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RT: Money Shot 3
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Dear Ladies, As you can see from today’s comic, my sexual prowess is legendary. Applications can be submitted in writing via my profile.
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The Best-Laid Plans
An overview of the fictional events witnessed in the Halo 3 ODST E3 ’09 trailers…
It’s hard to believe that a full year has come and gone since last year’s E3 conference; but it has indeed been an entire year. It’s also hard to believe that during this span of time we’ve seen no in-game footage of the new title – not a single still frame or screenshot, besides concept art and carefully extracted character models. Thankfully, though, dawn has broken and in the blink of an eye we’ve been enveloped by ODST videos, screenshots, 3D renders, “field guides,” and much more.
Facing this sensory overload, we can only do our best to try and fit together the puzzle pieces that Bungie has handed us. For now, let’s put aside some interesting, but ultimately minor, points – such as a larger grenade count and flyable Banshees – and take a look at some important questions: What sort of situation has the Rookie found himself in on the ground? Where are his fellow team members? Where is his commanding officer? And – perhaps most importantly of all – why is he even here in Mombasa?
While most of these questions cannot be answered until we take control of the Trooper ourselves, I think we can all agree that Bungie has given us enough evidence today to allow us to start forming some solid ideas on what ODST has in store for us – and just maybe they’ve answered a mystery or two, as well.
So let’s take everything that’s been revealed so far and put it all together…
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Loads of pics up on the THX Facebook page
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I uncovered a ton of old pics and uploaded them to the THX Facebook page. If you are reading this, you were probably tagged multiple times and you are part of the resistance. Have a look if you aren’t too nervous.
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Action Shot Contest at The Social
XMixMasterX stopped in to announce an Action Screenshot Contest at The Social – win Legendary and Mythic maps for your work!(Louis Wu 03:55:21 UTC)
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Retro Halo Gaming
rapture brings you back to the old days, with an announcement of a voice server and a dedicated Halo PC (non-Custom Edition) server up and running, full of old-school HBO regulars. Join ’em!(Louis Wu 03:54:51 UTC)
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Monetizing the Rookie
Exanubisleader pointed out a couple of articles at Kotaku. The first covers new avatars that will be available on Xbox LIVE Marketplace in the future – one of them is a Halo 3: ODST character. The second shows off the first look at the Xbox 360 controller that will be bundled with Halo 3: ODST in its Limited Edition packaging this fall. Willy pointed out yet another article, also at Kotaku, which explains the $59.99 pricetag of ODST – and the $99.99 pricetag of the LE. (Louis Wu 03:49:58 UTC)
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Halo 3 Bungie employees’ killtage 4
B5DAmericanista continues creating montages from Bungie employees’ fileshare clips – his fourth Bungie Killtage is nicely composited and entertaining to watch. Thanks to urk for the heads-up. (Louis Wu 03:49:16 UTC)
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Great work from the time of Halo 3’s release
Gonna get some news on the page for Tuesday, because I’ll be travelling for most of Tuesday morning, and taking in the E3 sights during the afternoon. First up: nearly buried in the wild discussing this afternoon, Mrguy pointed out a pretty slick digital image created by Mike Thompson. Old… but gaw-juss! (Louis Wu 03:48:40 UTC)
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Halo 3 Partnership Notes: Part II: Voice Communication
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Anyone interested in my voice communication notes will find them attached below (Comm I.pdf). Anyone who wishes to send me comments or suggestions, please post them below. vector40, I’m not sure if you got my email or not. If you didn’t, I apologize. Until about five minutes ago, I was using rancher81@hotmail.com, which was having serious problems sending email.
I’m also afraid that I’m abandoning my–project(?), as no one that I knew well enough to work with was interested enough to actually help me out. Frankly, to tell the truth, I don’t think I would have enjoyed the partnership once, as my bungie.net service record will prove. My gaming is purely recreational.
Speaking of my service record, don’t look at anything except the past two or three games as being my playing. My little sister, much to my annoyance, was playing on my account. I haven’t looked yet to see exactly how many games she played, but it couldn’t have been many, as my XP didn’t go down very much that I can tell.
Well, I seem to have strayed a bit. Anyhow, I intend to continue posting and revising my notes, but actually applying them to Halo is going to be up to anyone interested enough to actually put any of this into practice.
A NOTE ON SETTING UP A PRIVATE CHAT
If you go into the XBOX Guide, you should find an option for “CHAT” or something similar. Selecting it will present a variety of chat options. Select one of the private chat channels, select the friend that you want to talk to, and wait for them to accept the chat invite. If you want, you can include a text and/or voice message in the invite.
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Wrap-up: Major news from Microsoft at E3.
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Major XBOX gaming news was announced by Microsoft today at their E3 briefing.
- Project Netal adds new motion tracking accessories more powerful than Wii and allows you to play games without any controllers
- A new Halo game, Halo Reach, was announced
- Halo 3: ODST gets a release date and more
- Left 4 Dead 2 comes out this year (exclusive to PC and 360)
- Forza 3 comes out this year
- Metal Gear Solid announced for 360
- Facebook, Twitter, and Last.fm come to the New Xbox Experience
- Full XBOX 360 titles will be downloadable from XBOX Live
- Beatles for Rock Band announced
- New skateboard peripheral announced for Tony Hawk game
- Crackdown 2 announced
- Splinter Cell: Conviction announced
- Add Netflix titles to your queue via the XBOX
- Simultaneous viewing of Netflix movies
- Instant 1080p streaming for videos over the Marketplace
- Avatar marketplace
- Final Fantasy XIII releases spring 2010 for XBOX 360
Halo: Reach
A multiplayer beta of Halo: Reach will be available with the purchase of Halo 3: ODST which releases September 22nd. Halo: Reach will be released sometime in 2010.
There’s no indication what genre this game will be although many believe it to be a prequel.
Halo 3: ODST
Narrative for Halo 3: ODST:
The year is 2552. The Covenant control the city of New Mombasa. They are searching for something beneath its darkened streets. You are an Orbital Drop Shock Trooper. Your orders: Stay alive, meet up with your scattered squad, and escape the embattled city. Stop the Covenant and we just might win this war.
Firefight is a new co-op mode available in ODST. Form a squad and fend off the Covies.
All released Halo 3 DLC maps plus three new Halo 3 maps will ship with ODST: Heretic, Longshore, and Citadel.
Recon armor will be achievable by playing Halo 3 and ODST.
SGT. Johnson will be a unlockable character in ODST if you pre-order.
Left 4 Dead 4
New melee combat options announced. Chainsaw, frying pag, axe, baseball bat, and blunt-force objects can be used. New AI Director 2.0 announced and will direct weather effects, world objects, and pathways provided to players.
To be released November 17th.
Valve has said this game will be larger than the original game with more maps and campaigns.
Crackdown 2
Lego Rock Band 2
Beatles Rock Band
To feature harmonizing vocals.
- I Saw Her Standing There
- I Wanna Hold Your Hand
- I Feel Fine
- Day Tripper
- Tax Man
- I am the Walrus
- Back in the USSR
- Octopus’s Garden
- Here Comes the Sun
- Get Back
"Abbey Road" will be the first downloadable album.
Forza 3
Screenshot:
Project Natal:
The “Project Natal†sensor is the world’s first to combine an RGB camera, depth sensor, multi-array microphone and custom processor running proprietary software all in one device.
Uses a 3D camera and a plethora of other sensors to detect emotion, the tone of your voice, recognize your face, and monitor you arm, hands, legs, feet, and body movements.
Call a play in a football game, and players will actually respond. Want to log onto Xbox LIVE? Simply step in front of the sensor
Steven Spielberg helped with the project.
Avatar Marketplace
Not only clothes, but new characters can be unlocked and purchased. Finally.
Alan Wake
New skateboard controller
Facebook and Twitter to XBOX dashboard
The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft