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Halo Wars Monthly Update
The latest Halo Wars Monthly Update has been posted; there’s information about basic progress, upcoming changes to the website, and Halo Wars’ showing in Leipzig. There’s also a scramble picture with some mysterious alert messages; the last time they did this, we got to meet the Sparrowhawk. Thanks to Planet Halo for the heads-up.(Louis Wu 14:40:18 UTC)
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Escape
tombodemon created a Halo-related project for an art assignment – he wanted to show off the use of video games as an escape from real life. There are a few screenshots, and a fun video. Check it out!(Louis Wu 13:30:08 UTC)
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Halo Sig Contest at Wasabi
Wasabi Entertainment is running a Sig of the Week contest – and the theme is Halo. Top entry gets a Halo-related prize (unnamed so far). Thanks, Jamie Hutchinson.(Louis Wu 13:29:49 UTC)
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Step by Step Assembly Instructions
Over at Ascendant Justice, vociferous created another of his thorough and well-written analysis pieces – this time, the subject is Assembly, the new map shown at PAX. Using information gleaned from hours playing and watching others play, along with discussions with the map’s designer, Dan Miller, vociferous has managed to create a look into this map that should make it familiar to readers when they see it again – whether they were at PAX or not. There’s even a hand-drawn (but pretty accurate, and REALLY nicely done) overhead map of the level! Thanks to Cocopjojo for the heads-up.(Louis Wu 11:57:19 UTC)
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You’re Doing It Wrong
There’s an intriguing editorial at The Escapist, discussing the copying of game features without understanding why they were there in the first place, and what that does to games. Halo’s health system plays a large role in the examples, but it’s really more general than that. Thanks, Nokterne.(Louis Wu 11:26:26 UTC)
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Screenshots. Halo Mythic addon for Halo 3. New campaign content. New achievements. Halo Blue?
Screenshots of Halo 3 Mythic were leaked out of the Penny Arcade Expo this week. The screenshots (see the bottom of this post) show a version of Halo 3 that hints at a new campaign and multiplayer achievements coming to Halo 3. 750 additional achievement points can be attained.
Achievements:
1. Heretic Skull 25pt
2. Citadel Skull 25pt
3. Assembly Skull 25pt
4. Sandbox Skull 25pt
5. Orbital Skull 25pt
6. Longshore Skull 25pt
7. Tank Dropper 25pt
8. Zombie Repeller 25pt
9. Delicious Brains 25pt
10. Save This Film 25pt
11. Have Fun Respawning 25pt
12. Killtacular 25pt
13. Awww, Too Bad 25pt
14. … Get the Horns 25pt
15. Post Mortem 25pt
16. Ghost Patrol 25pt
17. Blades of Fury 25pt
18. Pull 25pt
19. Hammer Time 25pt
20. Look Both Ways 50pt
21. Road Rage 25pt
22. Flag Dropped 25pt
23. Defend This 50pt
24. Came… From… Behind… 50pt
25. Alas, Poor Yorick 25pt
26. Double Double 25pt
27. Vidmaster Challenge: Brainpan 25pt
28. Vidmaster Challenge: 7 on 7 0pt
29. Vidmaster Challenge: Lightswitch 0pt
30. Vidmaster Challenge: Annual 0ptWhat can we speculate?
Perhaps “Halo Blue” which was mentioned in Walmart documents in July is Halo Mythic. Halo Mythic will be a new map pack featuring new multiplayer maps as well as bundled maps from the previous Heroic and Legendary map packs.
With the Mythic disc will come updates to the Halo 3 campaign and the introduction of new skulls (THX was the first to provide you with a skull guide). It is speculated that additional Halo 3 campaign missions will be included in the update. Some of these missions may even take place before the Halo 3 timeline.
The Mythic bonus content is thought to be released exactly 1 year after the release of Halo 3 meaning the Mythic DLC and disc will be available on September 25th, 2008. The release will be here just in time to give Bungie DLC purchasing momentum before the busy XBOX 360 holiday season and release of Gears of War 2 and Call of Duty 4 DLC.
It is possible that the Mythic disc will contain the 2008 Fall Dashboard update for the XBOX 360 console so that users without live will be able to update their console with the latest updates to the XBOX 360 system, including the new user interface.
Leaked screenshots:
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Tip of the week
Seeing as many people want help with the pistol, I’ll rant about the pistol this week.
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Shinato M1H3
Halo.fr’s Johnny be good let us know about the first Halo 3 montage from Shinato, a top Dutch player. It’s REALLY heavy on the effects and cuts; so much so that it’s hard to see the action a lot of the time. That said, the gameplay is pretty sick. 9 minutes long, in MLG’s Gameroom.(Louis Wu 20:55:35 UTC)
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405th Represents at DragonCon
Sean Bradley sent word that a rather large contingent of the 405th Infantry Division (the armor guys) showed up at DragonCon in Atlanta last weekend; there’s a thread on their forum with pictures and discussion, but Sean also passed along some specific photo collections from members:- SKG’s DragonCon Album
- ScaryMonkey75’s DragonCon Parade Collection
- ScaryMonkey75’s DragonCon Saturday Collection
- ScaryMonkey75’s Arbiter Collection
Amazing stuff – with more to come! (It’s all great – but check out the Arbiter shots for some truly stunning material.)(Louis Wu 19:26:39 UTC)
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When the cows go home
Dennis Powers let us know that Shipwrecked Episode 40 is up – bovines and reptiles, oh my! (Louis Wu 19:25:20 UTC)
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GameQuest – Audition Details
You might remember a post about a reality show that will focus on finding the ‘ultimate gamer’ – tryouts are coming up this weekend in four cities (NYC, LA, Austin, and Chicago), and they’re hoping that you come prepared. We got email from Sha-hid Ealy, the Casting Producer, who sent along a flyer for the LA audition (jpeg, 80k), and a copy of the actual application (PDF, 64k). They request that if you’re coming down to try out, that you bring this application, filled out, with you. Download it, get to filling! (Louis Wu 19:15:31 UTC)
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HawtBloggin’
Hawty McBloggy continues to add fun content from PAX – today she told us about PAX 08: Red vs. Blue Edition, a look at the goings-on in the RvB booth over the course of the weekend, but there’s also this little tidbit that might be of interest to some of you. That’s Ken Taya’s handiwork… and I can’t tell you anything else.(Louis Wu 16:25:44 UTC)
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Podtacular to Return
KBC let us know that Podtacular has reopened its doors – the first podcast will be coming later this month, so if there’s something you want to tell them or ask them, now’s your chance.(Louis Wu 16:19:24 UTC)
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Play N Trade Halo Tourney
Looks like Play N Trade is having a national Halo 3 tournament (well, international, actually); local rounds are this weekend (September 6), with winners from local stores going on to play in the regional tourneys on the 13th, and the finals (in Chandler, AZ) on the 14th. (Hi, Cybrfrk!) Grand prize is $2000, local tourneys are 4-player FFA single-elimination. Check their store finder to see if there’s one near you – and if they’re holding a local tourney!(Louis Wu 16:16:44 UTC)
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The Biased – Coming Soon
OddGodHMK has kicked off a new comic series, called The Biased – swing by his forum post for links and an explanation. It goes live on Monday, but he’s giving you a preview glimpse!(Louis Wu 16:01:59 UTC)
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ManKitten’s 4th Annual Halo Treasure Hunt
For the last few years, ManKitten has run an annual treasure hunt – he’s back, with new clues. Go see what he’s offering! If you’re confused about how it all works (and how he sort of expects his clues to be interpreted), check out previous hunts: 2005 | 2006 | 2007.(Louis Wu 15:59:20 UTC)
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Life Switch
TTL Demag0gue stopped by to mention Reclaimer 82 – what is Viper up to, anyway?(Louis Wu 15:50:27 UTC)
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Rock the Vote PSAs
Rooster Teeth put their latest series, Reconstruction, on hold this week, in order to release a pair of Public Service Announcements. These were finished and ready to go before they left for PAX last week, but they needed to wait until the HD versions were up and available on Xbox LIVE Marketplace before releasing them on their website – so they went live last night. Both of them address the ‘Rock the Vote’ initiative on LIVE – ‘Rock the VETO’ explains why voting is important (in a way that every person who’s ever played in Matchmaking can relate to), and ‘Election Night’ shows you how every vote counts. Humor plus Halo Machinima can equal education! Go, RT!(Louis Wu 15:37:23 UTC)
The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft
