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Life-changing.
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer wrote up an article on women gamers; they focused on Kari 'The Don Wan' Toyama, and how gaming pulls her together with friends and supporters. It's a great read. Look for her online, but don't get mad if she beats you... (Louis Wu 21:48:53 UTC) (permalink)
Press X To Post at HBO.
Over at 1Up.com, part of their Monday Halo 3 content - a writeup of the Halo 3 Humpday Challenge between Bungie and the EGM staff - is now online. Written in the style of the Bungie.net humpday writeups, this chronicles the blatant cheating and general poor sportsmanship of the Bungie team... and reissues the 'X-button' tease that's got fans in such a tizzy. Go read. Thanks to Drakai for the heads-up. (Louis Wu 18:54:04 UTC) (permalink)
Bow Chikka Ow Ow.
Bungie asked recently for community feedback about an idea to add a female spartan death scream to Halo 3 multiplayer. Stuntmutt looks at one of the possibly unforeseen consequences in today's One One Se7en. (Louis Wu 17:46:55 UTC) (permalink)
Killtacular
I finally got a chance to go through our uploads directory - and buried amongst all the movies that people keep uploading (even though it says REALLY CLEARLY at the top of the page not to upload movies), I found a song submitted by StitchLips, called Killtacular. It's pretty hard rock; he says it's inspired by playing Halo 2 online. You'll find a download link and the lyrics on this page. (Louis Wu 15:36:23 UTC) (permalink)
Guilt O' Lantern 06 - Results Are In
Voting ran for a week on the 2006 Guilt O' Lantern contest - and while a significantly smaller group of people voted this year than last (under 2,000, compared to last year's nearly 6,000), there still emerged a clear winner - congratulations to Lacie O.! Michael Coffing, who won the last two years, and was actually forbidden from winning one of the top three prizes this year, had the second-highest total of votes. Second Prize, with just a few fewer than Michael went to Adam Beeman, and Third Prize belongs to Ryan Heiner. We'd had some lofty goals for prizes - they didn't work out, so we've fallen back to gift certificates. All four prizewinners will get their choice of store - The Bungie Store or Gamestop/EB Games; first prize will get a $150 certificate, Second Prize $100, Third Prize $75 - and Michael Coffing will get a $25 certificate. (Don't feel too bad for him; his haul in the past two years includes a pair of Xboxes, a copy of Halo, a gift card, a bunch of small stuff, and two custom recordings from 343 Guilty Spark on his answering machine.) Check out the voting... and start thinking about designs for next year! (Louis Wu 14:08:15 UTC) (permalink)
Halo CE 2v2 Tournament
MereCatfish writes to point out that the Halo CE 2v2 Tournament is now accepting team registrations. As the title might suggest, this will be a league of 2-player teams for Halo: Custom Edition on the PC. This is the successor to the Halo CE League; there are no prizes, this is for fun. If you've got a copy of Halo: Custom Edition, and a teammate... sign up! (Louis Wu 13:54:27 UTC) (permalink)
Sunday's news in brief:
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Halo 3 Countdown Timer New stuff at MLG WikiRiot 24 Onyx MLG Pro Circuit Ep 1 Online H5K Project Halo Base posts Halo 3 'screenshots' Halo 2 still the top XBL game |
Saturday's news in brief:
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Pumpkin Voting - closing tomorrow night MLG Vidcast #5 LE Series 2 Figures up for Preorder The Halo-only version of the 1Up Show Lady Spartans 1Up has Halo 3 multiplayer impressions |
