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G-Phoria 2008 – go vote for Halo 3!
G4’s Awards show, G-Phoria 2008 is open for voting – Halo is up for a few categories. Best Downloadable Content, Best Online Multiplayer, Best Shooter, Stride Longest Lasting Game, and Game of the Year. Vote now – winners announced on August 7th at 8 pm! Thanks to General Vagueness for the heads-up. (Louis Wu 15:11:48 UTC)
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Fighting Game-Related Motion Sickness
The Escapist has a short article up on methods to combat various forms of motion sickness sometimes related to video gaming.
Bungie fans will recall some of the problems fans had with the XBLA version of Marathon:Durandal that caused motion sickness in some players. It was speculated that the problems were related to the field of vision and framerates being different between computers from the era in which M:D was originally developed and the Xbox 360.
In short, the suggestions are: sit further from the display, have some ginger, and just grin and bear it– the effect can lessen with time.
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Phil – Day Three: ‘Clan Macho’
BlackLightProductions let us know that Phil – Day Three has been posted. Phil learns about the Juggernaut gametype, America’s Top Model, and hand lotion. And other stuff. Pretty funny – go watch!(Louis Wu 23:43:11 UTC)
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Attention all Spiders, there is a code of conduct, we try to adhere to
Lets all remember to keep it clean on the battlefield.
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BSB wins 3 more matches against GCmatches.com
Round 1 Griffball (5-0), round 2 Slayer (50-29)& round 3 shotty/snipes (50-30)
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Armor Fusing
wwm0nkey1 wrote to let us know about an in-game glitch that can create some pretty bizarre Halo armor variants; start with two turrets, placed one on top of each other, and then two players, one on each turret, and you get some wild results! Lots and lots of examples, plus a map variant already built for you, in this thread on Bungie.net. Too bad you can’t actually run around like that! (He’s looking for someone with Recon to volunteer to help with some extra variants.)(Louis Wu 20:41:07 UTC)
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PreGame Lobby Episode 6
tg sneak stopped in to point out that PreGame Lobby Episode 6, ‘dDrunmk!’, is now up on YouTube. Drinking and Zombies… mmm. (Louis Wu 20:30:47 UTC)
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Bank shot into the corner pocke- um, skull
Hawty McBloggy found a video where someone picked up an astoundingly lucky snipe – three bounces, and then the head of an unsuspecting (and totally unseen) target. Should sniper bullets bounce this much? Tell Hawty what you think!(Louis Wu 19:35:23 UTC)
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Valhalla – in Boom Blox
EazyB recreated Valhalla using the Wii’s Boom Blox. Amazing! (Even more so when he blows it up!)(Louis Wu 18:19:10 UTC)
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Bury yourself as the Chief?
Geez, this is a little twisted… Creative Coffins will let you be buried in a casket that reflects your life loves… including Halo 3. LackOfKnowledge found this at Gizmodo. (It’s unclear whether these are real, actually; the Creative Coffins website contains no mention of the video game choices, and the coffin SHAPES shown there are different from the ones on the T3 website.)(Louis Wu 16:55:32 UTC)
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One Plus Two Equals Fourteen
Wow, here’s an out-there rumor… allaboutiPhone.net is reporting that Bungie has given out iPhones to all its employees, and they speculate that Bungie might be developing apps for the unit. Pocket Gamer goes one step further – they’re discussing a Halo-related iPhone app. The bare facts – that Bungie has supplied iPhones to their employees, and is paying for the service contracts – are true, according to a Bungie employee. The rest of it… that’s just people talking. Thanks, Kibbles.(Louis Wu 16:44:16 UTC)
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Red vs. Blue – Reconstruction Chapter 8 Released
Church, Washington, Caboose, and Delta arrive at the source of Agent Maine’s beacon signal. As they set up an assault, Church learns more about the Freelancer Project from Delta.
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Reclaimer 63-68 are available.
The 63rd-68th installments of graphic novel Reclaimer are online.
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The Superintendent’s Sorrow Music Video
Loading Ready Run releases “The Superintendent’s Sorrow” music video.
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Mattrick Says Ryan Laughed Off E3 Snub
I thought this story would fizzle out. If certain people had
muchany sense, it probably would have. Yet here we are.Eurogamer has an exclusive interview coming up tomorrow with Microsoft’s Xbox 360 boss Don Mattrick. They, of course, asked him about the cancelled Bungie announcement and the studio’s reaction:
“Sure they’re disappointed. Any software creator would be disappointed,” Mattrick, boss of the Xbox 360 business, told Eurogamer at E3 for an exclusive interview set to run later this week. “Harold [Ryan, Bungie president] just laughed and he said, ‘Boy, just a sign of growth inside the business, we agree’.
Last week Ryan wrote on Bungie’s website that the team was disappointed by Microsoft’s last-minute decision not to unveil the game.
Pressed on the decision to pull the new Halo title from the E3 briefing, Mattrick said: “We didn’t feel we needed to show Halo to have a great show, to pay homage to our core audience, to have a lot of news, so it was an embarrassment of riches and we couldn’t fit it in. How great is that? I think that’s awesome.”
Yup, that’s funny stuff there. Disappointing the only developer who has so far allowed Microsoft to make money on their incursion into the living room because they were audacious enough to go independent– and because you’ve got enough other stuff? Hilarious.
What exactly was that other stuff, anyway? Because all I seem to read about MS’ showing at E3 now is how there wasn’t a Bungie announcement, and… oh, yeah, Final Fantasy.
Offtopic: I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that Final Fantasy tanks on the 360.
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Boring Comics Number One
OddGodHMK wrote to say that the first comic in his news series ‘Boring Comics’ is Halo-related. I can totally relate – any playlist with more than 4 on a team, and I say a LOT of stuff my teammates never hear!(Louis Wu 13:19:03 UTC)
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Option 2
TTL Demag0gue stopped in with word of Reclaimer 68 – he says there’s a promise of answers, but it looks more confusing than ever to me!(Louis Wu 13:08:26 UTC)
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Microsoft’s Hiring – in the Halo universe
Bryan Young noticed a job listing at Microsoft (via Gamasutra, posted last week) for a “Creative Director – building a new Halo universe”. The listing links to a job description that’s several months old, and doesn’t specify Halo explicitly – recycled description, or just an unfilled position?(Louis Wu 13:06:25 UTC)
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E3 Comments from UK Sites
Couple of news stories about E3 wrapups of interest to the Halo community – Eurogamer will have an interview with Don Mattrick tomorrow, but today they’ve got a teaser in which Harold Ryan (Bungie President) is quoted as laughing off the cancelled project announcement (thanks, Peter Brown). And TechRadar UK talked to Brian Jarrard of Bungie – he had positive things to say about E3 in general, while expressing some disappointment with how Bungie’s role in the proceedings was changed.(Louis Wu 12:58:29 UTC)
The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft
