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Section 3
Last Friday’s Bungie Weekly Update contained a section called ‘Sketch’s Build-Your-Own-Halo-Comic’ – it showed off a series of screenshots, with some basic Photoshop filters applied, and suggested that they could easily be turned into a comic. Apparently, V10L3N7 JAY and friends did exactly that – Section 3 is a comic composed of screenshots taken in Halo 3, filtered, with a storyline added. In fact, the very first comic is simply Sketch’s artwork, with titles and sound effects added. There are three episodes now (the third was announced by V10L3N7 JAY last night). Go look!(Louis Wu 13:53:50 UTC)
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Friday’s Fan Fiction
Only three new pieces in the Fan Fiction section this week – could it be that everyone’s playing a new game or something? (See if you can figure out who ‘Angel at the Tomb’ is – here’s a hint, he’s been around for a while.)(Louis Wu 13:26:21 UTC)
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Campaign Tribute to Halo 2
TM22 edited a Halo 2 tribute video – 15 minutes long, 170 mb, WMP9 format. You can grab a copy (or watch it streaming) over at Halo3Forum.com… tons of trick moves and grenade bounces – some really nice clips. Thanks, Z. (Louis Wu 12:53:27 UTC)
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Custom Female Spartan Statue
Wow. Joseph Ryan pointed us to this one-of-a-kind hand-sculpted Halo statue on eBay; polymer clay, almost 12 inches to the top of the sniper rifle. 10% of the sale price goes to the American Breast Cancer Foundation. Opening bid is $200, you’ve got just under a week. (Louis Wu 10:47:51 UTC)
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College Review
The Emory Wheel reviewed Halo 3 – they found parts repetitive, and some gameplay gripes, but in general liked it a lot. (Louis Wu 10:43:54 UTC)
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Get a Duffel for Yourself
Kotaku is giving away a TON of Halo schwag – you’ve got a week to answer a bunch of questions, one entry per gamer, with the winner selected randomly from those who answer all questions correctly. Go see!(Louis Wu 10:30:34 UTC)
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Not everybody gets it
InformationWeek points to video coverage of the Halo 3 launch event in an article discussing how video games have pushed the development of computer hardware. The whole tone of the article is ‘kids these days…'(Louis Wu 10:27:14 UTC)
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The Day Xbox Live Died
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…almost. Demand for the service the day of Halo 3’s launch stressed the system to its limits, making it slow or inaccessible for many, according to Next-Generation.
Microsoft labelled Halo 3’s launch day as the “most active Xbox Live gaming day in history” after more than a million people had been logged playing Halo 3 online. That may be the case, but there were many others who weren’t able to get in on the action.
I’m betting that any part of those problems that isn’t solved yet, will be soon; XBL play is too much a part of Microsoft’s plans for the platform in general and for Halo 3 in specific for them to continue for long.
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Domo Aregato, Mister Master Chief… San
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Kotaku notes that the Japanese release of Halo 3 works in US/NTSC Xboxes. Usually the reverse (US releases working in overseas consoles) is true, but not the other way ’round. The only catch is Japanese language audio with apparently some grammatical problems, according to comments.
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What Does Australia Think Of Halo 3?
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The Sydney Morning Herald wants to know what you think of Halo 3. If you’re Australian, that is.
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Gotchas from Japan
We got this news from 3Suns yesterday, but it didn’t occur to me that it might be useful to others; thanks to oli for pointing it out again. If you’re in Japan, and you speak English, beware the Asian version of Halo 3 being sold there; the dialogue is in Chinese, with English subtitles for cutscenes only. There is apparently a NEW Asian version that has English dialogue – but be careful that your box confirms this, as there are almost certainly still copies of the original Chinese version in stores. There is reasonable second-hand evidence (both from oli, and from the net) that the US version of Halo 3 is not region-encoded, so English-speaking players in Japan might simply want to order their copies from the US.(Louis Wu 10:16:11 UTC)
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Halo 3 Disc Errors
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PlanetXbox, among others, is tracking forum posts from Halo 3 players who say they’re having some disc error messages as well as some freezes; there’s also a known issue where transferring a hard drive to another console will prevent you from using the “resume” feature to play from where you left off (although unlocked levels/checkpoints are accessible).
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Halo as Fine Art
Wizard Universe is selling a 13″x19″ Giclée print of some Isaac Hannaford artwork – there’ll be 150 pieces, available in December, and they run $89.99 with an extra $10 shipping charge. At the moment, it’s an advanced order, and they can’t guarantee availability.(Louis Wu 10:08:39 UTC)
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It’s Big Down Under, Too
Out of Australia: in a story that highlights the fact that Halo 3 is the biggest Australian entertainment launch of all time (50,000 copies in 24 hours), you can see pictures of the Prime Minister playing the game and meeting Master Chief (thanks, Tim and newguy2445).(Louis Wu 10:02:08 UTC)
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Chieftans are Hard
DigitalHer0 created a short clip using the Halo 3 Save Film feature; we’re linking to it because it’s one of the earliest clips released that use this feature, but I’d like to warn submitters that we’ll be pretty picky in the future about front-paging clips. (You’re always welcome to post them on our forum, of course.) This one shows an encounter with a Brute Chieftan, and lets you know what you’ll face on Heroic. Pay careful attention to the effect of certain weapons. There are no story spoilers in this clip.(Louis Wu 09:56:04 UTC)
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Halo Sound Effects
Old Rich People have posted a Halo parody film – the footage is all from the Halo 3 Beta, for some reason. Thanks, Ashley Salas.(Louis Wu 09:50:06 UTC)
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Halo Movie Script Review
Jason Ross sat down with the Alex Garland script for the Halo movie (this originally surfaced in November 2005, but made a reappearance a few weeks ago). You can read Jason’s thoughts on the script at CC2k.(Louis Wu 09:48:42 UTC)
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I don’t think I’ve ever heard of 640p.
Robert “Apache” Howarth pointed us to this article at Voodoo Extreme – apparently, Quaz51, a user on the Beyond 3D forum, has done some calculations on his 1080p TV and found that Halo 3 runs natively at 640p. That seems… odd. If we get any more information about this, we’ll be sure to let you know. (While you’re over there, Apache also pointed out a VE poll which lets you submit your own Halo 3 review score.)(Louis Wu 09:26:57 UTC)
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I Will Be Getting Halo 3
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…next week.
It will come as no surprise to regular readers of this site that I’ve lived overseas for eight years, and as such, I can’t walk down to the corner store to pick up Halo 3, it has to be couriered to me.
I ordered a Legendary Edition from EBGames.com, and Blackstar has now shipped it to me via FedEx. If you’re really, really bored, you can track the package’s progress! I’m told next Wednesday it should arrive.
However, the only reason I’m bothering to post this is that the charge for sending the game turned out to be (if you ignore the cents) $117, which I thought Halo fans might get a kick out of.
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Pro-G Interviews Tung, Wilson
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Pro-G has delivered the promised longer interview with Bungie’s Joe Tung and Lee Wilson.
The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft