In the past couple of weeks, there’ve been a few debates about some oddly-dressed characters visible for a few seconds in the Behind The Scenes documentary. Stuntmutt lays their identity to rest in today’s One One Se7en.(Louis Wu 14:44:00 UTC)
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7 is Darker. Or, in this case, Lighter.
Over at High Impact Halo, S.O.G. pointed out a scar on Miranda’s cheek that looks an awful lot like a ‘7’. Is this an easter egg? Unofficial word from Bungie: “maybe”. (Yeah, I found it unsatisfying, too.)(Louis Wu 14:31:48 UTC)
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That’s for my little brother!
Captain Spark submitted another couple of dozen dialogue snippets – you can find them on his website, or browse them individually in our Dialogue Databank. Lots of the timid marine today!(Louis Wu 14:07:41 UTC)
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Lemonaded, shorter
The Player of the Week over at MLGPro.com is Naded – check out this member of Storm Ventures as he prepares for Anaheim. Thanks, 3Suns.(Louis Wu 13:38:45 UTC)
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Friday’s Fanfic
Twenty new pieces for you today in the Fan Fiction section – busy week!(Louis Wu 13:18:36 UTC)
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MLG PwnCast Ep 17
MLG PwnCast has released episode 17 – it focuses on Anaheim, not surprisingly. 11:38 long, 13.4 mb (the ‘enhanced’ version is a third as big – I’m not sure I understand that). Go listen.(Louis Wu 13:07:56 UTC)
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Article Trove
oriol003 suggested swinging by his article collection – there are quite a few of them, mostly looking at strategies or specific weapons. Text suffers from the Block of Doom syndrome (no line breaks), but there’s some interesting content there. Take a look!(Louis Wu 12:52:54 UTC)
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A Little Rampant Speculation, Part IV
Gravemind is not an easy character to figure out.
From his initial appearance on the scene, as the rumored “big plant thingy” players who downloaded the leaked French copies of Halo 2 reported seeing, to his cliffhanger-inducing interrogation of Cortana, not much was revealed about him.
Some fans can even be forgiving for questioning whether Gravemind is, in fact, related to the Flood at all. Halo 2’s cutscenes only strongly suggest this, without actually stating it. The Art of Halo here rescues us, referring to Gravemind as the “Flood hive mind”.
What exactly does that imply? What does Gravemind want? Given that all these events have apparently played out in the past, with the result that the Halo system was used and all life eradicated, but with the Flood preserved dormant for the cycle to start all over again thousands of years later, what other outcome can be hoped for?
Click “read more” below from the front page for the entire article.
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Podtacular! – Episode 68: Customs and Callins
1:11 Hours – 57.5MB
From Podtacular:
It’s the Custom and Callins show. This is a great show where we cover the top 3 custom games, a bunch of jokes, tons of awesome voice mails and some incredible tales from the FoxHole. With guest hosts TerminatorLlama and Samanator. Pod Art this week comes from Face Head. And as usual, big thanks to Painkilla05 for sorting out the voice mails and Ciclonic for the amazing job on editing the show. It’s not easy to edit all these great voice mails.
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Podtacular! – Episode 68: Customs and Callins
1:11 Hours – 57.5MB
From Podtacular:
It’s the Custom and Callins show. This is a great show where we cover the top 3 custom games, a bunch of jokes, tons of awesome voice mails and some incredible tales from the FoxHole. With guest hosts TerminatorLlama and Samanator. Pod Art this week comes from Face Head. And as usual, big thanks to Painkilla05 for sorting out the voice mails and Ciclonic for the amazing job on editing the show. It’s not easy to edit all these great voice mails.
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Ban them all – you win faster.
Yesterday, Bungie took on the Xbox MVP group in their weekly Humpday Challenge… and for the first time in a long time, they came out on top. The writeup is notably harsh… methinks there’s some good-natured ribbin’ going on in there. Takeaway message from this set? Don’t let Frankie pick the gametypes.(Louis Wu 20:59:47 UTC)
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Humpday: Xbox MVPs
This week Bungie was challenged by the Xbox MVPs, still on their Humpday high from last year. Those results were suspect, however, and this year we made certain there was no tomfoolery, shenaniganations nor poppycockery.
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Ultimate Halo room
What does it take to become an ultimate Halo fan? All the action figures, books and hours of game play? A few rare posters and back stage passes to exclusive events? Today we examine one fan who truly has gone above and beyond when it comes to interior decoration.
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Hallo
Charliez, a RedvsBlue community member, sent along this link to Hallo, a new comic that will be coming out every Sunday. Cortana installs Vista…(Louis Wu 14:17:05 UTC)
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Link Productions Unveils Halo Armor
Over at Halo Planet, I read about another Halo Armor effort – check out LinkProductions (go to ‘Props’, then ‘Halo Props’; there’s a full outfit, plus plasma and human pistols. (This is the same plasma pistol as we saw on eBay a few months ago. At that point, I hadn’t realized there was more that he was working on.)(Louis Wu 14:09:19 UTC)
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MLG Anaheim Preview
There’s a preview of the upcoming 4v4 action at MLG Anaheim posted on the MLGPro.com website – go read about the top teams! Thanks, KP.(Louis Wu 14:03:01 UTC)
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MLG gears up for Anaheim
MLGPro.com has cranked out some new content in preperation for this weekend. There’s a 4v4 Preview, they announce locking down some Pros and Overswarm put up an article on MoBDeep earlier this week.
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Community Spotlight: Narcogen
PSP – 11 Pages – 878KB
From Bungie.net:
Get to know Narcogen, maintainer of one of the largest Bungie fan sites, the incredibly hardcore Rampancy.net and one of very few Halo fans in Kazakhstan! Home of Borat! Or not, depending on your point of view.
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Community Spotlight: Narcogen
PSP – 11 Pages – 878KB
From Bungie.net:
Get to know Narcogen, maintainer of one of the largest Bungie fan sites, the incredibly hardcore Rampancy.net and one of very few Halo fans in Kazakhstan! Home of Borat! Or not, depending on your point of view.
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Episode 68: Customs and Callins
Download | Show Notes (PDF)
It’s the Custom and Callins show. This is a great show where we cover the top 3 custom games, a bunch of jokes, tons of awesome voice mails and some incredible tales from the FoxHole. With guest hosts TerminatorLlama and Samanator. Pod Art this week comes from Face Head. And as usual, big thanks to Painkilla05 for sorting out the voice mails and Ciclonic for the amazing job on editing the show. It’s not easy to edit all these great voice mails.