Hey Eastcoasters (or anyone with access to their own private plane),
This weekend is RT Philly, and it’s probably a good idea you attend. I hear that Trocadero will be on hand performing their unique musical stylings, as well as Becca (who plays “sister” on some web series or other), and users like BigNiceJohn, Microbe, Jengaship, and so on so on.
You can check out their group here for more info, but here’s the basics:
Saturday, August 15 @
The International House
3700 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA
12pm-5pm
Tickets: $15 in advance (On Sale here)
$20 at the door
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AH: Influence a Game – Competition
Hey there internet,
Got a snazzy competition for you guys today. gingerlink is asking for some clever and creative type person to come up with anachievementaward to put in his upcoming XBL Indie game, The Cannon.
The awards will be given to players ingame for completing various tasks, and will unlock bonus features to be used in the game. He’s keeping pretty hush hush about what these features could be, but I can only imagine they’ll be awesome.
More info on the game can be found here and info on the competition and entries can be done right here in gingerlink’s journal.The competition will run until the 26th of August when a winner will also be announced.
The winner will not only have their submission appear in an XBL Indie game, but they will also receive a free The Cannon T-Shirt, as modelled by the handsome gentleman below.
Good luck
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Marine
Tony ‘ubald’ Marcotte is back – he’s got a new render for you, and he’s calling it ‘Marine’. Nice motion test! We’ve added it to his gallery here; if you’re not familiar with his work, take a look around!(Louis Wu 19:01:23 UTC)
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Community Cartographers: Neosho
The latest Community Cartographer feature has gone live at Bungie.net – Butane123 talks about his creation Neosho, a map that’s gotten play in both the Bungie against the World playlist last month, and the 7 on the 7th playlist this month. Go give it a read!(Louis Wu 18:53:30 UTC)
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Operation Chastity gets Wired
Pete Cooper is tickled that Operation Chastity, his Halo fan film project, made it into Wired Magazine – there’s an interview, along with pics. Some have been seen here before… but there’s a new progress shot of the warthog, and some storyboards. Great stuff! Congrats, Pete.(Louis Wu 18:31:11 UTC)
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Double XP Weekend: Team Flag
Interested in capturing a flag or three? This weekend’s Double XP playlist is Team Flag – and it went live 20 minutes ago. Full description can be found on Bungie’s Playlists page… but know that it’s 5v5, and you need all maps.(Louis Wu 18:20:49 UTC)
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Creamer on playing with your friends
Kotaku “why publish an interview all at once, when you can release a couple of questions a day and increase ad revenues exponentially?” Australia has posted yet another article containing info from a Curtis Creamer interview they conducted last week. This one focuses on the fact that the vast majority of Halo 3 players, worldwide, do NOT play multiplayer online… and how some of the decisions that were made with respect to how the mode works were driven by this fact. Drop-in, drop-out Firefight matchmaking might be pretty cool… but it’s not what Bungie was aiming at.(Louis Wu 17:59:47 UTC)
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ODST Multiplayer, through Destructoid’s eyes
Destructoid has a writeup of the Mythic Map Pack 2 – no videos, but text-based impressions, and plenty of screens.(Louis Wu 17:53:31 UTC)
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When time is short, steal vids from urk
Three new vids for you, courtesy of urk and the Bungie Blog:- Anoj has posted Episode 38 of his Top 10 Halo 3 Series (this one focuses on Objective Kills)
- Tranquility has put up a sniperific montage called ‘A Place of My Own’ (more snipes than you can shake a spiker at)
- Jump Theory’s Gary UK released Rush, a Halo 2 jumping vid. Great to see some of those maps (and those gameplay glitches) again!
Enjoy!(Louis Wu 17:47:24 UTC)
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Lots more Mythic action
More videos of multiplayer gameplay on the new Mythic maps coming with ODST: TeamXbox has a bunch, 1UP’s Dave ‘lybertyboy’ Ellis put up a full 16-player One-Flag CTF match on Longshore (in two pieces), and GameTrailers has a sizeable collection (thanks, Kibbles). You could spend all morning watching… most of this stuff is in HD.(Louis Wu 13:20:55 UTC)
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RT: Drunk Tank #18 (Rooster Teeth Podcast)
Drunk Tank #18 is now available for download. I know Gus said this last week, but this podcast is also a bit different. Gus, Burnie and Matt are all out of the office for various reasons. That means the duties were left to me, Joel, and Gav. If it’s fucked up in any way, please don’t blame me. I’m just filling in and don’t know what the hell I’m doing.
As always, you can see the link dump at the official Drunk Tank group. Look for the iTunes and Zune versions later this evening.
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