Oubliez, j´ai rien dit, y a marqué Halo 2 en bas à droite
Désolé, je sort

Je voulais dire en bas à gauche ! bordel !

désolé !

non c´est un wall paper de halo 2

ok

[ NEWS ] Bungie nous fait une dissection de ses screen shots

Dans cet article, bungie nous décrit 3 des 5 screen shot mis en ligne dernierement. Ils nous parlent des nouveautés ( armes, véhicules, graphisme, décors... ) et nous décrivent plus ou moins précisément les cartes multijoueurs présentée à travers les screen shot c´est à dire High Ground ,Valhalla et Snowbound. Bonne lecture ( en anglais )

This week Bungie released three new screenshots featuring the new maps that we’ve shared thus far as well as a couple extra shots of the Spartan Laser and the one Campaign glimpse we’re giving. In this write-up we’ll go into as much as you can see in the screenshots, but with maybe a slightly better perspective than the average bear.

Mind you, all of the screens and level designs you see here are completely subject to change. The models, the spawns, the balance, the geometry, the very nature of time and space. It may not be like this when you get to play the game next year.

https://www.jeuxvideo.com/forums/3-61-728832-1-0-1-0-0.htm#frp

Starting with High Ground, the first thing you’ll notice is the Warthog barreling into the base. It’s taken some damage, as indicated by the misshapen body all around the frame of the hog. The hog is heading into the compound, the door to which has obviously been opened to make way for the Hog incursion. The console to open the gate is on the inside of the base on the left side. there are a couple of ways to enter the base before that door opens. The Warthog’s objective is the base within the base, which you can see just under the right wing of the Ghost. It’s a command center of sorts with portable computers and screens set up inside. In this command center is the flag 9at least for the moment). The area around it can be driven in, so you can make a full circle of the command center with a Warthog. This is useful as you wait for someone to grab the flag, secure a territory or just to be a jerk and keep them bottled up.

Your eye may next be drawn to the turret on the top of the base. Mounting this at the beginning of the game is basically suicide as the assaulting team spawns with a sniper. The sniper spawns down by the beach where the assaulting team also spawns with a Warthog, several Battle Rifles and a few other handy weapons, and one as-yet unrevealed mystery. Once you’re relatively sure that the sniper won’t bite you, the turret is a useful counter to the Hog, typically most useful for taking down their shields before they enter the tight quarters of the base area where they’ll be more vulnerable to all kinds of grenades and small arms fire.

In the camouflage tower to the left and above the turret is where the Spartan Laser spawns. That does more than take down the shields of the Hog-riders. With a direct hit, the laser will obliterate the hog and all of its occupants. And ruin their credit history. The tower is vulnerable, however. There are fusion cores stacked up on one of edge of it, so a well placed grenade can be enough to ignite them and violently eject a laser-wielding Spartan out of that tower, possibly placing the laser right in the assaulting team’s hands.

The bunker you see directly to the left of the Hog is one route into the base which will lead you straight to the command center, about one crafty jump away from the flag. You can actually see this area in the middle of the open gate. Off of that platform, you can jump and grab the flag. Without support from your team, though, it’d be a fruitless effort. Even if you killed the entire defensive team right before hand, it’s a tough getaway without support.

Your eye will definitely be drawn to the spike grenade in the air above the Hog. For a while people were totally unsure what this was, especially early on when people only had scans and no translation. Guesses ranged from a rocket (a la the original Burial Mounds shout in 2003) to a dragon fly. You can see the spike grenade’s explosion directly to the left of the Hog. You can even see the spikes flying through the air in the directional blast (in this case, directly up).

Yes, boarding is back. Big surprise. What you might not notice or be able to tell from that image of the Ghost is that it’s received a pretty awesome graphic overhaul. It’s subtle at first but we’ve been noticing it more and more. The surface is now a lot shinier than before, the reflection on it is real-time, which we just tested by throwing grenades in front of it and watching their reflections. The lighting on the sides of the ghost has also been improved, as well as some of the particle effects of its hovering. Basically, the Ghost has been pimped.

https://www.jeuxvideo.com/forums/3-61-728832-1-0-1-0-0.htm#frp

The second screen that we’ll look at is the Valhalla shot. In case you’ve missed all of the coverage, the ATV that you’re looking at is the Mongoose. This vehicle was originally planned in Halo 2, but they were never able to find the right balance for it so they removed it. This time around it’s in, it’s fun and it’s got a role to play. It’s unarmed, but it’s fast and therefore pretty difficult to destroy. Also visible here is the new flag design, which is the UNSC logo. Someone asked me if it waves in the wind and the answer is yes, with tiny little ripples.

The mancannon, or rather the effect of the mancannon, is visible in the background. The mancannon is in the middle of the Forerunner structure, the Spartan in the air is on his way down and will land about 10 feet from where he is now. There are secondary mancannons on the sides of each base which, at one base, will propel you into a shaded area with some tree cover, and at the other base it will catapult you into a similar area but filled with rocks instead. These secondary mancannons do not send you as far and are actually more useful for stealth routes, whereas the big one sends you straight into the heat of battle. We’ve been finding that the spots that they put you in are actually very useful for defensive purposes, especially sniping. You’ve got good cover and a decent view of the base and the area in front of it.

Back to the Mongoose and its balancing. Like I said, it is small and unarmed, but it’s fast. There’s no easy way to take it out. You can use the Spartan Laser, but that’s kind of difficult as the laser needs to charge for three seconds before it discharges. While it’s firing, you’ve got about half a second or so to get it over the target. Unless it’s coming straight at you and even if it is, that can be kind of difficult. It’ll definitely take some getting used to before you can consistently hit a moving target with it, but then it’s all the more satisfying. The driver is exposed, so small arms fire can easily take it out if it’s cornered, but if it’s speeding past you, it won’t inflict very much damage. One of the better methods is actually sniping the exposed driver. They’re quick but if you’re far enough away then it won’t look that fast to you. A couple of body shots or a head shot will do the trick.

The Mongoose is very well suited to flag runs, as you can see in the image. A lone Mongoose assaulting the base will not often be successful, but if you have two players at their base and then steal one of their Mongooses (yeah, that’s the proper plural form, though I prefer Mongi) it’s usually a good bet for escape. Right now the Mongi spawn two per base and are set to respawn rather quickly. It’s something that the designers plan to keep handy for the players as much as possible. It’s insanely useful for getting to a place on the map quickly when necessary.

Battle Rifles spawn plentifully all over the map, one sniper spawns under each base along with all the grenades you’ll need. Right now, the standard vehicle load-out is a Banshee, Warthog, Wraith and two Mongi per base. The Spartan Laser spawns in the middle of the map, really close to where the Mongoose is flying off of that cliff. It’s tough to describe, but there’s another cliff about 20 feet across from it where there is a turret mounted. Between these two cliffs runs a stream. The divide has actually been significant in Team Slayer games, as one team will hold up around the turret while the other will crowd on the other side and the two take pot shots at each other with BR until one finally goes around to flank the other or dies trying.

http://www.bungie.net/games/halo3/SlideShow.aspx?Path=/games/Halo3&Slideshow=Screenshots&Slide=9

The final screenshot is from Snowbound. You get your best view at the Spartan character models in this one. You’ll notice the shotgun on the back of the blue Spartan as well as an SMG on the hip of the red, shotgun-toting Spartan in the air. The area in which all of this carnage is taking place in the back of what is referred to as "low base" while the other is referred to as "slightly less low base." You can see, in the distance, the turrets. We’re actually not sure if we’ll go that route yet. There was one build where the area outside of the play area was actually full of land mines (yeah, they worked). Another had an instakill zone. Sometimes it’s just the turrets. Either way, it’s not a good idea to go out of the boundaries.

Another small touch to the game that you can see from this screenshot is the way the Spartans’ feet and ankles adjust to the contours of the ground, or as Don King would call it, "inclination acclamation." Notice the pink Spartan at the bottom of low base, as the Spartan ascends, the feet and ankles angle up to accurately reflect how your feet would rest on the ground in that situation. It’s also visible in the tan Spartan just in front of the pink one. It’s a small touch, but cool nonetheless.

Two other things that we’d like to point out are the grenade explosion. Aren’t they sexy? Plasma grenades have looked awesome in both Halo 1 and 2; Halo 3 has in no way disappointed in that department. Sticking someone with a plasma grenade just got a whole lot more satisfying. The regular frag grenade is going off in the right-hand side of the screen. It also looks really good up close, frightening realistic (I’m sure that if plasma grenades existed, we’d all be talking about how scary-real they look in Halo 3). However, they are less sexy than the plasma ´nades because when you throw them at peoples’ faces they still bounce off and fall at my feet.

Spawning on top of each base is a Carbine and a Needler, which is actually a combo that I grab pretty much each time I’m up there. It’s great for keeping a distance from opponents. The Needler is ridiculous at medium range and the Carbine is pretty much the Carbine that you’re used to. Three plasma grenades spawn atop the base as well. Pretty much all of the maps have a plentiful supply of grenades right now because of the two-grenades-per-grenade-type limit.

The area beneath the base spawns a plasma pistol, a Spiker, tons of ´nades and is absolutely beautiful. You should see the translucent ice ceiling scattering blue light. The two bases are linked by tunnels under the bases. These tunnels lead to a room and then back to the bases. In this room spawns the shotgun and some spike grenades, there’re also two ways out to the surface from there, one through a shield door and to the ghost spawn and another to the trench that separate low base from high base. The shield doors are another new touch to the game. These doors make for some really fun and interesting confrontations. You can see the other player and what they´re doing but you can´t shoot them or really affect them in any way. It´s really rare that both players walk away from that instance, one is normally confident enough to walk through the door and get the kill or immediately regret their decision. The most interesting tactic used thus far is running through a door with someone directly behind you and throwing a spike grenade (which adheres to every surface in the game... except water) on the door as you pass through. If you time it right, you´ll be through before it goes off, but they´ll get a face full of spikes.

When you look at the screenshot, you can see on the left, just above the blue Spartan’s knee, a small tunnel area. In this area will spawn the sniper. Tragically, it is lined with fusion coils. If you’re going to grab the sniper, do yourself a favor and make sure no one’s watching or blow them yourself, else you’re in for a hurtin’. On the right side of the screenshot you can see the beginnings of another small tunnel. There are Covenant batteries inside this one, nothing else spawns inside it aside from each grenade, but again all of these spawnpoints and weapons are totally subject to change and likely will have changed by the time you get your hands on the game. Subtly or dramatically.

[ Bungie.net ]

http://www.bungie.net/News/TopStory.aspx?link=ilikethisgame

[ VIDEO ] Le trailer d´Halo 2 en légo

Nos collègues de chez Xbox360fanboy ont trouvé une vidéo qui reconstitue le trailer d´Halo 2 mais tout en Lego. C´est vraiment bien foutu et après Lego Star Wars, pourquoi pas un Lego Halo ?

Vidéo Trailer Halo 2 Lego :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI2urE-Z66E

[ Xboxygen.com ]

http://www.xboxygen.com/

[ NEWS ] Les 5 meilleurs choses de Halo 3 ( quelle beau titre )

Dans cet article, 1 UP nous parle ( en anglais ) des 5 meilleurs chose qu´ils ont retenu de la version multijoueur, durant leur excurtion chez Bungie, il y a quelques temps. Ils nous parlent du nouveau fusils d´assaut MAC6, la nouvelle version du MA5C, des nouvelle fonction du controller, les cartes multijoueur, du nouveau Matchmaking, et qu´il y aura encore beaucoup de surprises ( quelle nouveauté ! )

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The controls have been revised. There´s an entire new "sandbox" of weapons to balance. One of the buttons on the Xbox 360 controller isn´t even working in this build of the game. No wonder the staff at Bungie looked nervous when we walked into a room full of televisions displaying Halo 3 at their Kirkland, WA studio.

The Five Best Things About Halo 3
Over the last three weeks, we´ve been tasked with bringing a slew of information and finding different ways to present it. All of the information we´ve dug up, we dredged in a single day spent at Bungie´s studio. What´s best about the pre-alpha version of Halo 3 that we played?

The MAC6 Assault Rifle:
From the Halo 3 announcement trailer, we saw Master Chief carrying a new(ish) weapon. Like we´ve detailed previously, the revised assault rifle is the new starting weapon in Halo 3. Here´s what we said:

With the MA5C Assault Rifle, the clip-size has been drastically reduced from 60 to 32, and as a trade-off, the weapon´s accuracy at long-range has been increased.

The revamped assault rifle is a near-perfect addition to the Halo repertoire. As a starting weapon it is perfectly utilitarian -- it´s the intersection where balance meets functionality. In fact, the MA5C is so functional, it relegates weapons like the Battle Rifle to non-essential status in player equips on a given map. Sure, if you can get to a Battle Rifle it´s still worth picking up, but the mid-short range functionality of the Assault Rifle outclasses the BR in several respects.

More than just reducing the importance of the Battle Rifle, the Assault Rifle also minimizes the importance of dual-wielding because it allows players to be competitive from the moment they spawn, until the moment they are waiting to respawn. When the playing field is leveled across the core weapon sets, like with the Assault Rifle, it allows the power weapons to truly shine in multiplayer play. Unfortunately, the only "power weapon" we´ve toyed with is the brand new anti-personnel and anti-vehicle shoulder-mounted Death Star, the Spartan Laser.

Described as an anti-vehicle weapon, the Spartan laser fires a small red "sighting" laser to spot your target. While that laser is pointing, the shoulder mounted monstrosity charges for three seconds, red energy collecting in a swirling orb before ejecting a stream of certain death.

On Valhalla, the wielder of the Spartan Laser controls the map -- at least with the weapon set that was appearing on the version of the map we played. The team that controls the laser most consistently stops Mongooses as they skip across the map and Warthogs as they hum by toting flag runners.

Compared with a weapon like the Rocket Launcher -- its lower-tech cousin -- the Spartan Laser fits right in to the Haloverse. Visually, its art style matches the other weapons and it brings a more focused functionality to the Halo weapon sandbox. Because of its sniper-like functionality and vehicle decimating prowess, the Spartan Laser is a bit of a hybrid among the weapon sets. Unlike the Sniper Rifle, though, the Spartan Laser is held back from being totally imbalanced and broken (hey, Energy Sword) because of its small clip size. In the build we played, the Spartan Laser fired four times before the clip was empty.

Controller Evolved:
The nervous stares that greeted us when we arrived at Bungie were due, in part, to the changes Bungie is making to the Halo 3 control scheme.

Reload has been remapped off of the X-button and onto the respective bumpers. When dual-wielding, RB reloads the right weapon while LB reloads the left weapon. Similarly, RB replaces the X-button as the action button. Boarding vehicles, picking up weapons, everything the X-button used to do is now done on RB. At first, this change felt a bit iffy. There were a handful of times early in the day when I was gunned down while standing over a sniper rifle mashing X to pick it up.

After stumbling around like a newb, the controls started to stick. Having the reload right near the trigger frees up key real estate on the Xbox controller. With reload and fire being fingered by the index finger (in a classic control scheme) players can still look using the right stick, while reloading. Topically, this may seem like a small change, but it will lead to more flexibility in what players can accomplish in the midst of battle.

Bungie has freed up the X button on the controller for an unannounced feature that may appear in Halo 3 -- this build is a pre-Alpha build and it is entirely possible that the feature could ultimately be scrapped (but we doubt it will disappear). Bungie staffer Brian Jarrard said that the guys didn´t even have to "activate their X buttons" to beat us in the next-gen Humpday Challenge -- what kind of feature would you activate?

The Highest Ground:
While it lacks the novelty of Snowbound´s shield doors or the pleasant familiarity of Valhalla´s sprawling symmetry, if High Ground is setting the standards for Halo 3´s maps, we´re all in for a treat next year.

Smaller than H2´s Zanzibar, High Ground offers some of the same mechanics: A base, a gate to open, multiple entrance points -- and while not on the version of the map we played, an armory´s worth of weaponry for both the assaulting and defending teams. Frank O´Connor and Brian Jarrard detailed some of the new stuff on High Ground since we saw it last month on a recent 1UP Network podcast. Now, in addition to the Spike Rifles, Spike Grenades and Sniper Rifle on the map, Bungie has added a Spartan Laser to the base-team configuration. In a cave along the left side of the map (approaching from the beach), they´ve added a Rocket Launcher -- and there´s a Sword (now with depleting energy) in the small tube inside the base. Apparently, the new, non-terrible single-wieldable Needler is on the map, as well.

With the Sword, Rocket Launcher, Sniper Rifle and Spartan Laser on a map built for 8-10 players, there´s a load of weapons to keep cycling through depending on where you are and the situation you´re facing on the map. We haven´t really seen weapon options or the need to constantly switch weapons like this in a Halo multiplayer experience before. In past Halos, there´s been a particular weapon setup that works best and the game centered on acquiring those -- in Halo 3, that doesn´t seem to be the case.

Matchmaking Remade:
If you missed out on our Q&A with Bungie about Halo 3´s matchmaking service you might have missed on what´s best about Halo 3, period.

Changes like the call sign system, where players will have a self-chose identification number for their Spartan, instead of an image of a golden bee (think "L75") are examples of the little touches Bungie is adding into their matchmaking and online experience in Halo 3.

One of the biggest problems with Halo 2´s matchmaking system was that it didn´t have a similar functionality for Custom games. If players wanted to play a particular map or a custom gametype and couldn´t get enough people in the room, there was no way for players to find that game. It segregated Custom Games and Matchmade games, completely. In Halo 3, that´s changing. While Matchmaking and Custom games are still completely separate (ranks will only increase in the confines of Bungie´s matchmaking service), for players who just want to play Custom Games, Bungie has created XBL Public.

XBL Public is where players can advertise their custom games and then players will be able to seek out modes, maps and gametypes. If a player is looking for a Team Slayer match on High Ground, he´ll be able to find the ones that are available and they´ll be sorted by how good the connection to the match will be.

There´s a two-fold ranking system in Halo 3´s matchmaking. One is fueled by Skill and the other by Experience. Ranking up via Skill will advance your profile through a fictional UNSC (or possibly Covenant) military ranking system. Ranks like Private, Sergeant will be attained based on the skill ranking. However, while a rank like Sergeant may require a level 20 in Matchmaking, the next level rank might mean players have to reach level 30 -- what happens if they can´t? Well, that´s where the Experience ranking system comes into play. The more games you play the further through the Sergeant tree your rank will move. Your progression in the Experience tree might move from Sergeant to First Sergeant to Master Sergeant -- those changes will be reflected in your rank. There are two forms of progression now to (hopefully) discourage cheating.

Halo 3 is Closer Than You Think:
Bungie´s announcement of a public multiplayer beta for Halo 3 is something we haven´t seen in the console space before (public beta testing is far more prominent in PC gaming). The beta is currently scheduled for Spring 2007. What this means is that before you know it, you´ll be playing Halo 3 in some form on your Xbox 360. And what will you be playing? We don´t know for sure, but it´s safe to say that it will be more polished, refined and tuned than what we played at Bungie in October.

There´s still no official word on how you´ll acquire the beta, but Microsoft´s recent implementation of downloading HD movies that leave your hard drive after a certain amount of time could be a hint at how the beta experience will unfold. Could the beta be a timed download that lasts for a month before it self erases like the HD movies? Could it be distributed on a game disc (that´d be a way to boost a title´s sales, wouldn´t it?)? Will it just be a microtransaction on the Xbox Live Marketplace? Right now, we don´t know. What we do know is that a few months from now, we´ll be reading your impressions of Halo 3.

[ 1UP.com ]

http://www.1up.com/do/previewPage?cId=3155479

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En vrac :

• Fonctions boutton X completement transférée sur les gachettes B ( recharger arme droite : RB, recharger arme gauche, changer arme, monter dans véhicule, actions diverses : LB ). Evolution très appréciée par 1UP mais qui peut encore être modifiée.

• 2 jauges de compétence en live :

- Une vous assignera un grade fictif de l´UNSC. Elle se remplira selon vos scores.

- L´autre est une jauge d´expérience qui se remplira au fur et à mesure que vous jouez

• Le fusil d´assaut MA6C ( anciennement MA5C ) passe de 60 balles en continu à 32 balles.

• Fusil d´assaut plus efficace a moyenne distance que précédament et extrêmement efficace à courte disance.

• Le Spartan Lazer envoit un lazer pour viser pendant 3 secondes avant de tirer.

• 4 tirs par Spartan Laser avant qu´il se brise et soit inutilisable.

• L´épée à énergie s´épuise en multijoueur contrairement à Halo 2.

vivement la video de 4 decembre!!!

[ GOODIES ] Une BD Halo vs Gears of War

Maintenant que Gears of War a éjecté Halo 2 de sa place de numéro 1 du Xbox Live, les mauvais esprits vont s´en donner à cœur joie pour railler le pauvre Masterchief.

Cela commence aujourd´hui avec nos collègues anglophones de Rpg-tv qui dans leur dernière bande dessinée sur le web ont mis les deux héros dans une situation assez poilante.

Je vous laisse y jeter un oeil... C´est par ici :

http://www.rpg-tv.com/

[ Live360.fr ]

http://www.live360.fr/news/18912/Une-BD-Halo-vs-Gears-of-War.html

[ NEWS ] Tops Xbox Live : Gears confirme, Small Arms s´affirme

Source : Major Nelson

Nouvelle tournée des tops Xbox Live en cette belle et "chaude" fin de semaine. Que s´est-il passé du côté de notre service online préféré durant ces sept derniers jours ? Major Nelson nous renseigne et nous apprend que Gears of War conserve la tête du classement suprême (Xbox et Xbox 360 combinées). Tiendra-t-il sur la durée, quand le solo sera moins joué ? Zat iz ze kouechtionne...

Top Xbox 360 :

1. Gears of War
2. Call Of Duty 3
3. Démo Superman
4. Small Arms
5. Démo Rainbow Six Vegas
6. Madden NFL 07
7. Démo multi Lost Planet
8. Call of Duty 2
9. Démo Tony Hawk´s Project 8
10. Ghost Recon 3

Plus on avance et plus il est difficile pour les titres sortis il y a quelques mois de se faire une place dans le top ten. Call of Duty 2 et Ghost Recon s´accrochent tant bien que mal, en raison de leur gros succès multijoueur. Les démos démontrent une nouvelle fois qu´elles sont une des grosses réussites de la 360 (quatre dans le top, une première) et Small Arms, très bonne nouveauté Xbox Live Arcade, s´empare de la quatrième position, excusez du peu.

Top Xbox Live Arcade (versions complètes) :

1. Small Arms
2. Contra
3. Uno
4. Defender
5. Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3
6. Street Fighter II
7. Geometry Wars Evolved
8. Doom
9. Pac-Man
10. Texas Hold´em Poker

Et hop, on est repartis pour notre petite ritournelle habituelle.

La Xbox 360 étant - sauf volonté contraire de l´utilisateur - constamment connectée au Xbox Live (ce qui n´était pas le cas avec la Xbox), il suffit de jouer à un jeu, même exclusivement solo, pour que celui-ci soit comptabilisé dans le Top 10.

[ Xbox-mag.net ]

http://www.xbox-mag.net/tops-xbox-live---gears-confirme--small-arms-s-affirme__12082.html

j´ai oublié de dire que Halo 2 est toujours 2 eme du classement général

[ NEWS ] Halo 3 pour mars 2007 ? Juillet ou encore 2007 ?

Il y a bien une paire de semaines, un spot télévisé européen pour la Xbox 360 pouvait être vu ci ou là, ce spot pourrait bien ne pas s´arrêter là.

Cliquez ici pour voir le spot (Youtube) :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QkceDC4hu4

Dans le même genre que le phénomène Ilovebees (adresse internet après la pub cinéma de Halo 2), il est possible d´observer un "clin d´oeil" en relation avec Halo. Vers la 50ième seconde un plan plutôt court illustre une voiture avec une plaque immatriculée "HA LO307".

Si l´on suppose, en reprenant une plaque précédemment visible qui elle arborait "GOW 1106" (23ème seconde - ce qui ramène à la date de sortie Etats-Unienne), cette date "cachée" pourrait vouloir dire Mars 2007 pour Halo 3, ou plutôt Halo puisque rien ne nous dit que le 3 ne représente pas simplement l´opus accompagné de l´année qu´on connait toutes et tous. Mieux encore, rien ne nous dit que le "07" représente bien l´année, ou encore le mois. Par contre, ça n´a pas l´air d´une pub pour Peugeot, désolé !

Plutôt coquet comme "clin d´oeil", la réaction des fans serait-elle disproportionnée ?
C´est peut-être cette confusion que recherchent les Gardiens !

• MàJ* :

Halo.Fr a mené l´enquête et nous avons remarqué quelque chose ! Nous avons regardé l´affaire de plus près et nous aussi nous jouons le jeu !

Pourquoi la plaque est-elle sous le format "HA LO307" et pas "HALO 307", "HA L O307" et autres ? Et si le LO qui sert aussi de fin à "Halo" était en fait un "07" renversé ? (un "IO" aurait alors été un "01"), ce qui donne 07/3/07.

A partir de là, le "0" ou zéro perd son utilité et forme donc 7/3/07. Si l´on suit les règles du format de dates anglaises, on pointerait vers le 3 juillet 2007.

On aurait pu s´arrêter là, mais en fait non. On a donc : HAO7307, ou encore HAO 7307. Je ne sais pas pour vous, mais nous avons remarqué que Frankie parlait d´un certain Hao Chen dans ses dernières Bungie Weekly Updates, dans les deux avant dernières en fait. C´était légitime si vous les avez lues, mais c´était 5 fois en deux BWU. Lien ou pas, c´est plutôt sympa !

Dernière trouvaille, 7+3+7=17, 1+7=8.
8, penchez là tête, Halo Forever !

[ Halo.fr ]

http://www.halo.fr/index.php?p=news&r=2312

[ NEWS ] Des nouvelles du teaser du 4 décembre

Microsoft Games Studios et Bungie Studios viennent de nous fournir quelques nouvelles informations concernant la diffusion du prochain teaser publicitaire pour Halo 3, créé par l´agence McCann Erikson. Diffusée durant le ESPN Monday Night Football, le 4 décembre prochain, cette vidéo pourra être visionnée en simultané sur Xbox.com, le mardi 5 décembre aux alentours de 3h15 du matin. Enfin, sachez que ce teaser publicitaire sera également disponible en téléchargement sur le Marché Xbox Live.

( à noter cette image apparaissant en dessous de l´article :
http://www.jeuxvideo*fr/plein-ecran-409413.html je ne l´avais jamais vu auparavant )

[ Jeuxvideo*fr ]

http://www.jeuxvideo*fr/halo-teaser-actu-65956.html

( remplacez * par . )

[ NEWS ] Le teaser du 5 décembre sera en téléchargement HD sur Xbox.com

Découvrez Master Chief comme vous ne l´avez jamais vu dans notre présentation exclusive du nouveau spot publicitaire d´Halo 3. Soixante secondes de pure merveille Halo 3 vous attendent. Et ne manquez pas la version HD toute en chansons et danses sur le Marché Xbox Live en même temps.

[ Xbox.com ]

http://www.xbox.com/fr-FR/halo3/

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[ NEWS ] Participez à la bêta de Halo 3 !

Après la récente annonce de Bungie indiquant qu´un nouveau trailer de Halo 3 sera bientôt disponible, plus précisément le 4 Décembre aux US, et un peu plus tard par chez nous, le Master Chief s´apprête une nouvelle fois à nous en mettre plein les yeux, avec l´ouverture de la bêta-test du titre !

Et non vous ne rêvez pas, chacun aura le droit de tester ce jeu en avant-première sur le Live. Aucune information n´a été communiquée concernant les critères de sélection, mais on peut déjà s´attendre à ce que seuls les adultes puissent y participer, comme pour les autres bêta-tests. Pour le reste, on laisse le choix à Bungie de décider à sa manière avant de lancer les serveurs, d´ici le Printemps prochain.

Pour s´inscrire, rien de plus simple, direction le site officiel de Halo 3 qui sera ouvert dès le 4 Décembre, ensuite à vous de jouer. Bonne chance à tous !

Site officiel de Halo 3 :
http://www.halo3.com/

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[ NEWS ] Bungie Weekly Update du 1 décembre

Hey we were playing “Pimps at Sea” on Xbox Live last night. I have never had so many messages in one session before. I ended up attaching a USB keyboard to the 360 just so I could respond with either polite declines or hilarious jabs, depending on who was sending me messages. KP sent the rudest ones, I might add, since he was jealous. Of whatever we were playing last night.

Obviously Pimps at Sea is a codename for something else right now (Halo 3, dur). So when we do actually begin work again, on the epic life-changing experience that the “real” Pimps at Sea promises to be, nobody will believe us. The Bungie who cried wolf.

Anyway, we had a blast playing whatever it was, and were even able to get some stats. Think of it as a mini-Humpday challenge.

Here’s how it went down…

There was a very special Pimps at Sea Humpday last night, the first night in which players were able to take each other on in the Alpha. One of the playlists that’s being tested in matchmaking right now is Rumble Pit, which is the same as Halo 2’s except it’s set to four players right now. Last night a very special match occurred with some special participants.

Frankie- Frank O’Connor, Bungie.net Content Manager
New0001- Joe Tung, Multiplayer Producer
UNIDENTIFIED GAMERTAG - Michel Bastien, Producer
SECRETZ TAG- Anonymous Nub

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Game: Rumble Slayer
Snowbound, normal weapons
Game Duration: 6:32
General Tone of Game: Tung-shattering

The match to end all matches, as a certain Scot might say, took place last night at 6:18. As you may be able to tell from my use of an actual game duration and the fact that I know what time the game took place, we do have stats being reported for these games. Reported to a secret location. Note that the stats you’re looking at were just sort of cobbled together with bits of Bnet code we had laying around. The scoring, ranking and stats shown here are simply not representative of Halo 3’s stuff, and should be ignored except in how they demonstrate the graping Tung received.

Frankie spent most of the game rockin’ the assault rifle. Most of his kills came from peppering his opponents while charging them and then getting in the melee before they could counter. Sadly, one of Bungie’s (former) best players, Joe Tung, got completely reamed. He got on a roll with a killing spree for a little bit, but couldn’t find a way to out-duel Frankie. Michel, our first unidentified hero also totally owned Tung. Joe’s pathetic performance was second only to SECRETZ, who was probably doing something important like running the studio at the time.

The match ended closely, but not really. Rumor has it Frankie let up on Tung just so that he doesn’t remove the assault rifle, melees and Snowbound from Halo 3. Truly, Frankie’s actions last night not only defined him as a winner but as a hero to Halo fans everywhere.

We also talked a little bit about the TV commercial this week, which is causing quite a stir. Here’s the details, as clear as we can make ‘em.

* The commercial is 60 seconds long.
* It will air during Monday Night Football on December 4th. Sometime around 6-ish, PST.
* That’s the US date. Everyone else will get a chance to see it soon.
* An HD version will appear on marketplace fairly soon.
* The commercial is a mix of CG and Live Action.
* It is not supposed to represent gameplay.
* It is supposed to show pure action from the Halo universe. Think of it like the Graphic Novel.
* It was made by Hollywood effects house, Digital Domain.
* Digital Domain did base its stuff on our in-game 3D models.
* It is packed full of clues and stuff.
* It is nifty.
* We may host it on Bungie.net at some time in the future.

To celebrate the commercial, which we do so love, we made a Halo 3 theme which will be downloadable on Xbox Live marketplace sometime in the near future. Looks something like this (although it´s subject to change).

http://www.bungie.net/images/news/inlineimages/H3Tvtheme.jpg

We’re recording combat dialog today. It’s kind of a test pass to get the process ironed out – there will be some new technology and features in the way our combat dialog is selected, and we need to make sure that the technology and the process are compatible. The first test of combat dialog will be the Grunt, played by our very own Joe Staten. His dialog today will of course be used in the final game and next week, we’ll have a couple of other actors in to reprise roles. One of them is a huge fan favorite.

Writing the dialog is a fairly challenging process and has been eating up my evenings pretty ferociously for the last few weeks. You can expect the combat dialog in Halo 3 to not only equal the sheer variety and volume found in Halos 1 and 2, but to do cooler things in terms of how it’s selected.

You’d be amazed how much effort the programmers, designers and audio guys have to put into this stuff. Writing it, by comparison is a breeze. And acting it is even easier – Joe just sits there, drinking Cristal and having his feet rubbed by Salma and pausing occasionally to polish his monocle and squirt out a grunt line. I kid Joe, I kid.

Joe in fact just came back from a session, he’s on a break, but his voice is already wrecked. I asked him to give me a sample line from the dialog but his favorite line was a grunt giving away something really big and secret about Campaign gameplay. His second favorite was a Grunt yelling, “Oh no! The Demon. No wait, he not have enough rivets on glove.”

The good news is that Jay Weinland, our audio guru, has promised to give me a sample MP3 or two next week for you to listen to.

The sheer amount of rage created by the removal of the Team SWAT playlist was expected, and still unfortunate. Again, we don’t remove these things for cruel fun, we do it to balance out the population loads and for other boringly mathematical reasons. So we are as they say, sorry for the inconvenience. And it’s possible that Team SWAT will come back again. In the meantime, you can find more SWAT modes than usual in team training. We upped the frequency to accommodate you, our buddies. Also please note that it is in fact against the law to send death threats, even by email.

Steve Scott, one of our amazing artists, showed me a new weapon today. No exaggeration to say that it is the single coolest graphical effect I have ever seen. He’s busy trying to make the effect look cool from every angle – it looks amazing in third person, or even when it’s in your face, but needs tuning in a first person view to look cooler, even though technically it looks the way it should. Sometimes artists have to exaggerate things to make them more obvious.

And finally, somebody asked me what a Mister Chief theme would look like. Booyah.

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[ NEWS ] Quelques précisions sur ce qui est à venir

Frankie profite du hype qui monte en ce moment autour d´Halo 3 pour nous en apprendre un peu plus. Ils ont testé "Pimp at Sea" sur le Xbox Live qui est un nom de code pour quelque chose qu´on ignore et il ajoute que quand ce sera annoncé, "personne ne les croira". Frankie a aussi souhaité mettre les choses au clair concernant le nouveau trailer d´Halo 3 qui va arriver, ci-dessous les derniers détails.

- Le trailer durera 60 secondes.
- Il sera présenté pendant la Monday Night Football le 4 décembre aux Etats-Unis et peu de temps après chez nous.
- Une version HD sera aussi disponible assez rapidement.
- Le trailer est un mix entre cinématique et action "live".
- Il ne sera pas représentatif du gameplay.
- Il montrera de l´action de dans l´univers d´Halo, pensez y comme au Halo Grafic Novel.
- Il a été fait par Digital Domain à Hollywood.
- Digital Domain s´est basé sur des modèles 3D in-game fournis par Bungie.
- Le trailer contiendra des indices intéressants.
- Il pourrait être hébergé sur Bungie.net dans le future.
- Pour célébrer la sortie du trailer, un thème sera disponible sur le marketplace un peu plus tard.

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Is Halo 3 Being Played Right Now on XBL?
What´s going on, here?
by Luke Smith, 12/01/2006
72 of 72 users recommend this story.
On the heels of this morning´s announcement of the first way to get in Halo 3´s beta, it looks like some folks might already be playing something Halo-related on Xbox Live. Several Xbox Live users, including some Microsoft employees were spotted on Xbox Live playing a new game -- Pimps at Sea (Alpha).

For those familiar with Bungie´s shenanigans, Pimps at Sea is the oft-used moniker for different projects the company has worked on -- and was also the subject of an April Fools´ joke a few years back.

When the users in question were asked about Pimps at Sea, they simply replied "What´s a pimp?" Considering the (Alpha) tag after the title, it seems highly probable that this is the first phase of testing for Halo 3´s multiplayer. And by highly probable, we mean totally 100% true. We didn´t even need to pay Encyclopedia Brown a quarter to sit down and solve this mystery. When´s our turn to play?

Sometime next year.

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Pour résumé ils disent que certaines personnes de bungie ont été aperçu dernièrement sur le live en train de jouer à " pimp my ride " qui s´avère être en fait un nom de code désignant le multijoueur d´Halo 3.

"- Il ne sera pas représentatif du gameplay."

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