No clan night tonight.

OD and I are at IDF.

Battle Nations Double XP Weekend!

Everything in Battle Nations is 2X the XP right now!

Things to do Until November 6

Halo 4 launches on November 6.  The Cold Stream DLC is keeping us amused on clan nights for the time being.  Need more to do?  Here's some other games that the clan and I are playing:

Guild Wars 2: MMORPG with a PC client. This is the latest MMO in the vein of World of Warcraft.  Intends to reduce the "grind" of RPGs and introduces interesting things like Dynamic Events.  Cost: $59.99.  Players on:

• gtdroptop.9543 on darkhaven
• dgarnett TBD

Starcraft II: RTS with both PC and Mac clients.  This is the big boy version of Halo Wars, the standard by which all other RTSes are measured.  It's an older game, so it's cheaper to get.  Cost: $39.99.  Players on:

• gtdroptop#1499

Battle Nations: iOS game supported on iPhone, iPad and Mac.  Build and harvest Farmville-like game that most of the clan is playing.  Cost: Free!  Players on:

• Alchemist8888
• beer4porter
• carriemae
• darknorpo
• dgarnett
• fishbone10
• gtdroptop
• Julianne2
• meanmrmonkey
• MeanMrsMonkey
• omniscientDeath
• unsavory

Left 4 Dead 2 Cold Stream DLC: Xbox 360 Game with XBL support.  You get two brand new maps as well as 3 L4D1 maps. You get to play all 5 maps with our favorite characters from L4D1 (Francis, Zoey, Porter and creepy old Bill!) but with all the cool special infected of L4D2! Cold Stream will be the default clan night game through September.  Cost: $8.  Players on:

• beer4porter
• darknorpo
• gtdroptop
• MEAN MR MONKEY
• Mean Mrs Monkey
• Octurian Pewn
• OmniscientDeath

Clan night tonight. 9pm PT. L4D2 Cold Stream.

Reminder that your homework assignment for the month of September is to play H2 campaign.  There's no XBL support for this at all, not even voice chat, so it will be an individual thing.

Clan night tonight. 9pm PT. L4D2 Cold Stream.

Clan night tonight. 9pm PT. L4D2 Cold Stream.

Also remember that your homework for the month of August is to play the Halo 1/CE campaign.

No clan night this week.

I'm in Maui this week, so will not be hosting formal clan night. For those looking to game, at least 4 of us have purchased the L4D2 Cold Stream map pack DLC. For $8, you get two brand new maps as well as 3 L4D1 maps. You get to play all 5 maps with our favorite characters from L4D1 (Francis, Zoey, Porter and creepy old Bill!) but with all the cool special infected of L4D2! Cold Stream will be the default clan night game through September.

For those that can't kick in the coin, August is set aside for Halo 1/CE campaign, since we just finished the Halo Reach campaign in July. September will be Halo 2, October will be Halo 3, with November set for the launch of Halo 4. Since XBL doesn't support Halo 1/CE/2 campaign very well, this is just a homework assignment until October. For those interested in coordinating 2-player Halo 1/CE campaign runs, I'm happy to help with matchmaking.

No clan night tonight

OD, Porter, and GT are all out.

Clan night tonight. 9pm PT. Halo Reach.

We'll be starting with "The Package" campaign mission this week.

Innovation

Penny Arcade describes the Battle Nations experience pretty accurately.

Just Hit Turbo

The setting: Halo Reach, New Alexandria campaign mission.  gtdroptop flying lead Falcon 1 with two AI gunners.  Mean Mr Monkey flying Falcon 2, with Mean Mrs Monkey and Beer4Porter on the side guns.

Mean Mrs Monkey: gt is so far ahead, can't we go any faster?
Mean Mr Monkey: I'm going as fast as I can.
gtdroptop: Hit the Turbo button.
Mean Mr Monkey: What's the Turbo button?
gtdroptop: Press and hold X.
Mean Mr Monkey: Oh, ok!
...
Mean Mr Monkey: Wait, wtf?  Oh shit.
Mean Mrs Monkey: What are you doing?!?
Beer4Porter: Hey, did Mean Mr Monkey just get out of the pilot seat?!?
...
In-game message: Mean Mr Monkey has committed suicide.
gtdroptop: lololololololololol
...
In-game message: Mean Mrs Monkey died.
In-game message: Beer4Porter died.
In-game message: Moving too fast, players waiting to respawn.
gtdroptop: rotflmao

Clan night tonight. 9pm PT. Halo Reach.

I'm thinking maybe some more campaign.  I have a semi-serious idea of going through all the Halo campaigns before H4 launches this fall.

No clan night tonight.

Traveling internationally.

Movie: Act of Valor

For those of you that are fans of the modern day, realistic squad-based shooters (CoD MW, GRAW, RB6), I recommend Act of Valor.  It's available for rent from Netflix and stars active-duty Navy SEALs.  I found it entertaining, and basically a movie version of the games.  Good times.

Won't be a clan night this week, I'll be out.

Clan night tonight. Halo Reach. 9pm PT.

Bang bang we're back.

H4: More Details

The internets are starting to buzz with leaked info about Halo 4. http://www.littleenglishhaloblog.com/2012/06/new-halo-4-info-blowout-via-expertzone.html I won't embed in case you want to be surprised for some reason. H4 launches on November 6. If there is interest to play through previous campaigns, please comment or reply on e-mail, and I'll set it up.

No clan night tonight.

Sorry I suck about late posts when I'm traveling. Thanks to Mrs Monkey for the reminder.

Clan night tonight. L4D1. 9pm PT.

Classic zombies tonight kids.

Clan night tonight. 9pm PT. Left 4 Dead 2.

This week, we welcome back OD.

Clan night tonight. 9pm PT. Left 4 Dead 2.

As before, keep your Reach disc handy in case we have a weird number for zombies.