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Applied to Life - Territories - Halo 3
urk higlighted a truly rockin' video called 'Applied to Life: Territories'. Go watch it - you'll be glad you did. (Louis Wu 23:28:39 UTC) (permalink)
Expert in Tom Foolery
The latest entry in the 'Breaking In' series at Bungie.net focuses on Shi Kai Wang, Bungie Artist and Grizzled Ancient. If you want to see how a top-notch artist makes it into a top-notch company... go read. (Louis Wu 23:27:18 UTC) (permalink)
V-Day Massacre, online now
It's Thursday, so it's time for another Double XP Weekend to kick off - this week it's V-Day Massacre, a ranked team doubles list. With chances for Recon. Go read about it on B.net. (Louis Wu 20:09:43 UTC) (permalink)
Halo Wars for Everyone... plus a new ViDoc
Red_Breast noticed that the Halo Wars demo is now available for everyone on LIVE - Gold accounts had access last week, but Silver accounts were locked out until today. If you haven't tried it, now's your chance! There's also a new ViDoc available on Xbox LIVE Marketplace - 'Strategy on Xbox' discusses designing a strategy game for the Xbox 360 from the ground up. (Louis Wu 20:07:13 UTC) (permalink)
Montage editing tips, from a master
Phurion is known for impressively edited Halo 3 montages - and now he's going to help you create your own. Swing by Halo3Forum.com for a thread full of practice clips and advice. (There's also a video on YouTube showing what you can do with this stuff.) Thanks, urk.
(Louis Wu 20:06:46 UTC) (permalink)
Gamers 4 Giving 2009
An interview in a recent issue of The Blue Skittle, with Zach Wigal, a gamer who turned a bad experience into the inspiration for some really good work (search our news for details, or read the interview), reveals a tournament coming up at the end of February at Eastern Michigan University. $1000 cash and Recon armor are on the line for winners. Check out the details! (Louis Wu 18:06:19 UTC) (permalink)
Grifball Matchmaking Highlights
Bungie.net has word of a new Grifball Highlights film. No commentary (yet), but the gameplay's pretty cool. (Louis Wu 17:54:09 UTC) (permalink)
Respite
Dennis Powers let us know that Shipwrecked 54 is now online. Everyone needs a break sometimes. (Louis Wu 17:52:41 UTC) (permalink)
Watch the beads - they'll toast your DVD drive
Hawty McBloggy has gathered up 28 different Halo-themed Xbox 360 faceplates, from the subtle to the over-the-top. Check out what people are fronting their gaming consoles with! (Louis Wu 14:48:30 UTC) (permalink)
Halo Zero 2 tech demo
quququ1 let us know that Dobermann, the guy behind Halo Zero 2, has released a new tech demo - you can download it (3.2 mb, Windows .exe) at his website. If you're unfamiliar with Halo Zero/HZ2, they're fan-created 2D sidescrollers with cool Halo sprite art.
(Louis Wu 14:44:22 UTC) (permalink)
Surveillance
The Catfish stopped in to let us know that 2501 Episode 14 is now online - with a new character. (Louis Wu 14:44:04 UTC) (permalink)
RvB Fan Art
gunluva noticed a cool piece of RvB fanart at DeviantART - and HawaiianPig was happy to see his original poster work used as inspiration. Fans loving fans loving Bungie... that's what we're all about!
(Louis Wu 14:43:38 UTC) (permalink)
Mythic Map Pack Heatmaps Now Up
CaLL Me ZeNy was the first on our forum to notice that the Mythic Maps are now included in Bungie's Heatmaps. Now's a good time to check out their layouts... while the maps are still clean! (You can, of course, always look at a version filtered for some obscure death - try Elephant Turret on any map except Sandtrap, for example - to see the clean map for already-in-use levels... but for the three new maps, no extra work is involved.)
(Louis Wu 14:43:11 UTC) (permalink)
The Bungie Blog - A Bounteous Bouquet of Broadcast Bulletins
Last night was pretty productive for urk, over at the Bungie Blog - lots of local content, and even one new fan bit:
- The Sandbox screenshots that were unveiled in the recent IGN/T3 interviews (sometimes in really small sizes) are now all available, in beautiful hi-res, in the Halo 3 Screenshot Gallery. Swing by and feast your eyes.
- The next Community Spotlight feature has been posted - Facility B5D is a Bungie.net group founded originally to give people info about Recon armor, but has grown into a tightly-knit community of friends. Go see what goodies they've added to Bungie Favorites this week!
- The Bungie Online Team took on the Community Team on the Mythic Maps for the most recent installment of the Bungie Humpday Challenge - I think the Online Team can blame Stosh for their drumming. (I mean, hell, they blame him for everything else...)
- Bryan Simon has released the latest episode of his 'Voicemail Chronicles' series - and Bungie gets the news heads-up. It's always fun to listen to silly people ranting...
Whew. That's a lot of news - I could call it a day, I think! (Don't worry, I'm not.) (Louis Wu 14:29:36 UTC) (permalink)
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