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The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

  • Podfiction: Halo fan fiction from the Podtacular community

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    Tired of waiting for Halo 3 for the story to continue? Eager to join in humanity’s epic struggle for survival? Now the story lives on with Podfiction! This project has been around for a little while and seen it’s share of authors, editors and helpers. Started by Infektion X, the tale now continues on through other authors such as Sil3nt71 and Glewis. Here’s the story so far:

    Enter the War by Infektion X – Preface | Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 | Chapter 3

    Above the Earth, On the Earth by Sil3nt71 – Chapters 1-4

    Battle of Cote du Noir by Sil3nt71 – Chapters 1-2

    Discovery: Humanity’s Nightmare by Glewis – Chapter 1

    There’s also a community thread if you have a suggestion for a storyline or character. Want to write your own podfiction? Just post in the books forum!

  • HaloDev Feature Focus – Normal Mapping

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    HaloDev has posted a ‘Feature Focus’ article – the first in a series of articles that will highlight various features of the upcoming Prometheus tool they’ve been working on for a while. This one looks at Normal Mapping (a variant of bumpmapping), and how Bungie uses it – and it has a fantastic example put together by Veegie. Check it out!(Louis Wu 15:40:42 UTC)

  • Warmness on the Soul, and movie administrivia

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    bryboy remix sent us a link to a movie he’s made that’s being hosted by mythica.org; it’s a music video, set to Avenged Sevenfold’s ‘Warmness on the Soul‘ (WMP9, 66 mb). I’m not sure I know what’s going on in it – but it’s pretty; nice camera angles, interesting effects. I’d like to take this opportunity to explain what’s going on with our own movie hosting; the recoding of the MPRRS got backed up in December because Cybrfrk found himself on an extended trial during jury duty. He’ll be back on the job to finish the new features up in the next few weeks; we’ll be back online in January sometime, if all goes well. In the meantime, we may offer hosting to movies we see that really impress us, but if you have a movie with its own hosting (mythica or elsewhere), your best bet is to post a link on our forum. It’s from there that I’ll pull movies that I think we can host. Please don’t email us with your links – post them on our forum. (That way, even if I don’t get to it, the forum crowd will see it – and might give you feedback about it.) Thanks!(Louis Wu 15:39:24 UTC)

  • And Do They Drink Capuchino?

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    Wow, that’s gotta be one of the most groanworthy titles for a One One Se7en comic ever.(Louis Wu 13:55:31 UTC)

  • A Travesty Against Nature – but oh so cool

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    Elnea wrote to point out a creation so cool it’s hot – hot pink, that is. She’s done a boatload of work to add Spartan Armor to… Barbie. Yes, Barbie. (Image is just under 200k.) She’s got removable helmet bits (she needs them, because her head is so big that when the helmet is on, she can’t move her head), and modifications that include the following mixed media: acrylic, mache, synthetic fiber, ceramic. Next up – a GI Joe jeep modded to function as a warthog… if you’ve got an RvB account, swing by and tell her how awesome this is.(Louis Wu 13:52:58 UTC)

  • UNSCDF Blog

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    Major Silva stopped by to announce the opening of the UNSCDF Blog, where staffers from that Halo news site can better express their personal opinions. Swing by to read opinions about Ghosts of Onyx.(Louis Wu 13:47:25 UTC)

  • Halo news important in 2006, says IGN

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    Yesterday, Sniping Ajax pointed out that IGN posted their 2006 wrapup video – top 10 gaming news items from the past year. Halo made number 10, mostly on the strength of the X06 info (Halo Wars, Peter Jackson’s new stuff) plus news of the upcoming Halo 3.(Louis Wu 13:45:40 UTC)

  • Break Time

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    Hope everyone had a merry Christmas! Just a heads up: we won’t be recording this week but we will be releasing episode 94 shortly. Have a happy new year!

  • Break Time

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    foomojive
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    Hope everyone had a merry Christmas! Just a heads up: we won’t be recording this week but we will be releasing episode 94 shortly. Have a happy new year!

  • GuN Sh0t Montage 2

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    Z pointed out a pretty impressive montage at Halo3Forum.com – topnotch gameplay, integrated nicely with the MLG TV Show graphics. Check out GuN Sh0t Montage 2. WMP9 format, 166 mb.(Louis Wu 14:12:07 UTC)

  • ODST – Team Up

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    Ryan117 stopped by to point out the second episode of his ODST comic (links for the first one are in his forum post, as well, if you missed it). (Louis Wu 10:57:34 UTC)

  • Hey… I’ve seen that before!

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    Nabistay noticed a familiar-looking sword in the collection of weapons that came with his brother’s new Magnaman toy… heh.(Louis Wu 10:52:59 UTC)

  • Lifepod Episode 5

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    MereCatfish wrote to point out Lifepod Episode 5, which includes an interview with Santa Claus about HaloCE and much more. 30 minutes, 28 mb.(Louis Wu 10:47:56 UTC)

  • Montages out the Yin-Yang

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    We got a weekly update post from Halomega – there were half a dozen new montages and gameplay vids; swing by their News and Announcements for the most recent. Visit every couple of days if you don’t want to miss any of these – they’re posting a LOT.(Louis Wu 10:45:13 UTC)

  • Siege Of Madrigal As It Appears In Halo

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    Although the track “Siege of Madrigal” is actually from Bungie’s earlier RTS game, Myth, it also appears in a hidden spot in the Halo level “Assault on the Control Room”.

    If you fly a Banshee to one of the ledges high above the pyramid structure at the end of that level, and stand on the far right hand side, you can hear this track play.

    Spartan182 provided a separate transcription of this track as it appears in Halo. We have a separate page for this track as it appears in Myth, which is a photo of the score.

    SIRBOE provided a WMA format recording of the song as it sounds at that portion of the level.

  • Siege Of Madrigal As It Appears In Halo

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    Although the track “Siege of Madrigal” is actually from Bungie’s earlier RTS game, Myth, it also appears in a hidden spot in the Halo level “Assault on the Control Room”.

    If you fly a Banshee to one of the ledges high above the pyramid structure at the end of that level, and stand on the far right hand side, you can hear this track play.

    Spartan182 provided a separate transcription of this track as it appears in Halo. We have a separate page for this track as it appears in Myth, which is a photo of the score.

    SIRBOE provided a WMA format recording of the song as it sounds at that portion of the level.

  • I really wanna see the dog.

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    Hope you all had a great Christmas! I’m not so sure about Mat Noguchi… thanks, KP.(Louis Wu 04:14:44 UTC)

  • How the Gooch Stole Christmas

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    On this very special day we bring you inside Bungie Studios. Kind of. Inside Bungie and inside the rageling that is Mat Noguchi. Enter a world which we should never have been so irresponsible to expose you to in the first place.

  • Have A Rampant Christmas

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    This one is machine and nerve, and will make a good tree-trimming;
    This one is but flesh and faith… and will get coal inside his stocking.

    Have a Merry Christmas… we’d rather not piss this thing off.

  • Have A Rampant Christmas

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    This one is machine and nerve, and will make a good tree-trimming;
    This one is but flesh and faith… and will get coal inside his stocking.

    Have a Merry Christmas… we’d rather not piss this thing off.