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Look at all those clouds.
Capt Spanish took some GORGEOUS shots way, way, WAY outside of the Ark; they're linked in his forum post. (Louis Wu 20:56:34 UTC) (permalink)
Dated Eggs
RVideo let us know about a thread over at Halo3Forum which has pictures of other date-related goodies to be found on Valhalla. If you liked the Halloween tombstones, go see what they've found! Update: looks like they missed some; Grunts R Us found 2 more (Earth Day and Cinco de Mayo). Thanks, oriol. (Louis Wu 19:40:43 UTC) (permalink)
Forge Hub - Getting Better All the Time
TrueDarkFusion let us know that Forge Hub has expanded dramatically, and now contains a tutorial section along with new high-quality creations. Swing by and see what you can find!
(Louis Wu 19:39:08 UTC) (permalink)
Medal Search
It seems that a bunch of groups are using the recently-filled-out Infection medals to narrow down what's still missing from the medal chest. Herr Zrbo pointed out this thread at the Bungie.net forums - they're only missing one. And PEZ told us that halowiki.net is hunting down just a single medal - check the page for details. (It's the same one, for what it's worth.) Can you help? (Louis Wu 19:36:58 UTC) (permalink)
Lego Rifle
GryphonOsiris found (at TechEBlog) a Halo battle rifle made of Legos - and man, it's pretty impressive-looking! Update: DOH! PlasmaFire pointed out that this is just a mirror of a page we highlighted almost 2 years ago. Looks like the steel trap needs oiling again... (Louis Wu 19:33:10 UTC) (permalink)
Halo Repair
1UP has revisited an article from 2005 which discussed the ways in which Halo 2 'was broken'. They looked at the charges leveled in that piece against Halo 2, to see whether they were addressed in Halo 3. The upshot? According to 1UP, Bungie fixed most of what was supposedly wrong in 2005 - but broke a bunch of new stuff. Interesting sidenote - when that article was first published, I was significantly less dispassionate about it than I usually am about news bits; it seems that it actually offended me. (I actually lost respect for 1UP when they published it, because I didn't think it deserved the space it got.) Unfortunately... some of the new complaints are just as silly as the old ones. I'll agree with them on the spawn point issues, but the rest of the second page seemed like filler material. Thanks to Narcogen, at Rampancy.net, for finding this. (Louis Wu 19:30:38 UTC) (permalink)
Back from the Inside
Kornman00 has written up his tour of Bungie Studios, won in a charity auction back in March, and realized a couple of days ago. It's a five-page long PDF, downloadable from Halo 2 Vista Forums (follow the first link), and it's a great read, even if he WAS required to heavily censor himself. Go look! (Louis Wu 18:54:45 UTC) (permalink)
Thunderstorm
Rampancy.net has a guide to getting (and using) the Thunderstorm skull, from NThro. If you don't have this one, go read how to grab it - and then fight a newly-promoted Covenant army. (Louis Wu 18:38:12 UTC) (permalink)
The Scarab that Wouldn't Die
NOBLE STABBINGS stopped by our forum to point out a thread from High Impact Halo - it makes me giggle. He destroyed the scarab on the Ark before you were ever supposed to fight it... and it STILL showed up to the battle. This is really amazing. Go look! (There are links to pictures, movies, and a FileShare clip, so you can see it any way you want.)
(Louis Wu 18:34:08 UTC) (permalink)
The Storm, cleaned up
Morpheus managed to record the Storm's closing cutscene with no musical overlay; we'll likely do this again ourselves, at some point, just to keep formats consistent, but in the meantime, you can see/hear it with just the input from the scene itself if you follow links in his forum post. (Louis Wu 18:28:10 UTC) (permalink)
Haloween, revisited
One of those days - sorry for the lack of news. Yesterday a couple of people stopped by our forum with pictures of Halo-related Halloween costumes - Brandon found some pics online at a Predator forum - check the second picture down for a foam master chief and a purple Cortana. And HookMeUpImLocal posted a whole passel of pics of himself in a Mister Chief costume, meeting all sorts of other celebrities. I bet Frankie'd love one of those! (Louis Wu 18:25:50 UTC) (permalink)
Halo 3 Cutscene Library: Halo
The four cutscenes from the level 'Halo' are now online in our Halo 3 Cutscene Library. All that remains are the ending scenes of the game and the credits! (And, of course, the coop variations.) Enjoy. More news coming later today... (Louis Wu 13:53:47 UTC) (permalink)
Halloween Week Wrapup
The Bungie Weekly Update went up last night, as usual for a Friday - it contains info about some Bungie Favorites (including the recently-used Infection types that were played on Halloween), an update about the upcoming downloadable content, some advice about network connections, and some goodies they've found on the web. Go check it out! (It is, of course, in our Weekly Update Archive, as well.) (Louis Wu 13:18:23 UTC) (permalink)
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