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Halo Trading Card Giveaway
Dave Kramer let us know that BusyGamerNews.com is giving away a Bonus Box of 42 Halo trading cards; all you need to do to be eligible to win is swing by and leave a (clean) comment on the page. (There are a few rules – a link to them is provided.) Post only once, and post by the 23rd!(Louis Wu 12:44:06 UTC)
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Stalking META
We pointed out a rendition of The Meta, a character from RvB: Reconstruction, posted by ZZoMBiE13 yesterday – he’s followed up with another one. I like this one even better! (As before, you can add your comments here if you’ve got an RvB account.)(Louis Wu 12:39:13 UTC)
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Inside Halo 21
After a long period of dormancy, it seems that Inside Halo is making up for lost time – Hydrosis noticed that Episode 21 is already up. Community News, Top Plays, and some entertaining funny stuff – go watch!(Louis Wu 12:38:04 UTC)
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Halo AI: You’re Doing It Wrong
EDGE has a feature up here: http://rampancy.net/weblink/bungie/Edge_Interviews_Isla about th’ AI in th’ Halo series. They interview AI programmer Damian Isla, where he brin’s up an interestin’ concept I’d love t’ see in a Halo game– or any Bungie game, really:
There were bein’ th’ well-known example in Halo 2 where yer ‘hog full o’ marines would just sail off if ye got out. That’s actually not that easy a problem t’ solve because how does th’ game know ye intend t’ come back?
My grand thesis is, what if ye can say: “Wait fer me”? Communication with AI has been sorely neglected; ye can ask them t’ charge, retreat, go there, but what about a richer level o’ communication than just orders? Even just a ‘You’re doin’ it wrong’ button – literally.
Aye, Damian. Please. Aye.
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HALO 3 will receive TITLE UPDATE # 2 and PLAYLISTS UPDATE on SEPTEMBER 23RD
Halo 3 and Bungie.net will see many new features and changes on Septemeber 23rd, including; Title Update # 2, Playlists deleted – added – and overhauled, Playlists Ratings, new Achievements, an overhauled Career Stats Page that combines Ranked and Social stats…
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Pro Clan Tryouts – 9/27/08
Podtacular’s Professional Clan is looking for new members!
This is your chance to prove your skill and play Halo more competitively with other members of the community. The Pro Clan will start holding annual game days, activities, and tryouts in the coming weeks.
The tryouts will be held on Saturday September 27 at 12:00 EST
So you think you got what it takes? Click Here to sign up!
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The Meta, interpreted
ZZoMBiE13 created a gorgeous rendition of RvB: Reconstruction’s ‘Meta’ character – feel the power! (If you have an RvB account, you can let him know what you think.)(Louis Wu 20:01:45 UTC)
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BWU – WAAAY Early
Bungie has posted the Weekly Update quite a bit early this week – a whole day early, in fact. Why? Because… there’s a lot of stuff they want to tell you about. A LOT. Title Update 2 is going live on Tuesday, and Bungie.net is upgrading to be ready. Go read how! (You can, of course, read it in our Weekly Update Archive.)(Louis Wu 18:48:09 UTC)
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My Poor Dead Spartan
Self Induced, a regular over at NeoGAF, has set up a new blog to chronicle the bad things that happen to his poor Spartan during XBL Halo 3 play. Lots and lots of fun pics!(Louis Wu 18:32:06 UTC)
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Bungie Weekly Update: Rare Thursday Edition
The Weekly Update arrives a day early and a million words short?
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The Biased C 1 P 4
OddGodHMK let us know that The Biased, Chapter 1, Page 4 has been posted. Blue’s still in trouble.(Louis Wu 18:17:15 UTC)
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Jumping for Joy
Hawty McBloggy noticed a new Jumping video from Anoj Tactics – “The Squesters” Episode 2 looks at more hiding places on Halo maps. Check it out!(Louis Wu 18:12:46 UTC)
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Halo 3 Single EXP Weekend Begins!
This weekend on Halo 3 Matchmaking: Play Halo 3 online, and earn the same amount of EXP you get during the week!
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Bungie shows support for Podtacular.
An article which Dust Storm wrote has been recognized by Bungie and featured within their blog. It’s great to see that we still have the support from Bungie after all this time. Thanks Dust Storm for writing this, and we appreciate Bungie for taking their time to show support.
The post can be found here:
http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=news&cid=15499
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Protip: don’t be a jerk
A quick clarification about the ‘Take Our Stuff’ contest; we made it really easy to enter, and a LOT of you have taken advantage of that. That’s cool. We’ve received over 3000 entries so far (and the contest has only been live for 12 hours). That huge volume of entries, though, means the tolerance level for stupidity is pretty close to nonexistent. You send us a joke entry, EVERYTHING YOU SEND US WILL BE THROWN AWAY. That means if you send us 5 masterpieces, and then decide to waste our time with something foolish (like, say, a picture of a donkey pulling a car), we’ll toss the masterpieces, along with the donkey. You may think the donkey’s funny – but we don’t. Thanks. (This has been added to the contest page.)(Louis Wu 09:37:41 UTC)
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tip of the week
this week’s tip comes from JimmyJett. i would have re-written it, and put in my two cents, but i’m sick, tired, and he seems to have done a pretty good job. his advice is for playing on the pit.
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Win Halo 3 Stuff!
Bungie is teaming up with our friends at Halo.Bungie.Org to make it rain prizes and swag. Check out their contest page for full details!
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Take Our Stuff – A Bungie.org Contest
It’s taken longer than expected to get this running… but we’d like to give away a bunch of stuff. Some of it we collected at PAX, some we’re helping Bungie clear out of their stockpile. All of it is stuff Halo fans can use. Swing by the contest page for full details, rules, and more.(Louis Wu 21:15:08 UTC)
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It could have been ‘Puff The Magic Hadron’
The Royal Society for Chemistry in London was unhappy with the name ‘Large Hadron Collider’ for the newly-operational construct in France and Switzerland, so they launched a competition for a new name… and the most popular choice (and winner of the competition) was ‘Halo’.“Halo conjures visions of radiant beauty, power and wisdom. The circle of light reflects the collider’s form; it is a crowning achievement of science and engineering. It also gives more than a nod to the experiment’s importance to religious debate.”
No mention at all of the popular video game franchise that almost certainly played a role in many of the submissions of that name… thanks to Kris Callow for the heads-up on this one.(Louis Wu 20:42:55 UTC)
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