Sep7imus noticed that there’s a bunch of Halo stuff with clearance prices over at Hot Topic – including the Mister Chief t-shirt, which went on sale for the very first time less than 4 months ago. That’s like straight-to-video DVDs… poor Frankie.(Louis Wu 12:55:06 UTC)
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Not The Face, KP!
Stuntmutt uses up all his accumulated goodwill at Bungie with a single One One Se7en. Way to go!(Louis Wu 12:21:57 UTC)
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808 Guilty Spark
Chris Simpkins sent us a link to a Halo-inspired trance song he’d created called
‘808 Guilty Spark‘. 8.2 mb in MP3 format… starts slow, speeds up!(Louis Wu 10:52:57 UTC)
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New Joyride Stuff
Masta Chef noticed a couple of new Halo action figures available for preorder at DieCastExpress.com – a Blue Spartan with a flag (and a large stationary gun), and the Halo 2 Weapons Battle Pack – lots of extras for your existing figures. (You can also grab the Red Spartan with white striping and a Covenant stationary gun, or the Red Spartan with yellow striping.) Lots of goodies!(Louis Wu 10:50:08 UTC)
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Bungie releases official Bungie podcast episode 1!
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It’s finally here! The first Bungie podcast. They talk about playlists, cheating, Halo 3, tons of stuff. It’s just what we’ve been waiting for and we already can’t wait for more. Keep ’em coming, Bungie! What did you guys think of the first show?
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Bungie releases official Bungie podcast episode… zero?
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It’s finally here! The first Bungie podcast. Apparently this isn’t exactly the first entire episode, but rather some practice interviews. But whatever, we love it. They talk about playlists, cheating, Halo 3, weapon and map design, tons of stuff. It’s just what we’ve been waiting for and we already can’t wait for more. Keep ’em coming, Bungie! What did you guys think of the first show?
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Podtacular All-Stars beat Winged Warriors
The All-Stars continue their undefeated streak of friendly challenge matches with their latest victory against the Winged Warriors. Looks like it was pretty much a shutout according to MaesterGXL‘s excellent review. Thanks guys for a great match!
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Podtacular All-Stars beat Winged Warriors
The All-Stars continue their undefeated streak of friendly challenge matches with their latest victory against the Winged Warriors. Looks like it was pretty much a shutout according to MaesterGXL‘s excellent review. Thanks guys for a great match! By the way they have a pretty nice site, you might want to check it out. “They wrote an in-depth review” over there too, so you can check out the match from their perspective.
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WikiRiot Ep 14
Sigafoos let us know that WikiRiot 14 (34 mins, 13.7 mb) is now available. Master Chief fights… Batman?(Louis Wu 17:02:13 UTC)
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Getting from A to B
Last summer, Bungie’s Damián Isla gave a talk at the Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Entertainment Conference entitled “Dude, where’s my Warthog? – From Pathfinding to General Spatial Competence’. We don’t have audio of the talk – but the slides were pretty fascinating in their own right. If you’re interested in the techniques Bungie uses to make your enemies seem smarter, and more aware of their surroundings… give this a read! Some of the multistep slides are presented here as animated gifs; they’re labeled as such. If you see such a label, you should be patient an allow the image to fully load; they range in size from a couple of hundred K to about a megabyte, and you’ll miss some fun stuff if you page past them too quickly. If you find the in-page slide too hard to read, there’s a link to a larger version at the bottom of each page. Thanks to Damián for allowing us to host this – and to Veegie and Zechs GX for pointing it out in the first place!(Louis Wu 11:13:48 UTC)
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Frontline
Matt6908 sent us a music video for Pillar’s ‘Frontline’ – the MPRRS liked it, for the most part. Some fantastic action shots, and cinematic eye candy. Check it out! Available in both WMP9 format (37.1 mb) and QuickTime format (41.9 mb).(Louis Wu 11:02:39 UTC)
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Phys Ed – yeah, right
A couple of weeks ago, we mentioned a Halo sighting in the current issue of Wired Magazine – for those who don’t actually READ Wired (you should, it’s chock-full of good stuff every month), you can see this online at Wired’s site. Thanks to ChrisVioxxx for reminding me of this (which made me go check for the online version).(Louis Wu 10:58:47 UTC)
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Should have seen that coming
PlasmaFire pointed out an episode of the webcomic ‘This Side Up‘ that takes a subtle (okay, not so subtle) jab at Halo 2 recently. Give it a read!(Louis Wu 10:41:21 UTC)
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Tapping the Vein
Over the past month or so, a whole bunch of people known mostly for their presence in the Halo fan community have gotten jobs at Bungie Studios. For a lot of people, going to work for Bungie is a down-the-road goal, but the number of people hired from the fanbase has been meager for a while. Not any more. In rapid succession, Stosh (known mostly on the B.net forums), Cunbelin (an old-school fan for sure), Mrs Doublefire, and NiTrOuSoXiDe (the last two prominent members of the HaloCE community) have all started work with Bungie paychecks – I’m sure there are more I don’t know about, as well. Congrats to all these guys, congrats to Bungie for taking advantage of some of the fantastic talent available in the fan community – and to everyone who strives to get a position with Bungie… know that it’s possible!(Louis Wu 10:26:42 UTC)
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Controllers for GIs
Over at Halo3Forum.com, there’s a thread started by someone working at a military base in Kuwait – he’s looking for donations of used controllers and copies of Halo 2 (the conditions there are such that controllers don’t last long). Swing by and read the details – and help out if you can! Thanks, QuickTactical.(Louis Wu 20:28:39 UTC)
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I certainly wouldn’t tip him…
For those of you who like tribbles, we’ve put a higher-res version of Pinkuh’s Mister Chief pizzaboy in her gallery here. If your brain was warped by the medium-sized version you saw last night… don’t look at this.(Louis Wu 19:17:18 UTC)
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FanFic contest at UNSCDF
LoneRanger 2.5 stopped by to announce a new contest over at UNSCDF – it’s a fan fiction contest, and the top few winners will win autographed copies of Eric Nylund’s Ghosts of Onyx (and Eric has also agreed to help judge the contest). Full details can be found in the forum thread, and at the UNSCDF website.(Louis Wu 19:02:39 UTC)
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