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Big Numbers
Although they're not listing the total number of units, Microsoft has revealed (via an earnings call today, courtesy of GamesBeat) that Reach generated $350 million in its first 16 days on the market - a decent guess is over 5 million units sold. That's a lot of pizza and Xbox... (Louis Wu 22:26:13 UTC) (permalink)
Carved Beauty
Halo Waypoint has a photo of a pretty amazing Halo pumpkin - check it out. Don't let it make you discouraged, though, if you're planning on entering our contest; we've got multiple prizes. (Louis Wu 22:23:31 UTC) (permalink)
Halo CE News Roundup
Our man in the field send us a list of some cool goings-on in the Halo CE community:
- Precipice has been updated - you can watch the whole video, or you can jump in about 40 seconds for the good stuff.
- If you have an ATI 5 or 6 series card, you can have anti-aliasing in your Halo. Wow.
- Halo Custom Edition is getting bots - awesome!
- If you're a .NET programmer, BlamLib will let you interface with Halo's Tag System. Definitely tech-heavy... but pretty amazing!
- Ifafudafi's Plasma Pack 3 does really funky things with needles. Go look.
- Project Epsilon is Inferno's single player map based on the character Agent Washington from Red vs Blue. It has voice acting and custom animations!
- Someone built a Target Locator in Halo CE. No visuals yet (it's a pistol)... but ti's just as deadly as the Reach version. Pretty snazzy!
Sort of incredible how much stuff is still happening - and how much of it is GOOD. (Louis Wu 21:48:50 UTC) (permalink)
Mood Swings
Geezer Gamers' Sheriff_Bullock has an article called "Six reasons why a HALO hater loves REACH" - it's bringin' 'em back in, baby! (Louis Wu 21:17:52 UTC) (permalink)
Snipers Game Commentary
Mantis_7 let us know that he recorded a game of Snipers Pro on Atom, and added some commentary; if you're an expert, you won't really get anything from this, but if you find yourself more dead than alive, there are tips here that can shift that balance. (Louis Wu 21:17:33 UTC) (permalink)
Map Spotlight Week 2 - Castle Greenskull
Bungie.net's got a new fan-created map on display in a rascal cat's second Map Spotlight feature - Castle Greenskull comes from ibmeubu, and is set up for large games. Go check out the pictures and video! (Louis Wu 21:17:02 UTC) (permalink)
Halo Cutscene Library gets new goodies
Cody Miller recorded a few new bits for our Cutscene Library - an easter egg from ODST (we'd documented it before, but now it's part of the Library), an easter egg from Reach (discussed on our forum, but not previously in the Library), and a dialogue variant that ties in nicely with information available in the Halsey Journal (which comes with the Limited and Legendary editions of Reach). Awesomesauce! (Louis Wu 18:05:11 UTC) (permalink)
National Gaming League Event info
Jay Alexander, Director of the National Gaming League, let us know that the next NGL event is going to be in Cincinnati. More details can also be found on the NGL website. Pretty cool! Go and check it out! (GrimBrother One 16:36:11 UTC) (permalink)
IGN Top 10 Kills
IGN has a new Halo Reach Top 10 Kills up. Some pretty sweet ones in there! Thanks to ChrisTheCrappy for the heads up.
(GrimBrother One 14:19:22 UTC) (permalink)
The Spirit of Haloween
Make sure to stop by Waypoint today to check out their feature on the Covenant Spirit Dropship. A nice little bit of info, and some very nice renderings. I really like little things like this...
(GrimBrother One 13:26:00 UTC) (permalink)
Yet more fails
chris10023 sends along a video containing another collection of Halo Reach Fails. I definitely laughed at a few of these moments, go and check 'em out!
(GrimBrother One 13:18:26 UTC) (permalink)
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