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Nice Halo 2 Devmode Shots
synide took a bunch of pics using a screenshot trainer – Devmode in Halo 2 gives you some pretty incredible angles! They’re all hosted at Flickr.
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Episode 65: Podtacular Update
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It’s the Update Show, Nacho Supreme Edition, where we cover some Halo news, Podtacular news, campaign tips, glitching tips, and this time it’s “you know you think too much about Halo 3 if…”. With guest hosts Dialpex and Lord Hobo. Pod Art this week comes from Expanded Flame. Thanks! And of course extra-special thanks to Ciclonic for editing 2 episodes this week. Enjoy!
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Episode 64: Customs and Callins
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It’s finally here: Customs and Callins. We cover the top 2 custom games people sent in, play back a bunch of voice mails, and read some Tales from the Foxhole. With guest hosts Mintz and LoneBananaFone. Pod Art this week comes from Quality Jeverage. By the way, that graphic is also available in our Store as a t-shirt! And as usual, special thanks to Ciclonic for editing 2 episodes this week. Enjoy!
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Sorry for the delay…
Episodes 64 and 65 are coming out very soon. They’re done being edited and I’ll get them online as soon as I receive them. Thanks for your patience as I learn from my mistakes.
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Sorry for the delay…
Episodes 64 and 65 are coming out very soon. They’re done being edited and I’ll get them online as soon as I receive them. Thanks for your patience as I learn from my mistakes.
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Holiday Over?
Halo Babies has a new guest strip up – ‘Holiday Over?’ – from Turalim. Oh, the hassles of union labor! Thanks, PlasmaFire.
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Operation: Anxious Armadillo
Heroes & Heretics Episode 6 – Operation: Anxious Armadillo – has been made available to the public over at the Slacker Entertainment website. (It’s been up in high-res format for sponsors for a week.) The team does their best to make it to the power station before the Covenant take over; it doesn’t help that their AI is a bit cranky, or that their sergeant is a psychopath… go watch!
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Narratology and Halo
Tom “Eastbeast314” Eastman let us know about a research paper he’d written about narratology (story and character analysis), and its role in explaining the success of Halo: Combat Evolved. It’s a tad heavy on the jargon, but that’s probably helpful in snowing the professor… wait, no, that’s wrong. Give it a read; it looks at why Halo succeeded so well, and maybe why its story grabbed many people more strongly than the more in-depth Halo 2 story. If bandwidth becomes an issue, we’ll host a copy.
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Adrian!
Captain Spark turned in another couple of dozen dialogue snippets – grab the batch from his website, or browse them in our Dialogue Databank. Some funny ones today!
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Halo 3 Cover Art
Now that Halo 3 has been announced, people are beginning to submit cover art mockups. We’ve added them to our existing Cover Art section (on a separate Halo 3 page). Take a look!
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More Desktop Customization
Funkmon points out that JJ Ying, the guy who created the very nice dock icons we mentioned yesterday, has updated ALL of his desktop skins; swing by his blog for a look at the integrated set. Now THAT’S some Halo lovin’.
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The World of Halo 2 Cheating
This showed up yesterday, and I found it interesting enough to mail to someone who’d had lots of questions about cheating… but it didn’t occur to me to post it on the front page – thanks to Phi Delta on our forum, and Fulcan via email, for convincing me I was wrong. GamesFirst has put up a primer on cheating – a description of the various types, and some discussion about why people bother in the first place. If you’ve ever wondered what ‘standbying’, ‘bridging’, or ‘boosting’ are, this article should help.
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Bungie Weekly Update: No Clanmatch For You
This week’s Halo 3 Weekly Update by Frankie has more about Halo 2 than Halo 3, but that’s no reason not to read it. At least, not a good reason. There’s good news and bad news. The good news is, Halo 2 for Vista won’t require DirectX 10. The bad news is, the Clan playlist is going away due to underutilization.
We’ve archived the update for May 26 in our Halo 3 Updates section.
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News Flash – there are at least 10 islands on Earth.
The Weekly Update this week is available at Bungie.net (or in our Weekly Update Archive) – there are some bits about Halo 2 Vista, and some bits about changes to the XBL playlists… and then a bunch of random user-submitted questions (with answers that range from pretty cool to KP-quality). Go read.
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That Hand! That’s… a Dead Man’s Hand!
Dweezle86 dropped by our forum to let us know that there’s a bunch of new content at Dead Man’s Hand; aside from the article we mentioned a couple of days ago, there are interviews with Damian Lacedaemion of THis Spartan Life and Mintz of Halo: Portable, along with a number of Halo-related (or not related) articles. Go read!
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Customize your Desktop
Wow, very cool. Oftenk pointed out some Halo Dock icons at customize.org – really nice work. Check ’em out!
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Tourneys in PA, OH
More tourney stuff: Paulie Danger wanted to let people know about a series of events in the Philadelphia area, starting in August – details are at the Console Wars website… and tish mentioned a 4v4 tourney in Cincinnati on June 10 – more details in that forum post.
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Cookout! Grenades! Cake!
rapture sent word that recently the Hushed Casket held a LANfest – ‘Cookout! Grenades! 2’ – to celebrate one member’s house purchase and the anniversary of the first Cookout! Grenades! LAN (with a shout-out to Midnight, who couldn’t be there because he’s in Iraq)… and of course, they had a Halo-themed cake (pic 1 | pic 2). Nice!
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Dry-tacular!
The One One Se7en celebrity guests continue – today’s strip comes from Warbow, of Calvin and Halo fame. There’s even some color!
The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft
