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Tuesday, March 3, 2009 |  |
Master Chief - His tale is not yet (fully) told
I read this story in USA Today this morning, and came away with one thing - the Halo Wars giveaway (mentioned in the Halo Wars news roundup a few hours ago). Ars Technica read it, and did a better job - they noticed the quote from Frank O'Connor:
"I doubt we have seen the last of Master Chief."
It's been clear for a while that there's more Halo coming from Microsoft down the road... it's just a little bit of a surprise that the Master Chief will be there, too. (Louis Wu 19:28:42 UTC) (permalink)
Urrrrrkkkkkkkk....
Goodies this morning on the Bungie Blog:
- Stop-Motion Snake: I thought this was pretty darned cool. scott14755 recreated a game of 'Snake' in Forge, via stop-motion photography. (Well, screenshotography.) I loved it.
- Halotech.org is streaming gameplay on Mythic Maps for folks who don't have their own to play on.
- Skillz Like AI whipped up an artistic and restive display on Foundry... restive, that is, until you get hit. Then it's rather explosive. Nice work!
Time to look for our own content again... Update: two more from Bungie.net (is it time to retire?)... MLD (Major League Driving) Top 10 #3 is out - this one focuses on Warthogs. How bad does a gunner feel when his DRIVER picks up a Vehicular Manslaughter (10 splatters without dying) in the time that the gunner takes down 3 enemies? And a new Average Joe interview is up - this time with Predator5791 (who I was SURE had already done one of these, but I'm guessing I was just misremembering the Screenshot Artist Spotlight or maybe even Hawty McBloggy's interview). Go see what makes him do what he does! (Louis Wu 18:32:01 UTC) (permalink)
The Institute
anthraxgoon stopped in with word of X36 Chapter 2 Issue 6 - nice shots of Orbital... (Louis Wu 18:31:42 UTC) (permalink)
Halo Wars Strategy Guide Preview
If you want a sneak peek at the Halo Wars Official Strategy Guide, grab it from us - here are 12 pages of PDF goodness, straight from Prima. Enjoy! (Louis Wu 18:11:50 UTC) (permalink)
Assembly... boring?
PC Magazine put up a review of the Mythic maps today... and while they loved Sandbox, they found Orbital and Assembly to be disappointing and tiresome. I guess it takes all kinds! (Louis Wu 17:08:26 UTC) (permalink)
Wonder if he paid full price?
Schedonnardus went to his local Gamestop last night in College Station, Texas, and ran into a Spartan-clad fan with a Brute Spiker. I dunno... the salesguy looks a little intimidated...
(Louis Wu 14:51:42 UTC) (permalink)
MicroMachinima Episode 2: HeadGON
Arm The Flag has posted the second in their 'MicroMachinima' series - this one is called HeadGON. It's only a minute and a half... go watch it!
(Louis Wu 14:50:28 UTC) (permalink)
Hawty's Goodies
Hawty McBloggy has a couple of goodies for you today - she's put together a set of eight Halo-themed 360 mods (some are great, some are awful, some are just plain funny), and she's uncovered a true Halo transformer on eBay - it's a Warthog that transforms to a Spartan (well... sort of a Spartan). Check it out! (Louis Wu 14:50:05 UTC) (permalink)
Checking In
The Catfish stopped in with word of 2501 Episode 22. (Louis Wu 14:49:44 UTC) (permalink)
HW News Roundup
Halo Wars news this morning:
- oriol003 stopped by with a list of new guides Grunts R Us have posted
- USA Today is giving away five copies of the Limited Edition - register to win
- The Poughkeepsie Journal has a review of the game
Okay, back to BUNGIE-related stories... (Louis Wu 14:49:19 UTC) (permalink)
Halo Wars Universe Expanded: Act 3 - Ascension
Impervium was the first on our forum to notice that IGN has posted Part 3 of the Universe Expanded series of Halo Wars documentaries - this one is called 'Ascension'. It's a nice closeout of the series. A quote from Frankie: "Every time we add, we embrace." The Halo Story canon is definitely expanding...
(Louis Wu 01:15:57 UTC) (permalink)
Catching up to McDonalds
DarkSky Forever noticed it Sunday morning... but Bungie got around to posting fun stats on Monday afternoon. Sometime this weekend, the one billionth online match of Halo 3 was played, and recorded by the tireless databases living under the bedrock of Redmond. (Okay, I know they're not really in Redmond. Shut up.) RocketMoose did some calculating, and figured out that since Halo 3 hit the net a year and a half ago, more than 64,000 years of playtime have been spent playing Halo 3 by fans on LIVE. (Bungie also gave away two more Mythic codes in that newspost... all the more incentive to read closely!) (Louis Wu 01:12:50 UTC) (permalink)
Monday's news in brief:
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 |
