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Friday, April 11, 2008 |  |
Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack - Press Frenzy
As has been mentioned a couple of times, Bungie held a press event last week for the Legendary Map Pack - and two of the invitees came from fansites. KP was there representing HBO, and TTL L Askan was there representing Tied the Leader. Writeups from both individuals are fascinating reads - we've got KP's here, and L Askan's is posted at Tied The Leader (duh). [side note: the final section of KP's piece just made me laugh. A lot. -ed] Other media outlets have released, or will be releasing, their own coverage today, since the embargo has been lifted - You can go read 1Up's recap (with video walkthroughs of the maps), a TeamXbox preview (impressions, mostly), and an official writeup on Xbox.com. (There were a couple of other gaming news outlets there, as well - but their writeups aren't online at this point. We'll add them when they appear.) There's also a preview at x360.com.au - they weren't at this particular event, but they got their hands on the maps, as well, and have added their thoughts to the mix. Get to reading! (Louis Wu 18:41:45 UTC) (permalink)
Denied.
So in Bungie's writeup of the Humpday challenge this week, SketchFactor mentioned an epic stop by team HBO, keeping Bungie from scoring a third flag at one point. Turns out the hero was mnemesis - he was able to provide a screenshot, but a screenshot doesn't do the event justice. So I've taken Sketch's film clip, and converted it to 720p video footage - swing by our forum to download the flavor of your choice. (Louis Wu 18:40:40 UTC) (permalink)
Halo 3 Achievement Survey
wkfd is conducting a survey for his Games Software Development course at Glasgow Caledonian University - it looks at the Achievement system for Xbox games in general, and for Halo 3 in specific. Swing by and spend a few minutes answering his questions! (Louis Wu 18:32:43 UTC) (permalink)
Halo 3: MLG 2008 Meadowlands Preview
GotFrag has a preview of the Meadowlands competition that kicks off the MLG 2008 Pro Circuit today - go read! (Louis Wu 18:27:00 UTC) (permalink)
Collisions
FireDragon04 let us know that Consequences: Hyperions Vengeance Episode 2 has been released - the storyline becomes a little less convoluted. As before - great camerawork, great voiceacting, interesting effects. I'm looking forward to actually figuring out what that hologram is saying! (Louis Wu 18:05:54 UTC) (permalink)
Dissecting the Halo 3 Marketing Campaign
Yesterday, we mentioned that the Halo 3 marketing campaign was honored at the MI6 Conference - there are a couple of articles discussing that win. GameDaily has one, and Gamasutra has another. Go read! (Louis Wu 16:26:50 UTC) (permalink)
Halo 3 second in total sales this year
Next-Gen has posted the 100 best-selling games in the past 12 months (March 1, 2007 - March 1, 2008). Proving that it's the holiday season that drives all sales for the year, seven of the top 10 sellers were released in the final three months of last year - and Call of Duty 4 has surpassed Halo 3 in total sales at this point. Interesting numbers all around! (Louis Wu 15:49:12 UTC) (permalink)
A strange metric - but they're still up there!
Black Six pointed out that Develop 100 has a list of the top 100 most successful game studios in the world (based on 2007 retail revenues in the UK - go figure). Bungie sits at #8. Not bad! (It's an odd list; it focuses on individual studios, rather than companies. EA, for example, has 9 entries in the top 100 (and two in the top 10). In fact... if you combined entries, Bungie would move up to number 7.) (Louis Wu 15:05:36 UTC) (permalink)
If you score 20 or above, get help.
Hawty McBloggy has taken the responses from last week's challenge ("come up with a good ending to "You know you play too much Halo when...") and turned them into a quiz. Go take it! (Louis Wu 14:58:20 UTC) (permalink)
Red Cortana for Sale
GamesBond007 noticed a rather odd auction on eBay - it's a Halo 1 Cortana figure, from Joyride... but it's red, not purple (and the eyes are yellow). It's described as a rare prototype - but I don't know any way to confirm its authenticity. (That doesn't mean it's not worth buying; it could very well be real, or it could be a cool-looking fan modification, and either way it would be an interesting buy. I'm just saying that you should go into this understanding that it might not be what it says it is.) Intriguing, no matter what. Go look! Update: we got confirmation from a few different sources that this is, indeed, an authentic Joyride creation - it's not fanmade. (Louis Wu 14:50:24 UTC) (permalink)
He's like Harold, with his purple crayon.
When you're an artist, you get your own parking space. Even if you have to make it. RVideo discovered one for Chris Barrett on the tarmac outside The Pit.
(Louis Wu 14:44:08 UTC) (permalink)
Pre-Game Lobby Episode 2
Harabek let us know that Pre-Game Lobby Episode 2 is out - the lovable collection of Matchmaking misfits are back, and learning skills like trashtalking, genital-building, and custom Achievement creation. Go watch! (Louis Wu 14:32:05 UTC) (permalink)
The Prodigious Permutation - Trailer
GeneticSpartan dropped by to announce a trailer for his new movie, 'The Prodigious Permutation'. Nice camera work! (Louis Wu 14:18:49 UTC) (permalink)
Monk Theme For Everyone
Over at Rampancy.net, Jonathan Churchill has posted a transcription of the Halo main theme, in PDF format. (You'll need to be signed in to download it.) (Louis Wu 14:09:32 UTC) (permalink)
Friday's Fan Fiction
The Fan Fiction queue was light this week - just three new pieces. Check 'em out! (Louis Wu 14:05:54 UTC) (permalink)
We all had fun. Except Luke.
As a number of people noticed last night, HBO played Bungie in this week's Halo Humpday Challenge - on the Legendary Map Pack maps. The end result was a draw; we each won one, lost one, and tied one. The overall fun? Win-win. The new maps have had a simply ginormous amount of love and care poured into them - they play really, really well. (Surprisingly - at least to me - of the three, I found Blackout to be the least enjoyable. That's sort of like saying "out of these three awesome ice cream flavors, I liked this one the least," though.) I'd like to point out that every single person on the HBO team is involved in some way in the administration of a bungie.org website: mnemesis, Free2BMe (posting here as Ding), and I are all involved in HBO newsposting, Schooly D and retsamolah run HBOL, a competitive league I stay pretty far away from, and goatrope has a long-standing involvement in the administration of irc.bungie.org. No ringers here! Thanks to pete_the_duck for being the first to notice. (Louis Wu 02:11:18 UTC) (permalink)
Is this another chance for a slightly NSFW graphic?
The latest Bungie Podcast is also up - one hour, 54 mb of Lars Bakken and Shishka. (More than you can take? Maybe.) Thanks to Psychophan7 for the first heads-up on this, and the Double XP post, as well. (Louis Wu 00:50:26 UTC) (permalink)
Salt Lake City - here's your chance to practice
The Living Dead Double XP Weekend has kicked off - though it's not actually Double XP yet, due to a technical glitch. (It should be by tomorrow, though.) Go shoot some zombies! (Louis Wu 00:45:48 UTC) (permalink)
Thursday's news in brief:
Wednesday's news in brief:
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Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack Vidoc Boss Battles When Games clash with Culture Halo Wars Team Mood: Positive Ezekiel LIVE Lists again A and Q FedEx'd. |
