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Last night what ForgeHub's debut of CustomGame night. TrueDarkFusion and his gang decided it would be great to host an event where poeple can come and play their games. The Custom Crew thought hosting this would be a great idea. TinoXtreme, GhettoProdigy, Aristel, and MrKrusty1 were some of The Crew who played through each of the maps. We found Albatross Hill being the Top-Dollar map and everyone should download this map and gametype and try it out.

In Albatross Hill, you and your team try to get as much time in the "hill" as possible. The trick is the hill is mid-air. Use the 'man cannon' on Narrows to launch yourself through the hill. The hilarity ensues afterwards. I know for me, I got hit by the most random objects flying through the air.

Check out more of ForgeHub's Maps and Variants at ForgeHub.com!

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ForgeHub.com is at it again. And after getting some recognization last week on Bungie.net things are firing up for this young communicty of content creators. This Friday, December 7th at 6:30PM CST, TrueDarkFusion, founder of ForgeHub will be hosting a Custom Game Night as a get together to show of his new maps.

I must say myself, the content these guys create is amazing. The level of detail, the amount of testing and time, and architecture of the custom games they create is phenomenal. Please come join the fun tomorrow!

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Today, Bungie released the details on it's Downloadable content for Halo 3. Three new maps will play host to numerous new battles on Social and Ranked playlists. Of course I can't wait to start forging on some of these maps, as they are specifically designed for forging. It will be interesting to see what Bungie has given us...

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Coming Soon to a Web Browser near you... As of late, I'm starting to get into this web blogging idea. Of course its going to add to my daily list of "stuff" but I going to take a trial on it coming 2008. During the first week of January I'll be posting videos from the past two months (November 2007-December 2007) of just random stuff, thoughts, ideas, reviews of things I buy, etc. I've always had an opinion about certain this, and always wanted to share my ideas.

Blogger is a great place to do this, and with the amount of tools and applications it provides I think I will make this my primary host for a while. This means that www.moosequest.net will be retired from my network as the primary web server... What is to happen to it? I'm testing out the new Microsoft Home Server and then possibly moving to LDAP and Domain support for my environment. Its getting close to a small business network and I need to centrally manage everything.

You can track the current progress here (appearing as a side bar in the next coming weeks).

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Its been awhile, yes... Partly because I've been on night-shift; that normally slows me down. After-all I have to fill in what little time I have with actual video games playing. I finished up my interview with MTV. The show is going to air sometime around Thanksgiving... I will be updating Facebook and sending out e-mails to friends when it gets closer to the date. Its pretty exciting, as I'm going to be on national TV speaking about my video game hobby. Basically my friends, family and co-workers are all involved and I say "Thank-you" to those who participated in the interview to show.

Halo 3...still has its fun factor. I've met a couple new socialites on Halo 3 that has coming back each day and enjoying myself. I'm looking forward to the new maps that are coming out, but even though Halo 3 still has me locked... This November is the light for many new video games which I plan on getting.

So far, I've gotten The Simpsons' Game, Call of Duty 4, Ace Combat: Fires of Liberation and today Super Mario Galaxy. New coming titles like Need For Speed: Pro Street, Assassin's Creed, Kane and Lynch Dead Men, Final Fantasy: Wings of Goddess, Mario Kart Wii and other titles are amongst some of games I will definitely purchasing. After saving all my money during my absence from the world (besides working of course) I've stashed enough to feed my addiction for this winter. I should tag some of these games for my Christmas List.

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TrueDarkFusion01 has given me the privilege of presenting his game types and maps here on my blog. I had the chance to talk to him about his variants and I'm pretty amazed at what he's constructed. Take a look at his website and check out his games.

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Because of the new abilities to edit maps, and create your own game variants, Halo 3 has dawned a new age of custom games, that no longer have "honor rules". The most interesting one that I have seen so far is, Normandy, a remake of the 1942 battle where the Allies stormed the beach against the Germans. With some creative know-how, and some in game Forge techniques, the board has explosions, turrets, crates and all sorts of goodies to keep one entertained as he mows down his opponents over and over again. I spent most of my weekend doing this, keeping myself entertained. I rarely played matchmaking, as I was one of the people plague with the "Halo 3 Server unavailable" message that lots of people were receiving. I decided to go on Bungie.net and check out all the games players have been posting online. Trust me, there are a lot good games out there, and I'm sure there are more to come.

On a sadder note, this was the first weekend without Pooh-Bear. Both my Mom and I agreed the house felt kind of empty without him being there. Sometimes you ask yourself why we choose a pet, knowing that death is inevitable, but my Mom and I also agreed that we had fun with him, and that we gave him a home, and great family and a great life. I decorated my computer background, screen saver and Facebook profile with pictures as a "memorial" to him (Photo Album).

This week is going to suck for gameplay though. I have work each day until Thursday, but then I have a 4-day weekend (woot!). Plans? Fright-night is each weekend at Six Flags. Diana says she wants to go; my challenge to her is to go and ride every single ride (coasters mainly). Reason, she's scared of coasters, lol.

Last week I had a lot of visitors who came over to check out Halo. A lot of y friends who I haven't talked to in a little bit have contacted me about Halo; wanted to come over and play. My mom has been pretty easy going about the visitors, especially since we're staying up late playing and making noise. This weekend, I fell into the Pizza at home state once or twice, which just proves how immersed in the game I was (thanks papajohns.com). So what I had said before, about not being your typical pizza and video games dude... I guess I failed that portion. "Eh, who cares..."

Up and Coming:

Look for my Halo 3 interactive video. You'll get to see me play, rate and test out some of the latest custom games that players are releasing.