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Zoxin It Up! LIVE – Double Trouble Closing In
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Two nights, two guests, two epic wins, and…prizes?
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RT: RT Member Photo Contest: Win it now!
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After so many weeks of producing content for you guys, we’re switching things up. Hoping to see as many of you as possible participate in a photo pose contest to win this:
We’re looking for members to post a photo of themselves doing their best Grifball pose with whatever ball in whatever location they want. Be in a barn, dumpster, holding a water balloon or a human embryo. Whatever you want. The winner gets a yet to be released Grifball action figure and t-shirt. Have fun, be creative. Photos will be judged by no discernible criteria what so ever. The first one to have one of us say, “holy shit, that’s awesome” wins. Go to the official group and embed your photo on the contest’s news post. The winner will be announced next sunday. To start us off, I went to Caleb (at grifball.com) the head of the Official Grifball league, to give everyone a guide on what to do. As a heads up, the official grifball league registration starts September 9th.
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Halo 3: ODST content from IGN, AusGamers
A bunch of new ODST stuff since the last update… IGN has released three videos you might want to watch. The Aussie Sneak Peek Event is a few minutes long, and includes footage recorded at the Sydney press event held a week or so ago. There’s a 5-minute interview with Curtis Creamer, recorded at the same event. And there’s a video preview of the ‘Adversarial Maps’ – the non-Firefight/non-Campaign maps we’ll be seeing on September 22 (Heretic, Citadel, and Longshore). Rather than just plain gameplay, this vid attempts to point out the key points of the new maps. Finally, AusGamers has an 8-minute video with Curtis Creamer (available as a transcript, if you’d rather process it as text), and there’s an in-depth preview of the release itself. Swing by both sites, and check out all the new goodies!(Louis Wu 19:25:47 UTC)
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ODST O(D)ST from ODST
Marty O’Donnell has a Twitter account. Amazing, huh? Reading it can teach you cool stuff… like the fact that the Halo 3: ODST Official Sountrack, coming from O’Donnell and Salvatori, will be available for purchase the same day as the game itself (September 22). Thanks, LoneRanger 2.5 (and SoundEffect and ElusiveEagle519 for the headline expansion).(Louis Wu 19:23:42 UTC)
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Swords and sketches and bombs, oh my!
Mid7night added a bunch of Halo schwag to his wall, then took pics. Go look!(Louis Wu 19:22:40 UTC)
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Bungie Love, injected under the skin
Lots of people have a Halo tattoo on their body somewhere… not that many have more than one. Check out Mike’s guns, over at Hawty McBloggy’s. (Louis Wu 19:21:13 UTC)
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Wait… can you use those on a T-shirt?
Over at Etsy, you can find a pretty cool gift for that formal gamer on your list – Halo Box Art cufflinks. (Well, you can have ANY games – but the demo pics are from Halo 3.) $25 for what is definitely a unique gift – check it out!(Louis Wu 19:19:39 UTC)
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He’s Winning.
Vash10 pointed out a tiny clip of the tv show Dexter, showing off Dexter playing Halo 3… on a computer. With bizarro sounds. Probably something to do with Microsoft Usage Rules… (Louis Wu 19:18:45 UTC)
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Shock the Chiefy
Hawty McBloggy ran across a pair of shoes that combine a love for Bioshock and Halo in a very flamboyant way. I don’t think I’d ever wear these – but I’m sure some people would! (Louis Wu 19:18:11 UTC)
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The game is crap – and it uses stupid colors.
Hindsight can be amazing. Gamasutra sat down with Ed Fries, who was the Microsoft VP of Game Publishing when the Xbox hit the market back in 2001, and he had some interesting things to say about Halo. (Well, about a lot of things, but we’re a Halo fansite, after all.) Microsoft had no intention of making Halo the flagship for the console; in fact, they’d gotten feedback that Halo was going to be terrible. Someone had done a color analysis, and come to the conclusion that Halo had used all the wrong colors for a console game. As it turned out, the experts were totally off-target… but Fries gets props for sticking with his marketing plans in the face of analyst scorn. The interview is a fun read; take a stroll down memory lane!(Louis Wu 19:17:30 UTC)
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If it’s Slaughterday, it must be 360Junkies
ikillbambis wants to invite the HBO community to a night of Halo craziness, coming up on August 29. If you’re interested in meeting up with the 360Junkies for some inter-community carnage, swing by and add your name to his list!(Louis Wu 19:15:24 UTC)
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Still toolin’ on noobz…
mnemesis ran across an adorable little creature (bottom of the page, labeled ‘Fury of Ragnaros’) you can buy at the BlizzCon store – yeah, it’s a World of Warcraft doodad, but it was created by John ‘Anim8rJB’ Butkus, half of the Cananimator team that built some cool stuff in Halo 2 and Halo 3. Great to see you surface again, John! (I’m just happy he’s not betraying me any more…)(Louis Wu 19:14:38 UTC)
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AH: SEGA!
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Woah, wait. Achievement Hunter news on a weekend? It’s more likely than you think! Now onto today’s news.
This cool dude has kindly informed us about an awesome thing that SEGA is doing. They are holding a poll to decide which Genesis title will be ported over to Xbox LIVE Arcade!
There are seven choices; Earthworm Jim, Golden Axe II, Shining Force, Revenge of Shinobi, Streets of Rage, Toejam & Earl, and Wonderboy. Poll closes on August 21st, so get over there and VOTE! I would totally love to see Earthworm Jim come over. What about everyone else?
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AH: Respawn Radio live recording Sunday.
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Just giving you guys a quick heads up that Respawn Radio Episode 16 will be recorded live on AHTV Sunday, August 16th at 8 PM PT/ 11 PM ET. Hope to see you there.
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AH: SEGA!
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Woah, wait. Achievement Hunter news on a weekend? It’s more likely than you think! Now onto today’s news.
This cool dude has kindly informed us about an awesome thing that SEGA is doing. They are holding a poll to decide which Genesis title will be ported over to Xbox LIVE Arcade!
There are seven choices; Earthworm Jim, Golden Axe II, Shining Force, Revenge of Shinobi, Streets of Rage, Toejam & Earl, and Wonderboy. Poll closes on August 21st, so get over there and VOTE! I would totally love to see Earthworm Jim come over. What about everyone else?
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RT: Pricks
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After reading today’s comic, you might be thinking to yourself, “It must be tough to go through life being someone like Gus.” Yeah, probably. But I pose this to you. Don’t you think it might be even harder to go through life being friends with someone like Gus?
I thought so.
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My Teeth Hurt
This week’s update touches on the many goings-on of a busy Bungie Studios as they prepare for the release of their latest epic space opera. Hahaha, yeah I didn’t even read it. Urk sucks! Check it out.(KP 19:21:44 UTC)
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The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft
