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Halo 2 Zombies - in Halo 3
BolognaFire loves zombies. He loves them so much, in fact, that's he's created a gametype (and map) that comes as close to Zombies on Foundation as you can, in Halo 3. He's thought an awful lot about this, and has laid out many of his ideas in this forum post. There are also more than a dozen screenshots and a link to his FileShare, where you can download the map and the gametype. Go look. (Louis Wu 20:48:48 UTC) (permalink)
MLG TV Returns with 07 season
Brick let us know that the first episode of this year's MLG TV show will be airing on G4 TV on November 16th at 11pm, with a rebroadcast on November 20 at 2am. with additional episodes (there are six, total) airing every Friday at 11, rebroadcasting late Monday night at 2 am. Details can be found at MLGPro.com. (Louis Wu 19:48:15 UTC) (permalink)
Kid-sized mjolnir armor
Hawty McBloggy found a pretty slick kid-sized Spartan costume, with Rocket Launcher and Missile Pod, for sale on eBay. Go read her writeup! (Louis Wu 19:14:25 UTC) (permalink)
Marty today, Harold tomorrow
Develop Magazine has a 2-part interview with Marty O'Donnell (Part One | Part Two), with an interview of Harold Ryan coming tomorrow. (The intro to these pieces can be found here.) The Marty interview is fascinating; he touches on the reasons why it's a good thing that Bungie and Microsoft have split (ostensibly the reason behind the interview), but then discusses everything from what makes games iconic to why Bungie couldn't work with the business model that Wideload's using (small core team + contractors/low burn rate, rather than big team/high burn rate). And the cool surround sound options you get in most 360 games these days? You can thank Marty for that. Thanks, Anton P. Nym. (Louis Wu 17:10:32 UTC) (permalink)
Big Bang's Halo
Last night's episode of CBS's Big Bang Theory revolved around Halo, and what it does to people who play it. If you missed it, you can watch it online at CBS.com. (Thanks to JeSteR 343 for the first heads-up. (Louis Wu 16:58:37 UTC) (permalink)
That Pumpkin Needs YOU!
Just a reminder: voting's been up for a day and a half for the Guilt O' Lantern contest, and several thousand votes have been cast - if yours isn't among them, go look over the offerings, and pick a few! (Some people were having trouble getting past the first page of results - turned out to be my fault, and it's fixed now. If you were one of those... try again!) (Louis Wu 13:57:04 UTC) (permalink)
Paraphrasing Nietzsche
ZZoMBiE13's got a new take on an old saying in today's Another Halo Comic Strip. I gotta say... that bouncing thing happens to me all the time. (Louis Wu 13:48:50 UTC) (permalink)
That is one big cheater.
I don't think I'd normally even post this as news - but it sort of blows me away. oriol pointed out a newspost on Grunts R Us that purports to find the first Five-Star General in Bungie's ranking system. I went to look, just because I couldn't imagine how good the guy had to be... and I found page after page after page after page of boosting games. In fact, I had to go back 60 screens (of 25 games per screen) before I found my first non-cheating game! (I didn't look at EVERY screen, so I might have missed one or two - but the VAST majority of those first 60 pages are filled with boosting matches in Social Doubles.) This continues until about the 190th screen (of 218) - that's well over 4500 cheating games out of a total of 5400. THAT'S what it takes to get to 5 Star General? No thanks. (This, folks, is the sort of attitude that made Bungie turn off Leaderboards in Halo 2.) (Louis Wu 13:42:04 UTC) (permalink)
It's described as unique - yep, it sure is
bs angel found a pretty interesting female Spartan sculpture on eBay - she thought it was a bit too anorexic to blog about, but hey, we've got no such qualms. I'm not really sure what's going on with that energy sword, though... (Louis Wu 13:04:37 UTC) (permalink)
Halo Wars Update - a little late
Bah. Michael Smith let us know several days ago that the Halo Wars crew had posted a new Update on Halloween. It even included a link to a video at a local TV station, where they were featured. Unfortunately, I totally spaced on posting it... and when Trindacut reminded me of it this morning, it was already too late for the video - the station has moved on, and is no longer serving it. Go read the update anyway, though; you can see what Ensemble's latest ideas are for improving the gameplay of the upcoming release. (Louis Wu 12:56:15 UTC) (permalink)
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