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Tuesday, July 6, 2010 |  |
Things that make you go 'hmm...'
Been a little while since I used that headline... but Laird found a collection of images at Sterling Davis Photo labeled 'Biscuit Filmworks/Halo', showing off some greenscreened photography of what LOOKS like a Noble Team Spartan. (The armor looks like Kat, but the model's a man.) This went down in Los Angeles, but there's no date anywhere. Could this be related to tomorrow's Bungie Day reveal... or is it something else? Curiouser and curiouser... Update: found a blog entry tied to the gallery; this was posted a week ago Saturday. As Davis mentions, Biscuit Filmworks was involved in the 'Birth of a Spartan' piece - maybe this is a followup? Update: Guess these were causing Sterling Davis a headache; they're offline now. (Louis Wu 19:27:27 UTC) (permalink)
Birth of a Trailer
There's an interesting breakdown of the visual effects used to create the 'Birth of a Spartan' trailer for Halo Reach over at fxguide - discussion includes choice of environment, how the external shots were done, what was modeled and what was real, how the medical stuff was handled. Pretty fascinating stuff! Thanks to Mariachi for noticing. (Louis Wu 19:14:51 UTC) (permalink)
Fall of Beta 9-10
pete_the_duck's Fall of Beta story gets another pair of pages - he's up to Page 10 now. The game's afoot! (Louis Wu 15:57:20 UTC) (permalink)
HaloChallenges Wants YOU
Looking for ways to show off your Halo skillz? Stop by HaloChallenges, recently opened by the crew of HaloCharts. At the moment, there are 6 Firefight challenges, 1 ODST Campaign challenge, and Splatacular 2010 - a vehicular challenge that needs to be entered by July 31 - with more the way. Go explore... and get to proving yourself! (Louis Wu 14:40:01 UTC) (permalink)
Bungie Day - keep your expectations in check
For folks expecting massive reveals/gifts/whatever from Bungie tomorrow... pare back your expectations. Brian Jarrard posted a note at NeoGAF that because of internal schedules and travel, Bungie had to outsource their 'official Bungie Day surprise' - no word as to who. It should be something good, though! (And in unrelated news... congrats, urk!) (Louis Wu 14:26:25 UTC) (permalink)
Top 10 Best Halo 3 Screenshots of All Time
Hawty McBloggy has posted what she considers to be the Top 10 Best Halo 3 Screenshots of All Time - definitely some impressive ones in there! (While you're visiting, remember that tomorrow is Bungie Day, so your chance to submit something cool for her community project is fast coming to a close. Gogogo! (Louis Wu 11:49:47 UTC) (permalink)
Halo Custom Edition News - the HaloMaps version
Dennis Powers sent us some statistics, and some intriguing creations, all seen at Halomaps.org recently. Since January 1 of this year, almost 300 new files have been added, and they're averaging almost 300,000 downloads/month - not bad for a 7-year-old product! Stuff you might want to look at: Noobyourmom has created a single-player campaign with role-playing elements in it - Halo Covert Ops currently has six maps (one | two | three | four | five | six) where you play as an ODST and are given a mission where you can make choices that determine the game play and storyline. Very cool! In addition, he mentioned another few maps worth taking a look at (some we already highlighted last month - this is just the new stuff):
- Sandtrap Classic by Jesse
- CMT Cliff Run (beta) by CMT
- Tlmp Harbinger by Inferno and Snafubar
- Dtsp by DSalimander (custom single-player)
- Campagne2 by Ozhimer (custom single-player)
Go browse - tons of stuff! (Louis Wu 11:44:10 UTC) (permalink)
Preorder Reach, save $15
dogchow33 pointed out that Newegg is offering the standard copy of Reach for $15 off today - the $44.99 with free shipping deal is good until 11:59pm PT today, according to their weekly email flyer. If you were looking to preorder to save a little money, here's a chance!
(Louis Wu 11:42:40 UTC) (permalink)
Halo Reach: Elite Power Rangers
ElzarTheBam pointed out another video showing off modded content from Halo Reach - Elite models colored to look like Power Rangers! The video's ridiculously long for its content, but the creator really wanted to include the entire Power Rangers theme song. (Louis Wu 11:42:00 UTC) (permalink)
HLH - a growing collection
Hedgemony continues to add new assets to his 'shopped screenshot site - HedgemonyLovesHalo now contains over 300 images. He's nowhere near done yet, apparently... go browse the archives for some really cool bits of Reach screenshot art!
(Louis Wu 11:41:12 UTC) (permalink)
Noble Team Desktop
CaptainTony put together an understated desktop image, involving Noble Team - go check it out! (Louis Wu 11:40:53 UTC) (permalink)
Jumping in to someone else's universe
Tobias Buckell and a number of other authors talked to io9 about why established authors take on franchise tie-in writing gigs. Buckell's discussion focuses on The Cole Protocol and Halo, for the most part, but several of the authors involved have written Halo Universe stories. Nice read! Thanks, AngelicLionheart.
(Louis Wu 11:39:44 UTC) (permalink)
Exploring what happens offscreen
Newsarama talked to Brian Reed recently about his upcoming Halo comic series based on The Fall of Reach. It appears that the series coming out this fall is just the first in a SERIES of series. There are also other details which might give you a sense for what to expect this fall when the comics begin. Thanks, Hedge!
(Louis Wu 11:38:58 UTC) (permalink)
Monday's news in brief:
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Friday Night Firefight Returns Whipping Halo into Shape Reach Credits: Available in Campaign Love comes in lots of forms Spartan and Elite |
Sunday's news in brief:
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Headhunters (colored) Chill and Sober Halo 3 Dualtage More Reach Space Combat from GT Evolutions Re-Release The Bungie Day 2010 7th Circle Update One Life Remaining S2: Episode 4 |
