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Saturday, July 7, 2007 |  |
...For The Sake of Talking
IceWeasel is back, celebrating Bungie Day with yet another stop-motion film starring his ODST and his Heretic Elite (with a few extra characters this time around). Rather surreal in parts. (His first production was here, and his second here.) Nicely done! (Louis Wu 21:27:16 UTC) (permalink)
Bungie Day Goodies
In celebration of Bungie Day, Bungie has released a whole bunch of fun stuff for you to play with; some of it is available through this article on Bungie.net, and some of it is available only through Xbox Live Marketplace. The article contains links to a new desktop picture (which contains a teaser at yet ANOTHER new armor variation), along with articles about the Brute Chopper, the Close Quarters Battle Spartan armor, and the Extra Vehicular Activity Spartan armor. (The latter three articles all contain QuickTime VR movies of the items in question, so you can get nice 360-degree views.) On XBL Marketplace, you'll find a special Bungie Day Theme, and a set of new Gamer Pics, both as free downloads. (For the benefit of those without access to Marketplace during the 22 hours that this particular content is up, I've posted screenshots on our forum.) Finally, the Blastacular Map Pack (Desolation and Tombstone) will be available for free starting today. (It's unclear at what TIME that will happen - but never fear, if you haven't downloaded the maps yet, you'll be able to do so at no cost sometime today.) Go revel in the goodness! (Louis Wu 13:10:01 UTC) (permalink)
Halo: Uprising details (and cover art)
We had a release date for Halo: Uprising #3 (the third of four installments from Marvel comics this summer) - but no cover art, until now. IGN Comics has put up a sneak peek of the first three comics, including nicely-sized cover art of all three episodes. (There's still nothing about episode 4 - anywhere.) Thanks, XAL. (Louis Wu 12:45:40 UTC) (permalink)
Se7en Se7en Oh Se7en
Stuntmutt has updated his blog with a whole bunch of content - a special 7/7/07 strip from him, plus several guest strips mailed in by fans. Check it out! He comes back for real on Monday. (Louis Wu 12:33:42 UTC) (permalink)
Bad Blood
Mister Froggy has posted Halo, Articulated #54, in which an entirely new type of fighting begins. (Louis Wu 12:32:25 UTC) (permalink)
The Lone Spartan
Sean Mortensen has submitted 'The Lone Spartan', a 2:13 long, 2.4 mb MP3 of a piece of music he wrote to commemorate a specific moment in the novel 'Ghosts of Onyx'. It takes place in Chapter 8, and involves three young Spartan-IIIs. If you haven't read the book, it's a last stand by very young but very dedicated humans against an overwhelming Covenant force. (Louis Wu 12:30:10 UTC) (permalink)
X-Play Explores Halo 3 Beta
G4TV has a video wrapup of the Halo 3 Beta - it seems like it would have been more appropriate a week or so INTO the beta, but hey - you post what you got when you got it. (Louis Wu 12:00:25 UTC) (permalink)
Fallout Preview
Turtle Mann stopped by our forum to point out a trailer for Fallout, an upcoming action series. Cinematography is intriguing - this one looks to be good! Check it out. (Louis Wu 11:22:49 UTC) (permalink)
Things You Might Not Know
This past week, we've mentioned a series of video interviews that Gamepro held with Bungie employees during their recent trip to Kirkland - there's now a short text article that pulls out ten interesting nuggets from those interviews (most of which never actually made it into the videos) - give it a read! Thanks, Anton P. Nym. (Louis Wu 11:18:22 UTC) (permalink)
CamoTourneys
Shayne pointed out that CamoTourneys hosts online Halo 2 tournaments with cash prizes. They've got a free-to-enter 1v1 today, with a $10 prize. (Louis Wu 11:12:42 UTC) (permalink)
I want that checkbook.
Monster Bungie Weekly Update this week - though very little of it is about Halo 3. Tidbits about tomorrow (Bungie Day), mockery for the folks who thought yesterday's screenshot was fake, VERY cool info about the upcoming toys from McFarlane, an awesome farewell interview with Alta, and some teasery (yeah, I know that's not a word) about the vocal side of Bungie. Go read - either at B.net or here, in our Weekly Update Archive. (The HTML is better here, I'll tell you that.) (Louis Wu 00:38:52 UTC) (permalink)
Friday's news in brief:
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Bungie Day Extravaganza Setting dorks back 20 years Halo Wars to be shown at E3 Product Placement. Iris Update How to come back from a deficit Interviews in Machinima 8 Friday's Fanfic Caught Within The Grip |
Thursday's news in brief:
