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Sometimes, a cigar is just a cigar, I guess.
Bah. Hyokin sent along this screengrab from the ‘Five Long Years’ cinematic that Ensemble released to hype Halo Wars – it shows the Legendary emblem painted on the nose of some Pelicans. I don’t have high hopes for the whole ‘sticking to canon’ thing when UNSC aircraft, meeting Covenant forces for the very first time in history, have a symbol created with a Covenant skull, and a machete written out of the Halo Universe more than eight years ago, emblazoned on them. Ah, well…(Louis Wu 22:54:13 UTC)
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Pr0n and other images hit Halo 3 file sharing on Xbox LIVE
Some users of Halo 3’s file sharing system (meant to share game screenshots and map and game variants) have figured out how to share content not related to Halo 3. In fact, the content I saw is pornographic content.
Yesterday while playing in Halo 3 matchmaking, I was placed on a team with someone who insisted that I visit his file share as our game was starting. Figuring I didn’t have time to do this, I decided to wait until the game was over to look at his amazing Halo 3 screenshots. After the game was over, I navigated to my “recent players” menu and viewed the file share of the gamer.
Behold. Naked girls everywhere. All over my big 55″ HDTV in the middle of my living room! In the screenshots section of his profile were pornographic images. That gamer’s friend also had pornographic images on his file share.
Since last night, one of the images is still visible on Bungie.net and his file share (I reported the image to Bungie). The rest of the images have been removed from both profiles. The image has been downloaded 4,500 times from this particular gamer’s file share.
I wonder if MSBUNGIE are going to have some legal battles on their hands. I wonder if the way we use game content file sharing on Xbox LIVE is about to change.
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Team battles site
The clan has been added to teambattles.com. I am eager to begin battles on there and see if we can be the best of the best. I also uploaded a pic of the crew for all to see.
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Halo: it’s important
Kotaku talked to Phil Spencer and Shane Kim about Halo – seems to be a bit of spin about the botched announcement last week, but nothing was really said. The interviewer asked about Bungie’s new project, the Halo movie, Halo “Blue”, Peter Jackson’s project – and got positive but vague answers about all of them. Microsoft clearly thinks Halo is a valuable property – but isn’t interested in actually TALKING about what’s coming yet. Thanks, yoshiary.(Louis Wu 18:42:43 UTC)
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‘im on fire’ – dangerous screenshot?
Last night, we got a message from a pretty trustworthy Halo 3 player, discussing an incident that occurred in a game played a few minutes earlier. Before the veto countdown had finished, the opposite team sent messages to all players, and one of the recipients opened the image file included in the message – that player’s 360 froze, removing them from the game (and leaving the other team with a 4-3 advantage). The file being blamed as the culprit is on Bungie.net – but is not viewable online. The thread associated with the file suggests that others have had the same trouble, or have used the file to CAUSE the same trouble – and this morning, the warning showed up on our forum, as well. I’m sure Bungie is looking into the issue – but in the meantime, I’d recommend that you not open screenshots sent to you by unknowns while you’re on your 360. (Louis Wu 17:01:16 UTC)
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Harsh Reminders
Dennis Powers let us know that Shipwrecked 37 is up – not all reactions are induced by external forces.(Louis Wu 17:00:54 UTC)
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Halo 3 Review – seeing the light a bit later
Longtime forum member Gryphonosiris recently published a review of Halo 3 – apparently, it was written right after the game came out, but never went up. Give it a read!(Louis Wu 16:36:59 UTC)
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Planet Halo at Haloramics
El Burritoh at Tied the Leader has created some truly unique screenshots at Haloramics, bending the lens to depict multiplayer maps for Halo 3 as their own little planetoid worlds.
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Digitalph33r’s Episode Commentary
Digitalph33r has released his commentary for the first two episodes of Arby n’ The Chief.
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Interlocking Objects in Forge
ForgeHub and Flem Productions have gotten together to produce a new Forging 101 Video Tutorial. This one teaches you how to merge, or “Interlock” objects together using Halo 3’s Forge to create the best maps possible.
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Pwnathon Forge Contest Winners
There were a lot of great maps submitted in this contest. A lot of great games were played on these maps during the last month. If you missed the chance to download one of them, check out the fileshare for the Pwnathon2o2p tag. They’re all there.
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Best of Forge, Round 2
ForgeHub’s TrueDarkFusion let us know that the nomination round for their Best of Forge event has ended, and Round 2 of voting has begun. You’ve got 10 days to vote – you have to be registered, but once you are, the voting stuff is here.(Louis Wu 14:18:09 UTC)
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Flood Push
TTL Demag0gue has posted the latest Reclaimer (Episode 67) – it gives us an idea of what happened to the Chief…(Louis Wu 14:15:11 UTC)
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Forgetting Stuff
New sheet music available at Rampancy.net – Donkk has transcribed Unforgotten and Never Forget. Get to playing!(Louis Wu 14:14:54 UTC)
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More Halo Wars Coverage
mrtitan, over at Planet Halo, has summarized a roundup of Halo Wars articles in the wake of E3 that were listed on the Halo Wars website – there are a bunch I hadn’t seen. Go read! (Louis Wu 14:14:37 UTC)
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Banshee tips, via example
Slith has used GameVee to record a few clips that might be able to teach you some cool Banshee-flying techniques. Go see what he’s got! (Louis Wu 14:14:20 UTC)
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Fan Fic Pick of the Week
kr-1426 let us know last night that the HBO Fan Fic Pick of the Week was posted over at the HBOFF forum. Go get some advice in your reading material! (Louis Wu 14:13:47 UTC)
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Never Forget Full Score
After transcribing “Unforgotten” into a full score, I decided to do it again for the updated version, “Never Forget”. I did it to the best of my ability, had to guess on some things, but I played it side by side with the Halo 3 CD and it sounded pretty darn close, if not exact, to me. So I think I got it right. Also, at measure 25, I couldn’t quite pin down which key Marty switches to so I just left it in G Maj/E min. until measure 51 when he obviously goes back to the original key of “Unforgotten” (which is A flat Maj/F min). Any question you have, I will be happy to answer to the best of my ability. Enjoy.
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Podtacular MLG night 07/21/2008
Hey guys, just thort i would bring us together to play some MLG games Monday night. This will be a casual thing which will be happening once every couple of weeks or something. We will be playing best of 3 games (TBA) and the videos will be available for dowload from each of the teams.
Sign up here.
http://podtacular.com/event/podtacular-mlg-night-07212008
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Boom De Yada – Redux
Dragoncoals let us know about a version of the “I love the whole world” Discovery commercial song, done (by him) in Halo 3. There’ve been others before (we mentioned this one, back in June), but I liked Dragoncoals’ choice of footage a lot. (The head-bobbing… not so much.) Go watch!(Louis Wu 16:43:58 UTC)
The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft
