Z wrote about Reid 18’s fifth montage – worth watching. Great gameplay, great quality… and really nice synching (especially the second song). Check it out – WMP9 format, 138 mb, over at Halo3Forum.com.(Louis Wu 16:20:21 UTC)
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The last word on the WSVG Finals story
You thought it was over – but WSVG wanted a chance to tell their side of the WSVG Finals confusion. Amped eSports has all the details. Thanks, 3Suns.(Louis Wu 16:18:02 UTC)
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Halo 3 Announcement Trailer Piano Solo
After working on it for almost 4 months, I have decided that this is good enough. It is only for Finele Notepad; so if you dont have that program, you can’t view it. If you can view it, then enjoy! I am currently working on the rest of the trailer and hopefully will have it posted here soon again for finale notepad. Sorry, I will try to make a PDF sooner or later for those who are unable to view it. Anyway, here is the Halo 3 Piano Solo, transcribed by spartan182 and young kaos.
UPDATE: SIRBOE below provided a PDF version, which I have also added to the page now.
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Halo 3 Announcement Trailer Piano Solo
After working on it for almost 4 months, I have decided that this is good enough. It is only for Finele Notepad; so if you dont have that program, you can’t view it. If you can view it, then enjoy! I am currently working on the rest of the trailer and hopefully will have it posted here soon again for finale notepad. Sorry, I will try to make a PDF sooner or later for those who are unable to view it. Anyway, here is the Halo 3 Piano Solo, transcribed by spartan182 and young kaos.
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Bungie Bounces Benz As Voice Of Keyes
Captain Jacob Keyes started to have bad luck from the first moments of Halo 1. His ship, preparing for a secret mission, was ambushed when the Covenant attacked Reach. They fled blindly, only to arrive at Halo 04 and find the Covenant waiting for them. After a valiant effort, the ship crashes on Halo and Keyes is taken prisoner.
The Master Chief and Cortana mount a daring rescue, so the player has to get inside a Covenant cruiser, find the captain, and keep him alive until the end of the level.
Almost immediately after, however, the captain’s search for hidden weapons to use against the Covenant lead to the discovery of the Flood, who take him captive for the second time in the game. The Chief’s second valiant rescue attempt fails, as they recover only the neural implants he needs to set the Pillar of Autumn to self-destruct, destroy Halo 04, and supposedly end this whole nightmare.
Crashed, captured and Floodified.
So perhaps Julie Benz should have known going in that there’s a bit of bad luck associated with characters sharing the last name “Keyes” in Halo games.
Click “read more” from the front page for the entire article.
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Bungie Bounces Benz As Voice Of Keyes
Captain Jacob Keyes started to have bad luck from the first moments of Halo 1. His ship, preparing for a secret mission, was ambushed when the Covenant attacked Reach. They fled blindly, only to arrive at Halo 04 and find the Covenant waiting for them. After a valiant effort, the ship crashes on Halo and Keyes is taken prisoner.
The Master Chief and Cortana mount a daring rescue, so the player has to get inside a Covenant cruiser, find the captain, and keep him alive until the end of the level.
Almost immediately after, however, the captain’s search for hidden weapons to use against the Covenant lead to the discovery of the Flood, who take him captive for the second time in the game. The Chief’s second valiant rescue attempt fails, as they recover only the neural implants he needs to set the Pillar of Autumn to self-destruct, destroy Halo 04, and supposedly end this whole nightmare.
Crashed, captured and Floodified.
So perhaps Julie Benz should have known going in that there’s a bit of bad luck associated with characters sharing the last name “Keyes” in Halo games.
Click “read more” from the front page for the entire article.
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Heh – Caboose in Halo 3?
According to Kotaku, the winner of the Child’s Play auction for the chance to have a line in Halo 3 was someone from the Red vs Blue crew – nice! Thanks, 3Suns.(Louis Wu 14:55:52 UTC)
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Beginnings of a Spartan III Costume
John Cannon posted a link to some pictures showing off the beginnings of his Spartan III costume helmet. Just a few pics so far – but if he continues updating, we’ll let you know.(Louis Wu 14:52:20 UTC)
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More Halo Panoramas
RVideo whipped up some new Panoramas – you can find the two we mentioned yesterday, as well as 3 new ones, here in this post. The first Cortana one is wonderful!(Louis Wu 14:46:12 UTC)
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Interview with Bungie at CVG
ComputerAndVideoGames was one of the press groups that showed up at Bungie’s offices a couple of months ago to play some Alpha Halo. Their interview with Bungie employees that day went live this morning. A lot of the info has already found its way to the public via one of the other press groups there that day, but it’s still got some nice nuggets – for example, I don’t remember reading about the Veto system before this. Go read! (I heard this via Google News Alerts, but Justinian managed to post it to our forum before I got a chance to write the news note.) Update: According to XBWFeenix, this interview first appeared in the Official Xbox 360 Magazine (UK).(Louis Wu 14:31:34 UTC)
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Halo 300 – a different take
When the first trailer for Frank Miller’s upcoming ‘300’ movie was released, there were a couple of different Halo tributes – both tried to stay true to the action in the official trailer. A second trailer has been released – and AgentMonkey117 posted a YouTube link last night to his Halo version – this one uses Halo footage, but rather than matching the visual action of the cinematic trailer, he finds footage that allows him to stay true to the audio – but which is uniquely Halo. I liked it – great choices!(Louis Wu 14:17:34 UTC)
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RvB Info Flood
Swinging by the Red vs Blue site last night, I noticed a link to Forbes Magazine, where they were recently written up – and where they created a new vid about making money. Sarge scares me. Then, a bit later, back on their own site, they posted a new PSA for sponsors – it’s called ‘Let’s All Go to the Movies’, and it gives you lots of suggestions on how not to suck so much in movie theaters. The news article about it also contains screenshots of the new RvB theme available on Xbox Live Marketplace (I gotta say, it doesn’t look like any theme I’ve seen so far – and that’s generally a good thing). Whew! That’s a lot of news for a site that sometimes goes weeks between releases!(Louis Wu 13:57:19 UTC)
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3 new This Spartan Life eps at SpikeTV
First off – I noticed a frew folks saw the headline of last night’s Weekly Update post (‘Pistol De-Nerfed’) and wondered if I were being sarcastic, or if there really was going to be something done with the pistol to return it to Halo 1 status – for the record, it was a joke. Sorry. Okay, on to Halo news. The rest of the episodes that This Spartan Life did for Spike TV are now online – we mentioned the Frag Dolls piece back in November, and the Augustana piece earlier this week – if you swing by now, you’ll find three new episodes. Damian talked to Tristan Pope and Terran Gregory, of Blizzard, about World of Warcraft (and Machinima), as well as Geoff Keighley, of Spike TV’s Game Head, and Julian Gerighty, producer of Splinter Cell. Again, there’s no way to get to the videos directly via Spike’s Flash interface, so follow the URL to the VGA 2006 page, and then click on the ‘This Spartan Life’ link in the left navbar to get an interface to all 5 ‘webisodes’. Thanks to Nicholas Brown for the heads-up.(Louis Wu 13:45:13 UTC)
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Xbox Community Awards 2006
Download the XCAs 06 presented by Gamertag Radio feat. Trixie, Peter Moore, Frankie, XBL Radio, Major Nelson, Planet Xbox 360, Podtacular & more. Find out who wins Podcast of the year, Community member of the year and more!!
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Halo Base interviews speedrun champion Cody Miller
Halo-campaign fans listen up: Halo Base interviewed Cody Miller, the guy who beat Halo 2’s campaign on Legendary in less than 3.5h without dying a single time and due to that he got his entry in the Guinness World Records.
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Confirmed: Pistol De-Nerfed
Whoa. The Bungie Weekly Update is up WAY early this week – and it’s WAY short. (The Bungie building lost power, so Frankie wrote it from a nearby coffee house.) There’s some clarification of yesterday’s Brute fiasco (nice to hear that you won’t need a 360 to watch the documentary), and some fun stuff about Penny Arcade’s Child’s Play charity dinner last week. Go read, either at Bungie.net or in our Weekly Update Archive! (Thanks to zugy for noticing this before I headed out this evening.)(Louis Wu 21:13:09 UTC)
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Pointless
Paul Maestri sends word that Halo Heads 34 has been posted – made me smile.(Louis Wu 20:57:28 UTC)
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Bungie Weekly Update
Oh noes! The power is out in half of Western Washington. Bridges are closed and Bungie has shuttered its windows and locked down ’til this little Typhoon blows itself out. The update proper is canceled as a result, but if you click through anyway, we’ll address a couple O’ rumors for you.
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Rampancy.net – Rounding out your Halo Experience
Last couple of updates for a bit – both from Rampancy.net. First up is a speculation piece in Narcogen’s blog – he knows that Frankie has discredited the rumor that Brutes are playable in Halo 3… but he’s written an article explaining why they COULD be, anyway. Second is a note about a new subsite of wideloadgames.org – Voices of the Damned, a site devoted to collecting dialogue from Stubbs the Zombie. Hurrah!(Louis Wu 17:29:28 UTC)
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Poke A Little Fun.
Stuntmutt continues his series of riffs on the Halo 3 ad in today’s One One Se7en. This one’s brilliant. (I know, I know, I just killed One One Se7en… sorry.)(Louis Wu 16:56:44 UTC)