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Death by intelligence.
Moving In Lower Resolution
We've put up a second copy of the Halo E3 2006 Announcement Trailer; this one weighs in at a much lighter 25 megabytes and is encoded in DivX 5, suitable for Macs or PCs, for those who don't like QuickTime or whose computers (like mine) have a bit of trouble keeping up with the high-resolution H.264 version.
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10,00 User War
Just a note in passing: with the spike in interest in Halo caused by rumors of the impending announcement of Halo 3 at E3 this year, Rampancy.net passed the 10,000 registered user mark; runLIKEhell1393 became user #10000.
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When do you think Halo 3 will come out?
Q4 2006
7% (191 votes)
Q1 2007
18% (531 votes)
Q2 2007
21% (615 votes)
Q3 2007
20% (587 votes)
Q4 2007
27% (787 votes)
Q1 2008
3% (88 votes)
Later
3% (79 votes)
Total votes: 2878
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Coming To Grips With Halo 3
We've opened up a few new pages as a result of Bungie's Halo 3 admission at E3 this week:
Each of these areas is a little bare so far. The Halo 3 images page includes only the screencaptures released by Bungie from the realtime E32006 trailer; the Halo 3 movies page contains the high-res QuickTime version of the trailer itself, and the Halo 3 Articles page contains a copy of Bungie's own announcement, as well as a copy of Bungie's Halo 3 FAQ with my own annotations.
UPDATE: There were a few more frames in the announcement trailer that I thought were worthy of some attention, so I've added those to the Halo 3 Images page. The most interesting of them seems to show some artificial structure in the image-flashes associated with Cortana's transmission.
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Annotated Bungie.net Halo 3 FAQ
Rampancy.net will have its own Halo 3 FAQ of course, but in the meantime, we've taken the Bungie.net FAQ and read between the lines a little bit, just to whet everyone's appetite.
To see Bungie's questions and answers interspersed with my own commentary and additional questions, click "read more" from the front page.
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Is This The Ark?
The ancient structure buried in Africa that the Covenant seem to want so much. The Prophet of Regret may have been here already, but he left and fled to Delta Halo.
Now the Prophet of Truth is back. He told the Covenant the Great Journey begins at Earth. But what does he mean by that? What is this artifact, and perhaps more importantly, what does Truth think it is?
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I Know You
At least we know Halo 3 will have at least one familiar face. Or at least a mostly familiar one-- Cortana seems to have gotten another renovation, although the H2 new haircut seems to have stuck.
There are strong indications in the trailer, however, that Cortana is currently undergoing some kind of transformation...
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I Leave Home For A Few Days...
The full-scale devastation of Earth that some fans complained they didn't get to see in Halo 2 has happened.
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Reflections
Well, what do you know, real-time reflections are back!
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Kiss My Shiny Metal... Shoulder
The Master Chief is back, with even more texture detail that we really, really hope won't pop-in on a production Xbox 360.
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Halo 3 E32006 Announcement
The game was revealed to the world at the Microsoft press conference at Grauman's Chinese Theater, in Hollywood, CA. By the time you read this, the announcement trailer should be available for download on bungie.net and directly to your Xbox 360, in full HD glory from Xbox Live Marketplace. Read no further if you want to avoid spoilers.
Nobody saw it coming. Halo 3! Who knew? For the last year or two, people have speculated about what our next project was and surprisingly, in all that time, not a single person guessed that it would be Halo 3. Not one.
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The World's Worst-Kept Secret Revealed
As everyone else living in a normal timezone already knows, Bungie announced that Halo 3 is in development for the Xbox 360 and is expected to be released in 2007. The announcement says in no uncertain terms that this is the final game in the Halo series, confirming what others have suspected: that about nine years is enough to make even the most interesting scenario boring to developers that aren't SquareSoft.
However, that doesn't mean that it won't hold just as much interest for fans of Bungie and the Halo series, yours truly included, who is just as happy as Frankie or anyone else to have it admitted: that there has been a pink elephant in the living room for months now. Everybody say hi to Halo 3.
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Mythical Map Pack Update
Halo 3 might be a myth, but Myth III isn't.
Just last year Flip of Flying Flip Studios announced the release of a new pack of Myth III maps by clem-- and unfortunately we missed it. If you've got the game and want something new to try out, head on over and look. Their downloads page also has other things-- updaters for Myth III and so forth.
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Turning Silver Into Gold
Major Nelson confirms that in the US, the weekend of March 31 - April 2 will be the first that Xbox Live Silver members will get access to Xbox Live Gold features for free, including network multiplayer.
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