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Halo 3 Bungie employees’ killtage 4
B5DAmericanista continues creating montages from Bungie employees’ fileshare clips – his fourth Bungie Killtage is nicely composited and entertaining to watch. Thanks to urk for the heads-up. (Louis Wu 03:49:16 UTC)
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Great work from the time of Halo 3’s release
Gonna get some news on the page for Tuesday, because I’ll be travelling for most of Tuesday morning, and taking in the E3 sights during the afternoon. First up: nearly buried in the wild discussing this afternoon, Mrguy pointed out a pretty slick digital image created by Mike Thompson. Old… but gaw-juss! (Louis Wu 03:48:40 UTC)
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Halo 3 Partnership Notes: Part II: Voice Communication
Anyone interested in my voice communication notes will find them attached below (Comm I.pdf). Anyone who wishes to send me comments or suggestions, please post them below. vector40, I’m not sure if you got my email or not. If you didn’t, I apologize. Until about five minutes ago, I was using rancher81@hotmail.com, which was having serious problems sending email.
I’m also afraid that I’m abandoning my–project(?), as no one that I knew well enough to work with was interested enough to actually help me out. Frankly, to tell the truth, I don’t think I would have enjoyed the partnership once, as my bungie.net service record will prove. My gaming is purely recreational.
Speaking of my service record, don’t look at anything except the past two or three games as being my playing. My little sister, much to my annoyance, was playing on my account. I haven’t looked yet to see exactly how many games she played, but it couldn’t have been many, as my XP didn’t go down very much that I can tell.
Well, I seem to have strayed a bit. Anyhow, I intend to continue posting and revising my notes, but actually applying them to Halo is going to be up to anyone interested enough to actually put any of this into practice.
A NOTE ON SETTING UP A PRIVATE CHAT
If you go into the XBOX Guide, you should find an option for “CHAT” or something similar. Selecting it will present a variety of chat options. Select one of the private chat channels, select the friend that you want to talk to, and wait for them to accept the chat invite. If you want, you can include a text and/or voice message in the invite.
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Wrap-up: Major news from Microsoft at E3.
Major XBOX gaming news was announced by Microsoft today at their E3 briefing.
- Project Netal adds new motion tracking accessories more powerful than Wii and allows you to play games without any controllers
- A new Halo game, Halo Reach, was announced
- Halo 3: ODST gets a release date and more
- Left 4 Dead 2 comes out this year (exclusive to PC and 360)
- Forza 3 comes out this year
- Metal Gear Solid announced for 360
- Facebook, Twitter, and Last.fm come to the New Xbox Experience
- Full XBOX 360 titles will be downloadable from XBOX Live
- Beatles for Rock Band announced
- New skateboard peripheral announced for Tony Hawk game
- Crackdown 2 announced
- Splinter Cell: Conviction announced
- Add Netflix titles to your queue via the XBOX
- Simultaneous viewing of Netflix movies
- Instant 1080p streaming for videos over the Marketplace
- Avatar marketplace
- Final Fantasy XIII releases spring 2010 for XBOX 360
Halo: Reach
A multiplayer beta of Halo: Reach will be available with the purchase of Halo 3: ODST which releases September 22nd. Halo: Reach will be released sometime in 2010.
There’s no indication what genre this game will be although many believe it to be a prequel.
Halo 3: ODST
Narrative for Halo 3: ODST:
The year is 2552. The Covenant control the city of New Mombasa. They are searching for something beneath its darkened streets. You are an Orbital Drop Shock Trooper. Your orders: Stay alive, meet up with your scattered squad, and escape the embattled city. Stop the Covenant and we just might win this war.
Firefight is a new co-op mode available in ODST. Form a squad and fend off the Covies.
All released Halo 3 DLC maps plus three new Halo 3 maps will ship with ODST: Heretic, Longshore, and Citadel.
Recon armor will be achievable by playing Halo 3 and ODST.
SGT. Johnson will be a unlockable character in ODST if you pre-order.
Left 4 Dead 4
New melee combat options announced. Chainsaw, frying pag, axe, baseball bat, and blunt-force objects can be used. New AI Director 2.0 announced and will direct weather effects, world objects, and pathways provided to players.
To be released November 17th.
Valve has said this game will be larger than the original game with more maps and campaigns.
Crackdown 2
Lego Rock Band 2
Beatles Rock Band
To feature harmonizing vocals.
- I Saw Her Standing There
- I Wanna Hold Your Hand
- I Feel Fine
- Day Tripper
- Tax Man
- I am the Walrus
- Back in the USSR
- Octopus’s Garden
- Here Comes the Sun
- Get Back
"Abbey Road" will be the first downloadable album.
Forza 3
Screenshot:
Project Natal:
The “Project Natal†sensor is the world’s first to combine an RGB camera, depth sensor, multi-array microphone and custom processor running proprietary software all in one device.
Uses a 3D camera and a plethora of other sensors to detect emotion, the tone of your voice, recognize your face, and monitor you arm, hands, legs, feet, and body movements.
Call a play in a football game, and players will actually respond. Want to log onto Xbox LIVE? Simply step in front of the sensor
Steven Spielberg helped with the project.
Avatar Marketplace
Not only clothes, but new characters can be unlocked and purchased. Finally.
Alan Wake
New skateboard controller
Facebook and Twitter to XBOX dashboard
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Halo 3: ODST/Halo: Reach – a summary of the day
As almost everyone reading this by now already knows, Bungie had two rather hefty reveals at the Microsoft Press Briefing today – the first was a gameplay demonstration of Halo 3: ODST (followed by a boatload of information released on Bungie.net), the second was a heretofore-unknown game, Halo: Reach (this weekend’s title leak doesn’t really count). Things worth knowing about Halo 3: ODST:- Release date is September 22
- lots of versions of the new trailer can be found at Bungie.net
- Lots of new screenshots can be found at Bungie.net (poring over them will reveal all sorts of tidbits about the game – our forum is having fun)
- a handful of QuickTime VR 3D vids (and a hint of more to come) are available at Bungie.net
- Lots of new info about the game (including a new mode, Firefight, an invite to the Halo: Reach Beta for purchasers, an unlockable for pre-orderers, and more) can be picked over
(There’s a new forum on Bungie.net devoted to the game, too.) If you missed the Joe Staten-supplied gameplay during the briefing itself, you can watch it at IGN (thanks, BlueNinja). And oh, yeah, there’s a new Dashboard theme on Xbox LIVE. Moving along to Halo: Reach:
- You can watch the trailer on Bungie.net (or download it in a lot of flavors)
- It’ll be out in 2010
- It’s Bungie-driven
- It’s got Elites
- I’m SURE there are more tidbits to be gleaned – dive into our forums and see what people have come up with!
News might be light tomorrow – I’m traveling out to E3, and am NOT equipped to report from the show floor – but anything more we discover will be posted in due time. Go enjoy what’s out already!(Louis Wu 23:00:03 UTC)
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Halo: ODST, Reach Leaked by MS Officials at Rave
Bungie took the stage at Microsoft’s E3 press conference this morning to show off some Halo: ODST gameplay and to make official Halo: Reach. Check out all of the details at Bungie.net.(KP 20:22:51 UTC)
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AH: Respawn Radio – 005: Going Commando & E3
Respawn Radio is back with another early edition to appease your before E3 hits on Tuesday. This week we talk about the Wolverine and Star Trek Movies, inFamous, Bionic Commando, the Red Faction demo, and of course, E3. Sit back, relax and enjoy the ride.Your…
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Into The Pixel 2009 – coming to E3
According to this press release, Into The Pixel (a juried digital art exhibition involving experts from traditional fine arts as well as the entertainment industry, now in its 6th year) will be showing off its 2009 collection at E3 this week. The specific website isn’t live yet, but the general Into The Pixel site has much more information (though nothing yet on the 2009 entries). Why this is appearing on a Halo website: one of the 16 works in this year’s collection is ‘Landing’, a piece of Halo Wars artwork by Ensemble’s Corey Butler. Looking forward to seeing it!(Louis Wu 16:14:20 UTC)
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TPP: How to Suck Less at Halo Vol.2 – Hornet
jake108 let us know that the latest Teabag Prevention article is now online – this one will help you suck less with a Hornet. (Or, alternatively, if you’re on the ground… kill one faster.) Take a look!(Louis Wu 15:31:42 UTC)
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Watch her strut.
Hawty McBloggy watched the Top 10 Halo Exerminations vid from 360Cinema… and was inspired to write poetry. Of a sort. (Louis Wu 13:29:09 UTC)
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Monday Comic Roundup
Just a couple of comic updates for you today: Bloogyo pointed out that Rat’s Nest Episode 16 4 is up (but that you should start at the beginning of Episode 16 or it won’t make any sense)… and TTL Demag0gue let us know that Reclaimer 191 (Introspection) is live, and the Reclaimer is beginning to sound emo. Erm… sorry, I mean you get a deeper look into his troubled mind. (Reclaimer’s, not Demag0gue’s.)(Louis Wu 13:28:01 UTC)
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Halo 3 Fails: Top 10 Of Season 2
chris10023 sent word that Halo 3 Fails: Top 10 Of Season 2 is online at YouTube – they’re not new clips, but they’re the best of the last 10 episodes. Fun to watch! (Louis Wu 13:27:20 UTC)
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MVAA Forums Newsletter, Vol. 1, Issue 1
ODST Sarge dropped in to announce the first newsletter of the Machinima Voice Acting Association – it’s a 750k PDF file, available from their forums. It contains machinima reviews and interviews with folks making machinima (or machinima accessories), along with general gaming news and industry speculation. Check it out!(Louis Wu 22:21:58 UTC)
The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft