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Wednesday, March 19, 2003 |  |
The Games We Play
Old-time Bungie fans are most likely not a huge portion of the current pool of Bungie fans; Bungie's latest poll ('Which multiplayer gametype do you enjoy the most?') shows that the vast majority of respondents (90% of 1500 votes) enjoy playing either Slayer or Capture the Flag, gametypes made popular by FPSs like Quake and Unreal. Only 8% voted for gametypes brought forward from older Bungie games, like King of the Hill and Oddball... and only 2% chose 'Race' (a gametype relatively unique to Halo) as their favorite. Just goes to show you what happens when your audience base widens... (Louis Wu 23:06:26 UTC) (permalink)
Status Update
If you're reading this, you've found the server's new home. This is a backup of the existing site. Unfortunately, the death of the machine this morning wasn't out of the blue; the box has been pretty unstable for a few weeks now. (It's been unstable for longer than that, but the instability can only be attributed to hardware problems recently.) One of the side effects of the nearly continual crashing in the past few days is that the nightly backup hasn't been completed since early Friday morning; all news and new features since then are in limbo until the original machine is brought back online. (Please be patient.) Fan Fiction, movies, artwork, and any other submissions in the past few days still exist; they are simply unavailable until repairs are completed. Please do not resubmit your work. (Additionally, in order to keep the bandwidth demands down while on this smaller pipe, we're going to delay posting NEW fan creations; they'll go up, eventually... just not right now. We've taken the Fan Fiction submission form offline, and we ask that you hold off on sending us artwork for a few days.) Again - we apologize for the downtime/lack of functionality... we're doing the best we can to get back to where we were (and we WILL keep up on news posts), but hardware failures get messy sometimes. (Louis Wu 19:36:24 UTC) (permalink)
baaaannngeee...
poena.dare forgot to take his meds again... (Louis Wu 00:21:59 UTC) (permalink)
Halo 3 Man Fandango
Funky downtime... datacenter says it's not them, but the server said it wasn't down, either. Anyway, check out Bungie.net's newest contest - if you can come up with the best three-player Halo gametype variant for Halo, you'll win the accolades due a true master. Entries are only accepted from Seventh Column chapters, and there are other rules, so be sure to read Bungie's news story carefully. You've got just a bit under 2 weeks; deadline is midnight (Pacific time) on Sunday, March 30. What are you waiting for - get creatin'! (Louis Wu 00:14:50 UTC) (permalink)
Tuesday's news in brief:
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Lots to read Artwork updated The MOSHPIT puts up a movie page Halo Cave comes online Gathering the Goods Gossip - it's what's for dinner. |
Monday's news in brief:
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Housecleaning, and Hurt Edge mentions modded Xboxes, and Halo Gnomes rebel - story at 11 Help Wanted at the Junkyard Free book drawing just 2 weeks away For the 777th time... |
