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Sacred Icon, as played by you
Rampancy.net has posted another piece of Halo sheet music – Sacred Icon for Piano/Keyboard was transcribed by Jonathan Churchill. Package contains a PDF file and an MP3. Go grab it! (Remember, you must be logged in to see a download link.)(Louis Wu 14:09:50 UTC)
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Top Five Halo 3 Maps
OMG Halo has posted a ‘Top Five Halo 3 Maps‘ – it’s just the opinion of one guy, but it’s a decent list, well-justified. Go see if you agree!(Louis Wu 13:59:01 UTC)
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Halo 3 up for Audio Awards
Halo 3 is up for a whole passel of awards from the Game Audio Network Guild – you can find out what it’s been nominated for far more easily at the Rampancy.net website than you can at the GANG website (thanks for that, Narcogen). Seven nominations… we’ll see what they go home with after February 21.(Louis Wu 13:57:28 UTC)
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Wuv Me Do
Halo Action Figure Theater continues on with episode 124 – I can’t tell if I should be scared, or amused. I think I’m scared.(Louis Wu 13:50:33 UTC)
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Clash of the Titans
A couple of weeks ago, Bungie played a Halo Humpday Challenge against the SBG clan – and today, SBG released a tribute video to say thanks to Bungie. Five and a half minutes long, 102 mb, XviD format (NAMLOCO nicely provided a link to the codec if you need it) – grab a copy of the vid from FileFront. (For what it’s worth: after reading about the ‘Nades and Spades’ gametype in Bungie’s writeup, I downloaded it, and we’ve played it here a few times… it ROCKS.)(Louis Wu 20:21:46 UTC)
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We are warriors.
Dream053 has worked on machinima before, as a voice actor; he wanted to try his hand as a producer. Check out his first stab. (Louis Wu 18:19:08 UTC)
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HaloShock
JeSteR 343 found a small Flash video at Funnyjunk – it’ll only take you a few seconds to watch.(Louis Wu 17:30:51 UTC)
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Halo 3 Legendary – for cheap in Canada
Xbox360Fanboy found a whole bunch of Halo 3 Legendary Editions at EB Games in Toronto for $59.99 (canadian). If you’re local, check it out!(Louis Wu 17:20:05 UTC)
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RT: Drunk Tank Week 4
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This week, the drunks are considering renaming their bar tab “Yahoo” so that Microsoft will pay it off. Also, they find out that the DrunkTank is not available in Syria. Capcom’s Devil May Cry 4 on the PS3 comes with an “installation…
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Socket To Him.
Stuntmutt has found an attack considerably stronger than 343 Guilty Spark’s beam in today’s One One Se7en.(Louis Wu 15:32:46 UTC)
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1UP looks at the year ahead
1UP.com has posted Decision ’08, an article that looks at the best games to be coming out this year. The Xbox 360 section includes Halo Wars. (It also includes some quotes from industry analysts on the effect of Bungie’s independence on the future success of the platform.) Thanks to Mr. Titan, at Planet Halo, for the heads-up.(Louis Wu 14:31:13 UTC)
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Outpost Isil Ep 3: Scotland the Very Brave
Treeskunk Productions has posted Episode 3 of their Outpost Isil series – the squad gets two new recruits. I’m not sure that’s a good thing… thanks, Bzerker. (If you’d rather not download it, their front page news post has streaming links on every site on the internet, apparently.)(Louis Wu 14:22:24 UTC)
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What About His Power Level?
Halo Action Figure Theater has been updated with Episode 123 – can chains really control zombies? Hmm… (Didja notice how I didn’t even deign to mention the power level reference? …DOH!)(Louis Wu 14:18:40 UTC)
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The Hills are Alive… with the sound of gunfire
In a moment of frivolity that is likely to haunt him for months, Frankie chose to highlight a Forged map someone sent him on Bungie’s front page. (Cue the sound of 100,000 frantic Forgers pm’ing Frankie with the hopes of being the NEXT highlight victim.) Go check out the map he mentioned; it’s lumpy.(Louis Wu 14:05:02 UTC)
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Pursuit
It’s Wednesday, so it’s time for another Reclaimer comic. TTL Demag0gue posted word of Chapter Three, Part Five in our forum – looks like the Reclaimer might be in a wee bit of trouble.(Louis Wu 13:59:50 UTC)
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Pimp My Map
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Here, for no reason at all other than I thought it was cool and that a reader just brought it to my attention, is an awesome Foundry Forge map variant that uses a very unique take on floor geometry to interesting effect.
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Halo flavored “Laser Tag” now available from Jasman Toys
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Jasman has quietly rolled out Halo-themed Laser-Tag guns in the form of a Plasma Rifle Laser-Tag and Plasma Pistol Laser-Tag (links to Hushed Casket’s Amazon store). The devices are near life size and have the characteristics of the in-game weapons like overheating, rate of fire, sounds. These guns aren’t cheap. They’ll cost you about $80. But, they could easily offset the cost of paintball gear with next to no lifecycle costs.
Me? I’m interested in the guns. Playing Laser-Tag in high school and college was extremely fun. I could see how these guns could do the same.
But, come on. The Plasma Pistol and Rifle aren’t popular weapons in the Halo universe. No one is on XBOX Live playing 2-v-2 with Plasma Rifles and Pistols. I can’t imagine these Laser-Tag weapons being much more fun. I know I don’t want to have to pull the P-shooter’s trigger a dozen times in 4 seconds to score a kill.
Where is the Carbine or the Beam Rifle?
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Looking Ahead, Take Two
Okay, this one has to be tagged with ‘crack pipe musings’… but dogsounds has taken some statements from Gearbox’s Randy Pitchford, and put them together with a comment from a friend inside Microsoft and some lateral thinking (or maybe just a few pints of ale) and come up with some wild speculation. You can read all about it in his blog.(Louis Wu 20:30:51 UTC)
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Funny, I thought he DID sing…
MSN UK has posted a gallery of ‘Gaming’s unsung heroes‘ – supporting cast members we couldn’t live without. 343 Guilty Spark made the list. Thanks, OddGodHMK.(Louis Wu 20:25:44 UTC)
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RT: FrankenDork
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Morning Everyone, Today’s comic is posted below in all it’s cartoonish glory. Also, we’re running a post holiday sale in the store right now. There’s a few items that we’re discontinuing, so you can get them at rock bottom prices if you want. Does anyone…
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