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Thursday, August 20, 2009 |  |
In the beginning was Cotton
Bungie continues its 'Interviews with the Creators' series started yesterday with Citadel - today, designer Lars Bakken and artists Matt Bennier and Ken Taya discuss Longshore. Lots of cool info on the creation of the map, plus some sweet screenshots - go check it out! (Louis Wu 21:13:16 UTC) (permalink)
Community Cartographers - Bulwark
It's Thursday, so there's a new Community Cartographer spotlight up at Bungie.net - this week, MADMAN Redux talks about his map Bulwark. Go read about it, check out the pics and video, and then download a copy for custom games! (Louis Wu 19:33:02 UTC) (permalink)
Vertical Limit
BacKtoBasiKs has posted a Halo 3 Trick Jumping Montage - more than 9 minutes long (well, actually, around 6 minutes total if you cut off the intro and credits), some of these jumps have been seen in other vids, but some are new, and quite cool. Check 'em out! Thanks, urk. (Louis Wu 18:27:59 UTC) (permalink)
Top THAT!
Two Top 10 acronym vids for you, courtesy of the BungLog™:
- Anoj is back with Episode 39 of his Top 10 Halo 3 Series - this one focuses on WTF moments. Laaaaag...
- Kampy's Multi-Kills are the subject of the latest Ten FTW vid - I think the announcer might need some throat tea after this one.
Twenty clips, 12 mintues. Go watch. (Louis Wu 17:07:12 UTC) (permalink)
Lars in Charge
Gamespot interviewed Lars Bakken about the three Mythic maps coming with Halo 3: ODST - he discusses where the maps came from, and what needs each one fills. This was released a week ago, but we didn't hear about it until today, when Minime637 pointed it out. (Louis Wu 16:28:12 UTC) (permalink)
But I wrote my name on that one!
Captain Spark sent along another 30 Halo 3 dialogue snippets for our Dialogue Databank - some really funny ones in this batch! He also recorded some civilians; I didn't even know they HAD lines! Go listen. (Louis Wu 15:48:55 UTC) (permalink)
Rally Map Footage from IGN
IGN has a bunch of shakey-cammed footage filmed at Gamescom, showing off the Rally Point map - swing by to check it out. Thanks to 2900d4u for the heads-up. (Louis Wu 14:45:32 UTC) (permalink)
Halo 3: ODST - Traveling Across America
Remember that truck that Halo Waypoint teased you about recently? The one with cool ODST stuff on the inside? Well, it's headed out across the US, and if it's coming to a location near you, you'll be able to try out Firefight for yourself! Check out the full press release at Gamerscoreblog. Thanks to Mrs MadMax, who noticed the writeup at Major Nelson's blog. (Interestingly enough, she knew about this before her husband - you know, the guy who works at Bungie.) (Louis Wu 14:41:11 UTC) (permalink)
'I need a weapon': less than 140 characters.
Hawty McBloggy has gathered up another 10 random tweets about Master Chief - I still don't get Twitter. (Louis Wu 11:30:30 UTC) (permalink)
Killakatari, dude.
Morpheus announced a little contest on our forum - he's looking for names for the next three multikills in the Halo universe (after Killpocalypse (9) and Killionaire (10)). Can you come up with cool names for 11, 12, and 13 kills? Winner gets a 1600 point card. Read his post for full rules.
(Louis Wu 10:59:22 UTC) (permalink)
Halo 3 Co-op Night
Seems tonight (August 20) is Halo 3 Co-op Night, according to Co-Optimus.com and Xbox.com. Get together with friends... and coop! Thanks to Morpheus for the heads-up. (Louis Wu 10:58:51 UTC) (permalink)
ODST in OXM
LoneRanger 2.5 stopped in to mention that OXM's newest issue has a cover story on Halo 3: ODST - but warns that it's full of information that might ruin some surprises for you. Marty O'Donnell backed him up. Update: 2900d4u supplied a scan of the cover. Cool art! (Louis Wu 10:58:06 UTC) (permalink)
Halo Wars Dev Blog: Playtesting
Halo Wars designer David Leary has written another Developers Blog entry over at HaloWars.com - this one focuses on playtesting. Give it a read! Thanks, 2900d4u.
(Louis Wu 10:57:24 UTC) (permalink)
Crater(Day), from Gamescom
Minime637 noticed a new Gamescom-originated video, this one showing off Crater(Day). (We've seen the Crater map before - but only the night version.) Swing by YouTube to watch. (Louis Wu 10:56:36 UTC) (permalink)
Feature This!
FyreWulff thought it might be easier to understand how Halo 3 and Halo 3: ODST intersect if he created a spreadsheet. Nice work! (Louis Wu 10:54:27 UTC) (permalink)
Sticks and Stones
A new campaign aimed at increasing sensitivity towards hurtful language has been launched - Think B4 You Speak is supposed to teach people that word choice is important. Mike LaBossiere, a professor of philosophy at Florida A&M, has written a piece for Talking Philosophy tying this campaign in to online gaming, and Halo in particular. Solid read - it's a subject that's worth looking at, but maybe this new campaign isn't the right approach. (Penny Arcade's Tycho agrees.) (Louis Wu 10:49:07 UTC) (permalink)
A nice deal for Canadian gamers
Looks like EBGames Canada is offering their "Gaming Guarantee" to Halo 3: ODST; if you buy it and don't like it, you've got a week to return it for full (pre-tax) credit (spendable only in-store, but still). Not a bad offer! (Louis Wu 10:48:07 UTC) (permalink)
Early Intel: Rally Point
Bungie's posted an article they call 'Early Intel: Rally Point' - it's basically a pair of new screenshots from the Campaign, along with a little bit of setup for them. (There's also word of a new ViDoc, seeing the light of day at Gamescom in Germany this week, but hopefully coming to the web soon.)
(Louis Wu 10:45:21 UTC) (permalink)
Grifball Goodies from Pup and Friends
Pup and Friends were back at it in August - there's another Grifball Double XP highlights reel online for your viewing pleasure. Go watch! (Thanks to urk for the heads-up - and if you read the bnet blog post, you'll learn some PAX-related Grifball info... check it out!)
(Louis Wu 10:43:57 UTC) (permalink)
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