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Halo 3 Legendary - for Cheap
Khanh Huynh noticed a story on Kotaku - apparently, some of Amazon's Black Friday deals have leaked a bit early; you'll be able to grab Halo 3 Legendary Edition for $79.99. Nice! (Louis Wu 21:34:01 UTC) (permalink)
Halo theme for GH3 - free tomorrow
MLG's Ryan Thompson was the first to let us know that Activision and Microsoft are teaming up to release the Halo theme, MJOLNIR Mix edition, for Guitar Hero III, for free - tomorrow only. You can read more details at most big gaming sites - say, Joystiq. (Louis Wu 21:31:27 UTC) (permalink)
Tsavo Highway Legendary Tip
RVideo accidentally stumbled on a way that makes one of the toughest battles in the Tsavo Highway levels get a lot easier... he wrote it up for you. (Louis Wu 21:21:25 UTC) (permalink)
Knock Bite.
Stuntmutt played with one of the easter eggs in Halo 3 in today's One One Se7en. Geddit? (Louis Wu 16:33:41 UTC) (permalink)
Eclipse
Jamie98s has released a new machinima project - this one is called 'Eclipse', and it's about a mysterious planet that is engulfing suns as it passes through galaxies. When it reaches Earth, ODSTs are deployed to investigate. This movie is 12 minutes long, and created with a modded version of Halo 2, plus lots of post effects. There is no dialogue, but this actually works pretty well. 106 mb in WMP9 format, 104 mb in QuickTime format; grab a copy, and see what he did! (Louis Wu 16:16:24 UTC) (permalink)
Sometimes, it pays to comparison-shop
As mentioned previously, the Halo 3 Official Soundtrack went onsale yesterday, in record stores everywhere (well, everywhere in the US, anyway). For those having trouble finding it locally, it's also available via download - you can swing by the iTunes Store, and spend $19.98 for it (you'll get DRM-encoded 128kbps AAC files)... or visit the Sumthing Digital store, and grab it for $9.99... and get 192kbps totally DRM-free MP3 files, instead. Hmm... (Thanks, kapowaz, for the heads-up on the better deal.) Update: the Sumthing Digital files are not 192kpbs... they're actually 320kpbs. Thanks to Sorahn for noticing. (Louis Wu 15:45:13 UTC) (permalink)
Terminal shapes - in vector format
A couple of days ago, we mentioned some wallpapers created by Capt Spanish, based on Terminal-inspired artwork he'd built in a vector drawing program. There was some interest expressed in the vector files - so he's obliged. You can snag an Adobe Illustrator file (340k, zipped) or a generic EPS file (556k, zipped). The Illustrator file contains all of the paths he created, so the shapes themselves are editable; the EPS is openable with more applications. Grab the one that works best for you! And thanks, Capt Spanish.
(Louis Wu 14:24:54 UTC) (permalink)
I will miss you, sharer of my gas...
Captain Spark has been collecting dialogue for a while now, even though his website is currently offline. He recently sent us several dozen snippets from grunts and marines - there are some hilarious ones in here! Go listen to the newest editions in our Halo 3 Dialogue Databank. (Louis Wu 13:27:28 UTC) (permalink)
Oh, Snap.
Trindacut is tired of all this hype about Halo 3. He's written a piece over at Rampancy.net explaining how Halo 3 should be more like Pokemon Snap. I'm not sure I agree with all of his points... but it sure wasn't cool for Bungie to kill his dog. (Louis Wu 12:36:07 UTC) (permalink)
Travelogue: The Search for a New Stage
This Spartan Life has posted Episode 5, Module 4 - a travelogue that continues the storyline from earlier modules, which uses the new Halo 3 maps to great advantage. Nice camera angles! More details can be found on their front page, and their Episodes page. (Louis Wu 12:35:47 UTC) (permalink)
Archimedes
TTL Demag0gue let us know that Reclaimer: Chapter Two, Part One is now online - this is your chance to meet Team Viper (Louis Wu 12:35:31 UTC) (permalink)
Lost Spartan Video
Delta, inspired by SilverBrin's Lost Spartan release yesterday, spent several hours putting together a video for it. I think it works really well, actually, and is pretty impressive for an afternoon's work! (Louis Wu 12:35:12 UTC) (permalink)
HBO-COERCE: Back, for a limited time
Whoa, nostalgia. JayWHY stopped by to annnounce that for a limited time (tomorrow, through the weekend, though it seems to be up now), the HBO-COERCE HaloPC server would be up and running for a Thanksgiving Reunion. The forum post also has a link for a Ventrilo server. Jump in and remember the good old days! (Louis Wu 12:34:35 UTC) (permalink)
Stranger and Friend
grantix posted Issue 3 of his Helljumper screenshot comic - our hero learns something about himself. (Louis Wu 12:34:19 UTC) (permalink)
How to trap a noob
Ultimate Dragon put together his own Rube Goldberg-esque creation in Forge; it's not a suicide, like we mentioned yesterday, it's more of a mousetrap. Er... noobtrap. Go see.
(Louis Wu 12:34:01 UTC) (permalink)
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