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Gone With The Wind.
Stuntmutt continues to mine the Halo 3 trailer for calembouric gold… today’s One One Se7en is actually a puntrocity.
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MJOLNIR’s Child
Elnea’s most recent journal entry at Red vs Blue is about MJOLNIR’s Child, a song she wrote to explore the idea of children bred as supersoldiers. It’s really, really good. It is accompanied by a haunting piece of art – we’ve added this to her gallery here. We’re happy to mirror the song, if her .Mac space runs out of bandwidth. Go listen, go look.
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Halo Pong
DonVinzone wrote to let us know about Halo Pong, a game he’s developing. Pong… with CTF, Oddball, Assault, Territories, and Co-op? You don’t see that every day. It’s not done yet, but the beta version is playable – if you have a Windows computer, go grab a copy!
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The Halouvre Pours on the Content
Nightmare 385 noticed some updates over at the Halouvre – check them out, there’s some amazing artwork in there!
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Stuck.
Pixellated found a t-shirt for sale at Split Reason which may or may not be sanctioned by Microsoft… but which would look great on you either way. (A quick run through their inventory shows a Killtrocity shirt with dual SMGs, as well. Update: Boxer pointed out a couple of stickers, as well: Stuck | Body Count.
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Philosophical Underpinnings?
Wow, there’s a connection I’ve never seen anyone make before… Geoff Chang has found a relevantly-numbered passage from Nietzsche which certainly ties in nicely with certain aspects of the game! This is more Story page material than anything else… but there it was, sitting on the forum, and i was intrigued. Check it out!
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Episode 67: Tip Show with Map of the Month: Turf
Download | Show Notes (PDF)
This episode we talk about All kinds of tips to help you level up and stay there for levels 20-30. Later on we get into tips specifically for Turf, broken down by game type. With guest hosts RusOmi7677 and Dialpex. Pod Art this week comes from LetsGetTactical. Keep on grunt-fraggin’ trucks! And I know we say it every time, big thanks to Ciclonic for editing audio. Dig in!
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Episode 67: Tip Show with Map of the Month: Turf
Download | Show Notes (PDF)
This episode we talk about All kinds of tips to help you level up and stay there for levels 20-30. Later on we get into tips specifically for Turf, broken down by game type. With guest hosts RusOmi7677 and Dialpex. Pod Art this week comes from LetsGetTactical. Keep on grunt-fraggin’ trucks! And I know we say it every time, big thanks to Ciclonic for editing audio. Dig in!
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Submit stuff for Episode 68: Customs and Callins!
On Thursday, Podtacular will be recording the next episode. And guess what? You’re invited to participate! How cool is that?
The tip of the custom game iceberg
We know we haven’t even scratched the surface of the iceberg… or something like that… with the variety of custom games out there. So if you have a good one you haven’t heard us mention already, send it on in! Just click the submit news and tips link on the right side to send it, and be sure to include your gamertag so we can give you credit. We’ll be mentioning the top two and putting the rest in the show notes. Oh and we don’t need to know every single option, just send a paragraph or so about the general idea and the changes from normal settings. We know that Banshees are turned off on Midship.
Wanna be a guest host? Here’s an easy way
Send us a voice mail! If we play it back, you could say that technically you were on the show and make all your friends jealous. We’ll be playing back the best ones, so feel free to call in at 206-888-HALO. That’s 206-888-HALO. In case you missed it the first time. Keep it under 3 minutes and tell us your gamertag… oh sorry, I didn’t see you were on the phone already.
I got this crazy story…
Got a cool Halo story you’d like to tell everyone? Send it in! Whether modders turned into grunts, you won with delevelers, or you just barely won a match, we want to hear about it! Just click that submit news and tips and write it on in with your gamertag.
Deadline for all this is Thursday Night but the sooner you get your stuff in, the more likely it will be on the show. So get busy!
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Submit stuff for Episode 68: Customs and Callins!
On Thursday, Podtacular will be recording the next episode. And guess what? You’re invited to participate! How cool is that?
The tip of the custom game iceberg
We know we haven’t even scratched the surface of the iceberg… or something like that… with the variety of custom games out there. So if you have a good one you haven’t heard us mention already, send it on in! Just click the submit news and tips link on the right side to send it, and be sure to include your gamertag so we can give you credit. We’ll be mentioning the top two and putting the rest in the show notes. Oh and we don’t need to know every single option, just send a paragraph or so about the general idea and the changes from normal settings. We know that Banshees are turned off on Midship.
Wanna be a guest host? Here’s an easy way
Send us a voice mail! If we play it back, you could say that technically you were on the show and make all your friends jealous. We’ll be playing back the best ones, so feel free to call in at 206-888-HALO. That’s 206-888-HALO. In case you missed it the first time. Keep it under 3 minutes and tell us your gamertag… oh sorry, I didn’t see you were on the phone already.
I got this crazy story…
Got a cool Halo story you’d like to tell everyone? Send it in! Whether modders turned into grunts, you won with delevelers, or you just barely won a match, we want to hear about it! Just click that submit news and tips and write it on in with your gamertag.
Deadline for all this is Thursday Night but the sooner you get your stuff in, the more likely it will be on the show. So get busy!
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Episode 67: Tip Show with Map of the Month: Turf
Download | Show Notes (PDF)
This episode we talk about All kinds of tips to help you level up and stay there for levels 20-30. Later on we get into tips specifically for Turf, broken down by game type. With guest hosts RusOmi7677 and Dialpex. Pod Art this week comes from LetsGetTactical. Keep on grunt-fraggin’ trucks! And I know we say it every time, big thanks to Ciclonic for editing audio. Dig in!
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High Impact Halo Redesigned
If you’re into Halo tricking at all, you’ve heard of High Impact Halo, a tricking website run by Ducain. Recently the site underwent a significant overhaul to increase ease of use and better integrate the frong page with the forums.
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Submit stuff for Episode 68: Customs and Callins!
On Thursday, Podtacular will be recording the next episode. And guess what? You’re invited to participate! How cool is that?
The tip of the custom game iceberg
We know we haven’t even scratched the surface of the iceberg… or something like that… with the variety of custom games out there. So if you have a good one you haven’t heard us mention already, send it on in! Just click the submit news and tips link on the right side to send it, and be sure to include your gamertag so we can give you credit. We’ll be mentioning the top two and putting the rest in the show notes. Oh and we don’t need to know every single option, just send a paragraph or so about the general idea and the changes from normal settings. We know that Banshees are turned off on Midship.
Wanna be a guest host? Here’s an easy way
Send us a voice mail! If we play it back, you could say that technically you were on the show and make all your friends jealous. We’ll be playing back the best ones, so feel free to call in at 206-888-HALO. That’s 206-888-HALO. In case you missed it the first time. Keep it under 3 minutes and tell us your gamertag… oh sorry, I didn’t see you were on the phone already.
I got this crazy story…
Got a cool Halo story you’d like to tell everyone? Send it in! Whether modders turned into grunts, you won with delevelers, or you just barely won a match, we want to hear about it! Just click that submit news and tips and write it on in with your gamertag.
Deadline for all this is Thursday Night but the sooner you get your stuff in, the more likely it will be on the show. So get busy!
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How would you pronounce that?
Roger Wolfson, a database programmer at Bungie, spent a few minutes figuring out the ‘average gamertag’ – read his Bungie.net forum post if you want to understand what that means. The average tag? ‘xArKKAAaEX’. And yes… it’s registered, now. (Was registered about an hour after the forum post.) You gotta wonder, sometimes…
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Best. Stat. Ever.
Regular readers will be familiar with some of the stats I’ve excavated in the past from the murky depths of the terabyte-plus Halo 2 stats database: 3.33 billion player-games, half a billion unique games, the recent games-per-month graph. But today I offer you what is unquestionably the most Earth-shattering, momentous stat ever stated in the state of statdom: The Average Gamertag.
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Picking your brains… mysteriously.
Frankie stopped by our forum to solicit questions for a Q&A. (Don’t post them in the thread on OUR forum – follow his link and post them at Bungie.net.) No, he’s not saying what it’s for.
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Freelancer: Combat Evolved Teaser Vid
William Sullivan-Angulo writes to point out that Freelancer: Combat Evolved, the Halo mod for Freelancer, has released a teaser video showing off some of their progress to date. You can grab a copy (11.7 mb, WMP9 format) from this forum post.
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Big Bird on Helium
Northwestern Magazine (the magazine put out by Northwestern University to spotlight the goings-on in its community) wrote up an article on Joe Staten, after he came out to speak a couple of months ago. SleeperQ took photos of the three-page article, which details the road Staten’s taken to and within Bungie; you can find links in this forum post. An interesting read – check it out! Update: SleeperQ found the article online at Northwestern; makes for much easier reading.
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Quick Hits For June 13
- Aleph One, the open-sourced version of Marathon for Windows, Linux and Mac OS, has a new release out.
- The HD QuickTime version of the Halo 3 trailer documentary is back up at Microsoft.
- KP profiles known Cortana-hater Jillybean at Bungie.net.
- Peter Moore told Major Nelson the Xbox 360 will get an update to add another 20 titles to the list of backwards compatible games.
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Halo Graphic Novel Preview Goes Digital
The Halo Graphic Novel preview is now available in digital form from Marvel. The preview gives you a look at the incredible artwork as well as providing a glimpse into the stories you can expect to find within the graphic novel.
The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft