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Death from Above
A good banshee driver is a pleasure to watch - and x Foman123 x has done a wonderful job of capturing some classic moments. Swing by the Bungie Blog for straming and download links to his Bansheetage. (Louis Wu 23:54:54 UTC) (permalink)
Sometimes, you just gotta go for style points.
The latest episode of Red vs Blue: Relocated is now online - Part Three shows what the Rooster Teeth boys can do with the Mythic maps. (Caboose is starting to worry me, too.) I'm wondering if Lopez's Spanish isn't getting WORSE, over time... (Louis Wu 23:24:21 UTC) (permalink)
Monday Mythic Map Review
More Mythic Overviews - GameZone has taken a quick look at the maps (very quick), but a fan blog, Virulent Aesthetics (a blog offshoot of Halo Social) is going a bit more in-depth. Their Orbital and Sandbox reviews are up now, with Assembly coming tomorrow. Check 'em out! Update: Assembly is up now - quite a bit earlier than expected. (Louis Wu 22:49:01 UTC) (permalink)
Tag and Release: Sunset
It's Monday, so it's time for another flexing of the Bungie.net tag system's muscle - this time, urk's picked 'Sunset' as the key. Great shots!
(Louis Wu 22:48:16 UTC) (permalink)
This is getting out of hand.
More Halo Wars stuff - Maybe Luke's right, maybe we should change our domain to Halo.ensemble.org...
- mendicantbias00 found an official Halo Wars flash site on Xbox.com - high on glitz, pretty low on actual information. Fun to browse, though. A pair of Wallpapers (one UNSC, one Covenant) are available for download, once you're past the region/faction choosing phases.
- Joystiq's giving away copies of the game - one per day for the next three days. Swing by for today's chance.
Who was that other company that made Halo games? (Louis Wu 20:49:33 UTC) (permalink)
How many marines is too many?
Last week, we got word from Sk1ll4x3D of a rather bizarre glitch he experienced in The Storm - it was a case of multiplying marines. He'd kicked off a thread on Bungie.net... but there were no videos, and I was in no shape at the time to go watching in-game videos. I set it aside... and forgot about it. This weekend, another user, rewep, went in and captured the footage and put it on YouTube, and Sk1ll4x3D let us know about it this morning. The video's really long (almost 10 minutes)... but you can get a good sense for what's going on in just a few of those. Pretty weird - I wonder if anyone will figure out how to re-trigger it? (Louis Wu 19:41:08 UTC) (permalink)
Inertia
Over at the Bungie Blog, a really interesting film is highlighted - it shows off a jump style that takes advantage of kinetic transfer of energy. These guys got to some great places in the Halo campaign! (Louis Wu 19:34:23 UTC) (permalink)
Now, all I need is a road.
sorahn had a friend who worked for a street sign company last year... it's always good to take advantage of your friends. (Louis Wu 19:09:31 UTC) (permalink)
Hard Justice Episode 13
Hard Justice, Episode 13 (Resignation Act Three) is now online - it closes out the series. This series began as a light-hearted farce (almost too MUCH of a farce)... but it was pretty serious by the time it wrapped up. If you've been following, go watch the end! Thanks, urk. (Louis Wu 19:01:54 UTC) (permalink)
Think Jack and the Beanstalk... with lasers
pete_the_duck looked into the issue of building towers that start on Sandbox's ground level... and climb into the skybox. What he found was pretty interesting. Check out the post! (Louis Wu 14:56:50 UTC) (permalink)
Halo Wars Soundtrack Review
Fangoria has reviewed the Halo Wars soundtrack - they gave it a 2.5/4 (I think). Read the full review (and listen to sample tracks) on their site. (Louis Wu 14:52:51 UTC) (permalink)
Halo-related Art Roundup
Bunch of art news this morning:
- PsH Bling tried his hand at the whole tilt photography thing - you'll find the results over at High Impact Halo, or in his DeviantART gallery.
- Tony 'ubald' Marcotte sent word of another new render, which we've added to his gallery here - this one looks a little scary for the Marine!
- Decadence Night stopped by with word of some brand new panoramas... and one of the best games of his life (with pics). It's all viewable at his blog, Decayed Panoramas.
Pretty, pretty! (Louis Wu 14:33:06 UTC) (permalink)
Cogs in the Machine
TTL Demag0gue stopped in with word of Reclaimer 160 - it's Part Nine (and the last part) of Reclaimer: Mythic Edition, and it's one last look at Viper's no-so-happy origins. (Louis Wu 14:31:09 UTC) (permalink)
Halo Babies Mythic Haiku Winners
Halo Babies has announced the winners of its Mythic Map Pack Code giveaway for Haikus - they got 1500 entries, and three of those won a code. You can see the winners, the runners-up, and even the top 36. There are also some of the WORST entries... some are hilarious. (Louis Wu 14:28:24 UTC) (permalink)
4v4 MLG Team Slayer Tournament
Nathan Moeller let us know that Competitive Video Games is running a 4v4 Team Slayer tourney, on March 7th, 3pm CST. Swing by the site for more details. (Louis Wu 14:27:51 UTC) (permalink)
Master Chief is a Bully
FireDragon04 and some friends created a short video for a competition in the UK - it was a project to promote legal downloading, starring the Master Chief. Since the competition is over, he's put the video up for public consumption. (He was behind the camera, not in the suit.)
(Louis Wu 14:27:23 UTC) (permalink)
Officer's Mess
Halo Action Figure Theater updated again this weekend - you ask me, things are getting tense. (Louis Wu 14:26:58 UTC) (permalink)
Blog Banter - Melding Worlds
Hawty McBloggy would love you to weigh in on a discussion about non-gaming spouses, and what's reasonable in terms of getting them on board with your gaming obsession. This article is the first in a week-long series of pieces from the gameblogging community, and it involves the tale of a man who attempts to bribe his wife into playing Halo. Would this work for you (or your significant other)? (Louis Wu 14:26:24 UTC) (permalink)
Unlucky Elite 4
Jamie T did a fantastic job of incorporating the recent Christian Bale meltdown into an episode of Unlucky Elite - go watch Unlucky Elite 4 and smile. (Or cry for the poor Elite, I guess.)
(Louis Wu 14:25:49 UTC) (permalink)
Halo Wars News Roundup
Bunch of Halo Wars tidbits came through the wires today:
- Xbox.com is hosting a Play & Win Sweepstakes - register (by downloading a gamer picture off of Xbox LIVE), then play a multiplayer game online between March 6-8. 29 people will win, with prize packages ranging from 500 MS Points all the way up to a 52 inch LCD, plus home theater system.
- Grunts R Us has posted a Halo Wars Skull Guide. As always with this sort of things, you're best served looking for them on your own... but I guess it's here, if you need/want it.
- blackouTT let us know that TheDigitalSet.com has released their first podcast, and one of the topics in this week's 'cast is Halo Wars.
- The official Halo Wars website has a global stats page - and total gametime has already exceeded 4 years. Wow. Thanks, Spartan-056.
- WorthPlaying reviewed Halo Wars - they said it's the "closest that an RTS console game has come to success in recent memory." (They gave it a 7.7/10.)
- The St. Petersburg Times also reviewed Halo Wars - they called it "an RTS for the crowd that doesn't like RTS games," and were overall quite positive.
- NeoXDonut remixed released Halo Wars footage into his own trailer, in anticipation of release here in the US.
That's it for this morning... (Louis Wu 14:24:17 UTC) (permalink)
Catching up with Halo 3 Fails
Tons of stuff fell through the cracks this weekend - let's see if we can scrape some of it back up. chris10023 let us know about a couple of new 'Halo 3 Fails' videos - Top 10 of Season 1 went live on Friday, and Episode 11 (which I suppose is the start of season 2?) went live yesterday.
(Louis Wu 14:23:47 UTC) (permalink)
Sunday's news in brief:
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Ask the Rookie Update Mythic Map Previews More Tilt Photography Mythic Madness takes its toll A found Halo artist Weekend Comics Bob - for real Views from the Edge goes Mythic Opticast Episode 1 |
Saturday's news in brief:
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HBO Mythic Map Code Giveaway, Round 2 - Results |
