Fort Contest #6

Hazah, another Fort Contest! This time, the lucky map is none other than Ghost Town. For all rules and regulations, please see the Submission Thread.

Upon browsing Kotaku today I was very frightened to find an article about information a tipster gave them. If you’re hardcore Bungie and don’t want Microsoft to ruin the franchise you might want to stop reading right now. You’ve been warned.

Microsoft released a marketing survey that makes people like me cringe with horror. Halo Racing? Give me a break.

So what are your thoughts?

As some of you may know I’ve been cut off from the gaming world for quite some time. I signed on for my sixth straight year at the Boy Scout summer camp that I work at and while working there I rarely have time to do anything. Now it’s not all work and no play, don’t get me wrong. Instead of sitting on my ass playing video games we all hang out and have fun as a staff.

So I’m 3.5 weeks in and I haven’t signed on Xbox Live for that entire time. I haven’t even played Halo multiplayer either. If you know me that’s one hell of a feat. I know now what it must feel like to try to stop smoking. I don’t really have cravings to play, instead I kind of miss it. I miss playing with all of my friends and I miss keeping in touch with them.

So if I don’t play on live what do I do? I’ve had to downgrade from the best online gaming service to playing split screen in a cabin in the woods on a TV that was made with cable NOT in mind. Even though Xbox Live is an amazing thing nothing beats 6 people sitting around a TV through the night cheering and yelling at each other. That, my friends, is what it’s all about.

So why am I writing this? There’s one simple reason. It’s the summer. Why not go out and have some fun? Sometimes people get too carried away with their gaming habits. I’m one of those people. Go make some friends and have some good times.

–Keep it real guys. See you soon.–

Before you go OMG this was so last week give me a break. I’ve been working hard at camp. If you didn’t already know Bungie attended MLG this weekend and showcased a new map exclusively at their San Diego event. It’s an old friend from Halo:CE known as Chill Out. Sporting its new name, Cold Storage, is a nice homage to the original map. Originally we only had a few low quality screenshots, but Bungie has graced us with a few nice ones. Check them out!

The Praetoria Guard has just announced a new tournament with wonderful and fabulous prizes and fun times: The Halo 3 1v1 Ultimate Death Match. It’s a 1v1 Pistols Tournament with prizes varying from T-Shirts to “Cold Hard Cash”. The tournament is at the end of August and has only 128 slots, so sign up HERE today.

Ladies and gentleman, boys and girls the time has come again for the most epic battle in the world of gaming. I’m talking about MLG! This weekend MLG lands in San Diego for the second event in 2008. If you visit MLG Pro you’ll find many articles on what’s going on before they officially kick off. So here’s the round up as of now:

MLG Halo 3 Preview
Dr. Pepper Teams Up With Str8 Rippin

As always you can live stream the awesomeness as Halo 3 teams battle it out for the championship.

In a non Halo related side note about MLG. WoW is making its debut in the pro arena. There are sure to be some new crazy antics. Keep your eye out on it.

Let me be the first to announce our newest affiliate … The 9th Player.

These guys and gals are HUGE. It says so on their site so it has to be true. They even have an option when you post on their site to RICO (Hugefy) your font. I haven’t tried it yet (I’m a bit timid when it comes to that kind of thing) but it is a great idea none-the-less. These are a great group of people and I highly suggest that you check out their site and make some new friends.

They stole from us … now I’m going to steal from them … Paybacks a B*tch.

The 9th Player is an active, multi-faceted gaming clan and community. While we get involved in many different games on the Xbox tree-sitty, most of what we do centers around Halo 3.

T9P has been around in the community since late 2007. While the clan is relatively young compared to others, we have made a solid name for ourselves by holding true to the basic idea that the game can be more than simply thinking up comebacks to insults from pre-teens. Our clan prides itself in our sportsmenship, and our reputation for just being a fun-as-it-gets group of gamers.

I was first introduced to T9P through a lovely young lady named KTK8, the girl so nice they named her twice or something along those lines. She seemed nice enough to go and check out her site (Translation: ZOMG a girl on XBL … Maybe she will go out with meez), so I did and was met with a number of PMs from people swearing they had no knowledge of Firearms, Tobacco or Alcohol (Not sure why … 0_o … Apparently it has something to do with our name or something, but I digress).

I then proceeded to go all E.T. on them and demanded to speak with their leader guy. Turns out, Rugtoad (Weird name to some, but I have a guy named Goatrope on my Friend’s List, so I’ve seen what the XBL Random Name Generator can kick out), was a pretty cool guy, but his 360 bricked, which means M$ hates him, so I’ll reserve judgement until I speak to the guy in person. I hope to meet this Rico guy soon too and ask him all kinds of HUGE type questions.

In all seriousness though, The 9th Player is a great group of people to hang around with and play games. Their name had different meanings to all their members, but it all comes back to their community as a whole and how they all love the interaction with one another. Go check out their site The 9th Player, Register on their forums, meet some new people, make some new friends, and continue to just have fun and play the games we all know and love to play. See you all around.

This year for CanWest, a film festival hosted by Rooster Teeth in Vancouver, Canada, Major.Dump made a recreation of Red vs Blue Ep. 1 using CGI techniques! The thing is freaking amazing, truly a work of art. You’ve gotta check it out HERE, as well as his Recreation of a Halo Graphic Novel.

Our friends over at Praetoria Guard have released some more information about their huge machinima project Trinity. If you remember they started the project in Halo 2 and ended up kind of going on hiatus.

As Lord Gideon says

If Trinity were a car, it’d look like a burning wreck flying down the street with a group of kids roasting hot dogs over the trunk.

So in a nutshell here’s whats going on with the series with them. They are now using Halo 3 (kind of a no brainer) since they are “starting over” they have used the opportunity to re-work the script. The music is going to be 100% produced by them and they are doing voices through a Vent server so the quality is going to be rather epic. If you want to read all the details checkith their site. For now enjoy their little test vid.

Trinity Logo from PG

We’ll its that time again. With the beginning of every month we pick one member who stands out. A person that has contributed to the community in a special way or simply has been around. This month we passed over our regular members and looked at the Staff Memebers. They have been around the longest and our choice, to our knowledge and records, We Present to you:

BLACKWATER154!!

Now, He has been around on this site for as long as I can remember. He has been an active on the site in the form of SOTW and Fort Contests. As well as an actor in our movies. His sense of humor livens up the PGL and he is just a great and easy person to get along with! I’m glad to have him as my friend and im sure that others feel the same.

I’m sure I could have said more, but thats not how I roll. Comment and Tell him what YOU like about him!!