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Some good stuff going down over at the Marathon's Story page
Some good stuff going down over at the Marathon's Story page. A review of Iain M. Banks' new novel Look To Windward. Halo is clearly influenced by Banks' scifi novels. There's also more Halo backstory, some comments on Bungie's third game Phoenix, the Xbox keyboard or lack of it,the amusing The Official SA Guide to Making a Successful FPS and Marathon pants. Anyone know what the 't' in 'storytpagepants.html' URL stands for? (Ding 21:30:36 UTC) (permalink)
The full E3 Halo movie release confirmed!
The full E3 Halo movie release confirmed! Thanks to nikozomofor writing to tell us that his issue of PC Gamer (Aug 2000) arrived and the cover CD contained a 160 MB Halo movie (9 mins 42 seconds long). (Ding 20:11:21 UTC) (permalink)
No stickers for you
Seems the Halo-Net Store was laboring under a misimpression... in this forum post, they suggest that the situation might not be as they'd understood it. Bungie licensing still costs money. (Louis Wu 19:36:09 UTC) (permalink)
Full E3 Halo movie released.
According to a Hard|Forum post the full E3 Halo movie has been released. It's claimed to be 150MBs and 10mins long. HBO staff haven't been able to verify this yet though. (Ding 19:20:13 UTC) (permalink)
Caveat Emptor
Matt Soell dropped into our forum to say that he seriously doubts the Halo-Net Store actually has permission to market their products. He's looking into it... but if you were thinking about buying a sticker today, you might want to hold off a few hours, or until the issue is clarified. (Louis Wu 15:13:48 UTC) (permalink)
CVG article says no keyboard for you!
Kudos to Bagman, who found a small article about the XBox controller, posted two weeks before the Bungie/MS deal went public. Seems it's been known for quite some time that a keyboard will not be a standard feature on the XBox... makes you wonder how Bungie thinks the fan community is going to stay together. (Makes me wonder, too.) (Louis Wu 13:47:06 UTC) (permalink)
New Halo scans on the web
ARMAGEDDON informs us on our forumsthat he has made the Halo scans from PC Gamer (Aug 2000) available on the web at http://armageddon.gamehappy.com/halo/. These scans were originally from the Rampancy.net Hotline server, scanned and upped by Isolder. Thanks ARMAGEDDON and thanks Rampancy.net. (Crux Fidelis 06:51:18 UTC) (permalink)
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