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Clan Playing
Over at Bungie.net, KP put up an item that explains how you can still get some clan action going, even though the Clan playlists on XBL have been dropped.
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Pitiful, eh?
Heh – Weird Al Yankovic’s latest song, ‘You’re Pitiful’, takes a shot at Halo 2 players – it’s available for download (for now, anyway) on his site. Direct link is in KiGlow’s forum post.
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3D Cardboard Halo Guns
Steve stopped by our forum last night to post a bunch of pictures of Halo guns he’d created out of cardboard – great work! Give it a look.
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Halo Screensaver Updated
Ciarán posted a note about an upgrade to his Halo Screensaver – it has its own website. Check it out!
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Podtacular gives Bungie a flying elbow smash
WE WON! It was an awesome series of games and we all had a blast. The whole thing was recorded, so we’ll have a news story with screenshots sometime soon. It will probably be after Bungie releases their story of the match to respect Frankie’s mad writing skillz. We will probably release video highlights on the podcast feed as well if that’s OK with Bungie. Big thanks to everyone at Bungie and Podtacular that made this happen, and I can’t wait to fill everyone in on the details!
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Podtacular gives Bungie a flying elbow smash
WE WON! It was an awesome series of games and we all had a blast. The whole thing was recorded, so we’ll have a news story with screenshots sometime soon. It will probably be after Bungie releases their story of the match to respect Frankie’s mad writing skillz. We will probably release video highlights on the podcast feed as well if that’s OK with Bungie. Big thanks to everyone at Bungie and Podtacular that made this happen, and I can’t wait to fill everyone in on the details!
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Podtacular gives Bungie a flying elbow smash
WE WON! It was an awesome series of games and we all had a blast. The whole thing was recorded, so we’ll have a news story with screenshots sometime soon. It will probably be after Bungie releases their story of the match to respect Frankie’s mad writing skillz. We will probably release video highlights on the podcast feed as well if that’s OK with Bungie. Big thanks to everyone at Bungie and Podtacular that made this happen, and I can’t wait to fill everyone in on the details!
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Clanmatch Communities
Now with Clanmatch removed from the playlists, some clans are very frustrated and tossing their controllers against the walls. Although, as long as Bungie allows clans to represent their social network by letting players have a clan name there is still a way to do Clanmatches!
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Team SWAT’s what!
After just 24 hours online, the new playlist Team SWAT has already eclipsed Team Snipers as the second most popular matchmaking playlist, and is within a hair’s breadth of beating Team Slayer, the most popular matchmaking playlist ever.
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An unpleasant warning
My local connection is having problems; the one of the routers here is seeing lots of errors. My service provider needs to do some ‘intrusive testing’ to nail down where the problem is; what that means for you is that everything on that connection will be offline from roughly 1 am eastern (5 am UTC) through as late as 5 am eastern. This includes the forum – but does NOT include the main site, or the Story page. (It includes the fan fiction forum, though not the fan fiction section, and it includes the clan forum.) I’m sorry – but the end result should be better for all.
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Halo 3 Documentary – now Mobile
Mintz writes to point out that the Behind the Scenes vid is now available at Halo: Portable, in pocket-sized versions; 33 mb for PSP, 18 mb for iPod, 13 mb for Pocket PC. Go grab a copy!
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ItWasLuck – Scion PotY nominee
Over at MLGPro.com, there’s an interview with ItWasLuck, another Scion Player of the Year nominee; go see what drives him! Thanks, 3Suns.
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Halo’s Golden Rule Episode 3
A movie passed the MPRRS this morning – it actually passed for the second time. The first time, it passed the reviewers, but I refused to host it because the submitter had been part of a couple of plagiarism incidents in the not-too-distant past, and I wasn’t even willing to look at it. However, he seems to have learned his lesson – we recently hosted a nice montage he did, because everyone deserves a second chance. He decided to resubmit this vid – and it passed again (I’m not thrilled that one of his clanmates reviewed the film – and gave it a well-above-average score – but the film had a passing score even without that). Halo’s Golden Rule Episode 3 is a look at a 1v1 match between the submitter and a trash-talker… and while it seems a little petty to make fun of someone who trash-talks without being able to back it up… it’s still pretty satisfying to see the other guy get beat. Go watch – WMP9 format is 62.1 mb, QuickTime format is 63.3 mb.
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Would That Make Her Katana?
Today’s One One Se7en, riffing on a line from the Halo 3 trailer, made me laugh out loud. Then I smacked myself in the head with a board as penance for encouraging Stuntmutt. Go read.
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The big night is here!
We should be facing Bungie tonight in the humpday challenge. For those participating or available on standby, here’s the plan. It will start at 11pm EST. The 2nd and 3rd games will obviously start later. If you’re scheduled for those matches, keep in mind you’ll get an invite a while after 11pm. If you’re on the challenge team, you should probably get online to warm up an hour early or so. We suggested playing Low Hill, Counter Strike, and 1 Flag CTF Fast Lockout with touch return. Practice those games with others from the challenge team if you can.
One thing I do not want to do is keep Bungie waiting. So if you’re on the 1st string or on standby, I expect you to be ready to accept an invite on a moment’s notice. If it goes over 30 seconds I will already be looking for a replacement. We won’t be waiting for your matchmaking games to finish. If you have any more questions, let me know. I’ll be taping the match with a camera on a tripod so hopefully we can make that available on the site. It’s gonna be awesome!
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The big night is here!
We should be facing Bungie tonight in the humpday challenge. For those participating or available on standby, here’s the plan. It will start at 11pm EST. The 2nd and 3rd games will obviously start later. If you’re scheduled for those matches, keep in mind you’ll get an invite a while after 11pm. If you’re on the challenge team, you should probably get online to warm up an hour early or so. We suggested playing Low Hill, Counter Strike, and 1 Flag CTF Fast Lockout with touch return. Practice those games with others from the challenge team if you can.
One thing I do not want to do is keep Bungie waiting. So if you’re on the 1st string or on standby, I expect you to be ready to accept an invite on a moment’s notice. If it goes over 30 seconds I will already be looking for a replacement. We won’t be waiting for your matchmaking games to finish. If you have any more questions, let me know. I’ll be taping the match with a camera on a tripod so hopefully we can make that available on the site. It’s gonna be awesome!
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A look at the USA Networks/MLG deal
NewsFactor Network wrote up an article on the upcoming TV presentation of MLG matches, and what it might mean for the future. Thanks to CoB Icu, who noticed it at MLGPro.com.
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Exploding Unicorn Deconstructs Halo 3 Trailer
Joe Larson shows that he’s got sharper eyes than all a’ yas with his biting analysis of the Halo 3 trailer – there’s some good stuff in there. Give it a read! (Then yell at him on our forum.)
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3D Screenshots – almost
c0ld vengeance and sorahn have both been playing with Xbox7887’s trainer again – this time, they’ve created ‘3D screenshots’ – sort of. (They’re actually just QT movies that walk through a rotation around the shot – but it’s close enough.) Vids range from about a meg up to about 6 mb. Definite coolness.
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The big night is here!
We should be facing Bungie tonight in the humpday challenge. For those participating or available on standby, here’s the plan. It will start at 11pm EST. The 2nd and 3rd games will obviously start later. If you’re scheduled for those matches, keep in mind you’ll get an invite a while after 11pm. If you’re on the challenge team, you should probably get online to warm up an hour early or so. We suggested playing Low Hill, Counter Strike, and 1 Flag CTF Fast Lockout with touch return. Practice those games with others from the challenge team if you can.
One thing I do not want to do is keep Bungie waiting. So if you’re on the 1st string or on standby, I expect you to be ready to accept an invite on a moment’s notice. If it goes over 30 seconds I will already be looking for a replacement. We won’t be waiting for your matchmaking games to finish. If you have any more questions, let me know. I’ll be taping the match with a camera on a tripod so hopefully we can make that available on the site. It’s gonna be awesome!
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