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Spartan Laser – Cardboard
A couple of days ago, several people pointed us towards the Half-Life Fallout forum, where tastybread had once again created a pretty amazing piece of work out of prosaic materials. (DominoEffect was first, but a bunch of people were hot on his heels; this was Dugg early Sunday morning.) If the name sounds familiar, it should – tastybread created a full set of Spartan armor and an assault rifle out of cardboard, as well, a few months ago. I tried to contact him to ask about hosting the pictures locally (to save the HL Fallout forums from another deluge), but haven’t heard back yet – and the pictures are starting to appear on other sites, with NO attribution. I figured it was better to get this posted, and worry about the mirroring later. Take a look – it’s a pretty amazing laser!(Louis Wu 11:17:45 UTC)
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I bet it wasn’t so fun for the little guy…
Pinflux entered a contest we mentioned a few weeks ago – write a gameplay story in 100 words or less for a shot at a 360. He didn’t win – but his entry is pretty cool nonetheless. (Since a picture is worth a thousand words, he probably lost on technicalities.)(Louis Wu 11:10:11 UTC)
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History Repeats Itself
The Seattle Times has an opinion piece about how Halo might be pushing it with its current ad campaign, which (according to the piece’s author) plays off the Iraq war. If you disagree, you’re not alone – Frank O’Connor tells the author to loosen up; that the messages in Halo are pretty universal, and not tied to any current events.(Louis Wu 11:04:30 UTC)
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Ten Great Halo Moments
GameDaily has put together what they consider to be Ten Great Halo Moments from the first two games – if you still haven’t played those, this contains spoilers. (Louis Wu 10:34:37 UTC)
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New Piano Variations from TheGarbageMan
It’s been a little while since we mentioned TheGarbageMan – but he’s back, with three new piano variations. You can find them on his webpage – but if there’s a bandwidth issue, let us know, and we’ll host local copies. Pretty stuff!(Louis Wu 10:30:12 UTC)
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Embrace the Hatred
411mania.com has looked at three upcoming first-person shooters – you can read what they think. (It seems as though the most important aspect of FPSs is spawn camping – and what the creators have done to stop it.) Halo 3, of course, is one of the three (otherwise, the article wouldn’t be mentioned here).(Louis Wu 10:27:56 UTC)
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Next Up: Unboxing Corn Flakes
The Xbox 360 Halo 3 Special Edition went on sale officially yesterday, and apparently the big news today is what it looks like, coming out of the box. Yes, I know, we’ve seen pictures of it for months – but as Narcogen pointed out on Rampancy.net, or as this article at the Unboxing website (!!) shows, there are a number of people taking lots of pictures as they open the package. If you were curious about what, besides the console, came in the box – and what those things looked like – well, now you can satisfy your curiosity without spending $399.(Louis Wu 10:00:19 UTC)
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Unboxing The Halo 3 Xbox 360
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Evil Avatar member Xijar has posted about his experience unboxing his brand-new Halo 3Xbox 360. Scroll down about halfway on the first page, or hit his Flickr page for all the photos.
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Episode 128: Farewell Old Friend
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It’s the final farewell to Halo 2. A look back at the game that brought us all together in the first place. With JVB, CapnKrunk, Dialpex, and George from Aeropause.com. This is a long show at over 1:30, but rightly so as it’s the end of an era. Song at the end is from our friends at Sarcastic Gamer. Enjoy it!
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Sketchy.
Luke McKay whipped up a few Master Chief sketches on Friday – we’ve added them to his gallery here. Good stuff!(Louis Wu 23:11:17 UTC)
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Does he have a wick?
Havok Se7en visited Madame Tussauds’ Wax Museum in Las Vegas, and took some pictures of a familiar character. Groovylicious!(Louis Wu 22:43:01 UTC)
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ARG Video (almost) Wrapup
Ibeechu and DHalo have released a pair of videos in their ‘Perceiving the Dimensions of IRIS’ series – these two episodes were a bit delayed by real life, and they realize the ARG is over now… but if you’re curious to know how it all (almost) ended up, you should go watch episode 4 (WMP9, 24.1 mb | QuickTime, 20.3 mb) and episode 5 (WMP9, 41.7 mb | QuickTime, 39.3 mb). There’s one more episode coming – but don’t count on it before Halo 3 is released. (Louis Wu 21:38:10 UTC)
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Shock and Awe, Revisited
Back in February, we mentioned a Halo 3 tourney being planned by Games In Action – the link in that post has died, but Hexudus pointed out a new thread on the GIA forum with more info. There’s still time to sign up!(Louis Wu 21:20:43 UTC)
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The Riot 65
Sigafoos let us know about The Riot 65 – 32 minutes, 13 mb worth of news, tournaments, Trinity, and Medie – erm, never mind. Stuff. Go listen.(Louis Wu 20:07:37 UTC)
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Still need hardware?
Daily TV Deals is a blog with cool deals – they found one from Best Buy that might be of interest to some of you. Buy a selected Samsung HDTV, get a free Xbox 360 and a copy of Halo 3. Nice!(Louis Wu 20:04:04 UTC)
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Show Your Trivia Skillz
oriol zertuche pointed out a Halo Universe quiz at Grunts R Us – see how good your knowledge is! (So far, nobody’s gotten more than 18/20 right, it seems…)(Louis Wu 19:47:39 UTC)
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Buying Stuff
Reinsoft sent mail about an auction on eBay for a bunch of cups and some Halo 2 memorabilia. (The cups – can’t you still get those at 7-11?) A couple of days left…(Louis Wu 19:45:03 UTC)
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Laird’s interviews from PAX
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Better late than never, right? In case you don’t know the story, JVB was all set to go to PAX, but had plane problems and wasn’t able to go. Laird was going anyway so he pinch hit for us, becoming Mr. Podtacular for the show and getting a bunch of great interviews with the help of Ooopy from The Blue Skittle and Kitkat (did I spell that right?) Here’s an interview with the man himself: Master Chief to get it started:
Click read more to check out the other four! Please join me in saying thank you, Laird!!
Kelly Perriott from BungieStore.com
Luke McKay from Bungie
“e” (Eric Neustadter) – Network Operations Manager for Xbox Live
Geoff Ramsey – Roosterteeth Productions Manager
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Living With Hype
SeannyD wrote up a monster blog post about Halo 3 hype, and why it’s bad… AND good. Give it a read!(Louis Wu 13:45:01 UTC)
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Halo2.junk.ws Tournament Recap
xATHENAx let us know that Halo2.junk.ws hosted a 4v4 tourney this weekend for communities that have participated in the past – 29 teams showed up. A full recap is on their forum (registration required to see it). Sounds like fun! Congrats to CsR Gaming for the top spot.(Louis Wu 13:43:10 UTC)
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