Gaming Round-Up: November 16, 2015

"Chief vs Knight" by John-Liberto

News: Fallout 4 Has An Infinite Caps Glitch, and its already been found.

News: Female Link, "Linkle" Confirmed for Hyrule Warriors Legends.  At the Nintendo Direct yesterday, the company announced that its female experiment would continue, revealing an "original character" named Linkle for the 3DS version of Hyrule Warriors Legends... because Nintendo still won't make Link a girl, but they'll put him in a dress.  Well, I call bullshit.  Where the hell is the Zelda game we've been waiting thirty years for?

News: Physical version of Life is Strange will become available in January.  It will include Director's Commentary on why you have so many feels after playing.

Arstechnica compares and contrasts gaming performance between SteamOS running on Steam Boxes and Windows 10 systems. The comparison isn't flattering.

Californium is a game inspired by the works of Philip K. Dick.

Eurogamer's Christian Donlan played Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 backwards, which is possible now that every chapter is unlocked from the start.

Quick Pic: Halo 4 Pumpkin

"Halo 4 Pumpkin 2012" by qw3323

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Gaming Round-Up: September 14, 2015

"Halo 5: Guardians" by Darren Bacon

Andrew Yoder of Mclogeblog looks at the Thief‘s series of in-game maps and what they express bout spaces and how they what behavior they facilitate.

Christian Donlan of Eurogamer recounts the pleasures of Grow Home.

Eurogamer sits down with Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka to talk about the iconic level 1-1 of the classic Super Mario Bros.

Game is a 4 Letter Word is being described as a New podcast is like This American Life for video games.  Each episode takes a single four-letter word and examines its connection to video games and the surrounding culture. Stevens aims for it to be listenable by gamers and non-gamers alike, so a lot of the time it plays out like a series of loosely connected stories about people, not just about games themselves.

Fan Film: Halo VS Call of Duty

"Halo VS Call of Duty" by RackaRacka

"Master Chief takes on a couple of Call of Duty noobs and a juggernaut in a battle to the death! PS4 VS Xbox One!"

Mash-Up: ALIENS vs Halo

"::ALIENS vs Halo:: 2008" by UK-based Martin Houlden

Posters: Halo ODST

"Halo ODST: Occupied City Center" by Colin Morella

Prints available for purchase from RedBubble.

Posters: Environments of Halo

Environments of Halo Poster Series by Colin Morella

Prints available for purchase from RedBubble.

Lego Creation: The Pillar of Autumn

"Pillar of Autumn" (from Halo) by Lee Jones

Photographed by El Barto

I cannot begin to tell you how badly I need this ship in my life, and the best part is that after I sell my car to raise the money to build it, I'll have the garage stall I need to store it!

This huge sculpture was shown at BrickCon, the annual Lego enthusiast convention held in Seattle back in October.  It took Jones three and a half years to build the replica of the ship from Halo: Combat Evolved, and seven thousand dollars worth of Lego pieces let him build his recreation up to 2.15 metres long. The whole thing weighs just over 100kg too, dwarfing his previous creations of the Lord of the Rings Balrog and the Star Wars Rebel Alliance Blockade Runner.  How much Lego does $7000 get you? A lot, as it turns out. 

"The Pillar of Autumn at one of its two (and only two) presentations. It was shown at BW 2014 this June, and in Seattle at Brickcon 2014. It was rather fun in Seattle at its showing as several people that worked on the Halo project were in attendance, and made a point of coming over to say hi.

3.5 years to completion, 2.15m long, 100kg, and about $7k in Lego."

Posters: Halo 4

Halo 4 Posters by Doaly

Posters: Halo as Movie Posters

"Halo Series re-imagined as Movie Posters" by Synta Design

This is a fantastic idea. I'd love to see all of my favorite game franchises re-imagined as movie posters.

"How neat would it be to see your favorite game as a movie poster. I’ve been sacrificing countless hours on Halo 4, it’s only fair I pay my respects to the series. So I threw together a few posters, hoorah!"

Posters: Halo Saga

"This Is Not Your Grave"

"Halo Saga" by Fabio Castro Soto

Prints available for purchase from RedBubble.

Posters: Halo Series

The Halo Poster Series by Ron Guyatt

Prints available for purchase from Etsy. US$10

Paintings: Master Chief Watercolor

Master Chief Watercolor by Canada-based Benjamagnus

Video: Destiny Bro!

"Destiny Bro!" by Mashed

"Destiny is like Halo but with less story and more loot? No way bro!"

Mash-Up: Master Chief in the Grid

"Master Chief in the Grid" by Mexico-based Designed-One

"Master Chief gets back to action, now he enters "The Grid", where will find new chalenges and risks, new enemys, and new habilities. The mission, find Cortana (again) and take her back safetly, but now, Cortana will show to John how she plays the game!"

Posters: Master Chief

"Master Chief" by Mike McKone

Posters: The Spartan

"The Spartan" by Chase Kunz

Prints available for purchase from DarkInk. US$40

Posters: Halo

"Halo Poster" by Dylan West

Prints available for purchase from Etsy. US$18

Music Video: Halo Theme in a Church

"Halo Theme in an Empty Church (CRAZY reverb)" by rdub205

[ Previously: Music Video: Halo 3 Theme ]

While hiking in Switzerland, a guy named Max took advantage of an empty church's insane reverb by singing the theme music from the Halo video game.

Posters: Gaming Room

"Gaming Room" Poster Series by France-based Vincent Petitot