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Bungie Weekly Update: Reviewtastic
The Bungie Weekly Update is online - earlier than usual? Maybe. It's a discussion of the reviewing that lots of European journalists have been doing of the full game this week - and the same process that US journalists will be going through soon. And the first Mister Chief in a really, really long time. Go read - either at Bungie.net, or in our Weekly Update Archive. (Louis Wu 23:44:07 UTC) (permalink)
When Shipping Departments Screw Up
Wow. nash--housewares found a thread on an Italian forum with some pictures that, if they're what they look like, do NOT bode well for keeping Halo 3 secrets until launch day. We're looking into this - but if it turns out to be what it looks like, I'm thinking we'll probably close the forum down for 3 weeks. Starting... really soon. Stay tuned. Update: MGS marketing has confirmed that those pictures are the EMPTY pre-order/promotional boxes. No game discs have shipped to any retailers yet. Thank goodness! (Louis Wu 19:29:26 UTC) (permalink)
Machinima Festival Europe 07 - it's not too late!
Are you a machinima maker with content near completion (or completed)? Hugh Hancock's discussion of the Game Content Rules mentioned, almost incidentally, Machinima Festival Europe 07, taking place in Leicester, UK in mid-October. The deadline for submissions is TOMORROW - but if you can make that deadline, and your work meets the submission guidelines, you should think seriously about entering. Update: Hugh Hancock points out that the deadline's been extended until the 8th - so you have more than a week. GET CRACKING! (Louis Wu 19:17:08 UTC) (permalink)
Content Rules, Machinima, and More
Hugh Hancock wrote up the full discussion of his conference call with Microsoft about the Game Content Usage Rules we mentioned yesterday. He mentions Halo specifically, puts forth some very common-sense arguments to some of the overreactions that hit the net soon after the Rules did, and even manages to squeeze in an xkcd reference. You can't do better than that. (He also suggests you read an article written by Fred von Lohmann, of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, on this subject - he was also in on this conference call, and, unlike Hugh, IS a lawyer. Fred's article is pretty positive as well.) Bottom line from yesterday ("Don't Worry, Be Happy") still stands. As long you're not making "Cortana does Cleveland" or something... (Louis Wu 18:37:58 UTC) (permalink)
Forging Ahead.
It's not often that a One One Se7en makes me laugh out loud without puns. Today is one of those times. (Louis Wu 16:42:37 UTC) (permalink)
Baselss Judgement
Yesterday's F@NB0Y$ was Halo-related - and pretty funny. Thanks, Pixellated.
(Louis Wu 15:39:13 UTC) (permalink)
Fans in Japan
Next Generation has a tidbit about the Halo 3 marketing flood in Japan. More of a wave, actually. They're giving out fans. (The paper kind.)
(Louis Wu 15:25:06 UTC) (permalink)
Don't Stop Believing
Jamie98s sent along another music video for your perusal - this one's set to Journey's "Don't Stop Believing", and tells the story of lost, and found, love. Available in both WMP9 format (36.5 mb) and QuickTime format (34.8 mb). (Louis Wu 14:34:54 UTC) (permalink)
Frickafrackawatermarks...
Entertainment Weekly has new Halo 3 screenshots - a baker's dozen. (Well, a few are not new - but most are. Unfortunately, all the new ones have a huge EW.com watermark right over the middle of them...) (Louis Wu 13:51:59 UTC) (permalink)
September's 360 - a Halo fest
We occasionally post magazine scans of Halo articles, though we never post stuff before the issue's off the newsstand shelves, and we never post stuff from magazines that have specifically asked to be removed from our site. One thing that hasn't happened before, though, is that until now, we have not been contacted by a magazine and asked to show off some of their Halo content before it's available for purchase at your local retailer. 360 Magazine, in the UK, changes that for us. Staff writer Gavin Mackenzie contacted us about their upcoming Halo Special Collectors Issue, due on newsstands on September 6 (that's next Saturday). They're in the UK, but Barnes and Noble in the US will carry these as well (though likely later than September 6). He sent along the cover for the article, as well as teasers for some of the Halo content (one | two). Even the parts of the magazine that have nothing to do with Halo have a Halo theme - check out the design of the Reviews section this month. If you're somewhere you can buy this - you should. Looks like it'll be a fun read!
(Louis Wu 13:33:34 UTC) (permalink)
HaloPhone
sorahn hacked his iPhone to be more Halo-flavored - there's a standard background, and a Cortana background. Nice! (Louis Wu 13:29:19 UTC) (permalink)
Make your OWN poster.
Mrguy got hold of a very large version of the MC-with-Gravity-Hammer image that will grace the third issue of Halo: Uprising - this is the same image that Ironlion's now got in poster form. If you want to download the huge one - swing by Mrguy's post. Update: seems I misunderstood; this image is just a combination of Ironlion's photos, with some photoshopping thrown in. Sorry, my bad. (Louis Wu 13:25:26 UTC) (permalink)
Hunter Armor Project - Updated
Daijitsu has updated his Hunter Armor - check out the forum post for some cool shots of the shield! (Earlier shots were mentioned here.) (Louis Wu 13:05:09 UTC) (permalink)
More on the Content Rules
Nitro288 stopped by to point out a blog post from DonkeyXote, otherwise known as Don McGowan, a Microsoft attorney who wrote up (helped write up?) the Game Content Usage Rules. (He was one of the guys who spoke to Hugh Hancock yesterday - here's his note about the call.) Again, it sounds like the gloom-and-doom predictions of the Halo machinima community, made right after the Content Rules were first posted, might have been a little premature. We'll keep an eye on this. (Louis Wu 12:53:20 UTC) (permalink)
Friday's Fanfic
Four stories this week in the Fan Fiction section... getting light! (Louis Wu 12:41:37 UTC) (permalink)
What's wrong with white monkeys?
weephun noticed another Maxim list that Halo made - this time, it's the '12 Worst Video Game Bosses Ever', and they've taken umbrage with a certain albino ape. (Louis Wu 11:38:34 UTC) (permalink)
A subculture of hard-core video games
Interesting mainstream writeup of Halo in Time magazine this week - it still talks about Halo as though it's an underground obsession and gamers are still geeks who live in their parents' basements... but they're STARTING to see the power of the brand. (Louis Wu 11:36:04 UTC) (permalink)
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