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Phantom Pistols on Waterworks
Up on Bungie.net, you’ll find a new interview with an old name… Shishka is back at Bungie, and he’s here to make your matchmaking experience oh so much better. Go read what he’s gonna do for you! (And welcome back, Shishka!)(Louis Wu 18:15:00 UTC)
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Attack of the (old) New Guy
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A blast from the past returns to blast you in the face. With his face blasting past paste.
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Rules of Engagement
Have you ever wondered what grenades do when you’re not using them? ZZoMBiE13 has. Go read Another Halo Comic Strip for details.(Louis Wu 17:54:16 UTC)
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RT: Awesome Comic, Awesome Shirt
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Today’s comic actually kind of happened in that Burnie and I both threatened to report each other for being douche bags. Luckily for Major Nelson, we don’t know his number…or Trixie’s for that matter. Also, I’m proud to report that the deficit on Grif-related…
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High Score Halo
Cody Miller announced the opening of High Score Halo, a subsite of High Speed Halo whereby you can win fame and accolades (or at least your initials on a cool retro high score list) by garnering the most points in a Halo 3 campaign run. Go see!(Louis Wu 15:40:52 UTC)
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Only two million matches in the last 24 hours.
If it wasn’t enough to see articles that say “Halo sucks, even though it gave us the underpinnings of an entire generation of shooters”, and “Halo sucks, even Barbie’s Horse Adventure is more fun”, now SPARTAN 294 reminds us that Halo sucks, and has come in second again, to Call of Duty 4, for the 856th consecutive week on Xbox LIVE. Excuse me – I’ve got to go start a website for a different game.(Louis Wu 15:39:00 UTC)
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Prayer
Wow. OboeCrazy wrote an English Horn solo with some Oboe and experimentation with guitar pedals… and Elnea added some background effects… and the result is haunting. Go listen to ‘Prayer’, a “Covenant prayer to their Gods for the Great Journey…a prayer essentially for death, and filled with Flood.” (It’s unlikely that there’ll be bandwidth problems, but if there is, we’ll be happy to mirror this.)(Louis Wu 15:09:02 UTC)
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Attention: How to be on the final episode of Podtacular’s audio podcast
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Podtacular’s audio show is a community show, likely the first of it’s kind. With the many great guest hosts we’ve had on, voice mails we’ve played, and tips we’ve read, thousands of people have been on the show. We want all of you to have a chance to be involved in the final audio show.
Here’s the plan: call in a voice mail to 206-888-HALO and say your gamertag first (and what site you’re from if applicable). Then leave any goodbye message you’d like. What we’ll do is pick out the Halo and gaming community leaders first and play their full goodbyes. After that we’ll have a montage of every single gamertag that called in a goodbye. Our goal is to get everyone that wants to be a part of the final episode to be on it, this time in their own voice. CapnKrunk is going to scratch the voice mails he was finishing for the last tales from the foxhole show to work on these.
Thanks everyone for wanting to contribute. Let’s make it the best show ever! Deadline is Thursday, April 3rd so he has time to edit this all together.
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Halo 3 – the game bloggers love to hate
Man, it’s the day to hate on Halo 3, I guess. ExtremeTech has an article that rates games as to whether they’re better, or worse, than Halo 3. Only one game lost to Bungie’s newest release on their entire 10-game roster – Crysis. I realized I couldn’t take the list seriously, though, when they described ‘The Darkness’ as ‘a bargain bin game’ with ‘a game-stopping bug’, and AI that ‘sucks’… but still rated it better than Halo 3. Go see for yourself.(Louis Wu 14:56:18 UTC)
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Dan Baker’s Halo Comic Grows
Dan Baker let us know that he’s added new content to his (very high quality) Halo comic – Page 3 has two new panels since we last mentioned it a couple of weeks ago. Go look! (He says more is coming soon.)(Louis Wu 14:17:21 UTC)
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What Halo brought to the party
Over at Games Are Fun, there’s a summary of what Halo has done for the shooter genre on consoles. It’s a funny article, because the guy who wrote it clearly doesn’t like Halo at all… but still admits that it did a few things right. Give it a look.(Louis Wu 14:13:31 UTC)
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Important Qualifications
Elnea’s posted Halo Action Figure Theater #139 – the pretty blue lady explains how she makes her most important choices. I think it’s a valuable glimpse into the female mind.(Louis Wu 13:48:49 UTC)
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Sony Ericsson Halo theme – now downloadable
Yesterday, we mentioned a Halo theme for Ericsson phones – there was interest in the forum, so Don sent along the theme itself. It’s quite small (30k, zipped); to install it, put it in your phone’s “theme” directory then apply it by going to settings > display > theme. (The theme itself has an underscore in the front of its name; it’s there so that the theme sits at the top of the list. If you’d rather remove it, there’s no problem doing so.) Thanks, Don!(Louis Wu 13:33:04 UTC)
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RT: Drunk Tank Week 10
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The drunks are back for another week of burning bridges. Burn, bridges! Burn! Clicking any link will open a new window or tab. Microsoft just reset the Gamerscores of several high profile cheaters. [link] Burnie — Good. People will surely…
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The Catalyzer of Events
TTL Demag0gue stopped by with the latest Reclaimer comic – Ferial is being rather cryptic.(Louis Wu 15:32:41 UTC)
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M Squared.
Heh – Maluu and MrOllie are back to their old Trick-Jumping ways, with a JumpTactics entry into the MLG Pro Film Festival Contest. It’s short, and it makes extensive use of tweaked damage settings… but it’s beautiful. Go watch. Thanks to RVideo for the heads-up.(Louis Wu 14:33:17 UTC)
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Tricking Up a Storm
Wow. Ducain pointed out this newspost at High Impact Halo – seems a bunch of crazy HIH tricksters figured out a way to get a vehicle into the Index Chamber in Halo 2’s Quarantine Zone. If you’re thinking “yeah, so?” read the explanation of how this came about in grumpy’s post. That’s some pretty serious dedication, there!(Louis Wu 13:40:20 UTC)
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McFarlane Series 3 Pics
Littlebigman noticed that Toy News International has pics of McFarlane Series 3 figures. He wasn’t very gracious about it, though.(Louis Wu 12:47:42 UTC)
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Gray Team Transmission One
Lordstemplar1 stopped by to let us know about Gray Team Transmission One, a new machinima project from Mindless Distortion Productions, has been released. You can find download links on the 508th Brigade forum. Twelve minutes long. The writing could use a little help… but the battle scenes are fun.(Louis Wu 12:46:44 UTC)
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