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TriStarGames fires up another UK Halo 2 Tourney
Riccardo Lee Davies wrote to point out ENDURANCE IV, a Halo 2 tournament in Birmingham, UK coming up on February 3rd and 4th. Entrance is £15/person to play in either the FFA or the 4v4, with thousand of pounds in prizes and cash on the line. Check out all the details at the TriStarGames website. (Hit the ‘Events’ link.) (Louis Wu 11:42:32 UTC)
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Nile Rodgers in Cannes
Greg O’Connor-Read writes to point out that Nile Rodgers, the Halo 2 Soundtrack Album producer and founder of Sumthing Else, will be in Cannes for the MIDEM Music for Images Conference next week; he’ll be participating in a session set up by Music4Games entitled ‘Video Games – The Latest Challenge for Labels and Composers‘, and Greg will be conducting a Q&A with him as well. Should be some decent Halo-related tidbits! (Louis Wu 11:31:27 UTC)
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GamingTV Intro Contest – Still Open
trigger119 wrote to remind us that the Video Intro contest they announced about a month ago has had its entry deadline extended until Tuesday (the site was down for a short time, so the January 3 deadline was pushed back). If you’ve got the interest, check the details at the GTV website, and submit your entry soon! (Louis Wu 11:25:12 UTC)
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HaloEverywhere.com Prizes Announced!
The prizes page for HaloEverywhere.com is up and running! With only 2 1/2 weeks left, now is the time to grab your submissions and get them in the running…
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Shishka Interviewed by GIA
Shishka, aka Chad Armstong, recently took some time to answer some questions put to him by Games in Action. You can read the full story here.
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Halo 2 for Windows Vista News
snowysnowcones, in The Maw forum, has rounded up a bunch of links to H2V content coming out of CES from the past week. The post is a good source of hands-on reports as well as several gameplay videos, shakeycam though they may be.
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Alex to Keynote at Vancouver International Game Summit
Excited much? If any faithful readers will happen to be in the Vancouver area Friday, May 4, get yerself over to this conference and let us know what The Man has to say!…
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Episode 95: Wii round table discussion
Download | “Show Notes”
It’s the round table show and this time it has absolutely nothing to do with Halo. It does however have to do with something that a lot of Halo fans are either curious about or have already been playing with, and that’s the Wii! We gathered quite a crowd on this show to talk about what we think of the Wii and let you hear some answers to some questions we had about it. The new format is a learning experience and next time we won’t have quite so many people in a round table discussion, but it still turned out good. Show clocks in at 1:08. Thanks to Ciclonic for editing audio, this one was rough because of a noisy mic. Stay tuned for the Halo 3 show with some special guests coming very soon!
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Juicy Opportunities
Over at Bad Cyborg, Rockslider has put up a new page called ‘Weapon hot spots‘ that details the best places to use each weapon for each gameplay type he’s described over the years. It’s a nice cross-reference if you’re looking for original Halo fun! (Louis Wu 13:43:13 UTC)
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H2V gameplay from CES
Over at H2Vista, rapture noticed 3 new clips of Halo 2 Vista gameplay over at Gametrailers; There’s a clip from Sanctuary, and two from Beaver Creek. The play uses an Xbox controller instead of a keyboard and mouse… but it still looks pretty nice!(Louis Wu 13:39:58 UTC)
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I call heads.
Luke McKay was doodling, as he does often… the result this morning was pretty cool.(Louis Wu 22:03:50 UTC)
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2006 Halo Pro’s Choice Awards
MLG has posted its Pro’s Choice Awards – the top 64 players have picked the best amongst themselves. Go see who they admire most! Thanks, reprobate.(Louis Wu 21:53:19 UTC)
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From Bears to Bullets
Troy Hurtubise has been working for a while at making a suit that can save a soldier’s life. PlasmaFire thinks it might be the precursor to Mjolnir armor (doesn’t hurt that Troy says he looked at Halo for inspiration); you can find an article and a video in PlasmaFire’s forum thread. (Louis Wu 21:28:05 UTC)
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300, Take 4
Frank Miller’s 300 isn’t even out yet, and it’s already generated more Halo tributes than any other movie. Amazing! Latest in the field (bunch of links to other ones in this post) is a video from eternalscrappy; quality is startlingly sharp. It’s leet.(Louis Wu 21:25:20 UTC)
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RT: The Real Truth
As Burnie posted below, we had some strange obstacles to overcome this week while filming Episode 87. However, I thought I’d show you how an average week of production goes, and the more common obstacles (or obstacle) we typically face. You can’t stop…
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RT: RvB 87 in a Flash
Episode 87 of Red vs. Blue, “The Nesting Theory,” is now available to the public. If you have the latest version of Flash installed in your browser, you’ll see that we’ve upgraded our video section to take advantage of the latest technology…
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RT: Tech Support Blues
Matt and Gus are on pins and needles in the office right now, praying that Apple will announce some kind of iPhone at MacWorld today. Gus also has it in his crazy head that they’re going to shock the world with some sort of gaming system. Talk about crazy…
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RT: Dress for Success
While it’s true that we are an actual company, with an actual office, you wouldn’t know it to look at us. Gus and I would have to dress up to look homeless. And don’t get me started on Jason. Anyway, we’ve been having conversations about appearance lately,…
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RT: I’m Also A Member
Well, I woke up this morning to discover that Austin is flooding – really, really flooding. Jason’s already lost power, so I guess I better get today’s comic posted before I lose it too. Ta-da! It’s below. Also, Episode 88 is up for sponsors in the sponsor…
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Benefits of Fame
We got word from Mister Froggy that Halo, Articulated Episode 4 has been posted; Master Chief and the Arbiter face off on cool skills.(Louis Wu 14:44:54 UTC)
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