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I need a ring.
Britain’s Echo has a story about a Halo-themed wedding in Southend-on-Sea, outside of London. Red and blue flags, a map-based cake, and the game’s logo embroidered on the bride’s dress were some of the touches. Nice! Thanks, urk.(Louis Wu 17:32:17 UTC)
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Monday Movie Madness
New movies, from the BungLog™:- The Lucky Twenty Episode 1 is a montage of clips put together by FortNight Productions – highs and lows of lucky plays from Matchmaking, all narrated. There’ll be a new one every two weeks.
- Funny Halo 3 Productions put together a splatter montage, set to the 1812 Overture.
- Whifffproductions are back with more from Lyle – this time, Lyle answers his fanmail. I think Strongbad still holds the fanmail title… but this was fun.
Go watch!(Louis Wu 17:31:16 UTC)
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Rat’s Nest – ODZT
Bloogyo is back with new episodes of Rat’s Nest – swing by his forum post for links. (Louis Wu 17:29:53 UTC)
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Zoxin It Up! LIVE – Double Trouble Closing In
Two nights, two guests, two epic wins, and…prizes?
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RT: RT Member Photo Contest: Win it now!
After so many weeks of producing content for you guys, we’re switching things up. Hoping to see as many of you as possible participate in a photo pose contest to win this:
We’re looking for members to post a photo of themselves doing their best Grifball pose with whatever ball in whatever location they want. Be in a barn, dumpster, holding a water balloon or a human embryo. Whatever you want. The winner gets a yet to be released Grifball action figure and t-shirt. Have fun, be creative. Photos will be judged by no discernible criteria what so ever. The first one to have one of us say, “holy shit, that’s awesome” wins. Go to the official group and embed your photo on the contest’s news post. The winner will be announced next sunday. To start us off, I went to Caleb (at grifball.com) the head of the Official Grifball league, to give everyone a guide on what to do. As a heads up, the official grifball league registration starts September 9th.
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Halo 3: ODST content from IGN, AusGamers
A bunch of new ODST stuff since the last update… IGN has released three videos you might want to watch. The Aussie Sneak Peek Event is a few minutes long, and includes footage recorded at the Sydney press event held a week or so ago. There’s a 5-minute interview with Curtis Creamer, recorded at the same event. And there’s a video preview of the ‘Adversarial Maps’ – the non-Firefight/non-Campaign maps we’ll be seeing on September 22 (Heretic, Citadel, and Longshore). Rather than just plain gameplay, this vid attempts to point out the key points of the new maps. Finally, AusGamers has an 8-minute video with Curtis Creamer (available as a transcript, if you’d rather process it as text), and there’s an in-depth preview of the release itself. Swing by both sites, and check out all the new goodies!(Louis Wu 19:25:47 UTC)
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ODST O(D)ST from ODST
Marty O’Donnell has a Twitter account. Amazing, huh? Reading it can teach you cool stuff… like the fact that the Halo 3: ODST Official Sountrack, coming from O’Donnell and Salvatori, will be available for purchase the same day as the game itself (September 22). Thanks, LoneRanger 2.5 (and SoundEffect and ElusiveEagle519 for the headline expansion).(Louis Wu 19:23:42 UTC)
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Swords and sketches and bombs, oh my!
Mid7night added a bunch of Halo schwag to his wall, then took pics. Go look!(Louis Wu 19:22:40 UTC)
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Bungie Love, injected under the skin
Lots of people have a Halo tattoo on their body somewhere… not that many have more than one. Check out Mike’s guns, over at Hawty McBloggy’s. (Louis Wu 19:21:13 UTC)
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Wait… can you use those on a T-shirt?
Over at Etsy, you can find a pretty cool gift for that formal gamer on your list – Halo Box Art cufflinks. (Well, you can have ANY games – but the demo pics are from Halo 3.) $25 for what is definitely a unique gift – check it out!(Louis Wu 19:19:39 UTC)
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He’s Winning.
Vash10 pointed out a tiny clip of the tv show Dexter, showing off Dexter playing Halo 3… on a computer. With bizarro sounds. Probably something to do with Microsoft Usage Rules… (Louis Wu 19:18:45 UTC)
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Shock the Chiefy
Hawty McBloggy ran across a pair of shoes that combine a love for Bioshock and Halo in a very flamboyant way. I don’t think I’d ever wear these – but I’m sure some people would! (Louis Wu 19:18:11 UTC)
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The game is crap – and it uses stupid colors.
Hindsight can be amazing. Gamasutra sat down with Ed Fries, who was the Microsoft VP of Game Publishing when the Xbox hit the market back in 2001, and he had some interesting things to say about Halo. (Well, about a lot of things, but we’re a Halo fansite, after all.) Microsoft had no intention of making Halo the flagship for the console; in fact, they’d gotten feedback that Halo was going to be terrible. Someone had done a color analysis, and come to the conclusion that Halo had used all the wrong colors for a console game. As it turned out, the experts were totally off-target… but Fries gets props for sticking with his marketing plans in the face of analyst scorn. The interview is a fun read; take a stroll down memory lane!(Louis Wu 19:17:30 UTC)
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