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Rememberance – on an Accordion
Wow – chargeorge pointed out a friend who recorded Halo 2’s Rememberance on an accordion. You can hear it on his Facebook page. Will it spark interest in this?(Louis Wu 16:21:10 UTC)
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The Man can be a Harsh Mistress
Over at the 405th Forums (nice makeover, btw), there’s a sad tale of Microsoft heavy-handedness – the Legendary Armor crew has been served with a Cease and Desist notice. Sorry, guys!(Louis Wu 15:41:01 UTC)
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The Halo Movie – of interest to screenwriters
You may remember the name ‘El Mayimbe’ – he works over at LatinoReview.com, and breaks a lot of movie stories. He showed up here in 2005, when he reviewed the original Halo movie script. I’m not sure April 1 is the best choice of ‘days to break interesting news’… but if you swing by LR.com, you’ll find a story about Stuart Beattie, the screenwriter behind the upcoming G.I. Joe. Apparently, he’s written a spec script roughly based on the Fall of Reach storyline. Who knows where this will go?(Louis Wu 15:23:49 UTC)
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Once upon a time…
The timing is unfortunate, since a lot of people will assume it’s false – but we’ve added a team member to our Halo Story Page crew. Welcome to UNSC Trooper, who hopes to help bring the section out of hibernation – he’s already posted his first news bit!(Louis Wu 15:15:43 UTC)
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Sarcistic Gamer honors Foo Mo Jive.
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In a combo April fools’ joke and homage, our good friends at SarcasticGamer.com have re-done their entire site in jive talk! Every image, banner, article, and element of text is re-done. Check out the page title! Shout out to my homies at SG, y’all is da shiz-nizzle.
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High Impact Halo is no more
In sad news, it looks like High Impact Halo has closed its doors – visiting the site shows a domain parking page, so I guess Ducain let the domain expire. I knew he was starting to get tired… but I hadn’t realized he was ready to hang it up. We’ll miss you, man.(Louis Wu 14:27:25 UTC)
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Sounds of Foundry
gunluva created a fun video he calls ‘Sounds of Foundry‘ – music is where you find it.(Louis Wu 14:24:09 UTC)
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Like coordinating a marching band, but bigger.
Due to a complicated sales manouver by Microsoft, players of Halo 3 in Europe and Africa have caused an intriguing pattern to be created on Bungie’s Players Online map (visible both on their website and in the Matchmaking lobby on Xbox LIVE). It’s unclear how long they can convince these players to stay online (and thus keep the pattern up) – one would imagine it wouldn’t be more than another 6-12 hours. Thanks to all who noticed this – looks like profhalo was first.(Louis Wu 14:06:15 UTC)
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READ, VERY IMPORTANT {Part of April Fools}
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http://www.bungie.net/fanclub/102952/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=19126311&viewreplies=true
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RT: Love Hurts
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Some call it spousal abuse, we call it today’s comic. Don’t worry, he’s fine… for now.
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Free Rock Band DLC: Still Alive; ending credits to Portal
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Still Alive has won many awards including best end credits song and funniest song. It was this kind of creativity that made Portal one of the best games of 2007.
You can now get the song for Rock Band for free. Still Alive is now available on the XBOX Live Marketplace.
Portal ending credits (minor spoiler):
Jonathan Coulton performs “Still Alive” in Rock Band from Joystiq.com on Vimeo.
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Send In Stuff for the Next to Last Show: The Covenant Campaign Show!
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This past show is a little delayed because my computer died. In the mean time, let’s start preparing for the next one. This is the FINAL content show for Podtacular, so be sure to get your last text submission in! After this is the grand finale where we’ll be going through voice mails and taking a look back at nearly 3 years of podtacular. I actually think this is kind of a fitting final content show, since we’re stopping right before the one everyone hates: Cortana. This week is all about how to do well on The Covenant, where master chief disables the shield to get at the prophet of truth, faces a glut of vehicular resistance, joins forces with the flood, eliminates truth, and escapes. This level is downright famous for the scene with the two scarabs at the entrance to the key room where truth is. What secrets are there on this level? How do you deal with the 2 scarabs? Any tips on handling the flood and the covenant here? How about the vehicles? Help the Halo Nation by clicking the big green button and sending in your tip with your gamertag so we can give you credit. If it’s good, we’ll put it on the show! Deadline is Tuesday night at about 7pm eastern, so be quick!
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Inside Job
The massive Inside Job, a four and a half minute cutscene weighing in at about 200 mb in HD, is now up for downloading in the Halo 2 Cutscene Library. From a story standpoint, this one can’t be missed. From a gorgeousness standpoint, this one is up there with the best. Go watch! Thanks, as always, to Clan Infectionist and Wraith-Ops.(Louis Wu 21:17:21 UTC)
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Halo 1 Maps in Goldeneye 007
Ducain forwarded some interesting news from laser – looks like someone’s trying to bring Halo maps into Goldeneye 007. Check out the Hang ’em High movie!(Louis Wu 21:11:16 UTC)
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More Renderosity Art
A couple of months ago, someone (I can’t figure out who) pointed out this picture at Renderosity.com – a very nice render of a Halo landscape, built in Bryce. I asked for, and received, permission to add this to our Misc Art collection, from Orestes, the creator – but somehow, I never actually NOTICED the permission. When I was looking over the pictures we mentioned this morning, I noticed his mail – he pointed out that he’d done this, as well – a render of some banshees over a Terragen’d planet. We’ll add these to our queue – but check ’em out now!(Louis Wu 21:05:29 UTC)
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Sheer Shotguwnage.
Hawty McBloggy found a fun shirt at Split Reason – go look!(Louis Wu 19:13:21 UTC)
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Bornswavia has been Demoted {Part of April Fools}
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Bornswavia has been repeatedly insulting me and I’m well and truly tired of it. As a result he has been demoted to the role of member. If he persists he will be permanently banned from the group.
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Catching Up with CJ
Next-Gen has an interview with CJ Cowan, Halo 3’s cinematics director – read it for a glimpse inside the studio, a look at how the work pipeline has changed over the years, and a positive spin on Seattle’s weather! Thanks, LordGideon.(Louis Wu 17:46:44 UTC)
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Halo Renders at Renderosity
RVideo ran across a pretty impressive artist over at Renderosity.com – Ubald has been creating Halo-related images for a couple of years now. I’ve sent off a request to him to be allowed to mirror the Halo content here, for ease of viewing – but you should look through the links RVideo has supplied, and if you’re intrigued, there are a couple of dozen Halo images interspersed among 6 gallery pages of renders (lots of Spiderman and AvP stuff) – go crazy!(Louis Wu 16:22:01 UTC)
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Halo 3, Legendary, No Deaths
A couple of years ago, Cody Miller announced that he’d finished Halo 2 on Legendary difficulty, with no deaths – if you wanted to watch it in a reasonably viewable form, you had to download a two-gigabyte file. A couple of days ago, we were contacted by SPDN p0iz3n0us, who’s now done the same thing for Halo 3 – but thanks to Bungie’s built-in assets, the downloads are much smaller, and you don’t have to take his word for it. Swing by his fileshare for 9 downloads, one of each level of Halo 3. All are done on Legendary, all are done with the Iron Skull on. (For those who don’t pay close attention to Skulls, the Iron Skull resets you back to the beginning of the level each time you die – so if you finish the level with it on, you’ve successfully completed it with no deaths.) Theater mode rocks!(Louis Wu 13:16:35 UTC)
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