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Trade them? What?
Jonathan Rivas noticed a new Brute Icon Tee at the Bungie Store - sharp! (Louis Wu 21:59:45 UTC) (permalink)
Sneak Chief
Paul Maestri continues to pump 'em out - Halo Heads 32 looks at Sneak King... you gotta wonder about video games based on fast food. (Louis Wu 21:04:53 UTC) (permalink)
Rooster Teeth Interview at 2old2play
Submitted yesterday, almost lost in the flood of commercial-related news... 2old2play has released Issue 7 of their bimonthly magazine (in downloadable PDF format) - this one's got a nice two-page interview with Matt Hullum of Red vs Blue. Thanks, 3Suns. (Louis Wu 20:53:57 UTC) (permalink)
The OTHER Halo 3 Commercial
I have vague memories of seeing this movie before, but I couldn't find it in our news database... so for here, it's new. Daniel Tartar was searching for the new ad, and ran across this movie - nice claims in there. (Louis Wu 20:51:31 UTC) (permalink)
Issue of the Week: Strafing
PEZ, from halowiki.net, wrote to say that the Turrets article last week has grown tremendously, because of your visits and input - so they're trying again with a new issue of the week - Strafing. Swing by and see what's up now, and add your two cents! (Louis Wu 20:49:36 UTC) (permalink)
It's gonna save the day.
I wasn't going to post this, because the language isn't really safe for work... but it WAS funny, and I DID get chewed out for ignoring it, so... here's a funny mix of the commercial and some music from Team America. It actually fits really well, but make sure your boss isn't walking by as you watch. (Louis Wu 18:16:14 UTC) (permalink)
Commercial Theme on XBLM
There's a new 360 Theme available on XBL Marketplace, based on images from the commercial - it's 150 points, and LordGideon kindly provided screenshots of all four blades. They're all 1280x1024, and weigh in at around 200kb each.
Blade 1 | Blade 2 | Blade 3 | Blade 4 (Louis Wu 16:57:36 UTC) (permalink)
You Can't HANDLE The Speculation!
In case you're not TOTALLY overloaded with Halo stuff today, Jillybean has submitted a massive update to the Halo Story Page - lots of goodies in there. She's doing her best to flood your senses... (heh? get it? Flo- oh, never mind.) (Louis Wu 16:20:22 UTC) (permalink)
Speed Art - and More
Lots of people have been working on content from the Commercial - the news today contains edited video, icons, there are lots of Wallpapers posted in our forum (and sent in via email)... but one piece of Fanart that blew me away was a speed painting done by Rahll, over at DeviantART (it'll be in our next Misc Art update). Thanks to SESpider for the heads-up. While you're there, be sure to check out Rahll's Ghosts of Onyx piece, posted about a month ago, and an older tribute to Mehve. Great work! (Louis Wu 16:06:17 UTC) (permalink)
Lots o' Stills
Curtis, over at YouNEWB.com, has put up 39 stills from the trailer; no watermarks. Nice shots! (Louis Wu 15:54:34 UTC) (permalink)
Summary of Community Discussion
A lot of little things from the commercial have been discussed more than once. I've tried to summarize these in this forum post; please read it before jumping in and starting your own thread. Thanks! (Louis Wu 15:43:40 UTC) (permalink)
Land-grabbing.
Tied the Leader gets into the commercial-analysis game... though with a slightly different tack; they look at the marketing side of it. Interesting article. (While you're there, there's other new stuff; 22 Questions with Midnight, of Hushed Casket, a clan profile of Legion of the Apocalypse, and a recap of the past 10 clan profiles.) Thanks, XerxdeeJ. (Louis Wu 15:11:00 UTC) (permalink)
More Halo 3 Icons
JPOGDNA created a new batch of Halo 3 Icons (for AIM, MSN, etc), based on last night's commercial - you can find them at GetXbox.net. (Louis Wu 14:55:38 UTC) (permalink)
Hats Off.
Stuntmutt tossed in a followup to yesterday's One One Se7en strip - if it makes no sense to you, check the ad in this post. (Louis Wu 14:54:12 UTC) (permalink)
Commercial Transcript
Narcogen wrote up a transcript of the commercial - it's not very different in actual dialogue from a half-dozen others on our forum, but he does a nice job of summarizing the action, as well - and he added some preliminary commentary about it, as well (worth reading, if you're planning on joining the discussion). If you want to hear the dialogue for yourself, I think your best bet is a cleaned-up version created by TraxusIV - he did some nice filtering that makes the various dialogue snippets much easier to make out. (Louis Wu 14:37:52 UTC) (permalink)
That thing is already edited. That was fast.
Okay, now that I've gone through all 800+ new posts from the past 12 hours, I can start pulling out the new stuff. The majority of what's there is speculation about the trailer; I'll probably put up a summary of noticed things soon, just to keep people from repeating the same points over and over and over again. There were a few things worth noting by themselves, though - first up, Geoff Chang synched the commercial to Harry Gregson-William's Kingdom of Heaven Sountrack. I have to say, it works rather well. Give it a watch! (Louis Wu 14:34:18 UTC) (permalink)
EU beta opportunities - lots of 'em
Thanks to broony, who noticed, over at IGN UK, a full list of EU sites offering beta seats - there are 34 on the list, corresponding to 3400 beta testers in the EU - a far more reasonable number than the paltry 15 for NZ/AU mentioned yesterday. (I'm SURE there'll be more listed for those countries soon.) (Louis Wu 13:04:33 UTC) (permalink)
HD QT, finally
Simply because it's not out there, I whipped up a 720p QuickTime version of the commercial, one that doesn't require a machine that can process the H.264 codec. It weighs in at 35 mb (I probably could have shaved a few megs without any loss, but that's not huge anyway), and it started life as the second HD version of the commercial, released by TeamXbox. (It still has their watermark on the bottom.) I know there are a few people out there that have trouble with WMP9 files - there's no reason you should be shut out of the HD goodness. (Louis Wu 12:47:28 UTC) (permalink)
Beta slots for UK residents
Ross Mills pointed out 6 separate places in the UK where folks on that side of the pond can try for a beta slot - each site has 100 seats to give away. Go get 'em! (I like BritXbox's contest. :) ) (Louis Wu 12:21:40 UTC) (permalink)
OMG A TRAILER
Okay, so I knew that if I stuck around last night, and tried to keep up with the news about the Halo 3 commercial that aired on Monday Night Football, I'd NEVER get to bed... so I skipped it all. This means two things: it means HBO's currently about 8 hours behind the curve, news-wise... and it means that this news post is going to be mega-complete with current information about that commercial, because I can collate everything at once into a single post. I think we'll go with bullet points:
- TeamXbox is hosting both HD and SD versions of the trailer, direct from MarketPlace - the HD version is GORGEOUS, and 31 mb.
- Totally360.com has digital versions of some of the concept art that came out in EGM and LEVEL last month (not trailer-related, but new), along with stills from the trailer - the most recent 14 pictures on this page cover both subjects - along with a contest to give away 100 Halo 3 beta tester slots they've secured. (They will not be the last website to have a deal like this - but they're certainly the first I've heard of.)
- Halo Base, in Germany, is streaming a copy of the trailer (thanks, Legend). (Actually, they have a link to the Xbox.com German site that actually hosts the file.)
- The American Xbox.com site is hosting a streaming version, as well - 320x180, so it's good for low-bandwidth folk. (Thanks to many - looks like n3mo was fastest.)
- Mitsur found an HD version (1280x720, WMP9 format) at GameTrailers. There's a link on that page that will allow you to download a 25 mb HD QuickTime version, as well (852x480).
- trigger119 is mirroring the TXB version of the HD trailer (720p, 33 mb, WMP9 format), as well as a self-encoded QuickTime .mp4 (720p, 31 mb).
- THE bean noticed that Bungie has edited their Halo 3 Ad story so that the screenshot now links to the Xbox.com streaming version of the trailer. (They didn't delete the high-res version of the screenshot it USED to link to - just swapped the link.)
- Spec_Ops_Assault saw that the Canadian Xbox.com site is hosting 5 stills from the trailer, for folks who can't download the whole thing.
- Halo: Portable created mobile versions for your handheld viewing pleasure - do them a favor and use the Rampancy.net links for download, instead of the local ones; they're worried about bandwidth.
- IGN is hosting low-res downloadable versions for everone, and high-res downloadables for Insiders - thanks, Edwin Durning.
- Cumbo Benjamin Franklin found a really low-res (and really low-bandwidth) version at Google Video.
Our forum has been OVERRUN with content - I'll be sorting through the info as I go, but if you're interested in discussion of the trailer content, this is a place to do it. Upon quick scan of the new topics, I saw this thread - apparently, Frankie showed up in irc last night, and answered some questions - there's some solid stuff in there that should stop the worst of the BAD speculation (like 'OMG THERE ARE NEW ALIENS AT THE END OF THE TRAILER' - they're brutes) - thanks to Konrad for transcribing. That should keep you busy for a while... I'll be back with more later this morning. (Louis Wu 11:16:46 UTC) (permalink)
Halo3.com - for everyone.
There's a short note up at Bungie.net about the beta signups; it says that from here on in, you should use ONLY the halo3.com URL to register. Don't fret if you used a direct link earlier today; those should be fine. However, now that the front page is working for everyone (except, apparently, Safari users - if you're on a Mac, use Firefox), you need to go that route. (Louis Wu 00:59:33 UTC) (permalink)
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