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Monday, December 14, 2009 |  |
Do a barrel roll.
urk let us know that One Life Remaining Season 1 Episode 7 is online - oh, the joys of working at a game store... (Louis Wu 17:37:52 UTC) (permalink)
Where's my shotgun?
Hawty McBloggy reminded us that the latest Grin + Bear It went up yesterday - beware of excited coworkers! (Louis Wu 17:36:18 UTC) (permalink)
Derivative Design, Nonsensical Script (in a good way)
The Guardian (in the UK) is putting together their list of the 'Top 50 Games of the Noughties' - and Halo 3 is in the first batch (50-31), at #41. Batch 2 (30-11) will be posted tomorrow. (Louis Wu 16:21:45 UTC) (permalink)
The Man Behind The Music
Channel9's tina10 interviewed Marty O'Donnell for Inside Xbox - you can watch it on Xbox LIVE right now. Marty holds forth on monks, mood changes, and getting it done. (Thanks, advent29.) Update: we've put up a 720p web version (h.264-encoded .mp4, 149mb) if you don't have access to LIVE. (Louis Wu 14:55:27 UTC) (permalink)
Rain
Wow - Arturs Pocapinskis stopped in with word of a piece of ODST art in pencil he created - go take a look! Really nice shading. (Louis Wu 11:41:27 UTC) (permalink)
I'd buy it.
Trunks knows what's coming next. (Louis Wu 11:33:29 UTC) (permalink)
Into the Light
Dhalo noticed that the Bungie.net Reach desktops now show the full Noble Team, not just their silhouettes. Go grab new copies! (Louis Wu 11:32:34 UTC) (permalink)
Looking behind the curtain
FyreWulff looked at some of the new tech on display in the Reach trailer; swing by to see how he believes Bungie's doing the magic they're doing, all without upgrading the 360 hardware. (On the other side of the aisle, Split-Screen believes it's all pretty faked - and owes what good looks it has to Killzone 2.) (Louis Wu 11:31:07 UTC) (permalink)
A Day at the Beach - on HBO, Finally
Way back in 2005, Bungie released the Halo 2 Multiplayer Map Pack - a disc which had a bunch of maps and a never-released-online video called 'A Day At The Beach'. (It's an ODST sidestory, rendered in the Halo 2 engine, and it ties together bits from the actual game by showing you what happened offscreen.) We were asked not to rip a copy and place it online, because it was one of the things that made the Map Pack worth buying - so we didn't. Very few people are playing Halo 2 any more, though, and I'm not even sure you CAN buy that disc at this point. (I take that back: Amazon has a seller with new copies, letting it go for the low, low price of $101.) Someone asked about this in our forum yesterday, and I remembered that I'd rendered versions to post last winter, but never got around to putting them online - so now they're up. You can grab it in WMP9 or QuickTime formats - both are about 70 mb, and come in at 960x540 (the largest I could render it at). If you've never seen this (it HAS been on YouTube, so it's not like we're first), grab a copy and enjoy it! (Louis Wu 11:29:33 UTC) (permalink)
Star Light, Star Bright
We missed this weekend's Top Ten Halo 3 Screenshots collection at Halo 3 Screenshots - the group is called 'Star Light, Star Bright', and has some truly beautiful imagery. Go by and look!
(Louis Wu 11:28:33 UTC) (permalink)
Bleak? That doesn't sound like Bungie.
OverHeat, over at NeoGAF, noticed a GameSpot story in which a 'source who has seen Halo: Reach first-hand' described the game as 'very bleak and violent', like a 'Gears of War with Spartans'. Hmm...
(Louis Wu 11:26:12 UTC) (permalink)
Say hi to Kurt when you see him
Iron Fist was the first to point out the official Reach press release from Microsoft - in case you weren't sure, your character in Reach is a Spartan III, not a Spartan II (like the Master Chief). The next few months should be interesting, as the Reach backstory begins to be fleshed out!
(Louis Wu 11:23:39 UTC) (permalink)
The imagery actually frightens me.
Tim Dadabo (the voice of Guilty Spark) wondered if anyone else noticed that the logo for Google Chrome looks like (in Tim's words) "Guilty Spark did it with a beach ball"? You decide. (Louis Wu 11:19:04 UTC) (permalink)
McFarlane Halo Series 8
In totally Reach-unrelated news, Littlebigman stopped in with a spawn.com announcement of their Series 8 Halo figures - more toys! (These won't be out until Summer 2010, though, so don't go looking for 'em for Christmas.) (Louis Wu 11:17:09 UTC) (permalink)
Alto solo from Deference For Darkness
Josh Ruble let us know about another self-taught Halo 3: ODST Alto Sax solo performed by Alacaboose... go listen!
(Louis Wu 11:15:38 UTC) (permalink)
Sunday's news in brief:
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The New Number Six |
Saturday's news in brief:
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Mandlbaum in: 'Core Tempature' [Part 3] The Package - just for one day Tune in! Child's Play Bungie Tour Details Wait... Reach? What's Reach? |
