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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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Halo: Orions Spartans I
Samir Patel was the first to let us know about ‘Halo: Orions Spartans I‘, a new Flash vid at Newgrounds. Very high production values, and this one’s unusual in that it’s a serious story, not a comedy. Go watch!(Louis Wu 13:26:11 UTC)
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It’s just shooting and running and throwing grenades.
Cinema Blend has put up an article about how Halo 3 ain’t all that… and it’s our fault.Gamers are overly excited about a game that doesn’t give us anything new, so it won’t get more exciting than it already is. This is gaming standing still, and we are happy with it.
It’s an opinion, that’s certainly true…(Louis Wu 13:03:39 UTC)
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Halo on TV
Herr Zrbo noticed a ton of Halo stuff available under the G4 label from Comcast On Demand (on your TV, if you have Comcast Cable). Check it out!(Louis Wu 12:58:58 UTC)
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They’ll Regret That, Too…
GameDaily is here to help make sure you have time to finish the fight; they’ve put up an article with some sample emails you can send to your boss to get out of work on the 25th. Warning: risk of firing imminent. Thanks, Morpheus.(Louis Wu 12:57:16 UTC)
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Luigi as Cortana… ew.
Lots of people sent us word of this YouTube vid of someone playing the Halo theme using Mario Paint. (I guess it was Dugg.) Pretty cool! prometheus was first – thanks.(Louis Wu 12:52:31 UTC)
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Norwegian Leak, Clarified
Over at Subnvova, simen has translated some Norwegian to explain more fully the situation of the ‘in the wild’ copies there. Doesn’t sound TOO awful…(Louis Wu 12:50:37 UTC)
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Bioshock Podcast
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I highly recommend you check out Podtacular’s latest podcast about Bioshock.
“This show we talk all about one of the greatest games to come down the pike in a long time: Bioshock. Joining JVB and [Foo Mo Jive] are Immortal Three from the Podtacular crew and Mintz from Halo Portable. Hope you like it!”
There are no spoilers. There are, however, major THX plugs.
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News Summary For September 16
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The second-to-last Bungie Weekly Update before Halo 3’s official release date is well worth the read. The highlights, though, are you should stay out of random Bungie.net player profiles from now on, since you may end up seeing screenshots taken by people who’ve gotten copies early. Also, Miguel Chavez, invited to play through the game last week, says the ending is “perfect”. You’ve heard it from Bungie’s #1 fan.
Of course, Halo 3’s street date has been broken about two weeks early.
Rumors are flying that the missing clan features in Halo 3 may be supplied by an XBL update.
Kotaku wonders if Halo hype has gone too far, and I can’t help wondering the same thing– even if I am, for the most part, isolated from it.
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RT: No Razor Club
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Guys like Jason and I are dirty and gross enough to pull off never shaving – people expect it. When clean cut dudes like Burnie start trying to get in on the action…it makes you wonder. What’s he thinking? Does he have some sort of nefarious plan? I’m…
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Helping out a Fellow Gamer
A pillar of the gaming community, GamerDad, has had a heart attack, and undergone quadruple bypass surgery. His wife has put up a page on his website, explaining what’s going on – if you think you can help, there’s a donation link there, as well. Thanks, Ma1agate (and Penny Arcade) for the heads-up.(Louis Wu 15:21:27 UTC)
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Floaty Silence 3 – Teaser 2
Hellhawk has created a second teaser for Floaty Silence 3 – you can grab copies in WMP9 format (1.5 mb) or QuickTime format (1.9 mb). (Louis Wu 15:17:36 UTC)
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Norway enters the ‘break the street date’ club
This was first reported to us by Thomas Wendelborg, but there’s an article in English up now on Product Reviews Net (thanks, Avateur); a Norwegian game shop has sold at least 2 copies of Halo 3 to customers, so beware, as always, of spoilers.(Louis Wu 15:15:44 UTC)
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