Even though it’s been a slow week outside of us winning the podcast awards, Quality Jeverage doesn’t disappoint and pulls off another cool comic related to a little movie that came out this weekend. Check it out! More talk in the forums.
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Podtacular! – Episode 76: Tips Show with Red vs. Blue Interview
73.8MB – 1:20 Minutes
From Podtacular:
It’s the Tips show where we cover lots of surprisingly good general tips on how to level up and stay there along with map specific tips for Beaver Creek broken down by game type. They we jump to something completely different: An interview with Matt from Red vs. Blue who plays Sarge and other characters. Thanks Matt, and look forward to more of these soon guys. With your hosts Foo Mo Jive, JVB, and Liquilife. Pod art this week comes to us from Kimo23. Simple but perfect. Thanks to Quality Jeverage for editing this week’s show and to LairdSB for helping us with the RvB interview. Dig it!
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Weekly Porridge #31: JVB on a Plaaaane!
Even though it’s been a slow week outside of us winning the podcast awards, Quality Jeverage doesn’t disappoint and pulls off another cool comic related to a little movie that came out this weekend. Check it out! More talk in the forums.
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jdogmoney’s Nigh Impossible Contest Extravaganza!
jdogmoney kicked off another contest on our forum – again, no prizes (this seems to be a theme these days), but it’s an interesting premise – come up with something nobody else can do (within Halo), and post it in the thread (preferably with proof). More specific rules are listed in the post. Check it out!(Louis Wu 14:32:20 UTC)
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StandBy Me
QsK King, from QsKGlobal.Com, submitted ‘StandBy Me’ to the MPRRS recently; it’s an ode to the most common form of cheating on Xbox Live. Nice effects. I’d never heard the All Saints version of this song before… but man, it fits the action pretty nicely. Grab it in WMP9 format (53.9 mb) or QuickTime format (48.4 mb).(Louis Wu 14:10:12 UTC)
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Splinter Cell: Crisis – Trailer
AnubisUK wrote to let us know of a new trailer being hosted by Broken Console Productions – it was created by Silent Fisher, one of their clan members, and it’s for a movie entitled ‘Splinter Cell: Crisis’. Sam Fisher is now wearing MC armor, and creeping around Zanzibar… 28 mb, WMP9 format.(Louis Wu 13:40:15 UTC)
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Podtacular All-Stars beat TTL Gunslingers
Despite a second round win by the Gunslingers, it looks like the All-Stars pulled it off in the end! Sounds like it was a really good competition. Gunslingers made a cool suggestion to have a “meet your opponent” game at the end where they switched up the teams. Dialpex did a fun and detailed writeup of the whole match. Thanks TTL for a great match and it’s cool to have some new friends. Can anyone defeat the All-Stars? Email us if you want to challenge the team.
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Podtacular All-Stars beat TTL Gunslingers
Despite a second round win by the Gunslingers, it looks like the All-Stars pulled it off in the end! Sounds like it was a really good competition. Gunslingers made a cool suggestion to have a “meet your opponent” game at the end where they switched up the teams. Dialpex did a fun and detailed writeup of the whole match. Thanks TTL for a great match and it’s cool to have some new friends. Can anyone defeat the All-Stars? Email us if you want to challenge the team.
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Podtacular All-Stars beat TTL Gunslingers
Despite a second round win by the Gunslingers, it looks like the All-Stars pulled it off in the end! Sounds like it was a really good competition. Gunslingers made a cool suggestion to have a “meet your opponent” game at the end where they switched up the teams. Dialpex did a fun and detailed writeup of the whole match. Thanks TTL for a great match and it’s cool to have some new friends. Can anyone defeat the All-Stars? Email us if you want to challenge the team.
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Next up – WoW in Social Studies
Heh – gljake found a fun Halo reference in the latest issue of Wired. I’m not sure it’ll be funny if it actually comes true…(Louis Wu 19:37:43 UTC)
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Ghost Ship
Paul Davies has submitted another gorgeous piece of Halo artwork – this one is called ‘Ghost Ship‘, and shows what might have happened to the Pillar of Autumn in a parallel universe, maybe. If you like Paul’s work, he’s just finished an overhaul of his website; there’s a whole collection of sci-fi artwork there, not just Halo stuff. Check it out!(Louis Wu 18:22:30 UTC)
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Walshy’s Montage – in QuickTime
For lots of people, WMP9 is a difficult-to-use movie type; for those people, we do our best to provide most movies we host (or that we think are worth hosting) in QuickTime format. This is now true with Walshy’s montage, released last night (check this MLGPro.com forum thread for lots of download links to the WMP9 version) – we’re now offering a QuickTime version of the archive. It’s identical to the WMP9 version (it contains the main montage, the Xtra video, and the screenshots of the 3D process), but everything’s in QuickTime format. It’s also a lot smaller – 126 mb instead of 216 mb. (Movie quality is nearly identical.) Grab this one if you’re on a Mac, or would rather use QuickTime for any other reason!(Louis Wu 18:05:55 UTC)
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Halo 2 tourney in MA – short notice
An article in the Fitchburg (MA) Sentinel and Enterprise discusses a local Halo 2 tourney happening today, with a $1000 first prize; not sure if it’s too late, but if you live near Fitchburg, swing on by the local iGameSpot!(Louis Wu 17:47:11 UTC)
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WikiRiot Ep 12
Sigafoos points out that WikiRiot Episode 12 is up – a pair of interviews, plus plenty of Halo news. 47 minutes, 19 mb. Go listen.(Louis Wu 13:42:43 UTC)
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More Halo Art for Auction
A couple of days ago, we mentioned a hand-painted faceplate on eBay – that’s gone (it went for just over $100), but the artist reminds us that he’s got other Halo goodies available for sale there. Check ’em out!(Louis Wu 13:40:27 UTC)
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Walshy’s Montage
So the big news last night was the release of a montage by Final Boss member Walshy – the editing is a bit heavy in places, but it’s really nicely produced, and you can get a real sense for how fast and accurately this guy can kill his opponents. At the moment, the best place to grab this is FileFront; we’ve been asked to help with hosting, but I’m thinking that a 200 mb file that’s this popular is suicide for a site like us. I’m currently encoding a QuickTime version (it’ll be substantially smaller; the bitrate on the WMP9 is really, really high), but it won’t be ready before I have to leave this morning; check back later for a link. There are threads in lots of forums (including ours – thanks, Veegie) – the biggest is probably MLG’s (which also has a series of maybe temporary alternative links for download). It’s a 200 mb download, with just under 10 total minutes of video – go grab a copy! Thanks to dirtyJ for being the first with the heads-up.(Louis Wu 13:36:22 UTC)
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Pink to Black
Whoa, bizarre. Back in March, we listed links to ISBNdb.com and Amazon.com for the upcoming Nylund novel, Ghosts of Coral. Following those links today, you find that the info hasn’t changed… but if you change the ‘com’ in the amazon link to ‘co.uk’, you get to a book listed as ‘Ghosts of Onyx‘ (quick screenshot, in case it changes). A mistake on Amazon.uk’s part? Or a slip of an unannounced title? Nice find by Tartarus! Update: looks like he posted it on our forum, as well (forum name of AT-GNaT). Chime in with your thoughts!(Louis Wu 23:39:51 UTC)
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At least one more grunt.
The Bungie Weekly Update is super-early this week – and it’s pretty short, though there are a sizeable number of Halo 3 teasers in it. No Mister Chief, either, because apparently Pinkuh made him too sexy. (Knowing Pinkuh, that almost certainly means there’s nudity involved… and I’m not sure I can stomach a nude Mister Chief, so thanks to Frankie for not posting it.) As usual, you can read it at Bungie.net, or you can read it in our Weekly Update Archive.(Louis Wu 21:24:04 UTC)
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Bungie Weekly Update
No update per se, this week, since today is the Annual Bungie BBQ & Pentathlon. We’ll be in an undisclosed location ’til 8pm. A few snippets for the hardcore, nonetheless, but nothing for the mainstream consumer, who demands more answers, dammit.
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To the fortress!
Tex created a pretty cool picture, illustrating a game she and Schooly D play on Xbox Live; she has to jump to her death before Schooly kills her. (I dunno, maybe it’s some sort of mating ritual or something.) Anyway, the picture was great, and she was kind enough to save a bunch of her intermediate steps… so we put together a fun little progress page. If you’re on a slow connection, you’re probably better off just reading her forum post, and seeing the pics there… but if you’ve got some bandwidth to spare, check this out. (Louis Wu 18:05:12 UTC)
