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Visual Echoes
TTL Demag0gue mentioned that Reclaimer 58 is now up – what’s going on?(Louis Wu 16:45:37 UTC)
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Yes, we cannon!
MffnMn was the first to point out a Halo reference on last night’s The Daily Show – you can watch the whole 5 and a half minute segment on Comedy Central’s site. If that’s more than you want, the video-game-related part of the McCain/Obama comparison can be downloaded from us (1:15 long, about 11 mb in either QuickTime or WMP9 formats) – pretty funny use of Halo 3!(Louis Wu 16:42:03 UTC)
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Fishing for Fan Feedback
Xmoosev3 noticed that over at Kotaku Australia, they’d gotten their hands on a Microsoft marketing survey… asking what sort of Halo games you might be willing to buy in the future. It’s a pretty wide list!(Louis Wu 16:37:02 UTC)
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Gavino and Dan’s Halo 3 Compilation
Yesterday, Gavino, a well-known fixture in the Red vs Blue community, posted a Halo Compilation. (Most of us call those things ‘montages’ – but hey, he’s a brit.) Now, normally, I wouldn’t even mention stuff that’s posted in RvB journals, because they’re not visible without an account… but this vid is pretty fun, so we put up local copies (QuickTime | WMP9 – each about 50 mb) if you don’t have an account. (If you do, you can watch it streaming, and you can comment.) Fun gameplay (plenty of betrayals), fun music, nice editing. Go enjoy! Update: RvB’s web guy, Ben, let me know that I’m behind the times – you can, indeed, read Gavino’s post and watch his streaming vid there, if you choose. (You can’t comment without logging in – but I can now link directly to content within the site! w00t!)(Louis Wu 16:33:46 UTC)
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Lego Halo Anyone?
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Kotaku reader frostcircus sent in an excerpt from what purports to be a marketing survey regarding possible future Halo titles. It’s unclear to me whether this is something a marketing company prepared at Microsoft’s request, or something they did independently to gather market intelligence, or what.
If the former, it may mean Microsoft is seriously gauging the potential of further expansion of the Halo universe after Halo Wars and Halo Chronicles. If the latter, it may mean nothing.
Can Lego Halo, an April Fool’s joke this year from 1Up, be that far removed from at least potential reality?
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A Trio of Montages
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After a lull in activity the montages are back and production is at full steam ahead. We’ve had three new montages created in the past couple days. Read on for details and linkage.
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GamePro Gives Chimp Thumbs-Up For Humor
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…but not so much for the gameplay. They rate it 3/5 overrall but say the game is more fun to watch than to play. Ouch.
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Hail To The Chimp Ships
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Monsters and Critics is reporting that Wideload Games’ sophomore effort (at least, its second full-length offering) is now shipping: Hail to the Chimp is available for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
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Chasing Seven Billion Kills
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An HBO forum user offered some suggestions on the most efficient way to rack up tons of Campaign kills.
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The Running Riot’s Favorite Community Files Updated
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The Running Riot picked their favorites again from 50 Screenshots and 38 Film Clips. Check them out in TRR Favs!
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To those about to Rock!
ZZoMBiE13 has cause for celebration in today’s Another Halo Comic Strip – go see why.(Louis Wu 20:02:17 UTC)
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CI Makes BNet’s Front Page News Again
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It’s Week Two of CI’s Bungie Favorites choices, and time for a little Q&A between Lukems, Foman, and CI member Panzershreke! Read the Q&A Here!
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Week Two of CompoundIntelligence’s Favorites
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The latest Bungie Favorites are updated and now available to download.
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The Riot 104
Sigafoos let us know that The Riot 104 is now up – Halo talk, as usual, plus MGS4 spoilers (no, neither Sigafoos nor Brathnok have played the game) – 21 minutes, 9 mb. Tuesday? These puppies are slipping…(Louis Wu 14:25:15 UTC)
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Blast From The Past
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Halo 3 players XxFLAWxLESSxX, Rockout514, and lxjarh34dxl recreated the very first ever Halo screenshot using the Halo 3 engine. Lukems posted it up at Bungie.net, along with the old shot for comparison.
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Halo-themed Custom Guitar
Hawty McBloggy pointed out an amazing guitar she found at the Halo Museum (a site, by the way, that I’d never heard of, but that has some pretty fun stuff in it) – go check out the story of this custom-painted, Halo-themed, flame-bodied, Steve-Vai-signed guitar! (Louis Wu 10:24:18 UTC)
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7 Billion by 7/7
We’ve gotten a number of emails about a challenge put forth by Sir Killalot33 over on the Bungie.net forums – in light of the fact that a few days ago, the number of Campaign kills surpassed the population of this planet, and the fact that Bungie Day is just 13 days from now… can we, the Halo community, pass the 7 billion kills mark before 7/7? This has been front-paged at Bungie.net, and there’s a sizeable thread going right now on our own forum – if you want to help, jump in and start playing! (ACEfanatic02 has some nice suggestions in terms of efficiency.) (Louis Wu 10:15:39 UTC)
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Halo Canon Contest 2008
The HBO Fan Fiction Forum is running a contest – prove how knowledgeable you are about Halo canon! Go read the rules (and the questions) at the HBOFF forum. Thanks, UNSC Trooper. (Louis Wu 10:09:04 UTC)
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TTL AtLANtica Recap
At the end of May, a whole lot of TTL Gunslingers got together in Florida and partied for a weekend. They had fun, they raised money for charity, they played a lot of Halo. They filmed the whole shebang. Swing by Tied the Leader for a writeup, and a link to the video, either streaming or in quarter-of-a-gig HD goodness. Good game, guys… good game. (Thanks, XerxdeeJ.) (Louis Wu 10:06:54 UTC)
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