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Inspiring Women Interview: Corrinne Yu
The Charisma+2 journalists at Kombo For Women talked to Corrinne Yu, the head of the Halo team at Microsoft. If you read carefully, there are some fun tidbits about upcoming Halo-related work in there! Overall, an interesting interview. Give it a read! Thanks, Jason Zook. (Louis Wu 23:30:48 UTC) (permalink)
UFOs make me laugh
urk pointed out 'Unidentified Failing Object', a 'failtage' showing off some pretty funny stuff. HD, 3 minutes, M.I.A. soundtrack. Go watch! (Louis Wu 23:29:30 UTC) (permalink)
More Faves from Real 7alk
Eep - almost forgot! Bungie's updated the Bungie Favorites files with the second batch of goodies from Real 7alk - go read about one of the maps on the Bungie Blog, then check out the rest! (Louis Wu 21:42:51 UTC) (permalink)
Master Chief CNC Super Project
Over at the Halo Maps forum, ChocolateNugget and Yodajammies are building Spartan Armor in a pretty unique way - they're milling the pieces on a CNC table, using 3D models, then molding and casting in more traditional methods. You can see a bunch of pictures in the HM thread - check it out! Thanks to Dennis Powers for the heads-up. (Louis Wu 19:56:51 UTC) (permalink)
Animation Exploration
There's a new developer blog entry over at HaloWars.com - one of the animators discusses the animations he created for the Arbiter and some Spartans. THere are sketches and a couple of short videos illustrating his text. Check it out! Thanks, 2900d4u. (Louis Wu 19:43:46 UTC) (permalink)
GCA 2009 - Nominees Announced
The Game Critics Awards Nominees for Best of E3 2009 have been announced - Halo 3: ODST pulled nominations for Best Action Game and Best Online Multiplayer Game. Winners will be announced on June 23 - stay tuned! (Louis Wu 17:08:05 UTC) (permalink)
Cheap ODST in the UK
Wow, nice. Bry noticed that Argos (a UK game distributor) is selling Halo 3: ODST for £26.99 (about $44, US) - a heck of a deal! If you live on that side of the pond, you might want to check this out. (Louis Wu 17:03:26 UTC) (permalink)
Game with Fame - Asher Roth
Rapper Asher Roth is the next celebrity to jump on Xbox LIVE to play Halo 3 with us little people - his Game with Fame session is Monday, June 24 at 4 pm ET. Read the Xbox.com page for full details! (Louis Wu 17:00:27 UTC) (permalink)
Halo vids to eat lunch by
Couple of entertaining clips for you today over at Bungie.net: 'Halo 3 AA Gun Strikes Back' shows that even machines can get in on the action... and 'Mini-Mythisode 1: Killing the Elephant Driver' looks at a strange glitch in the vulnerability of Elephant drivers, from the MythBusters crew. Go watch - they're both short! (Louis Wu 16:58:27 UTC) (permalink)
Wednesday Comic Roundup
Bunch of comic listings for you today:
- Dennis Powers let us know about Shipwrecked Episode 71 - Weather Watch on Monday afternoon. Sorry for the delay!
- The Catfish is back to updating Bungie.net about 2501 - episodes 64-66 can be found here, and 67 is here.
- Hawty McBloggy let us know about ODS Steve #29 - Backup; looks like the boys can't do it on their own.
- TTL Demag0gue stopped in with word of Reclaimer 195 - Sitrep - Tran begins to get Reclaimer some outside info.
- Bloogyo told us about Rat's Nest 18 6 - the story grows.
Go read 'em all! (Louis Wu 16:39:46 UTC) (permalink)
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