Frankie has burst our bubble. He has now confirmed that the pistol in HALO 3 will be a M6G. Looks like the HALO 1 LAN lives.
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M6G Pistol in H3. Not M6D.
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New Gears of War Maps Coming This Week
This Thursday the 3rd of May you’ll be able to download four new multiplayer maps for Gears of War. The download will cost you 800 Microsoft points ($10) and will become free on September 3rd. Click ‘read more’ for descriptions and screenshots of each map from Major Nelson:
Bullet Marsh: In this Kryll-infested swamp, an old generator still powers the area lights. A few stray bullets could easily knock out the generator, leaving combatants to fend for themselves against the Kryll.
Garden: This overgrown and crumbling conservatory still has a working fertilization and pesticide system. This system can pose a serious hazard to anyone who ventures into the greenhouse without first venting the air.
Process: Teams must fight for control of this subterranean Imulsion processing plant, still active despite the cessation of the Pendulum wars.
Subway: Timgad’s Central Subway station used to serve as a central hub for commuters. Now the tunnels are crawling with Locust.
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Smacktalkin’.
New top story at Bungie.net – it’s an interview with the crew from Shadowrun. Wait, you say – how is this Halo-related? Well, see, it’s Bungie doing the interviewing – so half the questions tie back to Halo in some way or other. And oh, yeah, the Lead Designer for Shadowrun also happened to be the Lead Designer for Halo. Good stuff.(Louis Wu 17:37:55 UTC)
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Gentle Giant Figures Revealed
Littlebigman noticed that Toy News International has posted some early pictures of the new figures coming from Gentle Giant this fall – there’s a set of Halo Kubrick figures (they’re so cute!), and a Master Chief mini-bust which is for the moment listed as ‘coming soon’. (Hint: if you do some brightening of the image in Photoshop (or any other image manipulation program), you’ll get a pretty decent look at the actual image.) Droolworthy!(Louis Wu 17:28:38 UTC)
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Shadowrun Shenanigans
We chat with some of the developers of Shadowrun about their new game and the influence Halo had on it.
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RT: Spiderman 3
Last week we were lucky enough to see an early screening of Spiderman 3. I’ll refrain from making any comments or critiques of the film, as I don’t to spoil anything for you. However, Gus was motivated in the usual way, as today’s comic shows.Additionally,…
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Pistol Confusion
Okay, just to clear up a small misunderstanding that might come back to bite Bungie (unfairly) in the future… yesterday, we mentioned that halo3.com had been updated with new content about the game, its characters, weapons, story, and so on. One thing that was immediately noticed by many was the description of the pistol (screenshotted, because it will likely change soon) – it was labeled as the M6D (the designation of the Halo 1 pistol) and described as having a 2x scope. Halo3.com is run by Microsoft, not Bungie – and while most of the content is accurate, some is… not so much. Frankie visited online forums yesterday to clarify some of this stuff, but I figure a front-page post might reach a few more people, and maybe keep down expectations and false hopes. The pistol is actually the M6G, not the original M6D, and it has no scope. (Louis Wu 16:56:58 UTC)
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Spectacular 360 for Auction
Wow, cool. Xbox Australia and Bungie have gotten together to make some money for the Make-A-Wish Foundation – there’s a charity auction for a custom-painted, signed-by-Bungie Xbox 360 on eBay.au right now. Auction runs for another week and a half, bid is already up over AU$2000. (My first reaction was ‘whoa, awesome, that’s about $3 US, right?’ – but I’d forgotten how far the US dollar had fallen; AU$2120 is more than US$1750.) If you’ve got deep pockets, the cause rocks, and the item itself is a one-of-a-kind… you can’t go wrong! Thanks to JeBr0nie for the heads-up (he saw it at PlanetXbox360, among other places).(Louis Wu 16:37:44 UTC)
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A dull wall just got prettier
Beorn printed out Bungie’s latest graphical offering on a nice large-format printer… wow, that looks nice. (Louis Wu 16:21:28 UTC)
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Jolly Green Giants with Guns
Another Tuesday, another Tied the Leader update. Dweezle hits on another gamer chick – this time it’s Becky ‘Aktrez’ Young, part of far too many websites to list here – and XerxdeeJ waxes poetic about Halo – again. (Great graphic, too.) Go read!(Louis Wu 16:17:17 UTC)
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Negative Emotion
Mister Froggy pointed out that Halo, Articulated #36 is available – remember, kids, when it’s time for your closeup, floss first.(Louis Wu 15:48:12 UTC)
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Halo Contest Mania
SEspider stopped by our forum to point out 5 new Halo-related contests sponsored by 360style.net – visit his post (or their site) for more details!(Louis Wu 15:41:48 UTC)
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The Riot 46
Sigafoos let us know about The Riot 46 – 35 minutes/14.5 megs worth of clan news, challenges, and poetry. And of course peanut butter.(Louis Wu 15:33:07 UTC)
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Halomega Updates
Halomega sent us word of updates on their site – there’s a Q&A with one of their members, a new montage, a Stick of the Week contest, and a sponsored tournament – and look around for more!(Louis Wu 15:25:04 UTC)
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H2V Ad Scan
Jman sent us a nice scan of the Halo 2 Vista ad appearing in many magazines this month; if you haven’t seen it, check this out (166K).(Louis Wu 15:21:28 UTC)
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MLGPro News Bonanza
3Suns sent along a TON of MLG links – let’s see if I can get ’em all: Coach Profile: Apoc (FBI Are You Ready), Sound Arguments 12 (breakdown of Charlotte), Charlotte by the Numbers (fun stats), Halo Standings Update (summary on last page for the impatient), photo additions in the MLG Gallery, Bootcamping (a practice technique), Sublimation of the Ego (playing for the team), and a ‘Game Room‘ (user-uploaded video content). Dayum. That’s a lot of new stuff. And that’s just since this weekend!(Louis Wu 13:48:36 UTC)
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GD impressed again
Another small Halo 2 Vista impressions article at GameDaily – once again, they like it.(Louis Wu 13:40:48 UTC)
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Visual Comparison – Halo 2 on 3 platforms
Gamespot has a video comparison of some of the improvements in graphical quality to Halo 2 – clips from the Xbox, Xbox360, and Windows Vista are all shown. Does a nice job (at least in the HD version of the vid) of really showing how much better the Vista version looks.(Louis Wu 13:38:44 UTC)
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SIU looks at H2V
The Daily Egyptian (student newspaper of Southern Illinois University Carbondale) has a look at Halo 2 Vista – see what the college students think.(Louis Wu 13:32:18 UTC)
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I don’t like flying poo, myself.
GameDaily wrote up an article entitled ‘Halo 2 for Vista: Why You Should Give a Sh*t‘ – some of them are pretty lame, but the article’s worth a look. (Louis Wu 13:29:00 UTC)
