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I’ve Got Wood.
On March 3, Stuntmutt reached a milestone for his One One Se7en comic – 777 main-category strips. He was torn – it was time to wrap up the strip, and he was two months shy of his fifth anniversary… but 777 was too good a number not to stop on. He did, however, plan a release on April 30, to commemorate that five year stretch. I wish I could say that I chose to hold off a day in posting news of that strip in order to emphasize the punchline… but that would be giving myself too much credit. Go read One One Se7en, and pretend it’s yesterday. And don’t forget to wish Stunt a Happy Anniversary!(Louis Wu 12:16:54 UTC)
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Republican Space Rangers
A million and one people are pointing out the TV show ‘Republican Space Rangers’, an egg of sorts in GTA4. (It’s one of the shows available on the TV in your room.) gunluva started a thread about it a couple of days ago, and opinions range from ‘it’s obviously a total parody of Halo’ to ‘it has nothing at all to do with Halo’. (Personally, I’m leaning towards the “not so much” end of that spectrum. The marines wear armor that bears a superficial resemblance to Mjolnir armor, and there IS an obvious tip o’ the hat to Halo with the ring-shaped environment shown at one point… but past that, nothing.) In any case, it’s now been duly noted, so you can stop sending email, okay?(Louis Wu 11:25:55 UTC)
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Forge Contest at ModHalo
Thanks to Phil, who let us know that ModHalo.net is having a Halo 3 Forge contest this month, with $95 in prizes. Go read the details on their forum!(Louis Wu 11:17:14 UTC)
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Try Team Fortress 2 for free this weekend. Gold Rush Update now available.
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The Team Fortress 2: Gold Rush Update is now available, free to owners of Team Fortress 2 via Steam. The Gold Rush Update introduces the new Gold Rush map and Payload gameplay style, the first set of unlockable weapons, and a new set of achievements for the Medic.
In other TF2 news, a worldwide Team Fortress 2 Free Weekend will begin Friday at noon PDT, and will include access to the new content released today in the TF2: Gold Rush Update. Using the functionality made available through Steam and Steamworks, all of the files needed to join the Free Weekend are available for pre-loading now.
The Free Weekend is open to players around the world, and there is no obligation to purchase to participate; all that is needed is a Steam account to join.
To start pre-loading everything you need to play on Friday and learn more about Team Fortress 2, please visit www.steamgames.com/goldrush
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Major Pain
Digikid pointed out that Spriggs Episode 9 is available for download. It’s getting hard to keep some of these series apart… but there were some funny moments in this one. Go watch! (Louis Wu 22:41:43 UTC)
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Season News Semi Fnals – Week 5
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Well everyone welcome back to the season update.
This week will be a short update as we’re approaching the end of the season one more time. I just would like to take the time to congratulate the 4 semi finalists Your Team, Team SBG Exodus, Team Krunchy Gets Carried and 2 Shakes and A Zip.
And with no further delay here at the games for the this week.
The match will be played in a Series of 5 games (Best of 5).- MLG TS on Onslaught
- MLG Ball on Guardian
- MLG TS on Construct
- MLG GB CTF on Narrows
- MLG TS on The Pit
Again good luck to everyone and thanks to everyone who’s been participating on this tournament.
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Halo Screen Shots – new code, and a new home
Sorahn’s Halo Screen Shots is a great place to store your Bungie.net screenshots – all the thumbs show up on a single page, there’s no rigamarole involved in viewing the large versions, and you can see many collections quickly. And now, Halo Screen Shots is part of the bungie.org family – we’re hosting them. (This doesn’t mean their old hosting was unreliable – it simply means that as long as we’re around, they have a home.) If you haven’t visited, now’s a good time! We’ve added a random screen, along with some statistics on the collection, to our Spotlight box over on the right; keep an eye on the growth!(Louis Wu 18:11:15 UTC)
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L’Excursion Grande
Bzerker01 let us know that Outpost Isil: Episode 5 is now available at Treeskunk Productions, in about a gazillion formats. Almost 10 minutes long, there’s weird stuff going on in both bases. Go watch!(Louis Wu 17:54:50 UTC)
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Panoramas of the Ark
BlueNinja continues to put out new panoramas – I really like these views of The Ark. Check ’em out!(Louis Wu 15:11:45 UTC)
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Weapons Training
TTL Demag0gue let us know that Reclaimer Episode 42 is online – more history, and some nice effects.(Louis Wu 15:10:23 UTC)
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Bugged
Dennis Powers let us know that Shipwrecked Episode 15 is up – things are getting weird.(Louis Wu 15:08:35 UTC)
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Crow’s Nest Commentary – from its designer
Delicious Pie noticed that Ascendant Justice has updated their article on Crow’s Nest with commentary from Dan Miller, the designer of the level. (We originally mentioned this article back in mid-March, but the new commentary went up just a couple of days ago.) Some very interesting tidbits in there – thanks, Dan, and thanks, AJ!(Louis Wu 15:06:47 UTC)
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Halo 3 Legendary – $50 in Canada
If you live in Canada, you can snag the Halo 3 Legendary Edition for $50, until Thursday. Go visit Future Shop.(Louis Wu 22:06:53 UTC)
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Seeing Double
Halo Action Figure Theater has been updated with a pretty big plot twist… and some nice little eggs. Don’t forget to wish Elnea well, after her flu!(Louis Wu 21:12:35 UTC)
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Caution: Under Construction
Another Halo Comic Strip seems to be having trouble today – can you figure out why?(Louis Wu 15:25:30 UTC)
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Their armor’s too strong for blasters!
It’s not the first AT-AT built with Forge – but it looks to be one of the most playable. Lucifer7 dropped off a bunch of screenshots of his latest project – a fully-playable Star Wars-style AT-AT, on Avalanche. Lots of cool little details – read the post!(Louis Wu 14:48:03 UTC)
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Prelude: An Aural Prologue
Dream053 announced an upcoming machinima project – that’s being preceded by a ‘prologue’, focusing on a story of bonds and brotherhood amongst the Elites. He’s released an audio clip that sounds promising! Go listen.(Louis Wu 14:37:02 UTC)
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Free goodies from Needcoffee
Needcoffee.com is giving away some Halo 3 vehicles from McFarlane – head on over to register! (Louis Wu 14:27:09 UTC)
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Halo Sculpture – and more
RandomCTG has been doing some sculpting – if you swing by this forum post, you’ll find pictures of a Master Chief figurine, an Elite bust, a Master Chief helmet, and even a (very cool) Big Daddy from Bioshock! (He also added some Elite sketches farther down.)(Louis Wu 14:17:57 UTC)
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How it all began, Part 5
2phast let us know that Larry the Marine 18 is now up – go see why the squad is scared.(Louis Wu 14:14:50 UTC)
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