Twelve new pieces available for your reading pleasure in the Fan Fiction section – check ’em out!(Louis Wu 17:11:35 UTC)
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Immure 2 Released
Earlier this week, we mentioned an imminent release of a Halo CE map; this morning, NeuroKoNeza stopped by our forum to point out that Immure 2 was now available for download. Check out the forum post for links, including a screenshot and a dev-cam flythrough video!(Louis Wu 17:00:03 UTC)
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That Screenshot Text
I didn’t think this was news, but it’s spawned so many threads on our forum (and others) that if I DON’T front-page it, it’s going to overrun us. In one of the screenshots released recently, there’s some faded text behind the blue Spartan on the left – clearly, whoever photoshopped the text out only did half the job. The text reads ‘Out of Ammo’ on the first line, and ‘Press [X or Y – only half of the letter shows]’ on the second. RVideo makes a solid case for ‘X’ in this post on the Halo3Forum, actually. Folks first noticed the words when the scans from LEVEL magazine started circulating in late October – I didn’t mention it then because of our policy about magazine scans. Now that high-resolution versions of these screens are posted legally, though, more and more people are noticing this, and many of you it’s some sort of an egg, or something. If it really reads ‘X’ in the second line, it might have been removed because Bungie doesn’t want us to know what the X button does in the new UI, yet – but it might have simply been removed to make the screenshot cleaner. Either way, there’s not really enough info to figure out what it WOULD have said after the pressable letter… but now that it’s been front-paged, I hope folks don’t feel the need to start new threads in our forum, pointing it out. (There are dozens already.) And to whoever cleaned up that screenshot for release to the web in the first place… hey, next time could you do a more complete job? Thanks.(Louis Wu 16:49:56 UTC)
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Frag Dolls on This Spartan Life
First off, apologies for scaring anyone yesterday – I’m fine. On to the news… let’s start with Cromium’s post about an interview with the Frag Dolls, done by This Spartan Life’s Damian Lacedamian, created for Spike TV’s 2006 Video Game Awards. (You’ll need to click on the ‘This Spartan Life’ link on the left to see the vid.) As usual, the interview takes place within Halo – but this one will give you a little bit of insight about the Dolls – where they come from, how they got involved in this stuff. Go listen!(Louis Wu 16:37:16 UTC)
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Go eat turkey.
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! I had visions of getting up a bit early this morning, before the preparations started (we’ll have over 20 people in the house in less than 3 hours) and putting up whatever Halo news we’ve got in the queue… but that was before spending several hours last night in the emergency room with electrodes taped all over my body (don’t even ASK). So, new plan… we here at HBO wish you and yours a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday, and we’ll see you back here tomorrow! I’m offline for the next 12-24 hours.(Louis Wu 16:37:22 UTC)
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Episode 90: Halo 3 show with special guests: Dweezle and Indian Princess
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It’s time for some jabber about the latest Halo 3 details! This time I chat with Indian Princess from Cayote Cavegirls and Dweezle from Tied the Leader about yours and our thoughts about the latest Halo 3 details. It’s long but there’s been lots of info and we didn’t want to leave anything out! Many thanks to our friend Ciclonic for editing audio.
By the way, we’re not recording this Thursday because of thanksgiving. Hope you all have a great one and get to enjoy some time with family and reflect on all you have to be thankful for. See ya on the flipside!
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Episode 90: Halo 3 show with special guests: Dweezle and Indian Princess
Download | Show Notes
It’s time for some jabber about the latest Halo 3 details! This time I chat with Indian Princess from Cayote Cavegirls and Dweezle from Tied the Leader about yours and our thoughts about the latest Halo 3 details. It’s long but there’s been lots of info and we didn’t want to leave anything out! Many thanks to our friend Ciclonic for editing audio.
By the way, we’re not recording this Thursday because of thanksgiving. Hope you all have a great one and get to enjoy some time with family and reflect on all you have to be thankful for. See ya on the flipside!
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Weekly Porridge #43: Gears of War
QualityJeverage sez:
FINALLY!
Terribly sorry it’s taken so long. I’ve been busy the past week. I had hoped to get this done on the weekend, but as many of you know, I suddenly came into possession of a 360. Hence, I was a bit distracted.
Anyway, I know the Porridge schedule has been a bit weird lately, with any luck I’ll be back on track soon.
In the meantime, enjoy!
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Weekly Porridge #43: Gears of War
QualityJeverage sez:
FINALLY!
Terribly sorry it’s taken so long. I’ve been busy the past week. I had hoped to get this done on the weekend, but as many of you know, I suddenly came into possession of a 360. Hence, I was a bit distracted.
Anyway, I know the Porridge schedule has been a bit weird lately, with any luck I’ll be back on track soon.
In the meantime, enjoy!
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Things you might have missed
Over at Bungie.net, there’s a pretty cool screenshot dissection; go read it, and see what you might have missed in the high-res screens released yesterday. Lots and lots of little details… thanks to sui, in irc’s #hbo, for the heads-up. (Warning – the page is pretty huge to load right now; the full, 5+mb screenshots are embedded. If you’re on a slow connection, you might want to wait a bit until this is fixed – shouldn’t be long.)(Louis Wu 19:32:04 UTC)
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I want that stuff. NOW.
The other half of 1Up’s Wednesday coverage is a Q&A with Bungie about the upgrades to Halo 3’s matchmaking – there’s tons of great stuff in there. After reading it, I’m thinking Halo 2’s matchmaking looks a little drab! Check it out.(Louis Wu 19:21:05 UTC)
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1Up Halo 3 Podcast
Justinian let us know that the 1Up Halo 3 Podcast, half of Wednesday’s Halo 3 content during this final week of Halo 3 coverage, is now available for download – EGM interviews Bungie just for you. Almost an hour and a half, 22.5 mb… go listen!(Louis Wu 19:16:12 UTC)
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Static Episode 5
Dennis Powers writes to point out Static, Episode 5 – ‘What Would my Daughter Think?‘ is available at the HCEC website. Alex comes pretty close to death, and figures out his next step. As usual, it’s available in WMP9, QuickTime, and streaming Flash formats.(Louis Wu 19:13:05 UTC)
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H3 Screenshot Dissection
We’re taking a deeper look at the Halo 3 screenshots today. Consider it a behind the scenes look at them, with a commentary track from the director. Except I’m not the director, more like the key grip. Key grip though, that’s gotta count for something.
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Lots of Halo Flash
Mukelo, from Invalid Mob, wrote to point out that they’ve been collecting Halo Flash games from around the web, and have made them all available from their site. They’ve got 17 right now – and though we already host a bunch of them, there are others I’ve never seen before. Take a look! He also points out that though it’s not finished yet, there are lots of cool Halo downloads in their being-worked-on Downloads section.(Louis Wu 17:15:21 UTC)
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MLG Pro Circuit Ep 2 Now Online
3Suns points out that the second TV episode of MLG Pro Circuit is now available for free (in full) at the MLGPro.com website. If you missed it last week on TV, go watch on the web!(Louis Wu 17:12:55 UTC)
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New Campaign Details.
Stuntmutt is a little nervous about the upcoming CGI TV ad for Halo 3… check today’s One One Se7en.(Louis Wu 14:10:07 UTC)
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It’s in there. Forever.
So, if you’re an architect, beware of employees like Boxer. They’re sneaky.(Louis Wu 14:02:17 UTC)
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Sleep is an afterthought.
There’s a new Community Spotlight up at Bungie – Kitty, from the PMS clan, holds forth on the rigors of clan membership (those girls are SERIOUS), Marty’s studliness, and Bob. Who’s Bob? Ask KP. He won’t give out that YouTube link.(Louis Wu 12:01:53 UTC)
