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A bug by any other name…
The Escapist looks at game glitches, and how they can enhance your experience, rather than degrade it. Halo 2 and Halo 3 both play a role.(Louis Wu 15:56:14 UTC)
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Rocket Race Montage
Z sent us a link to a Rocket Race montage at Halo3Forum; if you haven’t played a lot of this gametype, swing by and watch!(Louis Wu 15:47:15 UTC)
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Soundtrack Analysis, Part 1
Over at Rampancy.net, Narcogen wrote up an article that examines the Halo 3 soundtrack, and how it reinforces gameplay and your emotional ties to the action that happens onscreen. It’s a great read – I can’t wait for Part 2!(Louis Wu 15:28:37 UTC)
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Installation Disintegration: Part 2
ZZoMBiE13’s weeklong Halo destruction series continues – today’s Another Halo Comic Strip has a cameo from a DIFFERENT Halo comic. (And one of the best UNSC ship names EVAR.)(Louis Wu 13:45:37 UTC)
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Random Halo 3 Screenshots
Hawty McBloggy spent a lot of time perusing screenshots collections at Bungie.net, and put together fifteen of her favorites. (Three came from Bungie’s Favorites list, but the rest were all dug out by her.) Some really cool shots in there! (Louis Wu 13:37:52 UTC)
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Halo Goodies for Auction
James Center is selling off a bunch of his Halo paraphenalia; swing by his eBay auction for the details. Books, cards, posters – it’s all in there!(Louis Wu 13:35:59 UTC)
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Halo 3 Achievement Tips
Avateur noticed a relatively new feature on Xbox.com – it’s an article suggesting ways to grab some of the Halo 3 achievements. Give it a read! (Louis Wu 13:34:50 UTC)
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Do Not Want!
Elnea’s posted Episode 120 of her Halo Action Figure Theater. Protip: do not let drugged people near Zombo-O-Tron 9000s. (Louis Wu 13:33:12 UTC)
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Building armor with minimal cash
Keegan came by with some pictures of his low-budget Halo 3 armor – looks great!(Louis Wu 13:27:25 UTC)
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US Army – Heavy Weapons Training
J23 pointed out that Major Nelson has announced the next entry from the US Army – Heavy Weapons. I couldn’t find a consistent way to navigate to this, but the ‘Heavy Weapons’ banner is in heavy rotation (no pun intended) on the LIVE blades of your 360; it shouldn’t be hard to find. Once you navigate to the page, you’ll find a new theme, a picture pack, an instructional army video, the ability to register for the next phase of the Army’s multipart tournament, and two training vids – shoulder-mounted weapons, and support weapons. These will give you tips and tricks to maximize your effectiveness with these powerful, but in some ways limited, weapons.(Louis Wu 13:24:05 UTC)
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Starting Early
Sep7imus ran across a fun magazine cover at The Onion… it’s a parody, yeah, but it hits a little close to home.(Louis Wu 13:06:16 UTC)
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Episode 146: Customs and Creations with ForgeHub
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This week JVB and I are joined by TrueDarkFusion, one of the masterminds behind Forge Hub. Forge Hub is a really cool site, group of leaders, and community that’s all about forge. They have tutorial videos, detailed articles and instructions, the best custom maps with detailed descriptions, screenshots, and videos, friday night forge matches and more. I can’t say enough great things about these guys, they’re truly there to help the Halo Nation enjoy forge and make cool things with it. This week’s Pod Art is from Jamal. You can send in pod art too, just send it in to podtacular at gmail dot com. Even if it’s not used in the next show it might be used in future ones. Shows about an hour long and it’s really good, so start listening!
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Halo 3: Knocking on Heaven’s Door
Flud stopped by to point out ‘Halo 3: Knocking on Heaven’s Door’, from The DuoGroup. Available in high-quality streaming DivX from their site, or on YouTube. It’s actually a pretty nice piece of work! Go watch.(Louis Wu 19:24:09 UTC)
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Step right up!
Sticky Keys and TheIronChef have put together another Halo 3 data script – this one compares some key statistics in multiplayer to another gamertag. Check out the documentation link; it’s interesting to see how they calculated their values! Thanks, BuckHijo.(Louis Wu 19:10:27 UTC)
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Forging lulz
mrsmiley let us know that the next Larry the Marine is out – looks like he’s got access to some advanced tools!(Louis Wu 18:58:19 UTC)
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Halo 3 on the Cheap
According to Xbox360Fanboy, you can pick up a copy of Halo 3 at Best Buy this week for just $38. Noice!(Louis Wu 18:56:01 UTC)
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Halo 3 vs Call of Duty 4: someone can’t count.
I’m a little confused; news all over the web has Activision claiming that Call of Duty 4 was the biggest-selling title in 2007, with “more than seven million units since its launch in November” (the official press release is here, at GamesIndustry.biz, for example). But didn’t Major Nelson tell us 3 days into January that Halo 3 had sold 8.1 million copies? NPD’s reports are not accessible to non-subscribers, so I can’t access the lists these people are using to build their numbers… but something seems fishy.(Louis Wu 18:51:33 UTC)
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Guest Hosting On Sarcastic Gamer
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I recently had the pleasure of guest hosting on Sarcastic Gamer and the show turned out really good. We talk about why I was playing campaign on easy, the Fox News fiasco, my unpopular opinion on Gamespot-gate, and other important topics like pizza delivery tipping. If you haven’t heard them before, Sarcastic Gamer puts on a really great half-hour weekly show with some great comedy.
SarcasticGamer.com | Subscribe in iTunes | Download episode 25 with foo mo jive
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How Long Have They Known?
Remember – One One Se7en contains Halo 3 spoilers these days. Nuggets of wisdom, too. (Annnnd… that’s it for a bit. I’ve got jury duty today, which is why all queued news is being posted before 7 am my time. Be good.)(Louis Wu 11:50:56 UTC)
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Installation: Disintegration: Part 1
Another Halo Comic Strip kicks off the actual multpart storyline today – come and meet the monitor of Installation 06. And some friends.(Louis Wu 11:49:16 UTC)
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