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Fable 2 LE comes with MC
Heh. Microsoft released details of the Fable 2 Limited Collector's Edition - and one of the bonuses is a medieval Master Chief. Swing by FileFront for the story, and a fun pic. (Louis Wu 19:15:00 UTC) (permalink)
Double XP Weekend - Legendary Brawl (Ranked)
The latest Double Experience Weekend is now live - Ranked Legendary Brawl can help you get those last few multiplayer achievements! Get to playing. This list will be up until 2am (PT) on Monday morning. (Louis Wu 18:11:29 UTC) (permalink)
From Dogs to the Universe
Heh - sort of a stretch, but pretty cool. Old Mattacus pointed us towards this article in a recent issue of Harper's - it's not really about Halo, but a small piece is related, and intriguing. It's a discussion of a contagious form of cancer in Tasmanian devils, but about halfway through the article, the author discusses other forms of contagious cancer, and focuses on Canine Transmissible Venereal Tumor (CTVT) - an organism that is more related to tumors in other dogs with the malignancy than it is to its own host.
In other words, CTVT can be conceptualized as a single creature, a parasite (and not a species of parasite, but an individual), which has managed to spread itself out among millions of different dogs. Research by molecular geneticists suggests the tumor originated in a wolf, or maybe an East Asian dog, somewhere between 200 and 2,500 years ago, which means that CTVT is probably the oldest continuous lineage of mammal cells presently living on Earth. The dogs may be young, but the tumor is ancient.
As OM suggests, life sometimes imitates art - CTVT is an awful lot like the Flood! (Louis Wu 18:07:05 UTC) (permalink)
Halo PC 1.08 released
Bungie has released a new update for Halo PC - v1.08 officializes the patches made recently to overcome some potential attacks on HPC servers, and as an added bonus, removes the CD check for the game. (There are also patches for Halo Custom Edition and HCE Server.) w00t! Thanks, sawnose. Update: the HCE files are mirrored at Halo Maps, as well. (Louis Wu 15:32:00 UTC) (permalink)
Halo Wars Newsbits
Bunch of Halo Wars news around the net right now:
- Just a followup - the Game Critics Awards were posted a couple of days ago - Halo Wars was up for Best Strategy Game, but lost out to Tom Clancy's EndWar. Ah, well...
- VideoGamer.com has posted a hands-on review of Halo Wars, based on their time with the game at E3 this year. Give it a read!
- Ensemble's Bruce Shelley summarized the goals of the Halo Wars team going into E3, and looked at how they did meeting those. (He also did a great job collecting all the HW press out there right now.)
That should keep you busy for a bit! (Louis Wu 15:13:45 UTC) (permalink)
Redeemed.
MSNBC has posted a 'Top 5 best aliens in video games' piece - and The Arbiter makes the list. Thanks, Darksage. (Louis Wu 15:10:05 UTC) (permalink)
Casualty Gamers' Top 10 Armor/Bodysuits
elessar787 found another 'Top 10 Armor/Bodysuits' list, this time over at Casualty Gamer. It's a completely different list than the one we mentioned a few days ago - the only suits on both are MGS4's Octocamo, Bioshock's Big Daddy, and Metroid's Varia suit - along with variations of the Halo armor. This is the thing about Top 10s, though... you like what you like. (Louis Wu 15:09:14 UTC) (permalink)
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