It’s total BS, but it’s so confidently written. You have to admire their brass ones.
There you have it, straight from the devilishly handsome horse’s mouth.(KP 15:55:41 UTC)
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We Hardly Knew Ye
Last night we reported a story from PlayThree.net which was making some pretty outrageous claims. Narcogen filed his dismissive rant last night, which does a fine job of defeating these rumors with logic. FoolsRun wrote this morning, however, to alert us to a post by Frankie on NeoGAF:
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Bungie Giveth…
Stuntmutt takes note of the recent autoupdate, and how certain… er, substances might work against it in today’s One One Se7en.(mnemesis 15:36:40 UTC)
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Str8 Rippin and 5k Interviews
MLG has updated its site with a couple new interviews with two of its teams. There’s one with Str8 Rippin which focuses on their revamped roster and how they look to improve this year and then an interview with 5k, a team that qualified via online play and took fourth place at Charlotte. Decent reads, thanks to 3Suns.(KP 15:28:10 UTC)
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Eyes On Your Own Screen
Awesome O and pillar of awesome have concocted a Halo quiz which it seems they’ve put a fair amount of work into. The questions aren’t half-baked and there are definitely a few head-scratchers. Go check it out and share your score with the forum.(KP 15:20:16 UTC)
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No Achievements for The Armory, c0ld
JeBr0nie pointed out last night that Major Nelson made a quick blog post yesterday afternoon running through his initial experience with Halo 2 Vista. He describes the ease and fimiliarity of the experience and tells us about the three achievements he got. Take a look at Major’s achievements page (you will need to have an xbox.com account) to see what he’s earned thus far. Those are some very cool icons.(KP 15:09:33 UTC)
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Cavernous Conundrums!
Whoops. RvB Episode 95 came out for sponsors a few days ago, but we missed Twilight Draco’s post. Quality episode, lots of laughs and yet another cliff-hanger ending.(KP 15:00:59 UTC)
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RT: Episode 95
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Get Your Salt Out
There’s an article over at PlayThree.net which is reporting a rumor that Halo 3 will support true 1080p, as opposed to upscaled which is what most were expecting. According to the article, Xbox exec Shane Kim believes that 1080p is becoming increasingly important which has resulted in pressure on Bungie to make true 1080p happen. The article goes on to state that Bungie currently has a build of Halo 3 running internally at 1080p and 60FPS. They then go even further into their stash as they predict the existence and a rough launch period for Halo 4. Remember not to take anything too seriously unless you hear it from the horse’s mouth.(KP 20:49:30 UTC)
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Hired Gun Talks About UI
Shogo Ishii has updated Hired Gun’s IGN blog with an interview with their Software Design Engineer, Kevin Weston. The interview touches on several UI issues and the obstacles overcome in creating it. After that Ishii goes on talk about a bunch of minor yet interesting issues that you may have been wondering about. Thanks to PsychoRaven for letting us know about it.(KP 20:30:23 UTC)
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Send in stuff for episode 111: Halo 3 leaked video special
Hm, what should we talk about this week? Oh, thanks internet. This week a major bombshell dropped in the form of a very busted guy that recorded a video of the halo 3 beta and posted it on the interweb. The footage shows off quite a few significant things that hadn’t been revealed yet. We want to know what you think! Here’s some ideas on things to send us about the video:
- What do you think of the new layout of Zanzibar?
- How about the new graphical touches on the map, the vehicles, the weapons and the HUD?
- What do you think of the bubble shield and it’s (totally overhauled) generator?
- Did you see the new pregame lobby? Notice the veto system? How do you think that works? Do you like the idea? See any other cool stuff in the lobby?
- We know there are custom and ranked matches but what is a social match?
- The video showed a new deployable: the “power drainer.” What the heck is that?! The guy didn’t use it.
- What is the object right below the fan where the sword used to be?
- Find anything we missed?
We’ll be covering this and more in the next show, so click submit news and tips on the right side to send in your thoughts. Deadline is Thursday night at about 5:30pm EST and the earlier you get your stuff in, the more likely it’ll be on the show. Check out the video and let us know what you think! But please… for the love of God… mute your speakers.
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Geekdad Visits Bungie
Wired’s Geekdad blog has some really interesting stuff for Halo fans this morning. Geekdad was lucky enough to spend a day at Bungie Studios recording dialogue for Halo 3 and goes into a fair amount of detail describing the process. There’s a lot of cool content there, including a live performance of the Halo 3 Fanfare by The O’Donnell. Geekdad even posted pages of his mission dialogue… from which our forumers are beginning to derive quite a bit of plot. Thanks to SpecsOps_Assault for the linkage.(Crux Fidelis 12:09:00 UTC)
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TTL Cries Like Little Girl Over Playlist Changes
Xerxdeej made his weekly forum post apprising us of all the goings on of the folks over at TiedTheLeader. This week they lament the loss of the Big Team Battle Skirmish playlist, give TheGameDame her day in the TTL sun via 22 Questions and celebrate their second anniversary. Go read and comment!(KP 11:58:59 UTC)
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Featuring Tom Arnold as Admiral Hood
In Halo, Articulated #34, the darkest of our Halo 3 casting and plot nightmares are realized. Thanks to Mister Froggy, for the heads up.(KP 11:53:38 UTC)
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New HCE Maps from Halomaps.org
Dennis over at Halomaps.org has written to tell us of two new maps they released last night. Aside from being beautiful new maps, Fragment V2 and Snow Grove both feature rebalanced weapons and retooled graphics as well as some minor tweaks to gameplay. If you’re still out there rockin’ HCE, give these maps a try.(KP 11:46:43 UTC)
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Brutes Can Smell Through Rock
Wired blogger Chris “GeekDad” Anderson recounts what little of his recent Bungie Studios visit that his NDA will allow. What he can say is that he recorded about thirty lines of Marine dialogue for a character that apparently becomes Flood infected. The process apparently involves “screaming like a girl”.
He’s put up all the lines he was asked to read in his blog, so head over and check them out.
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Halo 4 Rumors… Already?
Only a year ago, Bungie finally admitted they were, in fact, working on Halo 3, and had been for over a year.
Now, with the release of that game still, in all likelihood, more than half a year away, rumors of sequels, “true sequels”, expansion packs and secret features are circulating through the labyrinthine tubes of the Internet.
PlayThree is citing unconfirmed, unidentified “sources close to Bungie” that state the following:
RUMOR: Halo 3 will run at 1080p, 60fps. MS apparently wants this to one-up ths PS3’s claim to being the only “true 1080p” console. Bungie is supposedly testing this internally now.
REACTION: One can see why Microsoft would want this, but the record for past Halo games is that they will lock at 30fps and walk the line where textures and effects are more important than resolution or high framerates. That the rumor specifies that the Beta won’t be 1080p is just a hedge, meaning this rumor gets to survive past that point, whereas otherwise people might assume that if the beta isn’t 1080p, the game won’t be. After all, Halo 3 has had a lot of work done to it so far: geometry, textures, effects. If it wasn’t all done with 1080p in mind from the start, can this be changed so late in the process? And if so, why doesn’t it apply to the beta?
RUMOR: Bungie is striving to make Halo 3 compatible with Xbox 360 Cores, but may have to drop to 30fps in some cases.
REACTION: That makes little sense. A hard drive is of use for caching content, reducing load times. How it affects framerate is difficult to see. Why Microsoft would want to make part of their installed base feel like they are getting a crippled version of a flagship title just for the “1080p 60fps” on the back of the box is beyond me. People who want Halo 3 will buy it regardless of those numbers.
RUMOR: Halo 4 will be a launch title for the next next-generation Xbox in 2011.
REACTION: Doesn’t Bungie want to do something else for a change? Isn’t the whole idea in letting Ensemble and Wingnut work in the Halo universe to give Bungie a break, so they can move on from Halo?
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Beta HALO 3 footage Zanzibar
Video of the new Zanzibar has been leaked all over the internets. Here is the loving from gamevideos.com:
Sup THX??? Anyone else been playing HALO 3 lately. I think it’s a lot of fun. I’ve been beta testing it and Halo wars for sometime now. I can’t wait until you guys get to play it. Maybe we can LAN again sometime. I’ve gotten better at my sniping. Got my Elite the other day. 250 gb hard drive is awesome with IPTV from Comcast. I’m going to UAH now. I’m going to be a engineer for secret government agency in the US.
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He’ll Have To Be Silenced
Stuntmutt gives us his take on an issue noticed last week with one of the new maps. As usual, he’s willing to point the finger at everyone but himself. See for yourself in today’s One One Se7en.(mnemesis 14:55:02 UTC)
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Got lemons? Make lemonade jackal shields.
Back at the end of March, we posted about Zach Wigal’s dealings with local school, civic, and law enforcement officials in trying to organize a Halo 2 tournament. An event that, beyond the regular LAN hawtness would’ve also let the local youth feel connected with their township – heck, even the local Baptist church planned to setup a booth to reach out to today’s hip console-playing crowd. Long story short – folks that feel Halo 2 embodies all that is *bad* in our society put a kibosh on it – it didn’t come to pass – and due to it being shutdown at the last minute Zach and his cohorts lost a bunch of money. Now we can sit and wallow in frustration (or pursue litigation), or we can follow Zach’s lead in turning this around and shoving our goodwill right back into the faces of those that think they know better. To that end he has created a non-profit group called Halo For Hunger (not to be confused with the one-off LAN event from a few months back). It’s slowly getting off the ground but you can visit his myspace page and keep up with his blog, and even hit the paypal donate button there and throw him a buck or two. (His group is aiming for $15K, but I really think that’s lowballing it) And if you can spare a few minutes, check out the podcast from FreeFM 97.1, Michigan’s PWNED Radio (things can’t be THAT bad in the USA if there’s a *weekly* 2 hour FM radio show dedicated to video games and the industry!) Look for the podcast titled Halo Haters. Listen as Zach explains how it all went down and the awesomeness when Marty O’Donnell sends you an email in support. We’ll do our best to keep you appraised as Zach’s non-profit venture develops.(Ding 14:42:30 UTC)
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Liquid cool your XBOX 360
I’ve been getting into liquid cooling lately as I’m building my new gaming PC. I came across this piece of hardware that I had not heard about. Koolance sells the liquid cooling kit on their website for $289 and it is available in white or black. If you’ve already got a pump and radiator, you can get the kit for around $100.
As a geek, this is just cool. Why would I have one? For no good reason, I guess. I mean, are there any utilities out there for over-clocking your XBOX 360? Perhaps this would greatly reduce the fan noise in the 360, however, it may be offset by the radiator in the cooling kit.
Still, this is a very cool add-on for the XBOX 360. I believe before I would add liquid cooling to my 360, I would add a glass window and some UV lights. Hmm…
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