KP has posted on our forum (and on lots of other forums) that Bungie is looking for questions to answer in this week’s Weekly Update – don’t bother asking about unreleased/unannounced stuff, but if you see this soon after it’s posted, go ahead and toss your question into the hat!(Louis Wu 18:08:19 UTC)
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News from Halo Orbit
Xerxes, from Halo Orbit (one of the Old Guard – a German Halo website that’s celebrating its 6th birthday today) wrote to point out a few things. They’re running a contest right now – submit artwork and win special ranks on their forums or a place on their team for a Bungie Humpday Challenge. There’s also an extensive interview with their chief editor Legend. And finally, Xerxes is stepping down – it’s been a good run, but it’s time for him to move on; at this point, his last job is to find someone with good web skills to take over. If you read German – go read!(Louis Wu 16:42:53 UTC)
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Grunt Costume
Awesome. Norumu stopped by to post some pictures of a Grunt costume he created a year ago for a ‘nerd convention’ (not my words). Cardboard and duct tape for the win!(Louis Wu 14:42:07 UTC)
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FFA Tournament – Fight Like a Girl
In case you’re wondering the title is right. Fight like a girl!!! Our Community neighboors, The Cavegirls, are having a fund raising FFA tournament. The proceeds of that tournament will be directed to the fight against breast cancer. So why not help out and have some fun with them!? huh? The tournament will take place on October 21st 2006 at 6:00PM EST time, Online. The entry fee is only $10.00 and anyone can sign up.
For More information about this great idea please visit the cavegirls webpage for this tournament HEREAll the games information, format, amount of players and form of payment are listed on the page and if you have any questions you can contact our very own CaveGirl Leader Zoom.
Have Fun!
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When Artists Want to Mess With Your Head
Wow. Bungie fans are nuts. Omega was scanning over some hi-res promo pics, pixel-by-pixel, it seems, when he ran across a Marathon logo tucked into a corner of the Halo 3 Assault Rifle. On an image that’s almost 2500 pixels tall, the logo takes up a square that’s 18×18 pixels… meaning that on a 720p screen, that puppy would be all of 5 pixels on a side, and on a (far more standard) 480p screen, you’re looking at 3 or 4 pixels on a side. Absolutely, totally invisible in-game… but CLEARLY there. (I redid his picture, and made the reference file available, for anyone who wants to look for themselves.) I’d call this an honest-to-goodness egg… nice find!(Louis Wu 11:18:37 UTC)
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FFA Tournament – Fight Like a Girl
In case you’re wondering the title is right. Fight like a girl!!! Our Community neighbors, The Cavegirls, are having a fund raising FFA tournament. The proceeds of that tournament will be directed to the fight against breast cancer. So why not help out and have some fun with them!? huh? The tournament will take place on October 21st 2006 at 6:00PM EST time, Online. The entry fee is only $10.00 and anyone can sign up.
For More information about this great idea please visit the cavegirls webpage for this tournament HEREAll the games information, format, amount of players and form of payment are listed on the page and if you have any questions you can contact our very own CaveGirl Leader Zoom.
Have Fun!
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MLG Playoff Preview Coverage
There are a couple of stories out there about the MLG Playoffs – a big one at MLG’s own site (thanks, 3Suns), and a smaller one at Amped eSports. Lot of money on the line!(Louis Wu 10:19:52 UTC)
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Special Ted – Episode 4
3:34 Minutes
From HBO
Special Ted is a hilarious trip through the troubled life of Ted as he works in the fast food and automotive industry. Don’t starve yourself (or your friends) of a laugh.
PSP – 12MB
Pocket PC – 7MB
iPod – 19MB
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Matchmaking Update
In case you didn’t know, there have been some interesting changes to matchmaking recently. Team SWAT is now suddenly ranked (huzzah!) and the Team Carnage playlist has been switched out with a list from the Real Custom Games Bungie group. New game types include a game with tons of vehicles, a diplomacy oddball game, and a couple with sentinel beams. Details on Bungie.net. Another post by Ninja 0n Fire has every excruciating detail on what was changed. Sweet!
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Matchmaking Update
In case you didn’t know, there have been some interesting changes to matchmaking recently. Team SWAT is now suddenly ranked (huzzah!) and the Team Carnage playlist has been switched out with a list from the Real Custom Games Bungie group. New game types include a game with tons of vehicles, a diplomacy oddball game, and a couple with sentinel beams. Details on Bungie.net. Another post by Ninja 0n Fire has every excruciating detail on what was changed. Sweet!
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The Mackies – 2006 Nominations
The Mackies (annual machinima awards) nominations have been posted – and a few Halo projects are up for stuff. CROSSFIRE’s ‘Desolate’ has been nominated for Best Picture, Best Cinematography, Best Sound Design, and Best Independent Machinima, Red vs Blue are up for Best Voice-Acting Performance, Best Writing, and Best Series, and This Spartan Life is up for Best Series. Good luck to all of ’em!(Louis Wu 19:40:39 UTC)
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A Bankable Franchise.
It’s Comic Day, apparently. And if you’re going to have Comic Day at HBO, you have to remember One One Se7en, right? Stuntmutt goes back to the motherlode that was X06 for today’s strip.(Louis Wu 18:51:32 UTC)
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Golf Evolved
goatrope noticed that today’s Penny Arcade also has a Halo reference – nice shot at EA.(Louis Wu 12:51:08 UTC)
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More Fanboys
Pixellated pointed out another couple of Halo-related episodes of F@NBOY$ – we mentioned one two days ago. I suppose it’s not surprising if one of your three main characters is a 360 Fangirl that you’d use the Master Chief a lot…(Louis Wu 12:49:12 UTC)
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Halo Assault – Teaser
Slimby noticed a Halo Flash vid that will act as the intro to an upcoming game – looks promising! Check it out.(Louis Wu 12:46:11 UTC)
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Submit Stuff for Episode 85: Customs and Callins
Well it’s time to prep for my favorite show: the customs and callins show! So I’m gonna go preheat the oven and dice some onions…
I got this custom where nobody’s allowed to use guns… just harsh language
Got a better custom than this? (Man, I sure hope so) If so, send it on in! We read back the top few custom games people send in on this show, so if yours is good enough we’ll read it off. Just click the submit news and tips link on the right and give us a one-paragraph synopsis of your game type along with your gamertag.
An interview with… you!
Want to give us a tip, a tale from the foxhole, a halo 3 or halo wars speculation, or sing us a halo song? Give us a call at 206-888-HALO. If it’s good, we’ll play it on the show and make you famous! This is now naarated by the one and only CapnKrunk.
This one time a modder removed everybody’s arms and legs from the game. We had to hop around and try to bite eachother.
Got a cool story from Halo gameplay? Let us know! Whether it’s a really close game, a time in RL that you had a Halo or Podtacular moment, or your experience with cheaters and modders, we wanna know. Just send it in with your gamertag and if it’s good, we’ll read it on the show.
Deadline is Thursday night
at about 5:30pm EST, so get those submissions in quick! The earlier we get it, the more likely it’ll get on the show. Move it or lose it! We promise we won’t rip you apart as much as on the last show. Unles u dont spel nething rite.
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Podtacular Heat Lamp: Painkilla05
This month BrentGamer sits down with Painkilla05, famous internet DJ and IRC op. Find out what’s up with Podtacular’s IRC channel, his awesome podcast Podtacular Radio, and whether he works better than tylenol.
BrentGamer says: How life in the Podtacular IRC going?
Painkilla05 says: You know, everyday stuff. Talking to the IRC general visitors and kicking DM7000 out every so often for telling us what song he’s playing.
*BrentGamer says: How did you become the “Mod” of the Podtacular IRC? *
Painkilla05 says: Well when the IRC just started I wanted it to be really active. One day, me and TFD were just chillin’ and KP joins. He offers to register the channel and give us a bot. I of course say “Yes Please!”. I also am responsible for naming our bot “Fraggy”. Soon after we started getting idiots and spammers so KP needed someone to control the channel when he wasnt around. And so since i’m in the IRC 24/7 he gave me the responsibility
BrentGamer says: How did you find out about Podtacular?
Painkilla05 says: The first time I ever heard of it was around episode 1 or 2 when it was first announced on Bungie. I was thinking, “Wow, this looks like a great community!” and got involved. I remember my first tip I sent in Spelchek forgot my name.
BrentGamer says: What is your favorite Halo 2 moment?
Painkilla05 says: My favorite moment was probably standing ontop of the machine on Waterworks and throwing a sticking all the way into a base through that whole in the top and thus sticking them.
BrentGamer says: How is Pod Radio going?
Painkilla05 says: Podradio is going ok. Currently im trying to get school work done but as soon as thats out of the way everyone will be rewarded with leet electric bliss.
BrentGamer says: Anything special happening for Pod Radio in the future?
Painkilla05 says: None that I can think of. Their isnt really much I can add since its just a radio show. I did however make a Myspace for it.
BrentGamer says: Final Question: Dr. Pepper or Mountain Dew?
Painkilla05 says: I’ll have to go with Mountain Dew. Nothing quenches my thirst and fuels my brain better than the caffeine enriched Dew. However if their was a third Id have to go with Monster. You can’t beat something thats twice Red Bull and the same price!
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Community Spotlight: Louis Wu
The mother of all spotlights with the father of the Halo community. This week I take a new approach: real-time chat, permitting me to achieve heights of jerkery not previously possible. Read on for some insight into what makes Wu tick, as well as volley after volley of insults.
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Episode 84: Tips show with special guests from Halowiki.net
Download | Show Notes
It’s the Tips show, halowiki.net ruthless edition. As usual we gots the man, JVB as co-host, and this time we have Sigafoos and Brathnok from halowiki.net ‘s WikiRiot podcast. We talk about tips people sent in for campaign, multiplayer, and specifically Map of the month: Zanzibar. Actually we go nuts for some reason and rip on like every single person that sent in a tip, which is why this is called the ruthless edition. So don’t feel bad, it wasn’t just you. We plead temporary insanity. We also have an interview later on with Pez and LegendaryMark from halowiki and Clan of Bobs. Pod art this week comes from StigmaticX. I think he spilled a little paint there. Thanks to Ciclonic for lending us his audio editing magic. On with the show!
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B.net Intervwu
More Bungie.net content for you today, an extensive interview with everyone’s favorite admin, Louis Wu. It’s done in a new format for the Spotlights, via instant messenger, so it’s a bit more relaxed and insult-laden. Alright, a lot more insult-laden. I’d really like to see some feedback on this format (though all you Wu-ites are obviously biased so I’ll have to discount most of it), if you prefer not to venture into the Bnet forums to do so, you can use the HBO thread started by Big Goalie Dan.(KP 01:02:57 UTC)