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Tuesday, March 10, 2009 |  |
Biscuits, gravy, and the Perfect Storm
It's Tuesday, so it's time for another Average Joe interview on Bungie.net. Today's victim is LouieBlack, a driver with H3Wheelmen.com. Go see what makes him go! (Louis Wu 18:14:35 UTC) (permalink)
Halopen Pencast 06
Firestorm12 let us know that the Halopen Pencast 06 is now online - including impressions of the Mythic Maps. Discussion and comments always welcome on their forum... (Louis Wu 18:06:43 UTC) (permalink)
Applied to Life: Capture the Flag
One of my favorite new series is 'Applied to Life' - and they've got a new short up. This one is called 'Capture the Flag', and it proves you can find excitement in the most mundane of activities. I found it on Bungie.net. (Louis Wu 16:06:13 UTC) (permalink)
What's your handicap?
Greenskull and SMG90 spent who knows how long setting up a golf course on Sandbox - just so they could score a ridiculous hole-in-one from the Sky Bubble to the Crypt... with a LOT of stuff in the middle. Stick with the Bungie Blog - it'll post these for you so you don't have to build them yourself. (Louis Wu 16:04:57 UTC) (permalink)
Speed Forging
There's a whole community of folks that have fun building Forged maps as quickly as possible. Check out this video that showed up on the Bungie Blog for an example. (Forget the Forging... that DRIVING is amazing!) Then check out their YouTube channel for more. (Louis Wu 16:02:38 UTC) (permalink)
ForgeHub's Best of Forge: Fall/Winter 2008
ForgeHub has posted their 'Best of Fall/Winter 2008/09' competition - the best of the best, in 16 categories (plus a pair of runners-up in each category) means lots and lots of cool maps to try out! Thanks, urk. (Louis Wu 15:49:47 UTC) (permalink)
Ultimate Gamer kicks off tonight
Back in January, we mentioned 'Ultimate Gamer', a reality show focused on gamers competing in a variety of games. According to USA Today, the first episode (with Rock Band 2 being the game of choice) airs tonight at 10 PM on Sci-Fi. We'll mention it again when the Halo episode shows. (Louis Wu 15:44:49 UTC) (permalink)
A Side Note with Paul Shelley Episode 1
Paul Shelley, of Treeskunk Productions, sent us a link to his first Side Note - it's pretty crude, but in the spirit of Dirty Harry, it's not offensive to one particular group - they hate everyone equally. It's as close to an apology for any delay in content from Treeskunk as you're likely to get. (Louis Wu 15:35:47 UTC) (permalink)
RvB: Relocated Part 4
Rooster Teeth has posted RvB: Relocated Part 4 - an old friend returns, and a slow one becomes creepy (well, creepier). Shooting Grifs never gets old... and they're nicely set up for the next series. Thanks, PsycoJoe. (Louis Wu 13:03:46 UTC) (permalink)
A paper rifle takes shape
sbear stopped in with some pics of a pepakura rifle he's building, from a source file he got from the 405th. Great start!
(Louis Wu 13:03:14 UTC) (permalink)
Wait... Halo had dial-up communicating?
A company called 'PalTalk' is suing Microsoft for patent infringement on a pair of patents it bought from MPath Interacive; it says that the technology it now has the rights to was infringed upon by the Halo games. According to the article,
Microsoft said it did review the inventions and chose a different path in developing its games. The technology is for an older dial-up method of communicating between computers and "the patents don't cover the way the Halo games work," Pritikin said.
Bungie isn't even MENTIONED in the story. Doesn't sound like it'll go very far - but it's interesting to see what happens when you get big enough to be a target. (Louis Wu 12:35:08 UTC) (permalink)
Lando - First Blood Part II
Lando Griff1n sent word of his second Halo 3 montage - it's called 'Lando - First Blood Part II', and you can read about it (and download it) at Halo3Montage.com. Heavy on the effects, available in both a massive 470+ mb HD version, and a smaller (80 mb) version formatted for iPods - take a look! (Louis Wu 12:32:31 UTC) (permalink)
Inferring games from job listings
Hawty McBloggy ran across a Microsoft job listing for a software development engineer to help build what sounds like a successor to Bungie.net. An "immersive Halo world that follows the dedicated Halo fan wherever they go"? Hmm... (Louis Wu 12:32:12 UTC) (permalink)
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