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The Riot #74
Second Foundation is now providing a live video feed of their recording of the Riot podcast, shown on mogulus.com. (I’m not sure how to find it, and there’s no infiormation on the site itself, nor on Mogulus… but I guess this will become clearer over time.) The current episode, #74, filmed/recorded this morning, has news, a clan challenge, and an on-the-fly announcement from Obienator. Go listen!(Louis Wu 20:44:05 UTC)
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New material from Elnea
So Elnea’s been making Halo art, movies, music, and comics for a while now… but she has this weird aversion to bandwidth help. She creates stuff that’s WAY above the mainstream, quality-wise… but she doesn’t want to be a burden, or something. Last night, though, she crossed a line. She posted remastered versions of five pieces of music… on MySpace. Yes, Tai Chi Knees now has a MySpace page. Okay, fine. Everyone who can tolerate that site is welcome to go explore her offerings there… but for those of you who are like me, who would love to hear these newly-produced (and amazingly polished) pieces WITHOUT having to visit MySpace – we’re mirroring all five. Phooey to her, I say.- I Want Master Chief (3.7 mb) | original news post
- Halo Unyielding 2 Cinematic Trailer Music (1.7 mb) | original news post
- Halo Unyielding 2 Battle Scene Music (8.2 mb) | original news post
- More Than Just a Voice (3.8 mb) | original news post
- MJOLNIR’s Child (4.8 mb) | original news post
She’s right – the remixes are amazing. (Compare old to new, if you’re not sure.) ‘More Than Just a Voice’ really gets under my skin, and brings out – in a serious way – the relationship between Master Chief and Cortana that’s usually discussed with sniggers. This is good stuff. And well worth spending bandwidth on.(Louis Wu 16:33:54 UTC)
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Halo to X-Plane – now Bigger
Mid7night returns to X-Plane Halo building – and adds the UNSC Marathon-class Cruiser, and the Covenant Assault Carrier to his fleet. The screenshots don’t show very much – but based on his previous work, I’d say these are probably pretty cool! If you have X-Plane, go grab ’em.(Louis Wu 16:10:01 UTC)
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Halo 3 Character Maker
This popped up on Google News; I don’t know how well it works, since i don’t have a machine I can install it on at the moment, but Shifu-Hacks has a small (200k) program that can show you various armor permutations. Looks like it runs on WIndows XP.(Louis Wu 16:07:26 UTC)
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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
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?
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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