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But can you solve it with your FEET?
Hawty McBloggy found a video of a homemade Halo 3 Rubik's Cube - seems to me that most of the pictures are too close to one another, color-wise, to make this really easy to solve... but it's cool anyway. (Louis Wu 23:13:10 UTC) (permalink)
Microsoft Pays Off - Better Late than Never
Looks like the 'free copy of Halo 3 for upgrading 360 buyers' deal might actually be paying off soon; folks have begun receiving email notifications that the free game will be coming 'in the next three weeks'. (Some people are even getting the notes when they didn't do anything to earn them.) Seems like an awfully long time to wait for a free game, but hey - it's free, right? (Louis Wu 23:12:02 UTC) (permalink)
A second chance at a great poster
Wow. A couple of years ago, we helped Bungie auction off a bunch of cool schwag, with proceeds going to help Katrina victims. One of the items was a Halo 2 poster, signed by the majority of the Bungie team. Final price was $1736.70. It's back up on eBay again, this time with a starting bid of $2500. (The original buyer is selling off a lot of his Halo collectible stuff; hit the 'View seller's other items' link on that page for many joyride figures.) (Louis Wu 19:53:24 UTC) (permalink)
Inside Halo: Episode 6
Sodagod's Inside Halo series continues with Episode 6 - it's on YouTube right now (thanks, Major Silva), and will eventually be downloadable from machinima.com, though it doesn't seem to be posted there yet. Ten minutes long, it highlights some of the better machinima releases in the past couple of months, discusses general Halo news and shows off 5 top plays from around the net. (I liked #4 quite a lot, myself.) Go watch! Update: Smurfa found the Machinima.com link here. (Louis Wu 18:53:43 UTC) (permalink)
Careful what you wish for...
ZZoMBiE13 brings back a pair of popular characters in today's installment of Another Halo Comic Strip - it's immature humor, sure, but it'll make you laugh. (Louis Wu 14:45:19 UTC) (permalink)
Buy an unreleased action figure
PFG pointed out an auction he's running on eBay - it's for a rare, unreleased Joyride action figure. Check it out! (Louis Wu 14:38:00 UTC) (permalink)
Xbox sales info - how did we miss this?
Wow - this is the first I've heard of this. InformationWeek points out that while Microsoft did a nice job of bumping up weekly sales to finish the last three months of 2007 with 4.3 million units sold... that's actually LESS than they sold in the same timeframe the year before. So even WITH the Halo 3 bump, they DROPPED in sales. Ouch! (Louis Wu 14:36:04 UTC) (permalink)
At what point is there 'too much hype'?
Xbox360Fanboy has posted a bunch of pictures of the McFarlane action figures... packaged. We already told you about some of these a few weeks ago - but X3F's collection contains more shots. (Louis Wu 14:28:20 UTC) (permalink)
Storytelling, the Bungie Way
On our forum, there's a pretty interesting discussion about the Halo story (the overall story, rather than the story from any one game), and how good a job Bungie did in getting it across to you in-game. It touches on the interaction between storytelling and gameplay, on the relationship between realistic and reasonable, on subtlety, or the lack thereof. How do YOU think Bungie did? (Louis Wu 14:21:44 UTC) (permalink)
Attitude
Xorian noticed yesterday that Arby 'n' the Chief Episode 3 has been posted at machinima.com; see what Recon armor can do? Funny stuff. (Louis Wu 14:02:32 UTC) (permalink)
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