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H2V Trailer Released
TheGhost sent us more news – Microsoft has just released a trailer for Halo 2 Vista, showing off the map editor, and the new maps (as well as some nicely crisp single-player footage). Check it out! (WMP9 Professional format, streaming – might be hard to see on a stock Mac.)(Louis Wu 21:48:32 UTC)
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H2V Delayed?
According to H2Vista.net, quite a number of game resellers are changing their listing of the availability of Halo 2 Vista from May 8 to May 23. Now, normally we don’t put a lot of stock in release dates as supplied by game resellers… but May 8 is less than 6 days from now, If they’re making changes at this point, it’s likely due to solid info from the supplier. There’s no official word on this subject yet – but as soon as there is (one way or the other), we’ll post it. Thanks, TheGhost.(Louis Wu 20:57:21 UTC)
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Halo Science 101
Over at Gamasutra, you can read ‘Halo Science 101‘, one of the pieces compiled in the recently-released book, ‘Halo Effect‘. It’s a fascinating study of the science behind Halo – what Bungie got right, what they got wrong, what you can actually pull from the game – written by a geophysicist. Thanks, Roger Wilco.(Louis Wu 19:09:37 UTC)
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B.net Emblem Contest
Frankie pointed out a new story at Bungie.net – they’re currently accepting submissions for a new emblem to be used in Halo 3. Go read the rules – and get designing!(Louis Wu 18:56:13 UTC)
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Blastacular Map Pack Fixed!
The recent downloading problems with the Halo 2 “Blastacular” map pack have been (mostly) fixed. Details inside.
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Halo 3 Kubricks Coming!
Kubricks, the adorable Super Deformed action figures from Japan, are coming in Halo 3 flavors!
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Meh-chinema.
Today’s One One Se7en has our favorite Halo schmuck getting his hands on the Halo beta a bit early… (Louis Wu 18:16:39 UTC)
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Order your Kubrick Figures Now
Yesterday, we mentioned the Halo 3 figures coming from Gentle Giant – today, they’re preorderable, for $18 for the set. Thanks to Carsten for the heads-up. (Louis Wu 18:07:20 UTC)
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Design a Halo 3 Emblem!
Wow! Design an emblem, and if it’s the winner, your emblem design will be featured in the actual Halo 3 game!
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Fantasy Halo Part Three
In late march, we mentioned Parts One and Two of ‘Fantasy Halo’, a machinima project that turns Halo 2 into a turn-based RPG. Yesterday, Deep Reaver stopped by to let us know that Part Three had been released – and I have to agree with RVideo on our forum… this is the best of the bunch. It’s 24 minutes long, and an amazing 88 mb small for the WMP9 (for a video that long, that’s an incredible compression rate – and it looks pretty good, too). We’ve added a local mirror for this, and added a QuickTime version for those who can’t handle WMP9. (The QuickTime is even smaller (77mb), due to the vagaries of Squeeze, and the quality is not as good; I simply didn’t want to take the time to try a second time (it was about a 2-hour runthrough), so if you CAN use the WMP9, you should. The QuickTime is watchable, though – and you SHOULD watch one of them.) Funny stuff – and really, really well choreographed.(Louis Wu 18:03:47 UTC)
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Told ya.
Heh – Yahoo has put up a feature called ‘Games are Good for You‘, which points out some positive benefits that games have had (with specific examples). Halo gets mentioned as a tool to help students “understand the complexities of Homeric epics” (check out the original article at the University of Connecticut). Thanks, || Sgt Scope ||.(Louis Wu 16:44:36 UTC)
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Halo Painting
Nick Paton pointed out a large (4′ x 5′) Halo canvas painting for sale right now on eBay; if you’re looking for a gigantic acrylic, this might help! No bids yet, but there’s still almost a week left.(Louis Wu 16:27:22 UTC)
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Another Halo Poster
In the spirit of yesterday’s wall poster, Zerowind117 put up pics of his own wall hanging… Halo is gracing walls everywhere! (Louis Wu 16:23:54 UTC)
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Plantronics lets you game in style
Master Kim stopped by our forum yesterday to point out a new Halo 2 headset, made by Plantronics, for your PC – presumably in conjunction with the release of Halo 2 Vista. Looks good! (Thanks to rapture, who pointed out that MK also posted this at the H2Vista website.)(Louis Wu 10:49:19 UTC)
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
A couple of weeks ago, it became known that Luke Smith was leaving 1Up, and soon after that, he announced he was being hired by Bungie. Yesterday, Kotaku posted a an article explaining how it all happened. Sounds like Luke will soon be helping to bring Bungie’s vision to the rest of us – and for the next few months, that’s gonna be pretty Halo-infused. Welcome to our side of the thin green line, Luke! Thanks to 3Suns, who noticed this yesterday afternoon. (Louis Wu 10:35:35 UTC)
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Halo 3 Guide Opens
In 2004, before the release of Halo 2, a website separate from Bungie.net, Halo2.com, went live, with information about the units, vehicles, and weapons in the game, laid out as if from the perspective of a Covenant intelligence agency. Similarly, Halo3.com launched late last month, largely from the perspective of UNSC intelligence-gathering, with information on Halo 3.
However, the site is Flash-based. You can’t search it, and you can’t comment on it. So I’ve transcribed the content, added commentary and a keyword searching mechanism, and used it as the basis for the Halo 3 Guide, similar to 2004’s Halo 2 Guide.
Please feel free to comment on any of the items!
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Podtacular Interviews: MARKO POLO7
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*jBurton90 and BlankCANVAS* bring us a new project at Podtacular: interviews with the community. First show is a little rough but I think it’s a great idea with a lot of potential. Let’s find out a little bit about *MARKO POLO7* and how he got into Halo. More talk “in the forums”:http://podtacular.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=14816.
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Podtacular Interviews: MARKO POLO7
jBurton90, BigDaddy991 and BlankCANVAS bring us a new project at Podtacular: interviews with the community. First show is a little rough but I think it’s a great idea with a lot of potential. Let’s find out a little bit about MARKO POLO7 and how he got into Halo. More talk in the forums.
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Submit stuff for episode 112: Return of the tips show!
Episode 112 is done and on the way, and it’s a really good one. In the mean time it’s time to gather up some stuff for the return of a show that’s been sorely missed for a long time: the tips show! You’ve had some time to play lots of tombstone and desolation, now we want to hear your tips for these maps. Easiest way to break it down is by game type. So send in your best strategies for Rumble Pit, Team Slayer, Capture the Flag, Assault, King of the Hill and Territories, Oddball, and Juggernaut. If you have strategies for unique customs like double tower of power or team bubble bath (JVB’s favorite), let us know about those too! This is going to be a really cool show with some in-depth discussion about practical tips for these maps, so don’t miss out on getting your tip read. Just click submit news and tips on the right side of the page and send in your tips with your gamertag so we can give you credit.
Deadline is Thursday night at about 5pm EST. Don’t be late!
The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft