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Half a grand for a 2 man team
tS_veXed stopped by to announce an online 2v2 Halo 2 tourney, being hosted by NXGamers - free entry, $500 top prize. Check it out! (Louis Wu 19:54:38 UTC) (permalink)
Ethereal Haggis
The crew's been dormant for a while, but Jillybean awoke recently to process a bunch of the accumulated missives to the Halo Story Page. Ooh... tasty. (Louis Wu 19:18:04 UTC) (permalink)
Bg 021.
I think Stuntmutt might be confused about a current Microsoft naming scheme; check today's One One Se7en. (Louis Wu 15:45:35 UTC) (permalink)
RvB Season 1 - now for sale on Marketplace
Hmm... I'm not sure I like where this is going, but according to Major Nelson's blog, the first five episodes of Red vs Blue (yes, Season 1) are now available for download on Xbox Live Marketplace - for a buck a pop. (Before you get totally bent out of shape about this: in theory, these are DVD quality (they're definitely higher bitrate than the online versions), and the full season DVDs
cost $20 for about 20 episodes - roughly a buck a pop. Also, though this is just temporary, the movies are NOT available on the RvB website, even to sponsors; I'm assuming that's due to the recent maintenance/server upgrades, and not some nefarious plan to make people buy the content on XBL.) The current crop of comments on Major Nelson's blog suggest that people think the price is too high for something that's available for free (usually) on the web, and in fact is several years old. Microsoft might be pushing too hard for paid downloadable content? Maybe. Thanks, darthbob. (Louis Wu 15:39:28 UTC) (permalink)
Halo: Fall Of The Flood
A couple of days ago, we got mail from Benjamin Bailey-Webb, touting a short animated vid he and a friend made - I didn't find time to watch it until this morning. It's short, it's sweet. 4 mb, in either WMP9 or QuickTime formats; check it out! (Louis Wu 13:00:25 UTC) (permalink)
Podtacular Episode 109
Big Goalie Dan noticed that Podtacular Episode 109 is now up - discussion of the Vidoc and the Halo 3 Beta. 1:27, 80 mb. (Louis Wu 12:58:07 UTC) (permalink)
Covenant Fleet, Rendered
Nabsuh is rendering an entire Covenant fleet for an upcoming story; check out the work in this post. (The followup contains the same video, with some overlaid
story text.) (Louis Wu 12:55:44 UTC) (permalink)
X-Plane Sparrowhawk
DuBbLe continues his X-Plane work - he's got some shots of a scratchbuilt Sparrowhawk. Not textured yet, but still fun! (Louis Wu 12:53:46 UTC) (permalink)
Sonic Halo
Cheesemaster64 found this Halo/Sonic combo by TheWax at DeviantART - wild. (Louis Wu 12:49:44 UTC) (permalink)
Thermopylae Now
CaptainKirk let us know that he's writing a Halo Fan Fiction, being released serially on his blog. The preface and Chapter 1 are up now. (Louis Wu 12:47:37 UTC) (permalink)
New Montages at the360forum.com
Z let us know about a couple of montages they've announced over at the360forum.com; both are hosted by Mythica. The first is inX 2Bit's Best of Both Worlds Volume II Trailer - a melange of Halo 2 and Gears of War. WMP9, 3:39, 76.3 mb. The second is J Mayne's 1v1 Trailer (edited by Zola) - WMP9, 1:11 long, 20.2 mb. Go watch! (Louis Wu 12:43:03 UTC) (permalink)
Fantastic AR now for sale
communityhq.org noticed that link4044 is selling his AR model on eBay; nine and a half days left on the auction, current bid is $227.50, and the reserve has not been met. Remember, you can see lots of pictures of this gun on the gallery page we put up for him. Sounds like it's gonna be out of my price range... but this one is tempting! (Louis Wu 12:33:00 UTC) (permalink)
Friday's Fan Fiction
The Seven Streak is broken; for three weeks running, we had seven new pieces each Friday in the Fan Fiction section... but today there are 11. It's a natural! (Louis Wu 12:29:33 UTC) (permalink)
A Halo 3 Beta Tourney?
Bizarre - Escape Station is trying to set up a Halo 3 Tournament, using the beta test. (Since there are no custom games in the upcoming beta, scheduling play is going to be...tough.) Thanks to RevDotNed for the heads-up. (Louis Wu 12:23:13 UTC) (permalink)
Multiply your fun
Now that Bungie has made public the fact that there are 'deployables' in Halo 3 (we know of the bubble shield, the trip mine, and the portable grav lift, and Bungie's made it clear that there's more stuff we're not being shown yet), folks are having a blast speculating on what happens when you mix these up. Blow up a trip mine inside a bubble shield? Launch one from the portable grav lift (or the Mancannon)? Place a grav lift at the place where Mancannon launchers LAND? The possibilities are endless, and the discussion is fun; try this thread, and this one. (Louis Wu 12:20:16 UTC) (permalink)
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