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Halo in Afghanistan
Interesting - according to Stars and Stripes, Halo 2 is the most popular game at Forward Operating Base Lagman, home of the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, in Khandahar, Afghanistan. The local exchange is selling controllers "like wildfire" - partly because so many people are playing, and partly because the fine grit in the air is really hard on controllers. Yet another hazard of war... (Louis Wu 21:22:03 UTC) (permalink)
Go Get Goodies Now
Don't have enough Bungie schwag? Go visit the Bungie Store - there are lots of new goodies, from t-shirts to posters to action figures. Read about it on B.net. Thanks to Cybrfrk, whose email was noticed before the RSS feed was. (Louis Wu 20:58:01 UTC) (permalink)
Happy Go Lucky
Three up, three out... a third offering to make it through the MPRRS last night was a video called 'Happy Go Lucky', put together by Ryan Stevens, Ashley Akers, and Nathan Stuart. In Ryan's words, "an elite wakes up in the morning and goes to the store, but nothing is as it seems." It's pretty inventive in the overall presentation - I'm looking forward to more from this team! You can grab a copy in WMP9 format (35.7 mb) or QuickTime format (33.7 mb). (Louis Wu 16:13:40 UTC) (permalink)
Ninjas on Halo
Halo shows up in the strangest of places... wheeler found a piece of fan art for a game called 'N' - it's a "minimalist Lode-Runner-esque puzzle platformer", with a stick-figure ninja as the main character. Visit their downloads page, you'll find dozens of fan-created images putting N in a variety of settings... including the level Halo. Oddness. (Louis Wu 16:08:59 UTC) (permalink)
RvB Season 4 kickoff just weeks away
As we mentioned a couple of weeks ago, Red vs Blue will be premiering the Season 3 DVD at Lincoln Center on August 21 - and they'll be showing it again at the Penny Arcade Expo, in Seattle, on August 26. In a recent post on the Red vs Blue website, Burnie suggested that visitors to these events might get a sneak preview of Season 4, which is set to debut the following week, on August 29. Looking forward to it! (Thanks to Chris Ramirez for reminding us.) (Louis Wu 15:49:58 UTC) (permalink)
Deep Insertion.
We've never needed to put an ESRB-style warning on One One Se7en before... but maybe a POBE1 warning would be more appropriate. Yeah. I had nothing to do with this one. Yeah.
1. Pissed Off Bungie Employee (Louis Wu 15:06:01 UTC) (permalink)
MikeMan27 and Nefarious Dan Return: The Trailer
Video number two for the day - this is a teaser trailer for a montage video coming out soon, from Mikeman27 and Nefarious Dan. It was released on our forum last week, but got minimal feedback... so they submitted it to the MPRRS, where it passed. The large frame around the content is actually there on purpose; it's an attempt to keep you from full-screening the vid. (Mike assures me that the final vid will be of higher quality, and won't need this limitation.) Timing's quite good, action is suitably frenzied. 13 mb, in WMP9 or QuickTime formats. (Louis Wu 14:48:15 UTC) (permalink)
The Fall of Reach Trailer
A number of movies have passed our own Movie Peer Review Rating Service recently; the first is quite small (1:50, just over 5 mb, in both QuickTime and WMP9 formats) - it's a trailer for an upcoming 8-episode machinima based on the novel The Fall of Reach. The project is coming from a British Clan, and their website contains more info about the project (including a call for voice work). The video itself is predominantly cutscene footage, from both Halo and Halo 2, with some nice timing and coordination. Check it out!
HaloZination
We got a note from Gene, a member of HaloZination, a German Halo 2 clan which has been working on a machinima series - there are currently three episodes, downloadable from their website. They're all in WMP9 format, and range from 45 to 75 mb apiece. Without understanding German, this one makes very little sense... but we haven't heard of a lot of projects that aren't in English, so if you DO speak German, give this one a look! (Louis Wu 12:54:15 UTC) (permalink)
Sunday's news in brief:
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More Machinima Coverage NYT Machinima piece - now online 225 MB to grab at H2F Net Reviews Sunday Morning Reading |
Saturday's news in brief:
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RvB in NYT Seeker Vanishes The Codex Series Ep 19: Power Plays Rockets on Prisoner I Da Man I talks to Bytesector ZenStats - coming soon! Video Gaming: Chasing the Dream Don't be a jerk. |
