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Floating guns
Running through the e3 movie again, we noticed a bizarre thing... we documented it on this page. If you have any comments about the subject, post them to our forum! (Louis Wu 20:38:19 UTC) (permalink)
Halo SETI Marines take back position #47
Blam! The Halo SETI Marinestake back position #47 in the Battle of the Teams. It was tough crunchin' marines but we got there. Kudos all round. Team membership now stands at 440 that's an increase of four new recruits since yesterday. Excellent! Let's keep the pressure up and watch out for those Covenant airborne battalions. They're everywhere! (Wirehead 19:35:55 UTC) (permalink)
Guns. Lots of guns.
Guns. Lots of guns. Halowar has added a Weapons Guide to their site. Just the ticket for a rainy Sunday. The Covenant Sniper Rifle isn't featured yet in their Guide though. For more guns action check out the updated weapons page in our FAQ and there is also our Guns Analysis page from some time back. That'll need updating again. Time for Louis to come in from out of the rain! ;) (Ding 18:56:05 UTC) (permalink)
Chris Taylor on Xbox and PC game development
The future of PC games development is the subject again in a Daily Radar interview with Chris Taylor of Gas Powered Games. Chris offered the same views as John Carmack (see yesterday's news). Here's a snippet:
DR: Recently, a lot of high-profile PC developers have said that they are shifting their focus to next-generation consoles and making PC secondary. Is that going to be true of Gas Powered Games?
CT: Dungeon Siege is planned as a PC game, and we are a PC company. Naturally if the market shifts over (completely) we will take a look at making the transition ourselves, but at this time we are quite confident in the viability of the PC games market.
DR: There has been a lot of talk of the demise of the PC industry. Do you think the PC is fundamentally in trouble as a gaming platform, or is this the same talk we hear every time a new console appears?
CT: I think so. I think this business loves the drama of it all. Until consoles can do everything PCs do,and do them well, PC games we will have a market.
Nice to hear these views from top game developers. Thanks to Blue's News for the heads up. (Ding 10:27:27 UTC) (permalink)
High PC Gamers scan at Battleground Halo
Battleground Halo has upped two higher quality scans from the Halo preview in PC Gamer Aug2000. You can now get a clearer picture of the new red Covenant craft and the Covenant sniper rifle. Thanks BGH. (Ding 09:47:15 UTC) (permalink)
Some interesting forum posts to note
Just a heads up on some interesting posts in our forums:
Anthor posts an interesting list of rants and raveson the E3 Halo movie. Thanks to SkyFire360 for pointing us to this one.
TOPGUNN123 notes disappearing bodiesin the E3 Halo movie. It's not clear how persistent objects will be in Halo but I did find dead bodies useful for navigation in Marathon.
Bagman posts aURL to anXbox articlewhich claims that despite Microsoft insisting that the Xbox will be nothing more than a gaming machine hardly anybody believes them. We may get a keyboard yet.
(Ding 09:30:59 UTC) (permalink)
Miscellaneous Art page updated
Thanks to bibendum, who submitted a nice rendition of froggy for our Miscellaneous Art page. He looks so comfortable! (Louis Wu 02:59:38 UTC) (permalink)
Halo-Net Shop has non-bungie halo stuff
The Halo-Net Shop is now selling t-shirts... and they're taking no chances.
we're now printing the Halo Shirts, which have artwork which is fully original to Halo-Net, none of the content is by Bungie , so hopefully they can't make any complaint about it.
Go on over to the shop and have a look @ the overview of the T-Shirt. http://www.halo-net.com/shop
We will only be allowing pre-orders for the T-Shirts when Bungie have had a look at the overview of the shirts.
Swing by, and see what they've got! (Louis Wu 02:46:44 UTC) (permalink)
Saturday's news in brief:
Friday's news in brief:
