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MLG Dallas – almost $40k in Halo cash
MLG Dallas is all over but the crying… the overall winners aren’t any real surprise (Final Boss took the 4v4, and the top 4 1v1 placers are all highly-known names), but as 3Suns points out, it’s nice to see the money spread out amongst the top 8 this time around. Full brackets are here.
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Legendary
Press Start to Play seems to be revisiting Halo quite a bit, now that the Halo 3 trailer is out – Friday’s strip was Halo-related again. Thanks, Spec ops Grunt.
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Giving Bungie a little love
The awards continue to roll in; Voodoo Extreme has posted its Best of E3 Awards, and Halo 3 stole ‘Best Movie’ away from Metal Gear Solid 4. Nice! Thanks, Apache.
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We’re HBO – no, the OTHER one.
Heh – Funkmon got his new HBO shirt onto a TV broadcast of yesterday’s Detroit Tigers game… anyone got a tape?
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Duck and Cover
We’ve posted a larger version of Theo Prins’ ‘Duck and Cover‘, the image he created for our t-shirt raffle. I just LOVE that style. He has a bright future ahead of him…
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Friday’s Fanfic – on Sunday
Gah – Friday was so crazy I forgot Fan Fiction again, and Saturday… wasn’t much better. Here is the collection for the week – 31 pieces (though an awful lot of them are short poems by a single submitter…).
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Arbiter
Yesterday, we added a larger-than-the-contest-thumb version of Bryn Casey’s beautiful ‘The Guardians’ to his Gallery page – we need to do the same with the other artists who submitted new work for our t-shirt raffle. I’m going to start with Paul Davies’ ‘Arbiter‘, because, well, we’ve had a new image of his every day for the past three days – seems like a silly time to kill the streak. Plus, it’s an astounding image that everyone should get a better look at.
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Halo: Portable Update
Gah – nearly forgot. Mintz pointed out that Halo Portable is back up and running after a short hiatus – check out what’s coming (as well as some new wallpaper).
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More Mehve Marvelousness
Two years ago, Lorraine McLees spent a good chunk of her time at the Bungie E3 Fanfest drawing on-the-spot graphics for raffle winners (and, accidentally, for me) – we posted a note about one of the images she did, for Eric Good, last year… and this weekend, Cunbelin dug out and sent along his own image, another very cool sketch whipped out in minutes by a master. Check it out! (One of these days, we’ll have to put together a gallery for these; I’m sure there are more out there.)
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IGN says Halo 3 among the best of E3
Grey Wolf noticed that IGN gave Halo their ‘Best Non-Playable Presentation‘ award in their Xbox 360 Best of E3 article. Guess maybe they should talk to the Gamepro folks…
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See You In A Fortnight.
The man is gone – in more ways than one. Stuntmutt gets married today, and in honor of this auspicious occasion, he’s created a very special One One Se7en – check it out. (As yesterday’s strip mentioned, the next two weeks will be covered by guest artists – we’ve got some pretty good stuff for you in the wings, so stay tuned!)
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In Soviet Russia
KeyboardKiller submitted ‘Totally Random Act 5 – In Soviet Russia’ to the MPRRS, and the reviewers thought it was pretty funny. Great use of mods. Apologies to Yakov Smirnoff… you can grab this in the original DivX format (15.7 mb), or in WMP9 format (15.6 mb) or QuickTime format (15.2 mb) if they’re more convenient for you.
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He’s in a better place now.
Wow. JakeDaGreat told a story, in pictures, of what happened to Mister Chief after he was assembled from Frankie’s origami stuff in the latest BWU. Read the whole thread – there are updates, and side stories, and… (other pictures, too, thanks to Bluegrunt and Greenskull.) Update: There’s more of ’em, here – this batch from Bluegrunt. (At some point, we’re gonna have to let you find ’em on your own; these have the potential of taking over the front page. Consider this the last official update.)
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Wipe That Stupid Grin Off Your Face
It’s only the second-ever Halo 3 Weekly Update, and already the bar is being set pretty high. This week we get a new screenshot, suitable for desktop wallpapery, and an introduction to Bungie’s brand-new, bright-and-shiny KP. KP likes Lockout, Fight Night Round 3, slow, leisurely walks on the beach, and grinding other Bungie contractors into a fine white dust using only a copy of Halo 2 and an Xbox controller.
As KP joins, AdgTinMan is departing, and left Bungie with a fantastic parting gift: an orgiami Mister Chief.
We’ve added the screenshot (which, unlike the earlier ones, appears not to be actually a frame from the Halo 3 trailer, but rather a shot from that build of the game) as the first into our main Halo 3 image gallery.
UPDATE: Sources indicate that the image is from the same sequence of real-time events that make up the trailer, but from a different angle.
We’ve archived the latest Weekly Update on our Halo 3 Weekly Updates page, as well.
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KP 4 th3 w1n!
The Weekly Update is now up! Lots of juicy bits: new screenshot/desktop picture taken from the Halo 3 E3 trailer, a short interview with KP, his first official Bungie write-up: an eyewitness acount of KP’s hazing, though the results show him doing the hazing, and a (temporary?) farewell to AdgTinMan, who leaves us a cool gift: a do-it-yourself 3D Mister Chief! (I’m not the Wu, he’ll take care of loading the WWU to our own b.org database ASAP!) Update: You can now read it in our Weekly Update Archive, as well – it’s even better there, because we’ve got the large versions of the game screens linked (the original doesn’t). Much easier to read that way…
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Captain Tobias Wilcock.
Today’s One One Se7en speaks for itself… tomorrow’s the big day, and if you’ve got your speakers on, you’ll even get an explanation for the title. CONGRATULATIONS, STUNTMUTT!
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Eat THIS!
Must be art day – Paul Davies has another image for you, too. This one is pretty spectacular, though its primary character isn’t anything you’ve ever seen in-game… feel sorry for those ODSTs!
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A Whole Bunch of Nothing
Gamepro was pretty unhappy with the Halo 3 trailer… go read why. Thanks, Insectoidone.
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The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft
