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VentureBeat talks to Frankie
DEEP NNN noticed a video interview on VentureBeat - Frank O'Connor talks about the upcming Defiant Map Pack and the transition from Bungie to 343. Although this has been pretty obvious for quite a while, it's nice to hear it stated outright that the Noble Map Pack was Bungie's last foray into Halo mapmaking... period. (DEEP NNN typo'd the subject line of his post, but he MEANT that Noble was Bungie's last Reach DLC.) (Louis Wu 21:53:26 UTC) (permalink)
Arby 'n' The Chief: Drunken Halo
Arby 'n' the Chief has Episode 6 of Season 5 up and online - everyone hates Arbiter, I guess, except the giant spider. And maybe Trent. We're back in soap-opera mode... thanks to Moorpheusl9 for the heads-up. (Louis Wu 21:46:03 UTC) (permalink)
What makes games competitive?
ANUBIS x MT let us know that a clan member of his wrote up an article about movement - why it's important in competitive games, how that applies to several games (including Halo 2, Halo 3, and Reach). Give it a read! (Louis Wu 17:34:45 UTC) (permalink)
Behold the Chickenpede!
I've seen a couple of sketches on various forums - but ZZoMBiE13 took the whole 'visualizing the Chickenpede' thing to a new level. A level that... scares me. (Louis Wu 16:59:50 UTC) (permalink)
Falcons and Hogs
Hedgemony created a couple of ginormous panoramas from Reach - flavored by his own special brand of image manipulation. Really, really nice work. Go see. (Louis Wu 16:55:33 UTC) (permalink)
Cats, Controllers, and Socks
Taco Power filmed an all-night gaming session, and produced a surprisingly watchable timelapse video of the event. Since Halo: Reach played a large part over the course of the night, we considered this to be Halo-relevant. Go see! (Louis Wu 16:53:04 UTC) (permalink)
Random Web Roundup
I went through some old Google alerts (yes, yes, I'm still catching up), and found a few articles that may tickle your fancy.
- Todd McFarlane talked to the G4 crew about the future of his company's Halo toys.
- Fanboys vs Haters is a conversation on an Australian website about the merits and faults of Halo.
- Electronic Theatre looked at the Top Ten Combat Drops in video games. Yes, ODST's opening drop made the cut.
Go catch up! I'm getting there myself. (Louis Wu 16:50:30 UTC) (permalink)
Fan Fiction Update - very, very late
Apologies - in the chaos of the last couple of weeks, the Fan Fiction section has languished unforgotten. (Thanks to CaptainRaspberry for the heads-up about this.) I've just gone through and cleared out the queue - there were three poems that had been amongst the lost material from January and early February (now resynched to their original comments), along with four new pieces. Grab a cuppa joe and get reading! (There are still seven stories that were lost but have not been re-uploaded by their writers - four of them from one writer alone! If you submitted content in January, please - check this page, and see if a story you created is on it. If so... PLEASE resubmit. Thanks.) (Louis Wu 14:55:56 UTC) (permalink)
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