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Bungie Community Spotlight - Mjolnir Battle Tactics
Bungie's posted another Community Spotlight, with corresponding new goodies in the Bungie Favorites section - this time, they're talking to Mjolnir Battle Tactics, a Bungie.net group. Go read about 'em, and check out their favorite maps/files! Thanks, Avateur. (Louis Wu 21:29:53 UTC) (permalink)
Halo Blackberry Theme
Hawty McBloggy pointed out a new theme for your Blackberry 9000, courtesy of Halcylon. Nice work! (Louis Wu 19:17:21 UTC) (permalink)
Discovery
Dennis Powers let us know that Shipwrecked Episode 42 is live - it looks like storylines are coming together. (Louis Wu 19:15:29 UTC) (permalink)
Halo 3 and the NXE - Things to Know
Over on the Bungie blog, there's an interview with Mat Noguchi about how Halo 3 uses the Xbox 360 cache features, and how this affects you with respect to the new 'copy to disk' feature of LIVE's NXE (which is now available to all LIVE subscribers). We've discussed this recently - but this interview provides many more details as to how it all works. The important take-home message, though, can be summarized in a sentence: if you play Halo 3 multiplayer, and you use the 'install to HD' feature of the NXE, not only will your load times be slower, but you will degrade the experience of everyone you play with. Bungie advises that Halo 3 players do NOT install the game on their hard drive.. (Louis Wu 18:16:09 UTC) (permalink)
Green and Red: Your Help Needed
Taco Power is looking for help with ideas for his Green and Red stop-motion Halo Kubrick videos - you can watch the first three (they're each just a few seconds long, and they're just him playing around with the technique), and then suggest plotlines for him! (Louis Wu 14:56:25 UTC) (permalink)
BTS: What is the Bump?
Over at the Rooster Teeth website, Burnie's posted a video that shows off one of the weird glitches in Halo 3 that they (and really MOST) machinima creators need to work around - and some ways of doing exactly that. Education can be entertaining! (Louis Wu 14:44:22 UTC) (permalink)
Halo Zapping
zukan pointed out a video on YouTube - 'Le Zapatabadou' is a French machinima version of Adult Swim's 'Robot Chicken'. As he says, even though the dialogue is in French, it's not hard to figure out what's going on most of the time - and some of the sketches are quite funny. Take a look! (Louis Wu 14:24:27 UTC) (permalink)
Insanity, Not Rampancy
TTL Demag0gue let us know that Reclaimer 113 is live - the Reclaimer meets two more members of the Cavalcade. (Louis Wu 14:06:24 UTC) (permalink)
Str8 Rippin Captain gets Star Treatment
According to the New York Times, Tom 'TSquared' Taylor's mug will appear on 175 million Dr. Pepper labels starting in January - the MLG Pro's deal is the label's first sports promotion with national distribution. He's bigger than the Dallas Cowboys! (They only got regional distribution on Dr. Pepper labels.) (Louis Wu 13:35:01 UTC) (permalink)
Real Men Go Commando
Episode 2 of ODS Steve is now live at Hawty McBloggy's - DeepCee's hapless Helljumper proves he has trouble reading (or at least processing). (Louis Wu 13:34:32 UTC) (permalink)
Custom Armor Variants at B.net
Metalingus627 pointed out a thread at Bungie.net that contains a series of artist renditions of new armor perms (fan-made) - some interesting stuff in there! (Louis Wu 13:34:12 UTC) (permalink)
Heroes vs Nemesis WP
Linken91 posted a series of 'Heroes vs Nemesis' wallpapers, to commemorate a machinima series - if you like your wallpaper with lots of words, check these out.
(Louis Wu 13:33:53 UTC) (permalink)
New Campaign Panos
nomis78 stopped in with six new panoramas - gorgeous work. Take the time to look at these. Update: looks like radiant penguin has posted his own, today (reminded by nomis78). Some great ones here, too! (Louis Wu 13:31:45 UTC) (permalink)
Ultra Kill? Really?
Ross Mills noticed an article at Maxim entitled 'The 7 Greatest Faceless Announcers in Video Games' - Halo's Voice of God renderer makes the list. Some of the 'memorable lines' attributed to him, though, might make you wonder.
(Louis Wu 13:30:39 UTC) (permalink)
Top 10 Halo 3 Moments of Season 2: Episode 14
Anoj108 has posted Episode 14 of his Top 10 Halo 3 Moments series - this one is just a highlights reel from 'Season 2 (Episodes 8-13). Thanks, urk. (Louis Wu 13:30:16 UTC) (permalink)
Halo Wars Art, Hands-on Pieces Continue
More Halo Wars coverage - The Halo Wars website mentions writeups at Joystiq and Xbox360Achievements.com, in addition to the stuff we mentioned a couple of days ago (post 1 | post 2). Planet Halo points out one at TeamXbox, too. And Wired has put up its own piece. On top of this news, the Halo Wars team has posted new wallpapers on their Screenshots page (they're labeled 'XBOX Live Screenshots') - the theme that these papers come from is available on Marketplace for 250 points. And they've added wallpaper containing the Flame Marine, concept artwork of Jackals, and a new Hunter shot. Pretty stuff! (Thanks in part to 2900d4u for the heads-up.) Update: There's even more - The 1UP FM podcast contains an interview with Ensemble's Graeme Devine and Dave Pottinger this week. Thanks, LoneRanger 2.5. (Louis Wu 13:29:23 UTC) (permalink)
XerxdeeJ - He Works for Them
Bungie.net's 'Average Joe' series of interviews grew yesterday when a discussion with Tied the Leader's XerxdeeJ hit the front page (thanks, Bryan Simon). deeJ isn't your average 'Average Joe', as far as Halo community members go - but he's modest enough that you'd almost think he wasn't really responsible for the success of TTL if you took this interview at face value. Go read - and if you're looking for a community of honorable gamers to join, check out TTL - you can't do much better! (Louis Wu 13:28:35 UTC) (permalink)
Tobias Buckell in the hospital
Aaron Spuler was the first to point out a blog post over at Tobias Buckell's website - the author of the soon-to-be-released 'Cole Protocol' novel was admitted to the hospital recently with heart trouble. Here's hoping this all turns out well!
(Louis Wu 13:27:44 UTC) (permalink)
Viral Marketing for Halo 3 Mythbusters
RandomSauce let us know about a video from CO0L Beans - the man risks life and limb to promote the cause of Halo 3 MythBusters on Xbox Live. Funny stuff - but I'm telling you now, if I met him in Matchmaking, I'd still shoot him.
(Louis Wu 13:26:59 UTC) (permalink)
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