Heh – Psychophan7 created a nearly 3 mb animated gif by tweaking a small subset of the Halo 3 trailer footage – pointless, but fun. Warning – open this in a relatively robust browser; some can’t handle 3 mb gifs. (Firefox works nicely.)(Louis Wu 23:13:40 UTC)
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Oy.
Heh – Bryce Sigourney found a pretty unusual instance of Halo-branded clothing… a Halo Suede Kippah (maybe more commonly known as a yarmulke, a thin skullcap worn by observant Jews). It’s unclear how much this costs – but the non-logo versions run about $4.00, so if you’re interested, you can email them for details. Love the store name, too!(Louis Wu 23:01:35 UTC)
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Ms Brute, Indeed.
Bluestone created ‘Mr Chief Goes To Washington‘… Flash 8, 7 mb, great music.(Louis Wu 22:25:36 UTC)
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Halo stuff for sale
Havoc737903 is selling off a bunch of Halo goodies on eBay – you can peruse them here. He called it ‘Havoc’s Crazy Bargain Basement’ – but with a ‘Buy it Now’ price of $30 on an opened action figure… I’m not sure I’d agree with the ‘bargain’ part. Whatever, though – check it out, you might find stuff you like.(Louis Wu 22:19:54 UTC)
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XGR 3
Sunday must be podcast update day – Xbox Gaming Radio has released Episode 3, including a summary of updates on Halo sites across the web, and some Halo multiplayer tricks. (They’d also like you to check out their newly-overhauled website.)(Louis Wu 22:15:49 UTC)
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Podtacular All-Stars beat 2old2play.com
This weekend the All-Stars played a 4v4 challenge match against 2old2play, the gaming community for gamers over 25. It was 4 games and Podtacular won 3 to 1! Two of them were very close matches (one team slayer game Podtacular won 50-47!) and the one 2old2play won they stomped us bad. So all together it was a VERY close challenge match. Thanks 2O2P for accepting the challenge! If you guys are over 25, check out their site too. They have tons of cool stuff like a web-based tournament system, nice forums, a “con” once in a while, a magazine, and a podcast among other things. FanBama34 and QuesoMan wrote writeups of the match in the forums.
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GTR at MLG Orlando
Gamertag Radio created Episode 68 at MLG Orlando – lots of big Halo names came by to say hi (a list is in the news post there). Go listen!(Louis Wu 22:11:29 UTC)
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Gamertag Radio got some killer coverage of MLG Orlando!
Godfree and the crew at GamertagRadio.com came to MLG Orlando prepared. He got some sweet interviews with TSquared, Lil’ Poison, some clans and some celebrities. I was also able to meet him there and get interviewed for Gamertag Radio. Be sure to check out their coverage of the event! He also has lots of pictures on flickr and I posted a few I took too.
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Gamertag Radio got some killer coverage of MLG Orlando!
Godfree and the crew at GamertagRadio.com came to MLG Orlando prepared. He got some sweet interviews with TSquared, Lil’ Poison, some clans and some celebrities. I was also able to meet him there and get interviewed for GTR. Be sure to check out their coverage of the event! He also has lots of pictures on flickr and I posted a few I took too.
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New Art from Mike Hill
Mike Hill wrote with word of a new project – he’s working on a Halo comic. He sent along one of 35 or 40 frames he plans on using – this will be ‘a little adventure the Chief and a squad of Pelican-bound ODSTs will embark on’. Amazing detail – check it out on his gallery! He also mentioned that he’s revamped his website (check out this work-in-progress bike… I want!), and that there’s a pretty cool article that was recently published in Imagine Magazine that included some great text and (Halo) pics from him. And while I was poking around the site, I found two other Halo-related images (which have been added to his gallery here) – a spectacular Forerunner-dominated landscape, and a 3D Warthog render – or the beginnings of one. Keep an eye on this guy!(Louis Wu 03:26:19 UTC)
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QsK:THE COLLAB
QsKGlobal put together a collaboration montage – footage from four different players. It’s 10 minutes long, and weighs in at 116 mb (WMP9 version) or 128 mb (QuickTime version) – the MPRRS said they liked it, so go watch!(Louis Wu 03:22:48 UTC)
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Digital Double – A Match Made in Space
Mintz found a Halo-related episode of the webcomic Digital Double from earlier this week – not the first time this particular joke has been done, but hey… (The episode after this one is part of the same arc.)(Louis Wu 01:22:27 UTC)
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Trinity
ZuP posted a note on our forum about Trinity, a massive (46 minutes, 380 mb in hi-res) tricking video, mostly showing vehicle launches in Halo 2 Campaign mode. There are a significant number of hosts, at this point, apparently… if you swing by this post by forevercha0s, you’ll find a pair of load-balancing links – medium and hi-res – that will direct you to the next host in the queue (thanks, TheGarbageMan). Low-res links can be found in that first post by ZuP. A labor of love, for sure!(Louis Wu 01:17:55 UTC)
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More Maralogo artwork
Brian Haworth sent in pics of a keychain fobs he made recently – it measures about an inch across, and is made from blue and yellow translucent acrylic, with a piece of 1/16″ polycarbonate sandwiched between to hold them together. (yellow side | blue side) He made a similar, but much larger, version for his girlfriend last fall – that one is 5 inches across, and she keeps it in a display stand on her dresser. (No pics, sorry.)(Louis Wu 17:53:30 UTC)
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MLG Content Summary
3Suns came back from vacation to the realization that we hadn’t mentioned news on the MLGPro website since he left. (A lot of the time, we rely on you, the fans, to point out where the interesting stuff is – we just provide a one-stop shop for finding it.) There’s quite a lot – there’s an article about pros switching around to different teams, a retrospective of Storm Ventures’ recovery, an interview with ShooK On3 Gaming, a pro gamer’s predictions about MLG Orlando, a preview of MLG Orlando, a spotlight on Scion Player of the Year nominee Ramby, and an overview of the standings going into MLG Orlando. That should keep you busy!(Louis Wu 17:42:59 UTC)
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Details, Details…
Just a small thing… Psychophan7 noticed a tiny detail about the recently released Halo 2 Vista screenshots; there’s been a change in the motion sensor. Other players still show up in red, or yellow, depending on whether they’re friend or foe… but now there’s also a directional aspect to the symbol. Again – a small thing, but a good example of the level of detail and care taken by the Halo 2 Vista team. Pretty cool!(Louis Wu 14:16:26 UTC)
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WikiRiot Ep 13
Sigafoos points out that WikiRiot Episode 13 is up – 35 mins, 14 mb. Minimal Halo content, because of technical difficulties… such is life sometimes.(Louis Wu 13:21:51 UTC)
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Less Bewildered than they Seem
The Bungie Weekly Update is posted – info about PAX (a cool gaming expo happening right now in Seattle which would have been cooler had I been able to go), info from SketchFactor about Leipzig, and the demo of Halo 2 Vista there, and more teasers about Halo 3 (Frankie is a master at describing things without telling you ANYTHING). Oh, yeah… and a truly disgusting picture. I feel cheated that last week’s Mister Chief, created by Pinkuh, didn’t make a showing. Read it at Bungie.net, or read it in our Weekly Update Archive.(Louis Wu 01:32:46 UTC)
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Bungie Weekly Update
Sketch reports back from Germany, where he’s continuing our Halo 2 Vista Vistravaganza Week. We also chat in loose terms about Halo 3 graphics, but nothing to get too excited about, and apologies once more, for a horrible, horrible piece of art.
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Charged Up.
Last week, Frankie mentioned (in the BWU) that Halo 3 has “lots of feel of the original Halo” – in the sense that you spend a chunk of your time exploring, for the sake of exploration. Many websites jumped on this comment as some sort of evidence that Bungie was admitting that they liked Halo better than Halo 2. Stuntmutt has his own take in the situation, in today’s One One Se7en.(Louis Wu 18:18:58 UTC)
