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Buy a Wristband, help the Japanese
Yeah, so remember when we mentioned that Bungie cares? Check their front page right now - they're selling wristbands to raise money for Japanese tsunami victims. All of the proceeds from their sale, plus all of the profits from the whole Bungie Store until April 30, go to aid efforts. Buy yourself one! (Louis Wu 21:42:39 UTC) (permalink)
Halo Marathon for Child's Play
We heard from Joshua Stark, the manager of Frags Out Of Love - this group is currently running a Halo marathon for charity. They started this morning, 8 am MST, with Halo - and they're going to continue through Halo 2, Halo 3, ODST, and Reach. They're expecting to be playing for 40+ hours, and money collected by watchers will be donated to Child's Play. Swing by their website to follow the live stream - and toss 'em a few bucks! (Louis Wu 21:39:45 UTC) (permalink)
Beginning of the End
More awesome panos from BlueNinja - go see. (Louis Wu 21:04:07 UTC) (permalink)
More Defiant Codes, this time at EA
It's cold and rainy outside, so ElzarTheBam continues to trawl the internet, scooping up tasty Halo morsels for your dinner plate. EvilAvatar has 5 Defiant codes - post in this thread on their forum, and Friday they'll pick 5 winners at random. (Louis Wu 21:01:34 UTC) (permalink)
It would look even weirder.
Frankie noticed that Toys R Us has a bit of a typo going on the page selling a pair of adorable Halo Minimates... but MAN I'd buy a Mister Chief if someone made one. In fact, I'd buy a dozen. Update: That Grim... always makin' me look bad! (I'd feel less embarrassed if the timestamps on these two posts weren't almost half an hour apart... I've got no excuse at all for missing his update.) (Louis Wu 20:56:31 UTC) (permalink)
Hopes Raised... And Then Dashed
In news not noticed by ElzarTheBam, Frankie found something over at the Toys R Us website that made me inappropriately excited. An ad for a Mister Chief MiniMates figure. Unfortunately, it was just a typo, but a cool little addition to any Halo collection nonetheless. Join us in lamenting what could have been... (GrimBrother One 20:30:18 UTC) (permalink)
Added Verticality and Consistent Quality
NowGamer also published a review of the Defiant Maps - their biggestripe was cost. Thanks (again), ElzarTheBam. (Louis Wu 18:32:04 UTC) (permalink)
Halo Reach: Top 10 Firefight Moments
Episode 17 of Anoj's Top Ten Halo Reach series is live on YouTube now - great Firefight moments are great. Thanks, urk. (Louis Wu 18:24:00 UTC) (permalink)
Watch the BAFTAs live!
Bry reminds us that the BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) Video Game Awards are being broadcast live from their website at 8:45pm GMT (just an hour and a half from the writing of this post). Reach is up for four awards - good luck! (Louis Wu 18:21:37 UTC) (permalink)
More Defiant Codes, from TheHDRoom
ElzarTheBam wants to dominate the news page today. To that end, he's dug up yet ANOTHER opportunity to snag a free Defiant Map Pack code - follow TheHDRoom on Twitter, or Like them on Facebook. (The first code has been posted already, but there are 4 left.) (Louis Wu 17:51:55 UTC) (permalink)
Doing Good
Those of us who've followed Bungie for a while know that they care a lot about people outside their studio - looks like the world's gonna know that, too. NowGamer noticed that Bungie has filed a new trademark registration - 'Bungie Foundation', with the following description in the 'Goods and Services' section: "Providing grants to charitable, arts, non-profit, and community organizations". Go Bungie! (Thanks to ElzarTheBam for catching this.) (Louis Wu 16:27:31 UTC) (permalink)
Tenth Anniversary MC from McFarlane
Heh - nice. McFarlane will be releasing a 10th Anniversary Master Chief this fall - and it looks like the in-game (blocky) model. Pretty cool! Thanks, ElzarTheBam (who found it at Kotaku). (Louis Wu 16:08:28 UTC) (permalink)
Passing on the Legacey
CruelLEGACEY put together a really nice piece on his thoughts regarding the passing of the Halo torch. A good read by a passionate fan. Check it out! (GrimBrother One 15:02:31 UTC) (permalink)
Time as a Wheel
TTL Demag0gue let us know about the newest Reclaimer... definitely getting philosophical. (Louis Wu 14:02:53 UTC) (permalink)
Affinity for Defiance
XerxdeeJ stopped by to announce that Tied the Leader has awoken from its CoD-induced slumber (okay, I don't know WHAT they were playing recently, but it warn't Halo) - they have words of praise for Certain Affinity, and words of warning for players facing full Gunslinger teams in Matchmaking. Go read!
(Louis Wu 14:02:33 UTC) (permalink)
Video Games are the wave of the future
Been a long time since I saw an article like this one... feels good. (Louis Wu 14:02:11 UTC) (permalink)
Reach Service Record Android Update
Back in January, we mentioned a mobile app called Reach Service Record, that at the time was available for iPhones. It was made available for Android soon after, but with a limited featureset, compared to the iOS version. It's just gotten a big update, and now contains most of the iOS features, plus some bonuses! You can read about it (and download it) from the Android Market. It's free. You can't beat free! (Actually, several recent reviews suggest that the newest update might have broken some stuff... so maybe you want to wait a little bit. Shouldn't be long, though!)
(Louis Wu 14:01:43 UTC) (permalink)
MLG Fan-made Map Walkthroughs
Over at NeoGAF, Tashi0106 pointed out some walkthroughs of the two player-created maps that will be included in the 2011 MLG Pro Circuit. Interesting watch!
(Louis Wu 14:01:25 UTC) (permalink)
Inside the Defiant Map Pack
The Halo Waypoint team has put together some pretty useful info on the Defiant maps; swing by if you're looking for overviews, weapon locations, layout discussions, and more!
(Louis Wu 14:00:23 UTC) (permalink)
Defiant Map Pack Preview and Commentary
Missed this when it went up on Monday, but... ReadyUpLive's Greenskull previewed the Defiant Map Pack, with commentary. Give it a watch!
(Louis Wu 13:58:07 UTC) (permalink)
I just beat Tex
Cody Miller made me laugh.
(Louis Wu 13:57:46 UTC) (permalink)
Pup n' Friends - PAX East 2011
On Friday, at PAX East, during the Grifball panel, a very cool Grifball highlights reel was shown. It contained some truly amazing moves. Bungie.net highlighted this in the Friday news roundup, but I managed to miss it... if you missed it too, go read about it. Then watch it.
(Louis Wu 13:55:16 UTC) (permalink)
Right behind you
Rockslider's back, with a page of Grunt abuse and two new movies for you. He tortures some poor shade gunners... it's almost as if he tied cans to their tails! All the links you'll need are in his forum post.
(Louis Wu 13:54:55 UTC) (permalink)
Unearthing a Gem
GhaleonEB wrote a paean to Unearthed, the Firefight map included with the Defiant Map Pack. Go read why it's so good.
(Louis Wu 13:54:05 UTC) (permalink)
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