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Saturday, April 2, 2011 |  |
Chess on the Beach - and in SPACE
FyreWulff has been exploring the boundaries of the Halo Chess gametype baked into Halo (and revealed yesterday in the April Fool's Fails of the Weak episode) - he discovered that in addition to Forge World maps, you can play chess on both Tempest... and on Anchor 9. Awesome! (Louis Wu 20:26:15 UTC) (permalink)
HT wants to buy your following
Spencermx14 sent word that HaloTracks is having a Twitter follower drive for April; follow them before April 30, you're in the running for a copy of Alan Wake for the 360. (Louis Wu 20:22:46 UTC) (permalink)
Immortalized
The powerful Halo 3 tracks "Finish the Fight" and "Never Forget" have been remixed by Sole Signal into a piece called 'Immortalized'... I love it. Stop by OverClocked ReMix to grab a copy. (Louis Wu 18:13:32 UTC) (permalink)
More Halo Sculpts
Lance Rutledge sent along another batch of Halo sculpts - we've added them to his gallery page here. He let us know he's got a Facebook page devoted to these little guys, as well - check it out!
(Louis Wu 18:04:45 UTC) (permalink)
Halo: Reach - Death
Over at NeoGAF, Hitmonchan found a music video, created by spar7acvs, which does a pretty neat job of matching Halo Reach cutscene video to the lyrics in a song by White Lies. Give it a watch! (Louis Wu 16:36:04 UTC) (permalink)
Um... doesn't it have a top speed of 50mph?
Heh - fun. Apparently, a Forza 4 internal video leaked yesterday (it's in a lot of places - here's one), and about 1:10 into the video, logos of car companies whose products are in the game are shown in rapid succession. Included in this series is Asklon - the company behind Halo's Warthog. (They've made other vehicles, which is good - since the Warthog is not built for speed.) Thanks too Jayshum for pointing out the thread on a Forza forum. (Louis Wu 16:28:32 UTC) (permalink)
The Adventures of Koko Bear Chapter 1
kokobear (who used to upload here as Jamie98s) is back with 'The Adventures of Koko Bear Chapter 1', a very different sort of Halo machinima. In fact, Halo doesn't even make an appearance until three minutes into the video. (World of Warcraft's model viewer helps out at the start.) I'm pretty sure hallucinogens were involved in the writing of this machinima - but the end result is oddly compelling. Will Koko survive his meeting with the Watermelon King? You'll have to watch the next chapter to find out! (Louis Wu 16:01:26 UTC) (permalink)
Elegance
RVideo dropped in with word of an new community montage from Chaos Productions - it's definitely different from your run-of-the-mill montage. You'll have to watch it for yourself to see if that's good or bad; it's more about the editing than the gameplay, and for some people that's what pushes the envelope on montages, and for others it's what ruins them. There's no arguing that it's well-done, though - great blending of sound and action, great camera angles. Check it out for yourself! (Louis Wu 16:00:57 UTC) (permalink)
Fan-Driven Movie Rolls Film Today
Mr.Sci-Fi pointed out that the Halo Faith team has confirmed (via Twitter) that they're filming today. Looking forward to what comes out!
(Louis Wu 16:00:40 UTC) (permalink)
Bzzt! Done!
A few weeks ago, we pointed out an odd series of posts on our forum - an ARG, of sorts, had kicked off. When it got bigger than our main forum could handle, it moved over to args.bungie.org. Yesterday, Arithmomaniac came by to inform us, regretfully, that the game had wrapped up - sounds like participants really enjoyed themselves! (Yes, this was fan-driven and fan-created. So the folks who were only interested in participating if this were 'official', from 343 or a similar group, did the right thing by staying on the sidelines. Those who played, though, seemed to feel that the lack of 'officialness' did nothing to hurt the actual game.) Hopefully we'll see a post-mortem down the line, but for now, all of the content is available in our ARG forum! (A sincere thank-you to Dagoonite for setting this puppy up in the first place, and pretty much forgoing sleep for the last month.)
(Louis Wu 15:59:56 UTC) (permalink)
Spartan Warrior Continues
itsmyyard stopped in with word of Spartan Warrior, his gameshow where contestants run an obstacle course and are ridiculed for mistakes, but winners have a shot at a Kinect. Highlights from Tournament 2 are live, and signups for Tournament 3 are available. (75 people ran the course in Tournament 2. Nobody won.)
(Louis Wu 15:59:29 UTC) (permalink)
Frostbite Chapter 3
AlphaGamma let us know that Chapter 3 of his Frostbite series is now live. Some neat cinematography, go and give it a look! (GrimBrother One 13:52:13 UTC) (permalink)
BWU Brings the Love to your Desktop
If your desktop background has been feeling ignored lately, or maybe it's simply gotten a little stale, the Bungie Weekly Update will have your problem solved for the immediate future. Some simply incredible pieces of art from the Halo community in there. Bookended by some Jeff Steitzer epicness and a funny Blame Stosh, this BWU is a fine entry in a grand tradition. (As always, you can also read it in our Weekly Update Archive.) (GrimBrother One 00:44:54 UTC) (permalink)
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