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Spherical Panorama: Valhalla
HaLo2FrEeEk is back with another cool panorama – this time, it’s a 20mb version of Valhalla. Check his forum post for details on how it was created, then swing by to his panorama viewer to play with it! (The Little World version of the map is pretty cool, all by itself.) And if you have a PC, and like the idea of this as a screensaver, he’s posted download links for both this panorama and the last one (Epitaph). More are coming!(Louis Wu 15:43:54 UTC)
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RT: PAX Comic
So Griffon and Luke made this one at the hotel bar here at PAX East. I’m told it was a “six drinker”. Figures.
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Podtacular 220 Aftershow
Here’s an excerpt from the episode 220 recording that happened after the show. There was an article that came up on Kotaku that Kete from The Running Riot pointed out. We had an hour discussion about this and Reach. NOTE: This audio has not been censored; you have been warned.
Podtacular 220 Aftershow (right click to download)
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Adding the extra spices
SoundWorks Collection is a site devoted to ‘profiling the greatest and upcoming sound minds from around the world’ – and they’ve posted some material they recorded at the Game Developer Conference this year. The second video on the page is an interview with Marty O’Donnell, talking about where he came from, and how he’s carved out his niche at Bungie. There’s a bit about where Reach’s music and sound progress is. Great piece!(Louis Wu 19:58:13 UTC)
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HBOFFPotW – 0326
Almost missed this – kabu stopped by to announce that the HBO Fan Fic Pick of the Week is live on the HBOFF forum – (ENS) Rabid_Gallagher wrote it up, complete with pics. It’s EXTREME!(Louis Wu 19:55:53 UTC)
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AH: AH @ PAX
WE’RE HERE!
That’s right, Achievement Hunter is at PAX East 2010. Tonight, instead of seeing MC Frontalot tearing it up, I stayed in the hotel room and cut together this little preview for you nice nice folks.
Expect a ton of previews and interviews over the next few days coming from me, as well as a special PAX version of AHWU! Enjoy the preview!
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RT: Rooster Teeth at PAX right NOW!
If you are visiting PAX East at all today, make sure to come by the Rooster Teeth booth and say hello. You can navigate to it on the official PAX East app for the iPhone and blackberry. If you can, you should also check out the Rooster Teeth panel at 3:30 eastern today in the main theater. We’re showing off some really cool stuff and there just might be a special surprise mixed in as well. Hope you guys can make it.
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Podtacular 220: Halo 2 Farewell: Campaign Tales
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A few weeks later and we finally get around to recording this (oops). We are back, diving into the roots of Podtacular. That’s right: Halo 2. We definitely outdid ourselves this time when we wend 2 and a half hours and was still not done. Greg dropped in late from another universe. Still not exactly sure how that happened. In our 3-part Halo 2 series, we discussed the campaign with a novel from someone that deserves a medal. Special guest Kete from The Running Riot podcast joined us in our adventure to the past. Enjoy.
[podcast]http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3?http://libsyn.com/media/podtacular/podtacular220.mp3[/podcast]
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Halo 3 Cortana, v2.0
MsValentine remade her Cortana costume – a second iteration of the Halo 3 Cortana – for MegaCon 2010, which took place earlier this month. It’s pretty amazing, and you can look through a collection of shots she sent us for a gallery here. If you like what you see… swing by her site and click on the Cortana shot near the top of the main page; there’s a much bigger collection. Awesome stuff!(Louis Wu 16:26:35 UTC)
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Surfeit of Talent
Marcus Lehto has updated the Reach Developer Blog with an apology – and some serious excitement. I guess it’s going well!(Louis Wu 14:56:53 UTC)
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Animals
This week’s Top Ten Halo 3 Screenshots list is call ‘Animals’ – and there are some seriously creative shots in there! Check ’em. (Louis Wu 14:53:02 UTC)
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Friday Caption Fun – Play on Saturday!
We totally missed Friday Caption Fun, Round 85, posted at Hawty McBloggy’s yesterday. Luckily, she went on vacation, and didn’t notice! Bonus days to post… she’s got last week’s caption winners, plus a new (well, old, but classic) shot up for your captioning pleasure – so go pleasure yourself! (While you’re there, check out a 7’6″ Master Chief… made of paper!)(Louis Wu 14:52:25 UTC)
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AH: The Weekend Hunt
While Jack and Geoff are away, the community will play!
After the success of last week’s community game nights, we’re back for more to make up for lacking the cash or time to make an appearance at PAX East.
We want as many community run events as possible, so if you’re planning one, post the details in this AH group thread.For his first hunt, jakxin wants some fellow Umbrella Operatives for Resident Evil 5, focusing on the Versus achievements in Survival, Team Survival, Slayer and Team Slayer. These are time consuming achievements, so if you don’t get many this time, jakxin will most likely be doing the same again on other weekends.
Things are going to be kicking off Saturday March 27 starting at 2 pm CST.
Get in on the action by contacting Gamertag: jakxin
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AH: Gamers Rapport – 004: Nick o' time
This Week on Gamers Rapport we have a special guest, Sir Nicholas whom is a friend to Fragger, and has been all up ons the Dragon Age: Origins: Awakening Expansion. So we talk about that, Dante’s Inferno, and Perfect Dark on XBLA. Also we discuss the upcoming gaming drought as well as a teensy bit of PAX EAST plans. Unfortunately, due to traveling schedule conflicts 8bit couldn’t make it this episode, and we miss him. Anyhow, enjoy this episode in all its glory!
Those voices in your head are none other than Knuckles Dawson, Fragger, & Nick.
Don’t forget to join the Gamers Rapport Group for all the latest news and discussion.
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Investments that Pay Off
The Bungie Weekly Update is live (either on Bungie.net, or in our Weekly Update Archive), and it’s full of clarifications about the Player Investment System Reach will have. You need to go read it for answers to your burning questions. (Louis Wu 00:22:20 UTC)
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Firefight Friday: New Dawn
FyreWulff is back with another Firefight Friday – this one is called ‘New Dawn’, and it’s available at every difficulty level. And the new site design is live! Go check it out – and kill some Covenant!(Louis Wu 18:17:54 UTC)
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Pointillism and Jenga
Jaime Griesemer’s talk at the Game Developers Conference this year discussed why Bungie changed the time between shots with the Sniper Rifle from 0.5 seconds to 0.7 seconds in Halo 3 – and now you can download a PDF containing all 130+ slides of his presentation, along with notes. Great read!(Louis Wu 18:12:15 UTC)
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Montagia
Couple of new montages for you, courtesy of Bungie’s Comm Chatter: Glory and Fitzy provided the gameplay for Second Chance – very nice editing by Dudeman27. And Kravedwhipped up a short montage called Welcome to Bangkok with some slick gameplay. Go watch!(Louis Wu 18:11:47 UTC)
The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft
