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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!
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Posters away
After an unfortunate delay that was all my fault, the winners of the halo.bungie.org poster raffle should be receiving their one-of-a-kind prizes in the next few days! From all of us here at HBO, our deepest thanks to the talented artists who donated their work and of course the fine folks at splodeswag for making the official HBO shirt a reality. Are we done with HBO shirts? Stay tuned!
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PLAY! with Marty and Mike
Narcogen, over at Rampancy.net, reminds us that Marty O’Donnell and Mike Salvatori will be at the PLAY! premiere tomorrow in Chicago – you can get more information at the PLAY! website.
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Of birthdays, and such
At times, my online life seems to mirror my real life. Last year’s real-life birthday didn’t get missed – because it was a big one, and because my wife made sure that I’d remember it – but in general, I forget they’re coming until they’re here. Seems like that pattern continues online… we missed bungie.org’s 7th birthday back in January, and we missed the anniversary of the day blam.bungie.org (the precursor to HBO) went live – May 22, 1999. (To pin these dates down, the indispensable Marathon’s Story Page makes life pretty easy.) Today, however, is the 7th anniversary of our forum – it went live on May 26, 1999 – the same day that Rampancy.net was born. It’s been a heck of a run… and it ain’t over yet!
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Halo 2 for a song – in GB
If you live in Great Britain, Halo 2 is now officially ‘cheap’. Microsoft kicked off a new ‘Best of Classics’ label today, and Halo 2 is on it – for £9.99. Nice deal! (I saw this at both CVG and gamesindustry.biz.) For what it’s worth – EB Games is selling Halo 2 for $29.99 in the US – that’s 60% more than this new price. Update: Vironex pointed out that Wal-Mart is selling Halo 2 in the US for $19.82… very close to the GB price.
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Major Nelson Confirms Xbox 360 Update ‘Next Week’
Larry ‘Major Nelson’ Hyrb has confirmed on his blog recent rumors that the Xbox 360 is getting a major update over Xbox Live sometime soon, perhaps next week. New features include background downloading and booting directly to the dashboard. More details will be in his podcast this Sunday.
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Them’s Fighting Words
Another third-party Aleph One map out this week– Underworld by Jon Irons. Check it out! Thanks, TheBattleCat.
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Come On Out And Play
Marty O’Donnell has posted that he’s going to the Play! concert this Saturday in Chicago. Anybody else going?
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RT: The Nerd Bird
I just wanted to remind everyone that Geoff and Gus will both be in San Jose California this weekend. They will be there for Fanime. They take off from Austin super early Friday morning and take an American Airlines flight to San Jose that I have heard…
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Halo 3 Shirts For Sale
Some very cool new shirts available at the Bungie Store – these were first seen at E3, but you can now buy them for yourself. Frankie was first (though the ‘retard’ comment was a bit out of line – I know for a fact that the guilty party is a pretty bright individual).
The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft
