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First Halo 3 Review Hits the Web
Press Start Online seems to have broken the news embargo on full reviews of the game by a little bit (That embargo ends at 12:01 pm, PST, today) – but hey, everyone makes mistakes. I don’t think you can write a full review WITHOUT some minor spoilers, so ANY full review we link to should be viewed with care (and there’ll be a lot today, trust me)… but this one does a pretty good job of giving you gameplay impressions without spoiling the story. If you’ve read this news post and can live with the caveats, go read the review.(Louis Wu 08:28:25 UTC)
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MLG Orlando Update
GotFrag DPAD has a summary of the action yesterday at MLG Orlando; go see how folks are doing! (Louis Wu 08:23:06 UTC)
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Flaming Ninja Armor
SketchFactor posted a cool image of himself and Luke Smith wearing some new armor variants; you can see a screenshot in his Screenshots section on Bungie.net. Because the Screenshots section in general is rife with spoiler pics right now, we’re hosting a LOCAL copy of that particular image, if you don’t want to risk a visit; it’s 1920×1080, and weighs in at 151k. If you only want a small preview (592×333, 30k), you can have that too. Sketch’s label for this picture reads “Wonder twin powers activate!” Thanks, Patrick Dalire.(Louis Wu 08:21:35 UTC)
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Halo 3 How-To: Matchmaking Playlists
Bungie put up a new Top Story last night – this one is a How-To on matchmaking playlists. Lots of good info in there! As with all their recent How-To guides, you’ll eventually be able to find a permanent link off the Guide page. Looks like Samir Patel was first with the news. (Louis Wu 08:07:52 UTC)
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Halo 3 Emblem List
Psychophan7 has put together a page containing all the Halo 3 player emblems, so that you can begin choosing your Spartan customization. simpsonsrule thought this was pretty cool, and sent us a link. He’s right, it’s pretty cool, but the HTML page contains 80 separate images, and weighs in at nearly half a meg total, so rather than drain Psycho’s host’s bandwidth, I’ve saved the resultant page as a single image (600×1920, 136k). Take a look!(Louis Wu 07:53:17 UTC)
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Gamercast Network Roundtable: Halo 3
I had the chance to hosts a Gamercast Network round table discussion with podcasters from Uncle Gamer, Video Game Show, and Sarcastic Gamer. We talk about their thoughts on Halo 3. This is the first collaborative round table show between the GCN. Hope you like it!
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Start Another Fight
Louis Wu at HBO is right— Halo: The Future of Gaming is one of the funniest videos, ever. It takes a few minutes to set itself up, and commits a few boo-boos in the process (in 1994 Bungie was in Chicago, not Kirkland, and Halo 1 came out in 2001, not 2002) but those are easy to forgive when the jokes start rolling.
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Halo 3 How-to: Matchmaking Playlists
What are the Day 1 Matchmaking Hoppers? Never played Halo and want to know what Matchmaking is? Get introduced here.
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I think I’d be scared if this happened.
Haloplayer let us know that Countdown Comic #5 is now up at Injured Knee Productions. I think Microsoft might have found a new superhero. (While you’re there, there’s also a link to a Guitar Hero Spartan he created, in that same post.)(Louis Wu 21:49:46 UTC)
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RT: It wasn't me…
Dear Oscar, Today’s comic was not my idea. I swear. It was all Griffon and Luke. Seriously. They made it. Go for them. I can even tell you where they live.
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Nine Outta Ten, Baybee
Heh – Pedro the Penguin noticed that IGN visitors REALLY want some Halo today… because the ‘Most Popular’ sidebar on their homepage changes, we’ve screenshotted it as of about 5 pm, ET, on Saturday September 22.(Louis Wu 21:11:54 UTC)
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Does Normal Count?
Decent musings on difficulty levels… and how they affect reviews, over at PCWorld.com. (For the record – Bungie made me play through on Heroic.)(Louis Wu 21:00:11 UTC)
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Good thing Frankie’s in Mexico.
Hawty McBloggy’s activity of the day is drawing Mister Chiefs – go have a blast!(Louis Wu 19:31:25 UTC)
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Halo, Pimp!
Rapper Lil’ John isn’t much of a Halo player – but his son is teaching him. Thanks, singkeo2002. (Louis Wu 19:13:42 UTC)
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Brazilian Halo 3 Launch
Marcelo Vega, of Xbox Today (a Brazilian website), let us know that there was a Halo 3 launch party in Brazil – Halo 3 is going to be the first midnight launch of a game in that country. They put up an article about the launch, as well as pictures of the Limited Edition’s Artbook, fully translated into Portuguese (a first for the Brazilian videogame industry). (That USB drive you see in the first article was given out to members of the press – it’s loaded with all the Halo 3 Believe ads, in 720p.) Nice to see other countries aren’t being slighted! (Louis Wu 19:08:17 UTC)
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Halo: The Future of Gaming
This is the funniest Halo video I’ve seen in a while. (Yes, that includes Halo Nights.) Go watch it. You’ll laugh. Thanks, Jim Bob. (Louis Wu 18:44:13 UTC)
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Interactivity and layered messaging
Also from Anton P. Nym – ReportonBusiness.com (a part of Canada’s Globe and Mail) has an article in which Jerret West, Senior Global Product Manager for Xbox, talks about how the overall marketing campaign for Halo 3 was built the way it was. I must say… it seems to be working!(Louis Wu 18:35:48 UTC)
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Classical Halo, in Sweden
Wow, this is pretty cool. If you visit this website, you’ll see movies and photos of the Royal Swedish Ballet practicing for an interpretive dance on September 26, at the Berwaldhallen concert hall in Stockholm, Sweden. The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra will be playing Halo music, and Halo machinima will be shown. Pretty amazing looking stuff! Thanks to Anton P. Nym, who found it at Kotaku.(Louis Wu 18:31:35 UTC)
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Hunted
ManKitten sent in a link to a YouTube version of a Believe ad I haven’t seen yet – it’s called ‘Hunted’, and it looks at a soldier reliving a frightening night during the war. It might be my favorite, so far… as far as I can tell, it hasn’t appeared in Hi-res anywhere yet.(Louis Wu 17:51:53 UTC)
The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft
