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Saturday, October 27, 2001 |  |
Fun content, lousy presentation
Very interesting movie out there - FULL OF SPOILER MATERIAL. It's filmed with a handheld off a small TV screen, with no sound... but it has some very interesting content, such as interface screens, help screens, the fact that you can have closed captioning of spoken text... It starts with the player turning over an upturned Ghost - and later an overturned Warthog. (How is not clear.) It's hosted by an Italian site with a VERY fast connection... which is good, because it's 42 megabytes. (Thanks to incude-stdlib, on the IGN Xbox forums, for the heads-up.) Update: Matt Soell points out that what I noted as 'closed captioning' is, in fact, the result of a developer build - some of the text is even status messages. (This suggests that pressing 'X' to overturn an upended vehicle might not actually work in the game you bring home... don't get your hopes up.) (Louis Wu 02:30:01 UTC) (permalink)
Faulty video library crashing Xboxes
Wow - the stories circulating around the internet about crashing Xbox kiosks might just have some basis in reality! Matt Soell passed on this tidbit:
Stefan just heard this from one of the MS testers...apparently some of the software on the demo discs was accidentally built with an old video library. A conflict between the finished hardware and the old library will, under certain conditions, manifest itself as the weirdness reported over the last few days.
That probably doesn't make the MS boys happy... but at least it's easily fixed! (Read the rest of Matt's post for more details.) (Louis Wu 01:44:11 UTC) (permalink)
RSVP for HLP
Thanks to Mavruss, for the heads-up: Matt Soell has posted a note over on the Bungie Sightings forums, giving details about the RSVP situation for the Halo Launch Party. He needs the standard stuff - who, when, why... okay, maybe not why. Go read it at BS, or wait a bit for it to show up on Bungie.net. (Louis Wu 01:37:55 UTC) (permalink)
Screen caps from OXM DVD
Whoa - very cool. Chanan has sent in 15 screen captures (720x480) from the features movies on the December 2001 DVD bundled with the Official Xbox Magazine - there are a few Halo snippets in there. Some of the shots are similar to what's been seen before, some are mediocre... and some just make your mind spin. (This one, for example...) Check 'em out... and remember how cool the Halo community can be sometimes! (Louis Wu 01:21:06 UTC) (permalink)
Friday's news in brief:
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Halo on TechTV Xbox Odyssey Tour New old wallpaper German PC Games to review Halo New movie at Fileplanet Halo IS on OXM DVD Ship and Ring Easy to lose track Never forget what you've done. |
Thursday's news in brief:
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Aussie Xbox: January 2002 Fan art in the oddest of places Maxim snippet scanned Praise be Another Hands-on at TeamXbox Halo preview at VoodooExtreme Do you remember Blam? StC is Infinite Halo is gold! |
