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  • Tell us what you thought of the Halo 3 commercial for episode 92!

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    It’s about time to get locked and loaded for the next show. This time we’ve got a big one in our sights!

    Good thing I was wearing brown pants when I saw that shield grenade

    So you’ve seen the glory that is the new Halo 3 commercial. Now we want to know what you think! The community is buzzing about all the potential features revealed. What did you think about the shield grenade? How about the sprint at the end? Which one will be mapped to the X button? Who do you think the kids are? What did you think of the new brute armor? Or the central brute with the hammer? Or how about the new wraiths? What about those plasma shots that came out of nowhere, what were those? What do you think the 3 dimples in the glove mean? Did you catch any little secrets we missed? What did you think of the commercial all together: good or bad?

    Just click submit news and tips on the right side to send in your observation with your gamertag. If it’s good we’ll put it on the show! Deadline is Thursday night at about 5:30pm EST so get your tips in EARLY! And thanks for contributing to the show, YOU guys are the ones that make this show really happen.

  • Tell us what you thought of the Halo 3 commercial for episode 92!

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    foomojive
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    It’s about time to get locked and loaded for the next show. This time we’ve got a big one in our sights!

    Good thing I was wearing brown pants when I saw that shield grenade

    So you’ve seen the glory that is the new Halo 3 commercial. Now we want to know what you think! The community is buzzing about all the potential features revealed. What did you think about the shield grenade? How about the sprint at the end? Which one will be mapped to the X button? Who do you think the kids are? What did you think of the new brute armor? Or the central brute with the hammer? Or how about the new wraiths? What about those plasma shots that came out of nowhere, what were those? What do you think the 3 dimples in the glove mean? Did you catch any little secrets we missed? What did you think of the commercial all together: good or bad?

    Just click submit news and tips on the right side to send in your observation with your gamertag. If it’s good we’ll put it on the show! Deadline is Thursday night at about 5:30pm EST so get your tips in EARLY! And thanks for contributing to the show, YOU guys are the ones that make this show really happen.

  • Episode 91: Halo PC/CE Round Table

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    Download | Show Notes

    Ever wanted to know how and why modding works in Halo PC? Well join us as we take a tour through a game with pelicans, longswords, and modded games galore. We talk to the experts about stuff like custom maps, custom weapons, custom single player campaign levels, custom animations, custom vehicles, lag, how multiplayer works, and more. So grab your pistol and your assault rifle and let’s go frag some trucks! Our first round table is a very full one and includes foo mo, JVB, Stigmatic X, Face Head, Crypto, Unreal Chief, Spartan1118, and special guest at the end: Face Head’s mom! (You gotta hear that one) Thanks once again to Ciclonic for editing audio. Oh, and pod art this week comes from Crypto, which is a screen capture from Halo PC. Show is 59:05– Woot we’re under an hour!

    ‹ Episode 90: Halo 3 show with special guests: Dweezle and Indian PrincessupEpisode 92: Halo 3 Show with special guest: Laird ›

  • Episode 91: Halo PC/CE Round Table

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    Download | Show Notes

    Ever wanted to know how and why modding works in Halo PC? Well join us as we take a tour through a game with pelicans, longswords, and modded games galore. We talk to the experts about stuff like custom maps, custom weapons, custom single player campaign levels, custom animations, custom vehicles, lag, how multiplayer works, and more. So grab your pistol and your assault rifle and let’s go frag some trucks! Our first round table is a very full one and includes foo mo, JVB, Stigmatic X, Face Head, Crypto, Unreal Chief, Spartan1118, and special guest at the end: Face Head’s mom! (You gotta hear that one) Thanks once again to Ciclonic for editing audio. Oh, and pod art this week comes from Crypto, which is a screen capture from Halo PC. Show is 59:05– Woot we’re under an hour!

    ‹ Episode 88: Customs and CallinsupPod TV Episode 1! ›

  • Halo 3 Ad Round-Up

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    The Halo 3 commercial aired last night shortly after Halo3.com went live. You can now find it on Xbox.com, XBL Marketplace and tons of other places. Hit our Halo 3 Forum and join the dissection, speculation and general insanity.

  • Trade them? What?

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    Jonathan Rivas noticed a new Brute Icon Tee at the Bungie Store – sharp!(Louis Wu 21:59:45 UTC)

  • Sneak Chief

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    Paul Maestri continues to pump ’em out – Halo Heads 32 looks at Sneak King… you gotta wonder about video games based on fast food.(Louis Wu 21:04:53 UTC)

  • Rooster Teeth Interview at 2old2play

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    Submitted yesterday, almost lost in the flood of commercial-related news… 2old2play has released Issue 7 of their bimonthly magazine (in downloadable PDF format) – this one’s got a nice two-page interview with Matt Hullum of Red vs Blue. Thanks, 3Suns.(Louis Wu 20:53:57 UTC)

  • The OTHER Halo 3 Commercial

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    I have vague memories of seeing this movie before, but I couldn’t find it in our news database… so for here, it’s new. Daniel Tartar was searching for the new ad, and ran across this movie – nice claims in there.(Louis Wu 20:51:31 UTC)

  • Issue of the Week: Strafing

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    PEZ, from halowiki.net, wrote to say that the Turrets article last week has grown tremendously, because of your visits and input – so they’re trying again with a new issue of the week – Strafing. Swing by and see what’s up now, and add your two cents!(Louis Wu 20:49:36 UTC)

  • It’s gonna save the day.

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    I wasn’t going to post this, because the language isn’t really safe for work… but it WAS funny, and I DID get chewed out for ignoring it, so… here’s a funny mix of the commercial and some music from Team America. It actually fits really well, but make sure your boss isn’t walking by as you watch.(Louis Wu 18:16:14 UTC)

  • Commercial Theme on XBLM

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    There’s a new 360 Theme available on XBL Marketplace, based on images from the commercial – it’s 150 points, and LordGideon kindly provided screenshots of all four blades. They’re all 1280×1024, and weigh in at around 200kb each.
    Blade 1 | Blade 2 | Blade 3 | Blade 4(Louis Wu 16:57:36 UTC)

  • You Can’t HANDLE The Speculation!

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    In case you’re not TOTALLY overloaded with Halo stuff today, Jillybean has submitted a massive update to the Halo Story Page – lots of goodies in there. She’s doing her best to flood your senses… (heh? get it? Flo- oh, never mind.)(Louis Wu 16:20:22 UTC)

  • Speed Art – and More

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    Lots of people have been working on content from the Commercial – the news today contains edited video, icons, there are lots of Wallpapers posted in our forum (and sent in via email)… but one piece of Fanart that blew me away was a speed painting done by Rahll, over at DeviantART (it’ll be in our next Misc Art update). Thanks to SESpider for the heads-up. While you’re there, be sure to check out Rahll’s Ghosts of Onyx piece, posted about a month ago, and an older tribute to Mehve. Great work!(Louis Wu 16:06:17 UTC)

  • Lots o’ Stills

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    Curtis, over at YouNEWB.com, has put up 39 stills from the trailer; no watermarks. Nice shots!(Louis Wu 15:54:34 UTC)

  • Summary of Community Discussion

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    A lot of little things from the commercial have been discussed more than once. I’ve tried to summarize these in this forum post; please read it before jumping in and starting your own thread. Thanks!(Louis Wu 15:43:40 UTC)

  • Land-grabbing.

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    Tied the Leader gets into the commercial-analysis game… though with a slightly different tack; they look at the marketing side of it. Interesting article. (While you’re there, there’s other new stuff; 22 Questions with Midnight, of Hushed Casket, a clan profile of Legion of the Apocalypse, and a recap of the past 10 clan profiles.) Thanks, XerxdeeJ.(Louis Wu 15:11:00 UTC)

  • More Halo 3 Icons

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    JPOGDNA created a new batch of Halo 3 Icons (for AIM, MSN, etc), based on last night’s commercial – you can find them at GetXbox.net.(Louis Wu 14:55:38 UTC)

  • Hats Off.

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    Stuntmutt tossed in a followup to yesterday’s One One Se7en strip – if it makes no sense to you, check the ad in this post.(Louis Wu 14:54:12 UTC)

  • Commercial Transcript

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    Narcogen wrote up a transcript of the commercial – it’s not very different in actual dialogue from a half-dozen others on our forum, but he does a nice job of summarizing the action, as well – and he added some preliminary commentary about it, as well (worth reading, if you’re planning on joining the discussion). If you want to hear the dialogue for yourself, I think your best bet is a cleaned-up version created by TraxusIV – he did some nice filtering that makes the various dialogue snippets much easier to make out.(Louis Wu 14:37:52 UTC)