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Friday, November 16, 2007 |  |
Halo draining manpower from the PC camp
QJ.net has some statistics from the online PC gaming companion XFire that would suggest that something happened in late September/early October that caused a lot of PC gamers to stop playing PC games... XFire's senior director of marketing suggests it might be Halo 3. Heh. (Louis Wu 18:18:28 UTC) (permalink)
Hat Trick.
Bungie has taken to awarding the Recon Helmet to people who make them happy. This has led to people doing all sorts of silly things to try and make Bungie happy. (This will never work; they've said, very clearly, that the easiest way NOT to get the helmet is to ask for it.) Stuntmutt looks at this bizarre phenomenon in today's One One Se7en. (Louis Wu 16:35:49 UTC) (permalink)
Friday's Fan Fiction
Fourteen new pieces for you today in the Fan Fiction section - busy week! (Louis Wu 15:52:47 UTC) (permalink)
'Casting The Highway
It's time for more Anger, Sadness and Envy - Episode 3 of Rampancy.net's podcast is now available. Trindacut and Narcogen look at Tsavo Highway. 48 minutes, 22 mb - go listen! (Louis Wu 13:21:09 UTC) (permalink)
Fame Humping
Bungie used yesterday's Game With Fame as fodder for this week's Humpday Challenge (a bit off the hump). The writeup's a little... disjointed (in a couple of places sentences just go off in weird directions; looks like it wasn't ever proofed), but the end result is solid - three wins for Bungie, out of three games in the Social hoppers. They're taking next week off, for Thanksgiving, so the next chance anyone has to beat them at this game will be November 28. (Louis Wu 13:17:57 UTC) (permalink)
Custom MC on eBay
Hawty McBloggy found a Custom Halo Master Chief figure on eBay - made from a GI Joe base. Interesting-looking! (Louis Wu 13:08:12 UTC) (permalink)
Advantages
TTL Demag0gue continues the exposition in Chapter One, Part Nine of Reclaimer - Ferial explains why he's bothering. Sounds like things will shake up a bit next week... (Louis Wu 12:59:56 UTC) (permalink)
Another TV Halo Ref
Angela, a character on The Office, heads to Wired Magazine's offices... and plays Halo 3. Oddness. Thanks, NickLee808. (Louis Wu 12:57:09 UTC) (permalink)
Halo 3 still selling well
Halo 3 sold 3.3 million copies in the last 5 days of September - and according to Kotaku, another 434,000 in October. It was the biggest single-platform console game of the month, beating Guitar Hero III's 383,000 Xbox 360 copies. (If you count the Wii and PS2 sales of GH3, though, it climbs to 1.4 million for the month.) Will the numbers climb again in November, as people buy the game as a Christmas gift? Only time will tell! (Louis Wu 12:54:40 UTC) (permalink)
WhizKids Scarab - now for sale
Last summer, if you visited the San Diego ComicCon, you had a shot at buying a battle-damaged Scarab from WhizKids, only $250. Well... if you missed out on that chance, never fear; as of last Wednesday, you can buy the Scarab Vehicle Pack at your local hobby and game store. You get the Scarab, some cards, a map, and Halo ActionClix rules. MSRP - a cool $249.99. (No battle damage on this one, I don't think.) Thanks, Kotaku. (Louis Wu 12:50:18 UTC) (permalink)
I guess Bungie forgot the safety.
So last week, we got an email from omfg a cat69 about a funky death he caused; after he died, he dropped his shotgun... which went off when it hit the ground, and killed his opponent. He sent a link to his fileshare, but I passed on the news, because I'm afraid that we're getting too many of these kinds of things these days. He posted it at B.net a few days later, with links to his fileshare, and a YouTube version... and got lots of good responses. (Several people pointed the thread out to us, but again, I passed.) Well... I'm not passing any more, because now this sort of death has its very own medal, courtesy of Blackstar. (It was actually created because of a thread started by Evlmidget25 - I guess omfg a cat69's experience isn't unique. But if I'm gonna front-page the occurrence, I'm sure gonna mention him...) (Louis Wu 12:35:48 UTC) (permalink)
Flashy Blades
Harlan pointed out that there's a new Top 5 list on MSNBC - the Top 5 Game Swords. Halo's Energy Sword made the list. (Picture's credited to Bungee Studios - awesome.) (Louis Wu 12:17:13 UTC) (permalink)
A deal coming up next week
chrisvioxxx noticed that the circular for Target for Black Friday (the day after Thanksgiving), as seen on the Black Friday Ads website, contains a deal for Halo buyers on Page 6; buy the Halo 3 Edition Xbox 360 for $399, get a $60 gift card for free. (In other words - buy the console, get the game for free.) (Louis Wu 12:11:16 UTC) (permalink)
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