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Does it come with a Gravity Hammer?
Heh - Anton P. Nym found a pretty cool navigation system for military parachutists... check the headline (and the pic). (Louis Wu 22:27:16 UTC) (permalink)
TalkXbox Wants YOU!
Back in 2005, TalkXbox came looking for applicants for a 'strategy writer' - they got lots of great options, and were very happy with the end result. They're back:
We are looking for two individuals (one for video guides and one for written weekly strategies). Obviously, applicants have to be skilled at the game, but they also need to have a nack for writing/producing videos. This will be a paid position, details of which will be discussed in private.
If your visitors are interested in this opportunity, they can email us at contact@talkxbox.com with a game-related writing/video sample.
So? What are you waiting for? Go send 'em a sample! (Louis Wu 21:05:45 UTC) (permalink)
Buttery Nipple Incident?
Kotaku took a LOT of pictures during their recent playthrough of Halo 3 at Bungie's offices this week - you can scroll through the gallery for tons of memorabilia, including lots of Halo stuff. Thanks, Schedonnardus. (Louis Wu 20:58:01 UTC) (permalink)
Museum now on XBL
MffnMn pointed out that the Museum ad is now on Xbox Live Marketplace; check 'Game Videos', New Arrivals', 'Halo 3' to find it. Nice quality! (Louis Wu 19:53:31 UTC) (permalink)
Behind the Diorama
Kotaku has a great article about the Halo diorama featured in the Halo ads tearing up the internets this week. The concept of game spoilers is addressed directly (don't worry, there aren't any), and there are a bunch of cool photos. Go look! Thanks, Tex. (Louis Wu 18:01:06 UTC) (permalink)
Racing to Finish The Fight
The Xbox.com Launch Week Announcement (we mentioned it yesterday) noted that a NASCAR entry would be Halo-themed - but there's a full press release about it now. I heard about it from Hawty McBloggy, who pulled out all the good bits for you. (Louis Wu 17:58:48 UTC) (permalink)
What's the final tally gonna be?
According to Next Generation, a financial analyst is predicting that Halo 3 sales will 'quickly reach $200 million' - but no word on whether 'quickly' means 'less than 24 hours from release. I guess we wait and see how accurate that is... (Louis Wu 16:51:22 UTC) (permalink)
Sensationalism at its worst
Not totally sure why this is news - but it's shown up on both SPOnG (thanks again, Narc, this time in #hbo) and CVG; a couple of Sony developers were chatting about the Museum ad and decided to post the chat online. And yes, one of them says a bad word about Halo. (What's more interesting than the bad word is the reaction to the trailer. THAT'S worth reading - it's a pretty thoughtful exchange.)
(Louis Wu 16:24:22 UTC) (permalink)
Lofty Goals, Realized
Shacknews has an interview with Frank O'Connor, discussing how he feels about the final product, what's next (Bungie employees are ALREADY WORKING on Halo 3 downloadable content!), tidbits about the Peter Jackson project, and more. Good read! Thanks again, Narcogen. (Louis Wu 16:05:26 UTC) (permalink)
IMAX Event Recap
Some news shamelessly stolen from the Rampancy.net front page (thanks, Narcogen): Zanzibar, over at Evil Avatar, took part in the Pontiac 'First to Play' event at the IMAX theater in San Francisco (the New York event happens tonight) - he wrote up his experiences. Factoid that might make a difference for the New York crowd - you can bring a guest. (Louis Wu 15:52:02 UTC) (permalink)
Believe - online a little early
If you can't wait for an official, high-res copy, Sep7imus found a YouTube version of the upcoming 'Believe' ad; it's simple and powerful. (Later today you'll be able to download not only a high-resolution version of this, but a 'behind the scenes' video showing how the diorama was created. We'll shoot you a link as soon as it's up.) For what it's worth, it seems to me that Microsoft is targeting this campaign at non-gamers. That's not to say that gamers can't (or won't) enjoy it, but I'd bet that far, FAR more people will see (and appreciate) these ads because they're NOT full of game imagery than would be the case otherwise. Update: Looks like it's been pulled down - guess we're waiting for the Yahoo version after all. Thanks, Brandon Marsh. Update 2: Looks like it's still up at GameVideos - thanks, Tex. (Louis Wu 13:06:16 UTC) (permalink)
Kick the Tires and Light the Fires
Nice blog entry (with a handy-dandy calendar of Halo 3 events over at PC World... almost reluctant enthusiasm! (I LOVE the description of the MC as "a kind of generic looking alpha-marine in an gold-flecked olive-colored exoskeletal wannabe bat-suit"!) (Louis Wu 12:49:37 UTC) (permalink)
Master Replicas Review
Mr. Titan, over at Planet Halo, got his hands on the Master Replicas gun models - and wrote up a review. Go read! (Louis Wu 12:42:44 UTC) (permalink)
This Spartan Life talks to The Raiders Guys
This Spartan Life has posted Module Two of their Fifth Episode - it's an interview with the makers of 'Raiders of The Lost Ark - Adaptation', a shot-by-shot remake of the original, begun when they were 12. Go find it on the Episodes page! (Louis Wu 02:32:55 UTC) (permalink)
Wood Pulp Army Invades SpikeTV
Our paper spartan queen, Nomi, was contacted by SpikeTV; they want to feature her work on Game Heads. She said sure, and even made them a special spartan. Isn't she great? (Louis Wu 02:26:54 UTC) (permalink)
New Screenies at 1Up
1Up posted 33 new screenshots today - I tried to find out if they were part of the media kit distributed this week to journalists (since those are embargoed until September 23)... but had no success. So I'm posting them. There are a couple of dozen new campaign shots, and a dozen new multiplayer shots... no information in them that hasn't already been released by Bungie. Go look! Thanks, darthbob. (Louis Wu 01:53:01 UTC) (permalink)
Good things, and waiting...
On Monday, PraetoriaGuard released Trinity, Episode One, because they said they would. It was sort of a mess, though, and they asked me not to front-page it, because they wanted to clean it up. So I didn't. And they did. It's worth the wait - the cleaned-up version has better audio, better synching, better... stuff. This is good, because the episode itself is pretty impressive, and it would be a shame to detract from that with less-than-stellar production values. No worries there any more! While you're there, the latest episode of PRaetoriaGuardLive is available for download - it chronicles the mistakes they made with this episode - and promises that they won't happen again. (Mostly, they'll keep this promise by removing hard release dates.) Go grab Episode One (in one of five different flavors), and then PG Live Episode VI (in two flavors)... watch watch watch! (Louis Wu 01:39:40 UTC) (permalink)
Relieve.
Stuntmutt submitted a One One Se7en that was related to the recently-released 'Museum' ad - I couldn't wait until Friday to post it, so you get an extra one this week. (Louis Wu 01:20:48 UTC) (permalink)
Wednesday's news in brief:
Tuesday's news in brief:
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Halo 3 Leaked? Halo 3 Plates Zola: Trinity More on the Wax Chief Mjolnir Armor on eBay Halo ads to Hit the web this week Relic - for Starcraft An old script surfaces |
