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Scanner psych
The Boston Globe has an article that suggests that playing games like Halo 3 increases your ability to spot threats quickly – and would be useful training for airport security screeners. How many of them would protest that training regimen, do you think?(Louis Wu 16:04:01 UTC)
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He’s a hollow shell of a man.
LX925 fell into one of the generators on Snowbound… and lost his limbs. (A larger version of this screen can be found in his screenshots collection on B.net.)(Louis Wu 16:02:05 UTC)
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So Easy a Spartan Can Do It
Sean Somers ointed out a Halo 3 parody of the “So easy, a caveman can do it” ad campaign, created by mans1ay3r. It uses only static assets, and the animation harkens back to the old-skool Flash parodies of the late 90s – great memories!(Louis Wu 15:56:52 UTC)
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Episode 135: Customs and Creations
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It’s Sunday and that means it’s time for another episode! This week Dialpex and Chevelle65 join us, fresh out of a Kane and Lynch community event. We cover a bunch of great customs and creations from the community, then we talk about their experience at the event and their thoughts on the game. Of course we also cover other valuable information such as what a headless chicken sounds like and the relative manliness of appletinis and sparkling water. Winner of this week’s pod art is SpoofManiac. Looks like he’s catching a bullet! Show’s about an hour this time.
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Amazon Customers Vote – For all you bargain hunters
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Just like last year, Amazon.com is doing their Amazon Customers Vote promotion, and could potentially offer Xbox 360 Arcade consoles for only $99. I’m sure most of us already own an Xbox 360, but for those of us that are still waiting to find a good deal or the right time to pick one up, now’s the time to make our voices heard and bring the price down for everyone’s benefit.
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RT: Still with the Contest?
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It seems the painful memory of my losing that fucking contest just will not die. Just when I was starting to heal and move on with my life, Griffon and Luke made today’s comic, and reminded me of all the “techniques” Burnie employed to win. Thanks…
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Campaign Scoring Contest
Community Projects has kicked off another contest – this one involves playing The Covenant with Campaign scoring on. The winner will receive 1600 Microsoft Points ($20, a couple of Arcade games). Go read the rules and details at Bungie.net. THanks, Maximum Fear. Now… it’s time to head down for some tailgating, before the Yale-Harvard game kicks off.(Louis Wu 15:02:02 UTC)
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Halo Escape Teaser
newguy2445 and Godhand have been working on a 2D Halo game for a while – they’ve released a teaser trailer for it, on YouTube. Not much there… but it sounds like they’ll be done sometime next year!(Louis Wu 14:48:19 UTC)
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Where’s the cup-holder?
ZZoMBiE13’s Saturday offering for Another Halo Comic Strip takes an easy shot at a classic target. And check out his new Cortana!(Louis Wu 12:37:55 UTC)
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Halo 3 Stats Signatures
Veegie stopped by with some cool signature info – if you’re interested in a Halo 3 signature (for forums other than ours, say) that contains your stats – swing by HaloTech and add your gamertag. There are a bunch of options – nicely done!(Louis Wu 12:23:53 UTC)
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Halofigures.net opens
Wow, pretty cool. R.Geiter let us know that he’s created a site covering all the Halo action figures that were available to the public. Great resource!(Louis Wu 12:21:40 UTC)
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Free Halo 3 for upgrading Xbox owners
Weird. This WAS on Bungie.net for a short time, but is gone now – but it’s still on Xbox.com. (It was gone from THERE, too, for a bit, but it’s back.) If you have an Xbox, and a Live account, Microsoft is offering you a deal: buy a 360 between November 21 and December 21 and migrate the Live account to a Gold subscription (this doesn’t cost anything)… and they’ll give you Halo 3 for free. w00t! (Be sure to read the details; you also have to register with a special promotional code.)(Louis Wu 12:18:34 UTC)
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Todd McFarlane talks Toys, and Halo
Gamasutra has a great interview with Todd McFarlane, discussing his involvement in the Halo Action Figure industry (among other things). Check it out!(Louis Wu 12:12:07 UTC)
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What Halo 3 has done to the Industry
Straight.com has an overview of the Halo story (its history, not the in-game story), which is sort of centered around Bungie’s Mike Zak, one of Halo 3’s Environmental Art leads. Nice summary – and some nice background on Mike! (He also made the cover of the magazine.)(Louis Wu 12:08:19 UTC)
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Spike VGA Show – coming soon
The 2007 Spike Video Game Awards are coming up on December 9; Halo 3 has been nominated for Most Addictive Game Fueled by Dew, Game of the Year, Best Shooter, Breakthrough Technology (for Saved Films), Best XBOX 360 Game, Best Original Score (though not Best Soundtrack), and Best Multiplayer Game, and Bungie’s up for Studio of the Year. That’a a pretty impressive list!(Louis Wu 11:49:18 UTC)
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Forge, from 1UP Honcho
DL.TV has a video walkthrough of Forge, hosted by 1UP’s Mark MacDonald. If you’ve put off figuring out how this works, go watch! (Louis Wu 11:46:15 UTC)
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Are you spoiled?
Heh – fun editorial over at FileFront – has Halo 3 spoiled you for other games? (It’s not just about the gameplay… it’s about the options.)(Louis Wu 11:40:52 UTC)
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Cpt Anarchy and Vash interviewed at MLG
Another interview up over at MLGPro.com – this one with another pair of pros, Cpt Anarchy and Vash. Again, they hold forth on Halo 3, how the gameplay is changing, and what they’re looking forward to – nice read!(Louis Wu 11:30:26 UTC)
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Halo 3 Ad Campaign – Blazing a Trail
There’s an interesting writeup from a non-gamer who attended a marketing conference in Las Vegas this week – MS’s Jeff Bell discussed the ad campaign for Halo 3, and what they’d hoped to accomplish with it. 55% of the ad budget was spent on “non-traditional marketing and social media extensions” – seems like it turned out pretty well for them!(Louis Wu 11:27:16 UTC)
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