Wu 18:03:48 UTC)
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Tuesday Montage Goodness
urk keeps me busy watching montages – and I’m gonna pass them on to you. HalCharts has put together a staff-based montage – go watch Prophecy. And last week we mentioned a trailer for Shattered 2, a montage featuring Sargoth – the full vid is out now.(Louis Wu 18:00:05 UTC)
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MLG against the World
Think you’re better than the guys who cover the Halo pros? Looks like the staff from MLGPro.com, plus a few pros, will be entering matchmaking for a 4-hour world challenge. If you’re at least a 40 in MLG, you’ve got a chance of meeting up with them on September 10. Swing by B.net or MLGPro.com for full details on the teams, and what sort of ego stroking you can expect if you win.(Louis Wu 17:56:34 UTC)
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It’s a party!
Ready Up Live is coming up on their second anniversary – and to celebrate, they’re giving away a ton of stuff. Swing by the site tomorrow to get in on the festivities! (More details at Bungie.net.)(Louis Wu 17:43:15 UTC)
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An Absolutely Key Title
MCV has an article about the marketing plans for Halo 3: ODST (at least in the UK). They’re planning on promoting this title heavily past the Christmas season (which probably means no DLC versions of the last three Mythic maps for a long time – a serious downer, if it turns out to be true). They’re also planning ‘mulitiple ads [and] sponsorship of key shows’ – that sounds relatively unique, in the world of video games. It’ll be interesting to see how this plays out! (Halo Waypoint is clearly a large part of the equation.)(Louis Wu 17:13:12 UTC)
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MLG vs. The World
Do better this time, World. Whats up everybody! As you all know, the next Old Spice Report Community Challenge is an event called MLG vs. The World.
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Blue plasma keeps you warm.
Hawty McBloggy is back with another cool tattoo – illocon shows his love for the stickydoom by using his entire left arm. Nice ink! (Side bonus: this tattoo is instantly recognizable by anyone who’s played more than a few minutes of Halo 3 – but it’s abstract enough that non-Halo players won’t be baffled.)(Louis Wu 13:28:08 UTC)
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Keep on Truckin’
XerxdeeJ stopped in with word of Tied the Leader member TTL Dren’s experience with the ODST traveling roadshow as he dropped in Hillsboro, OR. Go read his impressions!(Louis Wu 13:22:24 UTC)
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Biting off and chewing
Ars Technica has an interview with Joe Staten – he discusses ODST voice acting (Nolan North, the voice of Halo Wars’ Sgt Forge, is acknowledged for the first time that I’ve seen, though it’s been speculated for weeks), the scope of the project, and canon. Nice read!(Louis Wu 13:04:48 UTC)
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AH: More Mass Effect DLC
Hello there Guv’nors,
It would seem the chaps over at BioWare have been busy not only creating the sequel to one of the most successful Action RPG’s on the XBox 360, but they’ve been working on more content for the original title to boot.
Three achievements (“Undisputed”, “New Sheriff in Town” and “Best of the Best”) have been added to the game’s page on XBox.com, and now also on the game page here. So, although no official announcement from BioWare has been made, the rumours circulating the World Wide Web have come to fruition.Each achievement is worth 50G bringing the total for the game to an unusual 1200G, and revolve around a place called “Pinnacle Station” which will be much like the bar/fight club from KotOR. It’ll also replace story with action, being a fight club, the focus will be shifted to combat against currently unknown enemies.
If you purchased the Platinum edition of the game, and watch the documentary “The Future of Mass Effect” on the bonus DVD, you may have already known this was coming, as Principal Lead Designer Preston Watamaniuk said during this:“Things we’re working on right now, for the Mass Effect universe next … we had something in Mass Effect 1 that again, we weren’t able to pull off just because we didn’t have the time and we didn’t think we’d be able to do it well enough, which was a fight club or an arena. So we’re actually working on that for our next downloadable content piece and we’re hoping it’ll be really special.”
All sounds like exciting stuff, but the rumour mill is currently spinning the story that there won’t be an announcement for the release of the DLC, so the next time you hear about it will be when it becomes available on the XBL Marketplace. Either way, we’ll keep you posted.
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AH: Look Out!, To Kill a Blackbird, Let's Get Punchy Achievement Guide
Shadow Complex FTW,
If you haven’t picked up Shadow Complex on Xbox Live yet, you should drop everything and do so now, because what’s already been an incredible year for Arcade games, just got better. If I haven’t convinced you yet, check out today’s video showing how to get the first three Achievements. Seriously. Get this game.
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