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Gears of Bored
Another Halo Comic Strip takes a look at what's happening on other parts of Xbox Live... heh. Bad ZZoMBiE13. (Louis Wu 21:19:13 UTC) (permalink)
A Voice in the Dark
Grantix stopped by to point out Helljumper, Issue 2 - looks like that Spartan's in trouble. (Louis Wu 21:14:46 UTC) (permalink)
Mike Gravel, Sword Hog
Mike Gravel has been excluded from the Democratic debate this evening in Las Vegas; you can watch this video to see him explaining to NPR's Diane Rehm why this is... or you can visit this YouTube page to see him explaining the REAL reason in today's episode of Elevator, a web-based video series created by HBO Fan Fiction writer Woody Tondorf. After watching this, I'd vote for the guy! (Louis Wu 19:27:29 UTC) (permalink)
Key word: Original
Major Nelson has clarified that the Xbox Originals, officially announced yesterday as older Xbox games to be available for download on Xbox Live Marketplace, will NOT contain additional functionality; they will not have Achievements or be used in your Gamer score. And though it wasn't mentioned specifically, I'd GUESS that this means that the downloadable version of Halo will not be 60Hz-compatible for PAL regions, since the original game wasn't. These are not enhanced versions of the games - they're just downloadable versions of them, at a nice price. (This news item was up much earlier this morning, but somehow got mangled and then deleted.) (Louis Wu 16:08:04 UTC) (permalink)
More Cortana Cosplaying
MsValentine continues to hone her Cortana outfit; last month, she added a very cool wig to the outfit... and a Grunt Birthday Skull. There are some really amazing poses in this group... including a bunch of shots with MC's helmet, and a few with a nice reversal of the MC/Cortana standard placement. Go check out the latest pics! (Louis Wu 15:58:38 UTC) (permalink)
Playin' With the Chief
Strangely enough, we have word of ANOTHER video that looks at what happens to Master Chief in Multiplayer... DigitalPh33r, the guy behind the Master Chief Sucks at Halo series (and other funny bits) has released Playin' With the Chief, a video that might give you an idea of just how single-minded Master Chief really is... funny stuff. Thanks to madtsunami for the heads-up. (Louis Wu 14:30:10 UTC) (permalink)
After the Ark
Raulboy posted a piece he made for class - how does Master Chief deal with matchmaking? (Not too well.) About 10 mb, in either QT or WMP9 formats, linked from his forum post.
(Louis Wu 14:26:44 UTC) (permalink)
Ogre 2 and Ghost hold forth on Halo 3
Over at MLGPro.com, there's a dual interview - Ogre 2 (from Final Boss) and Ghostayame (from Carbon) - discussing Halo 3, how it differs from Halo 2, and what the future might hold. Good reading! Thanks, 3Suns. (Louis Wu 14:17:22 UTC) (permalink)
Halo 3 Leaderboards
Cody Miller noticed a new site - Halo 3 Leaderboards. It's unclear where they get their data from (a few forumgoers suggest that they're not in the rankings but should be), but it's a great place to go for aggregated leaderboards. Here's hoping it doesn't lead to the cheating that made Bungie pull down THEIR leaderboards early in Halo 2's lifespan.
(Louis Wu 13:26:57 UTC) (permalink)
GWF Developers: details
A couple of days ago, we mentioned the Game With Fame Developers day - which is today. Participants, and a time for the Bungie dev team participation, were unknown at the time. They're up now - you can see who from the Halo Wars dev team will be playing from 9am - 1pm today, and who from the Bungie team will be playing from 3pm - 5pm today. (All times are Pacific.) Thanks, KP.
(Louis Wu 13:10:37 UTC) (permalink)
Free Halo 2 theme on XBLM
Se7enth Prophet noticed that in honor of Xbox Live's 5th birthday, there's a free Halo 2 theme available on Xbox Live Marketplace. Go to Themes -> Xbox Live is 5ive to find it.
(Louis Wu 13:06:54 UTC) (permalink)
When ad dollars stretch too far
Yesterday morning, x Zero x mentioned that Tuesday night's episode of Caveman, a comedy on ABC, contained a Halo reference. I didn't get around to mentioning it in the news... but last night darthbob noticed that there was a clip of it on Kotaku. I'm gonna have to agree with them - it looks more like paid-for product placement than an honest pop culture reference. Oh, well. (Louis Wu 12:45:55 UTC) (permalink)
Halo: Featured on Wikipedia
TKD 117 was the first to let us know that Halo: Combat Evolved is the Featured Article of the Day on the English version of Wikipedia today - Happy 6th Birthday! (While it's true that the game itself was released a few days before the 15th, nobody could PLAY it until the Xbox hit the shelves.) (Louis Wu 12:26:56 UTC) (permalink)
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