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Laughs for Cash – Submissions Closed
trigger119 let us know that the submission period for the Laughs for Cash contest is now over – GamingTV staff and friends will be narrowing entries down to 5 finalists, and public voting will begin on April 21. Read the news post for more details.(Louis Wu 18:50:58 UTC)
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What about the listmakers?
Kezins.com has put up a list of The 10 Most Annoying Types Of Halo 3 Players – seemed more like a list of people who pissed off the author last night, but maybe not.(Louis Wu 18:47:57 UTC)
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Convince Me
Dennis Powers let us know that Shipwrecked Episode 10 is online – how do YOU deal with world-shaking news?(Louis Wu 18:37:16 UTC)
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Game with Fame: Avenged Sevenfold
Wow, bizarre. On this day when the Legendary Map Pack is released, Xbox.com has scheduled a DIFFERENT Halo 3-multiplayer activity – there’s a Game With Fame set up with the band Avenged Sevenfold. If you want to play, you need to send a Friend Request (assuming there’s still space) to one of two gamertags listed on the announcement page before 8 pm ET tonight.(Louis Wu 18:32:54 UTC)
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Legendary Content in Matchmaking Shortly
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Within the next hour or so the playlists should be updated to include the Legendary map pack.
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Legendary Maps Available Now!
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The Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack is now available on Xbox LIVE Marketplace! Purchase these maps within a limited time and receive a complimentary four-month subscription to Bungie PRO and expand your Halo 3 file sharing capacity.
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Deja Bu
ZZoMBiE13 takes a look at Ghost Town in today’s episode of Another Halo Comic Strip – yes, you can groan now.(Louis Wu 12:50:49 UTC)
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Available: Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack. Free theme and gamerpic
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It’s out. The new downable content for Halo 3 costs 800 MS points and comes with 3 new maps, a legendary theme, and gamerpic.
The Legendary Map Pack blends old and new. Ghost Town’s asymmetrical mix of confined spaces and long lines of fire makes for frenetic games. Avalanche re-imagines the original Halo classic, Sidewinder, with new features, tweaked vehicles and massive outdoor spaces. Significant changes bring big improvements to the map, yet its contours and cliffs should provide a welcome sense of familiarity. Blackout, on the other hand, is the purest remake to date – all time favorite Lockout gets a graphical overhaul, but retains its challenging mix of ramps, platforms, tunnels and hallways. There are no refunds for this item.
We previously talked about this here: http://hushedcasket.com/node/2837
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Vidtacular
I’m out of town, so news might be slow for a couple of days – but it’s amazing how many movies were announced today. I can’t even watch most of them, so you’re on your own in terms of quality (you might be able to get some idea from the respective forum posts):- Vash10 pointed out a video called ‘Diamondback’, showing highlights of an epic game of CTF on a Forged version of Avalanche. This one I watched – fantastic.
- AoD Deadite announced the Dispatch Custom Game Night #2 video – games played last week.
- Howlingwolf came by with news of a trailer for 82nd Airborne.
- Phatcorns told us about a montage put together from a single Neutral Assault game on Standoff – lots of kills, no win. (Nice timing with the music, though.)
- Z sent along a link to Im’ma Shine, a hard-to-classify montage-like video. (I haven’t been able to watch this yet.)
That should be enough to keep you watching for a bit…(Louis Wu 04:28:14 UTC)
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Overdriftactular
Jared Rea is one of the people who’s gotten his hands on a Legendary code early – and he’s spent the advance time building a Mongoose racetrack on Avalanche. Check out the pictures and writeup for Overdriftactular – a final version should be available by the time the maps are up.(Louis Wu 04:24:33 UTC)
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Trying to connect with their audience
Delta noticed an article about future weapons/armor systems for Canadian soldiers, in the Toronto Star – the gear is compared to Halo’s Spartans more than once.(Louis Wu 04:22:39 UTC)
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Firebomb, in 3D
SpartanX announced the release of a study of the Firebomb, over at DeviantART. Great work!(Louis Wu 04:19:56 UTC)
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Hulkgranny has gone COVENANT!!
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Hulk Granny has decided to leave the UNSC and join the Covenant ranks as an Elite. Full story to follow!
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RT: Forced Enjoyment Round 3.2
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Hey everybody, Jack here with a quick update from the land of Forced Enjoyment and other assorted sundries. First of all, your time to submit an entry for the “Family Photo” Halo 3 Scavenger Hunt for Stolen Goods is over. I’ve received well…
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Legendart DLC Hunting
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The Legendary DLC maps are nearly here. Get off your bums and join in on the Hunt!
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Frankie interviewed on Inside Xbox
Morpheus pointed out that there’s a video up on Inside Xbox (an Xbox LIVE feature accessible from the LIVE tab of your 360 dashboard) – looks like it went up Friday, in fact – that has an interview with Frankie, and covers the Legendary Map Pack. Game footage looks to have been taken from the press event Bungie held a week and a half ago (you can see KP’s adorable face in a couple of places), and it gives you yet another perspective on what Bungie wanted to do with these maps. Watch it – and then buy the maps tomorrow!(Louis Wu 14:06:22 UTC)
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Through the Looking Glass
Master Kim noticed an old article about game design (specifically, “Fully Interactive Surfaces”) which focuses on Doom 3 and Half-Life 2, but also mentions Halo a couple of times. Might be worth a read, if you’re interested in that sort of thing! (It was written in 2005 – keep that in mind.)(Louis Wu 13:55:24 UTC)
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Where’s ‘Rosebud. Kettle. Black.’?
Next Generation has put together their list of the Top 10 Games Industry Taglines – Halo 3’s ‘Finish the Fight’ comes in at #5.(Louis Wu 09:52:04 UTC)
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New Transcribed Music at R.net
More transcribed music at Rampancy.net – Mike Poe gives you ‘This is the Hour‘, and Spencer Anunsen and Devin Eastman bring you Ghosts of Reach. Go play!(Louis Wu 09:31:26 UTC)
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Flip-Yap comes to life – in LEGO
Unique Name pointed out a LEGO grunt – there are photos at both Flickr and Brickshelf.(Louis Wu 09:27:59 UTC)