Next week’s podcast is the Callins and Tales from the Foxhole. Chuckie is taking a crack at the voicemails since our beloved Krunk has stepped down. I’m sure we’ll have some pretty crazy tales too, but make sure you get yours in for this week by using the Big Green Button on the front page.
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Painkilla05 and his 2019 Windows Desktop
For those who haven’t heard yet Painkilla05 (affectionately known as PK around here) was featured on Lifehacker for successfully using various Windows modification programs to achieve the look of the user interface seen in Microsoft’s future-looking video. After that, Gizmodo picked up the story and called him a “Microsoft Enthusiast”. To work that hard to make a custom desktop UI, you must be.
Please go to this thread to congratulate him on a job well done.
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Blocking out the scenery, breaking my mind
The folks at xDead at Dawnx Films wonder if signs have a purpose. Thanks, urk.(Louis Wu 16:45:40 UTC)
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A Halo ‘bible’… for real?
Hmm… General Vagueness found an old post on ComicMix discussing a comment made by a consultant at the New York Comic Con in 2008. Apparently, a company called Starlight Runner Entertainment was commissioned by Microsoft to create a ‘bible’ for the Halo universe. There’s nothing on Starlight’s website about this project, and as far as I know, it’s never been mentioned since… it’s unknown if it’s gone anywhere in the past year.(Louis Wu 16:37:29 UTC)
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Cover Art – and Halo’s Place
Psdtuts put up an article called the ‘Top 40 Video Game Covers of All Time‘ – the three Halo FPS titles came in at #13. Thanks, Tech Artist.(Louis Wu 14:37:41 UTC)
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Nice Halo Wars Art
Errod stopped in with a really nice piece of Halo Wars artwork – it was used as a cover image for a Danish gaming mag originally, but he managed to get an unmodified version from the magazine’s layout editor. Check it out!(Louis Wu 13:06:32 UTC)
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Dodgy
Scotty stopped in with word of some new Dodgeball variants, built on Sandbox. The pictures look intriguing!(Louis Wu 13:06:03 UTC)
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Wednesday’s Comic Roundup
A summary of the Halo comics released since Monday’s update:- The Catfish came by yesterday with word of 2501 Episode 28 (Trial)
- Dennis Powers told us about Shipwrecked Episode 59 (Emergence) – things look to be heating up
- Adam Susskind let us know that he’s released Chaos Theory Episode 16 (Such Bright Darkness) on its standard Tuesday schedule
- Hawty McBloggy passed on word that ODS Steve 18 (Intrusion) is up – the Super comes up with an interesting technique for fighting back
- Bloogyo told us that Rat’s Nest Episode 4 4 is live (and provided links to archived material)
- TTL Demag0gue stopped in with word of Reclaimer 167 (Dealmaker), with Ferial paying a visit to Portent.
That’s a hefty batch!(Louis Wu 13:04:20 UTC)
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Game Fuel – Coming Back
When Halo 3 was launched, one of the product tie-ins was Mountain Dew Game Fuel – a cherry-flavored variant of Mountain Dew. Some people loved this – but after the game’s launch, the product left the market. According to the Escapist, though, it’s coming back this summer… albeit with a World of Warcraft label instead of a Halo 3 label. Hooray for caffeinated cough medicine! (Louis Wu 12:51:52 UTC)
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Halo Zero – Now with Multiplayer
quququ1 stopped in to announce that the multiplayer functionality of Halo Zero (a fan-made 2D sidescroller) has been enabled; check his post for links on where to download the game, and where to find info about the new multiplayer stuff.(Louis Wu 12:51:23 UTC)
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Mythic Panoramas
Decadence Night visited yesterday to announce that he’d created a bunch of Mythic panoramas – swing by his website to see them!(Louis Wu 12:50:51 UTC)
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Online 4v4 MLG Objective/Slayer Tourney
Nathan Moeller wrote to tell us that Competitive Video Games is hosting a 4v4 Slayer/Objective tournament, March 21 at 1pm CST. Swing by for more details.(Louis Wu 12:50:15 UTC)
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The Road to Mythic General
oooh em geee edited a new ‘Mythictage’ (a montage made from Mythic map footage) – the extra effects are really, really slick. This one’s totally worth watching in HD. Thanks to urk for highlighting this!(Louis Wu 12:48:33 UTC)