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From Kakanui to Seattle
There’s a great article in the New Zealand Herald, looking at Chris Butcher, an Engineering Lead on Halo 3, and how he got to where he is today. Seems he was pretty sharp from the get-go… he got his Bungie start with Marathon, and never looked back. (He contributed to the fan communities of Marathon and Myth, and worked for Bungie on Oni, Halo, Halo, and Halo 3.) Nice! Thanks to Sam Tobin for the first heads-up. (Flustered points out that the same article is up at Stuff.)(Louis Wu 05:01:39 UTC)
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An endorsement from a parent-friendly site
EnergyPigeon let us know that KidConfidence rated Halo 3 an 8.5/10 – they suggest that although it’s an M-rated game, it’s actually “at the lower end of the ‘M’ scale” and should be fine for many children. (They recommend limiting online play to friends and family if your kids are under 12.) Interesting writeup for a site aimed at parents!(Louis Wu 05:01:07 UTC)
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The Splatter Tage
Z let us know about The Splatter Tage, a Halo 2 montage of (yeah, you guessed it) splatter kills. It was put together by the Fighting Wombats, and it’s actually a lot of fun to watch. (I could have done without the blurry stuff from Ascension – that gave me a headache – but for the most part, effects were kept to a minimum, and it was all about the crushing.) Ten minutes, 150 mb, WMP9 format. Go watch.(Louis Wu 05:00:32 UTC)
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Legendary, Cheap
Both Red_Breast and Black Six noticed that Amazon was offering the Legendary Edition of Halo 3 for $110 yesterday – apologies for not getting the news to you sooner. However, its not such a bad thing; Black Six pointed out a news post at gamerawr! that also had a listing for a site selling it for $101. Not too shabby!(Louis Wu 05:00:02 UTC)
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Forge Hub Opens
TrueDarkFusion wrote to us about Forge Hub, a new site designed to give you a central location to learn about and download high-quality Forged maps. There are a few already on the page, with many more to come – and they’re looking for people interested in helping out. Go download, and build some fun!(Louis Wu 04:59:42 UTC)
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Have you seen this medal?
PEZ is looking for help from the HBO community. The Medals Talk page at halowiki.net has a question from bark0de – “Has anyone seen anybody that has earned the second Bungie.net-only medal? The first one is Perfection, the second one I’ve never seen, the third is the Steaktacular, and the fourth only appears if you have it (which we all know about already) and it’s Linktacular. So what’s the missing medal? Anyone?” I haven’t seen anyone who has this one, either… anybody? Check the Medals page for the full list they DO have.(Louis Wu 04:58:49 UTC)
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Face It
DunnyPanMan pointed out ‘Face It’, a song commissioned by Xbox Australia (it’ll be used in future marketing) and performed by Phrase, a notable name in the Australian hip-hop scene. News about the piece is at Xbox Australia’s website, the song itself can be heard (and watched) at a special Halo 3-themed site set up for it.(Louis Wu 04:58:13 UTC)
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Crowdsourcing can build Halo 3 assets
kapowaz has started collecting Halo 3 screenshots on Flickr – he feels that the sorting and tagging system there (not to mention the unlimited storage space) makes it a better choice for sharing these. He’s looking for help in both tagging his shots, and growing the corpus of Halo 3 shots overall; join him!(Louis Wu 04:57:36 UTC)
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Push to Talk, Ep 1
Sep7imus let us know about a new podcast started up by a couple of Seasoned Gamers – the ‘cast is called ‘Push to Talk‘, and while it’s a general gaming blog, the first episode is all about Halo 3. And hour and a half, 21 mb.(Louis Wu 04:57:12 UTC)
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ESRB – not fine-grained enough?
GryphonOsiris noticed that Game Politics brought up a flaw in the ESRB rating system – they believe that the recent ‘Halo in Church’ controversy shows that the ESRB is too broad in its categories. Good read!(Louis Wu 04:56:37 UTC)
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World’s Funniest Home Videos
Elnea stopped by with Halo Action Figure Theater 94 – what do you do with a zombie? That’s right – you use a Barbie videocamera and film it.(Louis Wu 04:56:16 UTC)
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A Contest Needs a Way to Enter…
DOH! Somehow, I managed to announce the Guilt O’ Lantern contest without activating the upload folder – not sure if this affected anyone, since we didn’t get any emails saying “the upload doesn’t work!”, but it’s working now. Sorry!(Louis Wu 23:57:18 UTC)
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Straight up.
Ducain pointed out a thread on the High Impact Halo forum in which ||| Tyrant ||| shows off an amazingly simple technique for climbing vertical walls in Halo 3 – as long as you’ve got a corner around. Awesome for exploring! Man, that’s easier than Jackie Chan’s method…(Louis Wu 18:41:45 UTC)
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Send in stuff for this week’s show: Customs and Creations!
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It’s Monday and that means we’re looking for stuff for this week’s show! This week is the return of customs on the podcast but now it’s multiplied by infinity with all the new options, forge, and fileshare. We’re looking for your favorite custom games and forge variants to get out there in the Halo Nation. You don’t have to be the creator, but if you send one in please either put it on your fileshare or send us a link for the show notes. Of course let us know your gamertag so we can give you credit and find the game in fileshare. Spread the word, let’s make this a really fun show with a bunch of cool customs and forge variants! Just click the big green button on the right side of the page to send yours in. Deadline is Tuesday night at about 6pm EST.
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A Bug In The Game?
Stuntmutt looks at one of our larger Halo 3 foes in today’s One One Se7en.(Louis Wu 16:39:39 UTC)
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Bnet Fixes Afoot
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This morning there will be some interruptions in File Sharing and stat services as we add capacity to our Bnet and File Sharing servers.
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What advertising is supposed to do
Anton P. Nym points out an article at Adweek that looks at a bunch of mediocre ad campaigns in September… and then gives props to the Believe campaign. Nice!(Louis Wu 15:39:18 UTC)
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Legendary discs – available on their own
I’m not sure I understand where these are coming from – but ResilientMonkey pointed out a store on eBay that is selling the bonus discs from Halo 3 Legendary Editions (they currently have five sets for sale). Buy it now price is $14, WELL below the $70 price differential between Legendary and Standard editions. (Of course, you’re not getting the helmet or the storyboards, either…) The part I don’t get, though, is why folks are selling these; how many people bought the Legendary Edition JUST for the helmet? If you’re one of the people that wanted copies of these discs, that mystery doesn’t matter much – it should be good enough to know the discs are available.(Louis Wu 14:44:47 UTC)
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That must have been fun.
Spenser noticed a vid at GameTrailers, showing an in-game, non-orchestrated Killtastrophe. (I found the game link, so if you want to you can download the film clip and get views from other angles.)(Louis Wu 14:33:30 UTC)
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