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Monday Comic Roundup
Stuntmutt sent along one final strip, for posting yesterday – I managed to screw up and forget it. You can read it now on the One One Se7en page. There was also a new grin + bear it posted at Hawty McBloggy’s yesterday – I think it was Punday! Go read ’em both.(Louis Wu 15:55:24 UTC)
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Does he have to pay for the damage?
Cracked.com has posted the ‘8 Manliest Images on the Internet‘ – and Bungie’s head of Security Jerome Simpson appears in #4, with a Gravity Hammer. Nice! Thanks, elpolloguapo.(Louis Wu 14:37:51 UTC)
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Guilt O’ Lantern: Prizes Announced
There are currently only eight entries in the Guilt O’ Lantern contest – and we’ve finally gotten around to posting the prize list. You can win some pretty sweet schwag, just for creating a cool Halo-themed pumpkin – so what are you waiting for? Don’t forget, we recently posted both Halo 3 Emblems and Halo 3 Medals in formats that make for great pumpkin stencils! You’ve got until Midnight (eastern) on Saturday – so get to carving!(Louis Wu 12:52:28 UTC)
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Do Zombies have Bone Marrow?
Nori ‘kilaMOMjaro’ Fox reminded us that the time is fast approaching for the 2nd Annual HALOween Zombies Charity Tournament – have you registered yet? There are plenty of goodies to win, and all proceeds go to Be the Match Foundation – play Halo, kill zombies, help people who need bone marrow! The first day of the tourney (Saturday, Halloween) has competition starting at 2pm Eastern – so you’re finished LONG before you need to be dressed to go candy-hunting. The second day (November 1) also starts at 2pm. Go sign up!(Louis Wu 12:45:01 UTC)
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What are you doing when you’re not decimating the Covenant?
bildinabubble created some artwork showing off some of the lesser-known aspects of the Master Chief’s life – and Hawty McBloggy has collected them for your viewing pleasure. Who knew?(Louis Wu 12:39:09 UTC)
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Podtacular 207: Firefight Tips: Crater & Alpha Site
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You all have waited for this and it’s finally here: The first episode in the Firefight rotation. To start things off, we are going two of the more popular maps: Crater and Alpha Site. You sent in the tips and we got to read all of them, so listen up: there’s some good stuff in here. Thanks to Lilkuke, Brent Gamer and stallmeplease for being on the show. Enjoy
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Hard Justice S2: Ep 9
Looks like there’s a new episode of Hard Justice online – Season 2 Episode 9 can be found on YouTube. Bernard and Eddie are being chased by some pretty bad dudes. Are they going to live through the night? And who’s living in that cave?(Louis Wu 22:20:33 UTC)
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ODST Achievement Guide: Headquarters
DownloadI had this one done for a while, but I just haven’t posted it here yet, but here it is. This guide is for dome inspector that you get as Romeo on NMPD HQ. This one is especially fun with the Grunt Birthday Party skull when shooting grunts with the automag. Another quick and simple 5G.
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Operation Chastity Warthog at MCM
Nick Singer pointed out an article about the Operation Chastity Warthog, which made an appearance at the London Expo – pics and a short writeup are online. Looks amazing!(Louis Wu 14:40:22 UTC)
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ASE Ep 11: Halo
The final episode of Rampancy.net’s Anger, Sadness, and Envy – Episode 11, Halo – is online. This podcast covers the final level of Halo 3, and has Narcogen, Blackstar, and Miguel ‘Freewill’ Chavez discussing the level, how it fits into the game, and how it compares to Halo 1. 90 minutes, 90 mb; go listen!(Louis Wu 14:37:49 UTC)
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The One
Tommy92L told us about ‘The One‘ – a player who’s more than a man, less than a god, and does things with toothpicks you don’t want to know about. Here’s hoping you never meet him… (Louis Wu 14:32:12 UTC)
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Anger, Sadness and Envy Episode 11: Halo
Blackstar of Blackstar Productions and Narcogen of Bungie fansite Rampancy.net cover from beginning to end, the “Halo” level of Halo 3, discussing art, gameplay, story, and comparisons to Halo 1.
Also in this episode: special guest, Bungie’s official #1 fan, Miguel “Freewill” Chavez.
Show highlights:
- Coming Full Circle
- There’s Two Of Us In Here Now
- No Pelican Has Ever Landed
- Finding Terminals
- Pyramid Climbing
- Artificial Environments
- Spark vs Johnson
- Burning Bridges
- Last Man Standing
- Firing the Ring
- Chief At Rest
- World Domination
- Wake Me When You Need Me
- Anger, Sadness, and Envy
This is the enhanced AAC version of the podcast.
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Anger, Sadness and Envy Episode 11: Halo
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Blackstar of Blackstar Productions and Narcogen of Bungie fansite Rampancy.net cover from beginning to end, the “Halo” level of Halo 3, discussing art, gameplay, story, and comparisons to Halo 1.
Also in this episode: special guest, Bungie’s official #1 fan, Miguel “Freewill” Chavez.
Show highlights:
- Coming Full Circle
- There’s Two Of Us In Here Now
- No Pelican Has Ever Landed
- Finding Terminals
- Pyramid Climbing
- Artificial Environments
- Spark vs Johnson
- Burning Bridges
- Last Man Standing
- Firing the Ring
- Chief At Rest
- World Domination
- Wake Me When You Need Me
- Anger, Sadness, and Envy
This is the enhanced AAC version of the podcast.
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Firefight Friends
Hawty McBloggy has been building a Firefight Teammate Friends List – you can use it to help find people in your local time zone to play Firefight with. Finish the fight!(Louis Wu 21:27:47 UTC)
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Halo: Consoles Revolutionized.
Peter Molyneux listed what he considered to be the five most revolutionary games in the past 20 years – and Halo made the roundup. Not too shabby! Thanks, rolandk73.(Louis Wu 13:25:17 UTC)
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Halo Portal Timeline is Live
ElusiveEagle519 noticed that the interactive Halo timeline is now live at the official Halo Portal run by the Waypoint team – you can check out key events in the Halo universe, and get more information about them as you choose. Nice work!(Louis Wu 13:24:56 UTC)
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Top Ten Halo 3 Screenshots: Orange
I <3 Halo 3 Screenshots has their latest Top Ten Screens of the Week online – I’m seeing stuff in there that would be suitable for framing at HaloScreenshots.com. Gorgeous stuff – go look!(Louis Wu 13:24:34 UTC)
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IGN’s Top 10 Halo 3 Kills (Oct. 11 – Oct. 20)
Yesterday was busy, so we missed this… but IGN has posted another ‘Top 10 Halo 3 Kills‘ video, collected from user-submitted clips during the week of October 11. Nothing super-special, but they’re entertaining clips, filmed nicely – definitely a good example of the fun to be had in Halo 3 matchmaking! Thanks, urk.(Louis Wu 13:24:15 UTC)
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Flying Securely
The Bungie Weekly Update is live – and it’s full of nice tidbits. Reach progress info, a survey (you can get stuff if you play), lots of ODST killin’, Bungie-downloadable Dramatis Personæ copies, FLAG details, November Playlist details, and more. Go read! (It is, of course, also available in our Weekly Update Archive.)(Louis Wu 01:56:18 UTC)
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The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft