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Thursday, November 18, 2010 |  |
Forging Forth
Forge-related goodies for you today, courtesy of Bungie's Comm Chatter: XForgery is hosting a testing session you can join to get some feedback on your Forgetacular map entry (and maybe win some goodies), and a rascal cat has another Map Spotlight - this time, it's A Ghuta's map, Nostalgia. Go read about it! (Louis Wu 19:04:34 UTC) (permalink)
Reach Legendary - Half Off
If you wanted to get your hands on a Reach Legendary Edition, but thought $150 was too much - it's going for $75 right now as a Video Game Lightning Deal at Amazon.com. You've got three and a half hours left at this price (assuming they don't run out of stock sooner than that). Thanks, NameGenerated. (Louis Wu 18:25:15 UTC) (permalink)
Tracking Usage
Bungie.net member ev1l tr1t0n has kicked off a small project to map Halo's online population - there's a thread on Bungie.net, and a website containing the relevant charts. Interesting info for the stats-minded among us! (Thanks to chess, at NeoGAF, for the heads-up.) (Louis Wu 18:18:21 UTC) (permalink)
Halo Through the Ages
The Bees Knees' Willeth and some friends set up a nice comparison - check out Combat Evolved! (1080p version of the Reach shot is in his Fileshare.)
(Louis Wu 17:51:30 UTC) (permalink)
Manly Tears
Mendicant Bias noticed that a recent episode of Manly Guys Doing Manly Things (a strip created for an Escapist contest not to long ago, that now lives comfortably on its own) features your favorite 26th-century supersoldier, among other video game luminaries. (The text below the comic can help with context, if you don't recognize the song.)
(Louis Wu 17:24:14 UTC) (permalink)
Battle: Los Angeles Reinvisioned
Treeskunk decided to recreate the Battle: Los Angeles trailer in Reach (you can see the original here) - it seems to be more of a 'feeling' recreation, rather than a literal transcribing of the scenes. Either way - go look!
(Louis Wu 17:23:44 UTC) (permalink)
Another look at video game movies
Morpheus noticed an IGN article entitled 'How To Make Video Game Movies Not Suck' - Halo is a big part of it. Interesting read! (Louis Wu 17:23:17 UTC) (permalink)
BMF Noble Fundraiser Results and stats
Didn't remember to post this on Tuesday, when FyreWulff announced it - but his Noble Fundraiser (with funds going to the Brian Morden Foundation) ended up bringing in $301 from generous Halo fans - nicely done! Read FW's post for a full breakdown. (Louis Wu 17:22:38 UTC) (permalink)
Halowars.com - the end is nigh
Hydranockz, at NeoGAF (and FyreWulff, on our forum) pointed out that the Halo Wars website is going offline on December 19 - the Halo Waypoint team are making a forum to give folks a place to discuss the game, but the other functions of the website (most notably online stat tracking, as Bungie.net does for Halo 2, 3, ODST, and Reach) will be disappearing forever. Bummer! (Halo Wars Title Update 5 will unhook the game from the website, and fix a few small bugs.) The discussion on our forum, at least, has ventured towards what this might imply about stats tracking once Bungie is gone from the Halo series... no statement has been made by anyone about this. (Bungie's still in business, while Ensemble ceased to exist right after Halo Wars was finished.)
(Louis Wu 17:21:39 UTC) (permalink)
Wednesday's news in brief:
Tuesday's news in brief:
