Down at Comic-Con last week, SvF’s Laird snagged a poster that represents the monthly Halo comic coming out next year – along with some signatures (front | back). Nice!(Louis Wu 19:48:52 UTC)
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Cake Island
Whoa – WOLFBANE 101’s 3-year-old son ended up with a pretty cool birthday cake this year! (Louis Wu 19:14:56 UTC)
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Podtacular up for Podcast Awards
Wow, not too shabby! Podtacular has been nominated for two categories in the second annual Podcast Awards – Best Produced and Gaming. Go vote for ’em! (Thanks, Laird.)(Louis Wu 18:49:51 UTC)
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The Hushed Casket 4 yrs old on Aug 28
The Hushed Casket will be 4-years old next month (the 28th to be exact). Usually we have a monster LAN with something like 8 boxes and 30 people. Last year, I do believe we simply had a cookout at Convict’s place on the ski lake.
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Podtacular One Year Anniversary!
Episode 73 (aka the sickest episode ever) has been recorded and is at Ciclonic‘s editing shop. But we’ll be recording the anniversary episode in just a few days! This episode will cover the Podtacular Awards, some audio mashups of previous episodes, and some discussion of where we have come from and where we’re headed. It’s gonna be good! Just wanted to let you know that we’re not really looking for submissions this week.
UPDATE: It looks like I spoke too soon about not looking for submissions. Kimo23 is asking for your favorite sound clips in this forum post. Go post your favorite moments from Podtacular!
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Podtacular One Year Anniversary!
Episode 73 (aka the sickest episode ever) has been recorded and is at Ciclonic‘s editing shop. But we’ll be recording the anniversary episode in just a few days! This episode will cover the Podtacular Awards, some audio mashups of previous episodes, and some discussion of where we have come from and where we’re headed. It’s gonna be good! Just wanted to let you know that we’re not really looking for submissions this week.
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Podtacular One Year Anniversary!
Episode 73 (aka the sickest episode ever) has been recorded and is at Ciclonic‘s editing shop. But we’ll be recording the anniversary episode in just a few days! This episode will cover the Podtacular Awards, some audio mashups of previous episodes, and some discussion of where we have come from and where we’re headed. It’s gonna be good! Just wanted to let you know that we’re not really looking for submissions this week.
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The Hushed Casket 4 yrs old on Aug 28
The Hushed Casket will be 4-years old next month (the 28th to be exact). Usually we have a monster LAN with something like 8 boxes and 30 people. Last year, I do believe we simply had a cookout at Convict’s place on the ski lake.
What…
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Podtacular One Year Anniversary!
Episode 73 (aka the sickest episode ever) has been recorded and is at Ciclonic‘s editing shop. But we’ll be recording the anniversary episode in just a few days! This episode will cover the Podtacular Awards, some audio mashups of previous episodes, and some discussion of where we have come from and where we’re headed. It’s gonna be good! Just wanted to let you know that we’re not really looking for submissions this week.
UPDATE: It looks like I spoke too soon about not looking for submissions. Kimo23 is asking for your favorite sound clips in this forum post. Go post your favorite moments from Podtacular!
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Podtacular nominated for Podcast Awards!
Thanks to your write-ins, Podtacular has been listed as a final nominee in the 2006 Podcast Awards. To all of our members and listeners, you should know that if we win, we ALL win. You are what makes this podcast and community what it is.
Voting will begin on July 28th and be ready to voice your opinion for your favorite Halo-lovin’, truck-fraggin’ podcast!
You can see the nominees here: http://www.podcastawards.com/. We’ve been nominated in the Gaming and Best Produced categories!
More details and discussion in the forums
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Podtacular nominated for Podcast Awards!
Thanks to your write-ins, Podtacular has been listed as a final nominee in the 2006 Podcast Awards. To all of our members and listeners, you should know that if we win, we ALL win. You are what makes this podcast and community what it is.
Voting will begin on July 28th and be ready to voice your opinion for your favorite Halo-lovin’, truck-fraggin’ podcast!
You can see the nominees here: http://www.podcastawards.com/
More details and discussion in the forums
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Project BlueStreak – a boon for modellers
Whoa. TheGhost has created a new tool to ‘bridge the gap between 3ds max and Halo’ – basically, it’s a series of scripts that allows for easy (REALLY easy) imports and exports of Halo models and animations. Project BlueStreak has a site page up – the first released script is the GBXModel Importer. In TheGhost’s words: “Basically what it does is reads any exported model tag from HaloCE (which can be accessed with the HEK or some sort of tag extractor) and re-creates the tag in 3ds max.” Wonga. A thread’s been started on the Gearbox forums for feedback and bug reports – check this out!(Louis Wu 11:16:19 UTC)
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2 is Better than 1 – Duo Montage
QsK King submitted a duo montage – footage of himself and QsK Icy, edited to within an inch of its life. The MPRRS reviewers liked it – so we’re hosting copies for you. It’s long – more than 8 minutes – so it weighs in at 111 mb (WMP9 or QuickTime). There’s a pretty cool ‘sticky-cam’ effect at a bit before 6 minutes… (Louis Wu 11:04:26 UTC)
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Horror Scope.
Stuntmutt takes a look at a common XBL-related phobia in today’s One One Se7en. If you were scared you were going to go a whole Monday without your corn fix, thank Coolpengwn. (If you’re saddened that you ALMOST made it to Tuesday without this, blame Coolpengwn.)(Louis Wu 21:56:59 UTC)
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The Red Courtesy Phone
And another Halo 2 egg bites the dust. There’s been a pretty wild hunt for the last few days over at High Impact Halo; Ducain has summarized the process, and the findings, in this forum thread. it’s pretty obvious that this is a real easter egg – but it’s always good to confirm these things with Bungie. Jaime Griesemer, Halo 2’s Campaign Design Lead, had this to say:I wondered when someone was going to find this one. Technically, the skull isn’t necessary, it just makes it easier. Otherwise you have to play the entire mission without getting shot a single time. I should probably thank Joe [Staten] for getting Ron Perlman to record such a goofy line.
Unfortunately, I don’t get the prize for the ‘Best Hidden Egg’ this time…Playing through Cairo Station without getting shot seems… impossible, actually, so it’s pretty nice that getting the Thunderstorm skull confuses the script, otherwise this would never have been triggered. More intriguing, though, is that last line… it means you guys have missed at least one egg! The referenced HIH thread contains links to HIH-hosted copies of the relevant media, but in the interest of global access, we’re putting up more flavors; Original WMP9 vid (7.1 mb) | QuickTime vid (6.9 mb) | mp3 of audio egg (95 kb). Thanks once again to the HIH community; you guys rock!(Louis Wu 19:26:46 UTC)
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Mastering the Art of the Tease
MTV has an article today about how secrecy is both a necessity and a publicity tool for video game manufacturers – and Frank O’Connor, of Bungie Studios, is their prime evidence. Great read. Frankie, of course, broke the story.(Louis Wu 17:20:42 UTC)
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Folks Need Heroes
Last week, Frankie spoke with MTV about the dirty business of keeping secrets in his position. Frankie talks about what it’s like to be Bungie’s first line of defense against the information-starved reporters and fans as well as some close calls in the past.
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Halo News 2
Youtube version | iPod version
Halo News is back again with news anchors Rist Peblo and DrThom. This one’s a real thriller thanks to the Podtacular crew! Check it out and talk about it in the forums.
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Halo News Episode 2
Halo News is back again with news anchors Rist Peblo and DrThom. This one’s a real thriller thanks to the Podtacular crew! Check it out and talk about it in the forums.
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Halo News Episode 2
Halo News is back again with news anchors Rist Peblo and DrThom. This one’s a real thriller thanks to the Podtacular crew! Check it out and talk about it in the forums.
