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Zune - Halo 3 Military Edition
Interesting. Microsoft has decided to release yet another Halo 3 Zune - this one is brown, and is labeled "Zune - Halo 3 Military Edition", and will be available exclusively at military retail stores in August. 300 of them will be given to soldiers in USO care packages. You can read the full press release at GameDaily BIZ. (Louis Wu 21:53:26 UTC) (permalink)
He needed massive damage.
He's on a roll! Warbow has submitted another new Calvin and Halo for your perusal... poor Calvin. (Louis Wu 21:05:35 UTC) (permalink)
Halo 3 Runthrough Preview at WP
WorthPlaying put up a review of the Halo 3 Level 1 runthrough they watched at E3 a couple of weeks ago - give it a read. (Louis Wu 20:40:09 UTC) (permalink)
Outback - in Hi-res
As mentioned earlier, last week we were sent a high-res version of 'Outback', a fun live-action video created by Westerfield Studios. Because I was out of town, there was no way to reencode this until today - but now you can grab WMP9 or QuickTime versions of this film (about 40 mb each) - check it out! (Louis Wu 20:31:50 UTC) (permalink)
MLG Halo Boot Camp Sweepstakes at GS
Dojorkan seems to be unhappy about a new sweepstakes he noticed at GameStop - you've got a chance at winning a grand prize package consisting of a training session with one of the Ogre twins, a copy of Halo 2, an Xbox 360 Elite, a Halo 3 headset, a poster, and a t-shirt. All for filling in your name and address. (You've got to be a US resident and 18 to participate.) Doesn't sound like such a bad deal... (Louis Wu 20:27:32 UTC) (permalink)
Personal Spaces
thePheonix9 noticed that the second of five Retail Exclusive Red vs Blue vids is now available at GameStop. Sarge tries to teach the Red Team about trust. Red Team fails. (Louis Wu 19:24:32 UTC) (permalink)
Doodoo Chile (Slight Return).
Stuntmutt returns to a theme from last week (sort of) in today's One One Se7en. (Louis Wu 19:15:15 UTC) (permalink)
Alexander Winn talks to GTV
trigger119 sent word that another in GamingTV's Interviews in Machinima series has now been posted - go read about Alexander Winn, of Edgeworks Entertainment. He talks about The Codex, the Heretic, and moviemaking in general. Good read! (Louis Wu 18:36:37 UTC) (permalink)
I'm almost ready for a film of my own.
When I got home yesterday, a box was waiting for me; in it, I found a gift from someone who wishes to remain anonymous. I don't know much about it - but it looks a lot like it was made by Westerfield Studios - you can see a couple like it in use in their 'Outback' film released recently. (In fact, that reminds me - Dustin Fecera sent me a high-resolution version of that film while I was out of town; I forgot to encode it yesterday, so downloadable QT/WMP9 versions will be available for download later today.) And no, Dustin didn't send me the helmet. (Louis Wu 17:05:19 UTC) (permalink)
Perceiving the Dimensions of Iris, Episode 2
Three weeks ago, DHalo and Ibeechu released a video recap of the Iris ARG, giving you a way to watch what had been learned in the early days of the game. They've released a second episode, now - this one goes in-depth into the whole process, covering the two-week period from June 14 to June 29. Worth watching if you haven't been keeping up, but are intrigued by the whole concept! Thanks to Avateur, who posted a heads-up last week. (Louis Wu 16:55:12 UTC) (permalink)
Piano Solo - now for Finale
Rampancy.net posted a Finale version (put together by a fan) of the piano solo from the Halo 3 Announcement Trailer. Grab it and start practicing! (Louis Wu 12:29:28 UTC) (permalink)
Halo 3 Beta review from Planet Halo
Planet Halo has posted a (slightly belated) review of the Halo 3 Beta, compiled from PH community member comments. It's not too hard to figure out which comments are useful criticism and which ones are just plain whining. (Louis Wu 12:03:26 UTC) (permalink)
Introducing: Halo 3 Brutes
Ure Paul let us know that ActionTrip has posted a new Halo comic - sometimes it's hard to be Covenant! (Louis Wu 11:37:14 UTC) (permalink)
Access Not Always Granted
Hawty McBloggy posted a Top 10 Halo Pick-up Lines article, in an attempt to raise the quality bar of lines she has to listen to when she plays Halo 2. Really - don't try these yourself... but they're funny to read1 (Louis Wu 11:30:43 UTC) (permalink)
New McFarlane Pics
Littlebigman (with some help from Radiago713) pointed out some new pics of McFarlane's Halo 3 action figures - prototype only at this point, but man, they look detailed! (Louis Wu 11:28:17 UTC) (permalink)
Halo: Genocide
Random Year Old pointed out a homebrew PSP game available for download - screenshots can be seen at his 1timeuser link. (Louis Wu 11:27:10 UTC) (permalink)
Eurogamer Plays Halo
Eurogamer has written up a First Impressions article based on the level they played in Amsterdam last week; there are, of course, campaign-based spoilers in there (you can't write about a campaign level without giving SOMETHING away), but it's all stuff Bungie's okay with you knowing. (Louis Wu 11:11:16 UTC) (permalink)
Fanmade Halo T Slogan Contest
Last week, _Wheels03 started a small contest to come up with a good slogan for a Halo 3 Launch T-Shirt. In the last 24 hours, interest seems to have picked up quite a bit - I'm mentioning this because entries are flooding in. You've got until Friday, August 10 to come up with an entry... check it out! (Louis Wu 11:08:57 UTC) (permalink)
Chock full of fun...
Boxer pointed out a new Adventures in Disaster comic, based on a snippet of text in last Friday's Bungie Weekly Update. Boom! (Louis Wu 11:04:02 UTC) (permalink)
Fixing it
The Seattle Times has a profile of Harold Ryan, Bungie's Studio Manager, up this morning. It's nice to get a look at the world as Harold sees it; this is a guy who makes decisions every day that affects what you'll get to play on September 25 (or 26, depending on where you live). Interesting factoid for the Bungie stalkers among you; total size of the crew working on Halo at this point is 250 people. Update: A continuation of the interview can be found in the author's blog on the Seattle Times website. Some tasty stuff in there! (Louis Wu 11:01:15 UTC) (permalink)
Old Rants
This morning, I went through the Google News Alerts about Halo that came in in the last few days - and ran across this article at TeamXbox (via Voodoo Extreme). I would have passed on it (it's old, now - 4 days old - and it's clearly written specifically to get hits), but when I looked through our forum (something I haven't been able to do for a week), I found this thread, and there's enough interesting commentary in there to warrant the post. Give it a read - but keep your lid on; remember that it's just TRYING to make you mad. (Louis Wu 10:21:01 UTC) (permalink)
Sunday's news in brief:
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Halo 3 Achievements Updated When marketing goes too far Almost... |
Saturday's news in brief:
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Hell on Halo Intervention Grunt Hunt Somewhere Only We Know MSN Spotlight on Halo 3 You're all forgers. |
