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Wednesday, March 5, 2003 |  |
Halo: Ringworld... almost
poena.dare, man-about-town, has discovered a very interesting tidbit of chatlog from Larry Niven's website, in which he discusses the fact that he was approached about writing a Halo novel (and that he turned down the invite). Now that would have been an interesting news post by Louis Wu, wouldn't it have? pd also had this to say:
I will not be at the WCG 2003 Tournament.
I will not be at the Michigan LANFest.
I had nothing to do with Haloplayers being down.
I am NOT Bungie Studios! Bungie Studios are bungie.com.
It is unclear how much of this is true. (Well, the Niven bit is, at least.) (Louis Wu 23:13:44 UTC) (permalink)
Halo chosen for the WCG 2003 Tournament
Interesting. The World Cyber Games Organizing Committee has announced two titles to represent console games in the WCG 2003 Tourney: Halo and SSX Tricky. This rounds out the total list of 8 games to be played at this year's contest.To be chosen to represent consoles in a traditionally PC-oriented competition is a notable honor; moreso because the category (first-person shooters) is one that many PC gamers feel consoles will NEVER perform well in. Thanks to kappa for the heads-up. poena.dare couldn't be reached for comment - his handler mentioned something about handcuffs... and a tennis ball. (Louis Wu 22:41:21 UTC) (permalink)
Michigan LANFest has cool prizes
The Grand Rapids Frag Pile had another LAN party recently, called SWAMPCANDLE. (There was a small contest on the Frag Pile's Seventh Column chapter site concerning this image of the prize trophy... but it's over now. A larger version of the image is available on the contest page, should you want to play along.) What you should take away from this is that some gaming groups put together some pretty dang cool trophies for their players! (poena.dare, living in a dumpster in Arequipa, Peru, was too far away to attend this fragfest.) (Louis Wu 20:45:39 UTC) (permalink)
Haloplayers - down but not out
Bad news for Haloplayers - their host managed to delete the website, with no backups. :( They're rebuilding from scratch, and will be back up asap. (poena.dare had nothing to do with this mixup, as far as we can tell. You never know, though...) (Louis Wu 19:58:47 UTC) (permalink)
Feed Your Head
Whoa. Major Story page update - Finn goes crazy. No details, because who knows, some non-spoiler types might be reading this... but a serious dent has been put into the backlog. (And to ensure that poena.dare makes it into every news post today, Finn included a wonderful Jefferson Airplane sendup by... well, you know.) (Louis Wu 18:59:38 UTC) (permalink)
Interview with Brannon Boren
poena."I wanna be in all of the news articles today"dare points out that he's posted an interview with Brannon Boren over at Bungie Sightings. Brannon is a Microsoft contractor who (among other tasks) helps integrate the Halo storyline across various products (Halo videogames, books, etc). He's also the man behind Dr. Catherine Halsey. For more details, read the interview; it'll give you a nice background on how the development process works! (We've added it to our Interviews section.) (Louis Wu 17:32:36 UTC) (permalink)
Your favorite gametype?
poena.dare points out that Bungie.net has posted a new poll: "Which Halo gametype do you enjoy the most?" (He also has pretty strong feelings on what your answer should be - but then, there wouldn't be need for a poll if you all agreed with him, so go vote!) (Louis Wu 15:58:47 UTC) (permalink)
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