Banshee Flies Over Sandtrap
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Death by intelligence.
Marathon: Durandal Gets An Update
Freeverse's XBLA port of Bungie's FPS classic Marathon 2: Durandal recently got an auto-update; you may have noticed the last time you played the game. Freeverse's web page has a news post up about the update. The highlights are:
- Survival mode in demo
- More sensitivity controls
- FOV setting (for people with motion sickness problems)
For a more complete list of changes, see Freeverse's site. Thanks haveblue for the heads-up on Freeverse's post.
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Cowan To Present On Halo 3's Cinematic Tools
According to GameDaily Biz, Bungie Studios' own Director of Cinematics, CJ Cowan, will be giving a special feature presentation at ADAPT 2007 in Montreal. The presentation will be on Halo 3, focusing on the in-house use of Maya along with Bungie's proprietary cinematic tools. Cowan's presentation will be on September 27th; the conference runs from the 24th to the 28th at the Hyatt Regency.
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Don't Believe The Hype
Gamers With Jobs urges gamers not to expect too much from Halo 3, because nothing can live up to the hype. While examining the extent to which our appetites are dictated to us by the omnipresence of information about AAA must-sell titles, it does seem that some of Julian "rabbit" Murdoch's theses say more about his approach to gaming in specific and entertainment in general than the medium itself.
In response to having one's expectations brought too high, Murdoch quotes Alice Walker:
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Halo Epsilon Access Leaked
The Hushed Casket has details on how some people with access to the Epsilon build of Halo 3 got duped into offering access to the game to unauthorized persons by getting access to those users' gamertags on their own consoles, and using that gamertag to download the build.
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Investigator Calls Halo 3 Manual A Trade Secret
Back in August, gaming website Kotaku posted scans of what purported to be a leaked Halo 3 manual on their site. Not knowing if they were genuine, they put them up and let the readership decide whether to give them credence or not.
Now it seems that Internet Investigator James Young has sent Kotaku a rather odd letter. Kotaku has posted the entirety of the letter, but it's worth pulling out a few select pieces for examination:
It has come to Microsoft's attention that your website includes material which is in violation of Microsoft's intellectual property rights. Content currently residing within your computer system infringes on the trademark rights of Microsoft Corporation and constitutes an unauthorized activity relating to Microsoft computer programs.
So, first off, disclaimers: I Am Not A Lawyer and This Article Does Not Constitute Legal Advice.
Secondly, trademark infringement. This usually refers to use of a registered trademark within a certain context. These are protected to prevent companies from creating me-too products to confuse consumers.
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Firing Squad: Perfect Halo 3 Launch Key For MS
John "JCal" Callaham has written another of Firing Squad's quarterly updates on the console wars; the page on the Xbox 360 has a number of suggestions to Microsoft on how to win the console wars. FS thinks a flawless Halo 3 launch is important:
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grunt's B-DAY skull
At the end of the level the Arbitor when get a Banshee go to the Bottom of the structure. Look around and you will see something like a bridge that looks like it is holding the structure up. Check under the bridge and you will find 2 ramps on one side will be a number of grunts dancing around a skull. Pick up the skull.You must do this on Legendary.
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Sony Tells Wiki Halo 3 Won't Look Better Than Halo 2
Cole at Lasersharks points out that the Wikiscanner discovered an edit to the entry on Halo 3 that came from the Sony Computer Entertainmentoffice in the UK. The edit inserted the phrase "although it wont look any better than Halo 2" into the description of the game.
The edit was apparently to the Halo 3 section of the main page for the Halo series and has since been removed.
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More Screenshots, Fewer Errors On Radio Shack Halo 3 Page
Louis Wu at HBO pointed out that ComWave-- apparently responsible for the Radio Shack website that just added a Halo 3 product page-- will correct some of the errors in the previous product description, and also added additional
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GameDaily Disses Halo 3 To Get Pageviews
Just so the dastardly scheme doesn't work, I'll post to the summary complete reproduction of the post at xbox360Rally. GameDaily is offering an article called "six reasons to pass up on this crappy game" that is filled with nonsense and self-contradictions. Not to mention, it's basically six paragraphs on six separate pages. First they complain about the Arbiter being in Halo 2, and then complain that they can't fight against UNSC forces in Halo 3. Wha?
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Halo 3 Outselling Bioshock Before Release
Bioshock is, by all accounts, an incredible-looking story-driven shooter with deep gameplay for the Xbox 360.
So is Halo 3.
The major difference between the two of them-- on top of Halo's multiplayer, saved films and map editing features, is that Bioshock is out already, and Halo 3 is not.
Despite this, on Amazon.com, two editions of Halo 3, the regular and limited, are both outselling Bioshock, according to Next-Generation. That's crazy.
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