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Tuesday, August 25, 2009 |  |
Bungie-Inspired Music from Nicholas Singer
Nicholas Singer has been writing music inspired by Bungie tunes for quite a while - and recently he sent along a whole passel of new pieces. We've gathered up everything he's done in one place; you can swing by the page for full details. He'd love it if you used his music in your Halo-related podcast or machinima; go listen to the pieces, and download anything you'd like to use! (Louis Wu 19:55:01 UTC) (permalink)
The Halo CE Chronicles: The Ring of Life, part 5
Dennis Powers let us know that The Halo CE Chronicles series 'The Ring of Life' part 5 of 6 is now up - you can download it or stream it from the Halomaps website. The marines need to find a way to stop those Sentinels... and the Commander comes to grips with a hard fact. (Louis Wu 18:12:33 UTC) (permalink)
Average Joe - Ponkapoag
Another Average Joe has been profiled over on the Bungie Blog - Ponkapoag tells you who he is, what he plays, and how you can find him. Go read! (Louis Wu 18:03:48 UTC) (permalink)
Tuesday Montage Goodness
urk keeps me busy watching montages - and I'm gonna pass them on to you. HalCharts has put together a staff-based montage - go watch Prophecy. And last week we mentioned a trailer for Shattered 2, a montage featuring Sargoth - the full vid is out now. (Louis Wu 18:00:05 UTC) (permalink)
MLG against the World
Think you're better than the guys who cover the Halo pros? Looks like the staff from MLGPro.com, plus a few pros, will be entering matchmaking for a 4-hour world challenge. If you're at least a 40 in MLG, you've got a chance of meeting up with them on September 10. Swing by B.net or MLGPro.com for full details on the teams, and what sort of ego stroking you can expect if you win. (Louis Wu 17:56:34 UTC) (permalink)
It's a party!
Ready Up Live is coming up on their second anniversary - and to celebrate, they're giving away a ton of stuff. Swing by the site tomorrow to get in on the festivities! (More details at Bungie.net.) (Louis Wu 17:43:15 UTC) (permalink)
An Absolutely Key Title
MCV has an article about the marketing plans for Halo 3: ODST (at least in the UK). They're planning on promoting this title heavily past the Christmas season (which probably means no DLC versions of the last three Mythic maps for a long time - a serious downer, if it turns out to be true). They're also planning 'mulitiple ads [and] sponsorship of key shows' - that sounds relatively unique, in the world of video games. It'll be interesting to see how this plays out! (Halo Waypoint is clearly a large part of the equation.) (Louis Wu 17:13:12 UTC) (permalink)
Blue plasma keeps you warm.
Hawty McBloggy is back with another cool tattoo - illocon shows his love for the stickydoom by using his entire left arm. Nice ink! (Side bonus: this tattoo is instantly recognizable by anyone who's played more than a few minutes of Halo 3 - but it's abstract enough that non-Halo players won't be baffled.) (Louis Wu 13:28:08 UTC) (permalink)
Keep on Truckin'
XerxdeeJ stopped in with word of Tied the Leader member TTL Dren's experience with the ODST traveling roadshow as he dropped in Hillsboro, OR. Go read his impressions! (Louis Wu 13:22:24 UTC) (permalink)
Biting off and chewing
Ars Technica has an interview with Joe Staten - he discusses ODST voice acting (Nolan North, the voice of Halo Wars' Sgt Forge, is acknowledged for the first time that I've seen, though it's been speculated for weeks), the scope of the project, and canon. Nice read! (Louis Wu 13:04:48 UTC) (permalink)
Welcome to Firefight.
While you slept, Bungie posted 'Bip. Bap. Bam!', a brand-new ViDoc. Sargeant Avery Johnson walks you through Firefight, with his own inimitable style - an makes a case for the preorder. The camera work is gorgeous - watch this ViDoc in one of its HD formats, because it's droolworthy. Then watch it again. Bungie's got six flavors, including one with subtitles. Update: You can watch this puppy on your TV, if you like. (Louis Wu 12:28:05 UTC) (permalink)
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