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ARG forum opened
In order to keep traffic on the main HBO forum to tolerable levels, we've opened a forum specifically designated for ARG discussions. If you're interested in the Adjutant Reflex mystery, args.bungie.org is the place for you! Thanks a million to Webshift and the rest of the crew for volunteering to keep up with you guys. (Louis Wu 22:03:30 UTC) (permalink)
Lightish Red Vs. Blue.
Today's guest One One Se7en looks at life in Blood Gulch Outpost, as seen by some not-so-tough soldiers. Red vs Blue characters courtesy of Luke McKay. (Louis Wu 21:14:56 UTC) (permalink)
ONI SpecWeps - yeah, baby
Some very nice hi-res pictures of Halo 2 weapons in this post... check 'em out. (Louis Wu 20:48:08 UTC) (permalink)
The Forsaken (a Halo 3 Horror Film)
Time Glitch stopped by to point out 'The Forsaken', a new machinima from Flem Productions - it's a cool little story about MIAs/KIAs, nicely filmed in the Halo 3 Beta. Lots of links in the forum post. Go grab a copy! (Louis Wu 20:46:28 UTC) (permalink)
Ode to Mongoose
GamePro has announced the winner of their Halo 3 Zune Haiku contest - I like it, I like it a lot. Thanks again, Dry Ice. (Louis Wu 19:05:18 UTC) (permalink)
A third of a petabyte
Ginormous numbers... that's what Major Nelson is reporting today, about the Halo 3 Beta. Thanks, Dry Ice. (Louis Wu 19:03:33 UTC) (permalink)
TrustedReviews looks at H2V
TrustedReviews put up a review of Halo 2 Vista - 6/10, good but not great. (Louis Wu 18:55:02 UTC) (permalink)
MLG Finals Breakdown
MLG has a great writeup of the final battle between Carbon and Final Boss at MLG Meadowlands last weekend. Check it out! Thanks, 3Suns. (Louis Wu 18:50:10 UTC) (permalink)
A Higher Power
Today's Ctrl+Alt+Del has a small Halo mention - if you don't understand what the rest of the strip is about, read this article. Thanks to Mattgcn for letting us know, last night. (Louis Wu 17:34:45 UTC) (permalink)
Vista H3 Countdown Gadget
Pedro the Penguin found a Halo 3 countdown gadget for his Windows Vista sidebar. Gotta keep up! (Louis Wu 16:14:20 UTC) (permalink)
Lego Zanzibar Progress
A while back, we mentioned a Lego rendition of Zanzibar, by Kooberz. Recently he was contacted by the folks putting together some fan-related content for the Legendary Edition of Halo 3 - so he got back into it, and posted some links to the newest work. I gotta say... wow. (Louis Wu 16:05:31 UTC) (permalink)
I wouldn't use it for a melee...
Obliticutter put together an Assault Rifle (MA5B) using K-NEX bricks. Nice! (Louis Wu 15:22:55 UTC) (permalink)
Try, try again
Screen Play, a column in The Age (a Melbourne, Australia newspaper), has a post up today that suggests that the Halo 3 Beta had nothing whatsoever to do with beta testing, and everything to do with hype-building. (The main argument is that since you haven't been contacted by Bungie for feedback now that the beta is complete, they clearly didn't WANT your feedback... so how could this be a 'beta'?) It sort of ignores everything Bungie's ever said about the beta's purpose - that it was specifically set up to test their backend stuff, the stats reporting, the tools for measuring validity of spawn points, etc.) Everyone's entitled to their opinion, I suppose. Thanks, Brett Cunningham. (Louis Wu 15:14:34 UTC) (permalink)
Forum Floodage - and Halo Unyielding
Wow. So the whole AdjutantReflex thing (looks to be another ARG, this time with possible Bungie input) is taking over our forum - it's cool, but it's drowning out all other content. (It's hard to find tidbits now. I'd be willing to put up a temporary forum specifically for this discussion, if I could get some volunteers I trusted to admin it... please let me know if this appeals.) In the meantime, I'm going to try and tease out the goodies that are buried between AR-related posts. The first thing I noticed was an announcement by Laird that a new trailer for Halo Unyielding Part 2 has been released; nice space battle scenes! Take a look. WMP9 format, 15 mb (with a QT coming soon, apparently). Update: Mirrored now at GamingTV, along with a self-encoded QT and a streaming flash version. Thanks, trigger119.
(Louis Wu 15:05:17 UTC) (permalink)
Halo Zune Giveaway - Start Voting!
Voting is now open for the first category of the Halo Zune Giveaway - swing by and grab the 7 finalists for the Original Song category, and then pick your favorite! Update: Hold tight - turns out one of our finalists had to be disqualified (it had been released 3 years ago, and has been out on the web ever since); we're currently working on its replacement, and will be ready to go soon. Sorry about this! Update 2: We've settled on a new finalist - voting is open again. Sorry for the delay! (Louis Wu 12:07:13 UTC) (permalink)
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