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Tuesday, March 11, 2003 |  |
Oooh... that's nice.
Cybrfrk captured a fleeting glimpse of an Elite action figure in progress that showed up on the Bungie webcam today. (More pictures in this forum thread.) (Louis Wu 20:20:55 UTC) (permalink)
Niven talks to /.
Yesterday, Slashdot posted an interview with Larry Niven (creator of Ringworld, and this pseudonym I use). Halo gets a tiny mention, and there's a small subthread leading off from it related to the game. Thanks to Ghôlsbane for the heads-up on this one - although he sent word yesterday, it took a forum post by Adam Daniel to get me off my duff and writing. (Louis Wu 18:13:51 UTC) (permalink)
Blood Gulch Ballet
Okay, I'm probably gonna get some flak for this one, because of all the movies we've declined to host recently... but hear me out. Rory Hartley and Bill Copeland put together a movie they called 'Blood Gulch Ballet.' It's three and a half minutes of Blood Gulch gameplay, set to classical music. (I recognize the piece, but can't name it.) It weighs in at 15.4 mb; it's smaller than it was when it was submitted, but I didn't reduce the quality very much. (It wasn't great to begin with.) What tipped the balance for me were three things:
- There are some really nice moves in here
- We haven't posted movies recently, so Mythica's not heavily loaded
- It was dedicated to Brian Morden (sue me, I'm sentimental)
Grab the QuickTime-encoded movie at Mythica.org, or the Psyjnir Complex Hotline server. Update: Thanks to Ninja on Fire and Stuntmutt, who both pointed out that the music is Rimsky-Korsakov's 'Flight of the Bumblebee'. (Appropriate, no?) If you're ever in Portland, Oregon, look for Rimsky-Korsakoffee's, the best coffee house in the northwest. (I miss it.) (Louis Wu 16:31:12 UTC) (permalink)
And the Desktops, too
Six new desktops for you, too, in our Wallpaper section. Some rockin' good stuff in there... (Louis Wu 10:28:59 UTC) (permalink)
Gettin' out the Artwork
Once again, the art queue has built, a little bit. Here are five pictures submitted to the Miscellaneous Art section over the past few days... Update: Gah, missed one. It's from almost 2 weeks ago, even. (Louis Wu 10:13:29 UTC) (permalink)
More traditional news outlet coverage
Following up on yesterday's news glut on the Halo 2 'delay', JPSartre points out that CNN Headline News is currently running a piece on how Halo is being pushed back. (It's titled 'Hello Halo'.) Let's hope the coverage of the actual GAME is this big... (Louis Wu 10:00:42 UTC) (permalink)
Halo50K Registration - Do It Now
The Halo50K Tournament is fast approaching (less than seven weeks away now), and in an attempt to clarify who's coming and who's just talking, the deadline on the $75/person ($300/team) entry fee is March 22 - after that date, the fee goes up to $360/team. Get your money in soon! (Louis Wu 09:15:15 UTC) (permalink)
IGN Talks about Melody
music.ign.com has put up an article about a panel of musicians that convened to discuss the importance of melody in video game music. Apparently, there were some major audio/video problems - but some interesting discussion was still reported. Marty O'Donnell was among the group (which is why it's getting a writeup here), and he had some several comments about the purpose melody serves in a video game:
"But you don't want to keep repeating that over and over again, you want to have it play, but you want to have it always played in some place that people go 'Oh yeah, that's Halo ' And to me there's nothing more valuable to brand a game than to have some sort of melody that is instantly connected with it and it's in everybody's head."
Read it soon, since it'll likely be behind the IGN Insider barrier before too long. (Thanks to Doggone for the heads-up.) (Louis Wu 09:07:45 UTC) (permalink)
The navy says 'Halo!'
Pretty cool - TechTV has an article (and an associated video) about videogame playing on US military submarines. The funny thing about the video - though everyone talks generally about 'videogames', and 'playing games', the 5 or 6 clips of actual gameplay are all...yup, you guessed it, Halo. Not another game in sight. Thanks to Tirion (shameless Psyjnir fanboi) for the heads-up. (Louis Wu 00:23:18 UTC) (permalink)
Halo-Se is no more
The Swedish Halo site Halo-Se is being taken down (lack of staff, it seems). We'll yank it from our Links page soon. (Thanks to BOLL for the heads-up.) (Louis Wu 00:02:56 UTC) (permalink)
Monday's news in brief:
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The History of Halo Halo and the Bible, revisited To Spam, or Not To Spam War, the Stock Market... and Halo 2 Fan Fiction Flood Continues |
Sunday's news in brief:
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Where are the snowmen? Bugs in the system... workin' out Fan Fiction - Open for Real The Case of the Missing Screenshots Halo 2 dates |
