Brannon Boren’s blog entry about ‘Creating A.I. for Halo‘ is now live; it’s an interesting look at how backstory was developed to explain specific, visible parts of the early game. (This backstory was then used, and further developed, in books, leading to a pretty rich history.) (Louis Wu 13:05:16 UTC)
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Art Infusion
In the nick of time; one more huge batch of Miscellaneous Art has been added to the collection. There’s stuff in here that had gotten lost in the depths of our queue for months; apologies to the artists involved! We should be ALMOST caught up (there are still a bunch of recent pics in the collection). Enjoy – I’m LOVING a ton of these! I’m seeing a couple of artists that should be added to the Gallery pages…(Louis Wu 02:45:36 UTC)
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MC, Sketched
Wow, cool. BOLL found a site called ‘TheDailyDrawing.com‘ that has videos showing someone (‘J.W.’?) drawing stuff – and today’s artwork is the Master Chief. The video is 4:21 long, and was filmed at 2.5x speed, so this pic took about 11 minutes to complete. Pretty fun to watch! (If you’re reading this news post at a later date, I’m not positive whether the movie will be available on the site; there are some movies listed, but almost no information at all, so it’s not clear if ALL films are archived, or just some; the direct YouTube link is here, and will get you back to TheDailyDrawing in any case.)(Louis Wu 18:54:44 UTC)
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New Machinima on the way from Treeskunk
Break Point Halo has interviewed Dan Preuss, the co-creator of Treeskunk Productions (a machinima group that created Outpost: Coagulation’ and ‘Outpost: Backwash’, among other projects. Nice to hear they’re gearing up again! Thanks, haphazardly.(Louis Wu 18:45:00 UTC)
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Microsoft Changes Their Tune Free Xbox 360 Repairs for Pre-2006 Units
This was rumored on Xbox.com somewhere but subsequently confirmed by an Xbox representative contacted by Jaleeb Caru.
At long last, Microsoft has come to their senses. After months of dealing with defective or sub-standard Xbox 360s, owners can breat…
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Microsoft Changes Their Tune Free Xbox 360 Repairs for Pre-2006 Units
This was rumored on Xbox.com somewhere but subsequently confirmed by an Xbox representative contacted by Jaleeb Caru.
At long last, Microsoft has come to their senses. After months of dealing with defective or sub-standard Xbox 360s, owners can breat…
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Boren Dishes The Dirt
Over at Rampancy.net, Narcogen noticed a tasty tidbit in the weblog of Brannon Boren, who was once heavily involved in the maintenance of the Halo Bible – he’s going to be discussing some of his professional experience – and he’s starting, tomorrow, with ‘Creating A.I. for Halo’. Sounds great! (Louis Wu 12:51:18 UTC)
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Creating A.I. For Halo
Brannon Boren says today he’s playing on doing some more shop talk about writing on his blog, possibly on a weekly basis. The first installment, due this Sunday, he says will be called “Creating A.I. for Halo”. Can’t wait!
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VGL Footage
j41m3z noticed that fan-filmed videos from the VGL Hollywood Bowl shows are showing up on YouTube… including one of the Halo 3 Premiere played there. Love the guitar licks! Update: just a quick note; Halo fans should be tickled by the fact that the Cortana part was being performed live at the show by Jen Taylor, those guitar licks were being played by Steve Vai, and the piano was being performed live by Marty O’Donnell. Now aren’t you mad you didn’t go?(Louis Wu 10:52:11 UTC)
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Halo 3 Logo Wallpaper
Bungie’s released a new Wallpaper incorporating their brand-spankin’-new Halo 3 logo (okay, so it’s not EXACTLY new, but the finalized version is) – it’s available in four resolutions, so go and grab the one that fits your monitor best! KP broke the news first (surprise, surprise).(Louis Wu 10:17:34 UTC)
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RT: Open up and say ow!
Today we continue with “part two” of what it’s like for Burnie to travel. I really do think that somehow, at some point, Burnie must have pissed off a prominent member of the TSA or FAA. It’s the only explanation for the horrors he encounters every…
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RT: Perfect ending, perfect day…
Happy Saturday everyone,
If you’re reading this, it means you were able to tear yourself away from Saturday morning cartoons, which means there’s probably something wrong with you. Welcome to the club! As a reward, how about a Saturday morning comic? It’s…
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Bungie reveals episode 1 of the Bungie podcast
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It’s finally here! 55 minutes long, the Bungie podcast is packed with brand new sound effects from Halo 3, interesting interviews, features, special guests, news and reader mail (including the first ever realtime “Waaahmblulance”). Also this week’s update has lots of great info including the final Halo 3 logo and what it took to get there and a sweet new Halo mobile phone site.
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Bungie reveals episode 1 of the Bungie podcast
Download
It’s finally here! 55 minutes long, the Bungie podcast is packed with brand new sound effects from Halo 3, interesting interviews, features, special guests, news and reader mail (including the first ever realtime “Waaahmblulance”). Also this week’s update has lots of great info including the final Halo 3 logo and what it took to get there and a sweet new Halo mobile phone site.
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Halo 3 Logo Wallpaper
Today’s Weekly Update showcases the process of creation and finalization the Halo 3 logo. Thanks to Stosh, who spent some time this week making the logo into a wallpaper, you can now use it as your desktop! You can find all four versions of the wallpaper on the wallpapers page of our Halo 3 section.
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First Ever Bungie Podcast
There’s a lot of goodies in this week’s Bungie Update. Not a whole lot of it pertains to Halo 3, except possibly the logo, but that at least is something.
What is special is the first-ever Bungie podcast. Go check out the update to download it if you haven’t yet. I don’t see it in the Podcast Directory in iTunes yet; but then again, perhaps that is by design. Of course, if Major Nelson can be in there, and even drop the the word “blogcast” eventually, why can’t Bungie?
The rest of the update is about digital swag; concept images for a Halo mobile portal for your phone that include Halo statistics from Xbox Live as well as allow you to browse and purchase wallpapers and ringtones.
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A Cavalcade of Audio Fun
The Bungie Weekly Update has been posted – it’s a doozy. A full-length podcast is available (50 mb, 55 minutes); amazing music and dialogue (well, the dialogue’s cool, the music is… go listen). On top of that, there’s a bizarre ‘making the logo’ bit (with lots and lots and lots of pictures), and something called the ‘Halo Mobile Portal’, which means lots of Halo content on your cell phone. (There are lots of pictures of this, too.) Don’t look for this unless you have Verizon service – but Cingular, T-Mobile, and Sprint are coming soon. Finally, there’s some great news about Halo 3 dev progress, and a nice leg (with a cool tattoo on it, for good measure). You can’t go wrong! (All of it, except for the podcast, can also be found in our Weekly Update Archive.)(Louis Wu 00:51:38 UTC)
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Bungie Weekly Update
Huge update this week, starting with the first ever Bungie Podcast and including real audio from Halo 3. Download it! Listen to it! We also premiere the final Halo 3 logo and debut In-Fusio’s Halo Mobile Portal for cellphones. Halo music ringtones are finally here!
