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The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

  • Rainbow Six Vegas 2. Free Best Buy gun code.

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    Rainbow Six Vegas 2 hit store shelves today. If you bought the game at Best Buy you got a sticker on the outside of your case that contained a code to unlock an exclusive Best Buy gun.

    The code can be used by anyone regardless of if you bought the game at Best Buy or not. This is not an XBOX Live Marketplace code.

    At the main menu enter the follow button commands at the Main Menu of Rainbow Six Vegas 2:

    (Hold RB) Down, Down, Up, Up, X, B, X, B, Y, Up, Up, Y

    Who else is purchasing this game? I see that it supports up to 10 persons in online co-op.

  • Spying Eye

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    Dennis Powers let us know that the Halo CE Chronicles comic, Episode 3, is now online – I gotta say, discussing pizza when marooned on an island isn’t the brightest course of action… but it looks like they’ll have other things to worry about soon. (Louis Wu 18:31:33 UTC)

  • Xbox 360 Theme site opens

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    Casey Phillips let us know that DashGrounds has opened – it’s a resource for Xbox 360 themes… but a lot of them are Halo-based. Go look!(Louis Wu 18:26:04 UTC)

  • The Halo Mountain Dew Vending Machine

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    So, last night we got mail from quinion, who pointed out an auction on eBay for a ‘Signed Halo Mountain Dew Vending Machine’. The seller was ‘bungie_llc’, with 0 feedback, and the picture was pretty generic – and too low-res to actually see any signatures, if there were, indeed, any to be seen. The description claimed that all proceeds were to go directly to the Make a Wish Foundation – but the auction was not being run through MissionFish (eBay’s partner in handling charity auctions). All in all, it looked awfully suspicious… even bogus. So I contacted Bungie. It’s real. Not only is it real… according to Frankie, it’s “the only one on Earth”. Now, if you’re not in the Seattle area, getting this puppy shipped is going to be EXPENSIVE… but on the other hand, it’s the only signed Halo Mountain Dew vending machine on the planet. Bidding starts at $117, and runs for six more days. (I’d consider bidding if I didn’t think my wife would kill me.)(Louis Wu 18:04:04 UTC)

  • Wakey Wakey

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    Halo Action Figure Theater 138 gets John out of the box… but not into Cortana’s (nonexistent) pants. Just as well, I guess.(Louis Wu 13:23:59 UTC)

  • Avalanche – this ain’t your momma’s Sidewinder

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    Well, I was rushing to get all that news posted so I could get to the big stuff – Bungie posted pictures of ‘Avalanche’, one of the new maps coming in the Legendary Map Pack on April 15, along with an interview with some of its designers. Yes, it owes a lot to Sidewinder. No, it’s not a recreation of the original. Go look, go read. Exciting stuff!(Louis Wu 12:50:10 UTC)

  • Exclusive Yellow ODST at EE

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    According to Action Figure Insider, Entertainment Earth will be selling an exclusive yellow ODST McFarlane figure this fall. (If I’ve mentioned this before, apologies – it’s really hard to keep track of what’s gone up and what hasn’t, McFarlane-wise.)(Louis Wu 12:41:11 UTC)

  • MLG Pro Circuit Ladder Playoffs

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    PixelBotGo, at MLG Canada, has written up a summary of the MLG 2008 Pro Circuit Ladder #1 Playoffs – go see where they all stand!(Louis Wu 12:36:43 UTC)

  • She’s evil, I tell you.

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    Hawty McBloggy sent me a link that I’m hesitant to pass on, but… well, what the heck. (Louis Wu 12:24:54 UTC)

  • Plot Device

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    Sane Intolerant continues to follow the Halo Action Figure Theater theme in his Halo Toy Box – I guess if you can’t beat ’em, you should piggyback on ’em, right?(Louis Wu 12:23:05 UTC)

  • A Humpday Challenge… live.

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    Looks like this week’s challengers for the Halo Humpday Challenge is the team from ForgeHub – and GamingTV plans to broadcast this match live. More details at GTV.(Louis Wu 12:04:15 UTC)

  • Halo Custom Edition Mod Contest

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    Wave of Lag stopped by to announce that h2vista.net is running a mod contest; as part of the High Res Halo project (bringing a total graphical overhaul to Halo 1, via Halo Custom Edition), they’re building an enormous map originally designed by Mrs Doublefire (who now works for Bungie). It’s got a lot of space – so they’re looking for help filling it. Enter your ‘detail object’ models, and win both a place in the map, and possibly cash. (More details in the post.) (Louis Wu 11:59:54 UTC)

  • Now THAT’S Devotion

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    James Center got married last weekend… and he and his new wife are such Halo fans that the wedding cake was Halo-themed! Check it out.(Louis Wu 11:55:40 UTC)

  • Cowboy Bebop – Halo Style

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    Took the last half of yesterday off, and came back to a mailbox FULL of mail. Let’s get to it. Sam M recreated a scene from Cowboy Bebop within the Halo engine; you can watch the Halo vid itself, or a side-by-side comparison of the original with its remake, using the YouTube links in his post. Pretty cool work!(Louis Wu 11:48:25 UTC)

  • Legendary Map: Avalanche

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    The second Legendary Map – Avalanche – is revealed and detailed within.  A cool classic gets a new look and feel.

  • Monochromatic.

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    Crap. It’s been one of those days. I nearly forgot to post today’s Another Halo Comic Strip entry – which is silly, because I talked to ZZoMBiE13 about it this morning. Anyway, it’s funny, and you should go read it. (Louis Wu 22:48:12 UTC)

  • Send in Stuff for This Week’s Show: Multiplayer Tips and Map of the Month: Narrows

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    Episode 153 has been recorded, we’re just waiting on the good captain of krunkiness to finish ye olde voice mails. In the mean time, it’s time to start rounding up material for the next show. That’s where you come in!

    We’re looking for your multiplayer tips for this one, especially on Narrows. What’s your best base defense? Got a good way to sneak up on someone? A good sniper perch? Got a CTF strat to share? Let us know! Just hit the big green button and send in your multiplayer tip with your gamertag. If it’s good, we’ll read it off for the Halo Nation to hear!

    Deadline is FRIDAY night at 7pm eastern this week. So you’ve got plenty of notice. Put on your thinking helmet and get started!

  • Mass Effect DLC #1 – Batarians

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    Mass Effect DLC #1

    On March 12th, I purchased, played, and subsequently beat Mass Effect’s first round of downloadable content in about two hours. The ferocious alien shown above is a member of the Batarian species within Mass Effect’s world, and this DLC is the first time you encounter them. The first time you see this guy bare his teeth (pictured) is pretty phenomenal. Killing him is just as much fun, even though he’s just a grunt.

    MTV Games’ Stephen Totilo has some reservations against Mass Effect’s side quests, and rightly so. Each side quest drops you on a barren world, devoid of trees and birds, prompts you to enter a facility that had the same architect as the rest of the galaxy, and kill everyone. A handful stray from this formula, but sadly, most follow those simple guidelines. Bioware points fingers at the development time of the game’s technology, leaving little time to actually flesh out comprehensive side quests. They are, after all side quests. Bioware promises they’ll make it up to us in Mass Effect 2, though.

    So five bucks essentially bought me two hours of the best side-quest Mass Effect has to offer. Was it worth it? Rationally, I spend more money for the same amount of entertainment at the movie theater. Also rationally, Mass Effect cost me $60, and it has more than 12 side quests. Being a fan of Mass Effect’s universe, I would say the purchase made sense for me. The chance to interact with a new species and get more intel added to my in-game journal helps add even more depth to an already complex universe. Oh, and the chance to save millions of people from a 16km-wide asteroid crashing into a planet was pretty fun, too. That’s twice the size of the meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs, in case you didn’t already have that committed to memory.

  • More action panoramas

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    I’m not sure we have the resources to host EVERY collection of panoramas that gets sent to us – but Matt Banks saw the action panoramas that Logan Rini sent in recently, and let us know that he’s been working on the same sort of thing. He does nice work, so we posted it. Go look!(Louis Wu 14:00:22 UTC)

  • New map info – you’ll have to wait

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    Delicious Pie stopped by with word from Luke Smith, over at the NeoGAF forum – apparently the planned map reveal (mentioned in last Friday’s Weekly Update) that was scheduled to go live today will not be posted until tomorrow. Bummer!(Louis Wu 11:20:44 UTC)