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Tuesday, April 1, 2003 |  |
Halo Babies Renewed
All the details are in the Fox press release put up in this post. Thanks to poena.dare for finding it. (Louis Wu 22:35:01 UTC) (permalink)
Part of a balanced breakfast.
Hal-O's? When opie301 brought these up, I thought he meant this cereal... but he didn't. He meant this one. Cool. (Louis Wu 20:09:43 UTC) (permalink)
The end of an (incipient) era.
mnemesis, our stalwart Story Page anchor, has decided to call it quits; he can't see the point in running a site based on speculation about a storyline when Bungie's just giving away (okay, selling) the Halo Story Bible. We'll miss you, mnemesis. :( (Louis Wu 18:18:18 UTC) (permalink)
The Lowest Common Denominator
MacSoft's Senior Product Manager Al Shilling says Mac Halo will run just fine on your first-generation iMac. Good news for people with lame computers! (Thanks to Madscientist for the heads-up.) (Louis Wu 18:15:31 UTC) (permalink)
Someone's been eating potato chips at their desk again...
Cybrfrk's tireless webcam archiver has hit paydirt again. Looks like there might be some unplanned-for denizens of the Bungie offices... check the webcam shots in this forum post. (You're looking for the contents of that mug on the right...) (Louis Wu 15:58:14 UTC) (permalink)
I feel her pain.
Hehe... The Search for the Megg has consumed our forum in the past few days... and resident kibitzer Shishka has his own take on the situation. Check out his latest comic at Subnova. (Louis Wu 11:30:06 UTC) (permalink)
Sigma Octanus IV now recognized.
Octanus has pointed out that his Forerunners site, Sigma Octanus IV, has never been added to our Links section. Oversight rectified. (Louis Wu 11:01:50 UTC) (permalink)
Just a few stories
Lightweight Fan Fiction update, as they go these days:
- Wild Weasels, by Dirty Commie
- Halo: Captain Keyes Story Part 2, by monitor101
- Falling Stars From Heaven., by HALO MASTER DAWG
- Life of a UNSC Marine Part III, by Tygpj
Go for it... (Louis Wu 10:41:01 UTC) (permalink)
Bungie.net Pro - you gotta have it.
Check this out. Bungie's instituted a new pay-for-content service called Bungie.net Pro. For $7/month, you get access to boatloads of webcams, an online version of the Halo Story Bible, Developer diaries, daily Halo 2 screenshots... and MORE! Go read about it. Then sign up. (I got in early - I was subscriber 20. Not too shabby!) (Louis Wu 10:16:17 UTC) (permalink)
PimpWheel, Baby.
Pimps at Sea goes Live! Check out the Pimps at Sea page over at Bungie for some pretty darn cool hardware to accompany this amazing almost-ready product. (Yeah, we know, it's not Halo-related... but the more-than-half-dozen Halo-related items posted this morning at Bungie.net have fallen victim to a new build of their server software, and this was the only thing left.) (Louis Wu 09:52:14 UTC) (permalink)
Mac Halo screens!
Wow. Yesterday, Eclarap pointed out a link to the PC Halo Strategy Guide. It's not for sale yet, but that was the first we'd heard that it even existed. (I, personally, figured that the Prima guide would serve.) There was a bit of speculation on our forum about the comments that there would be new vehicles and weapons in the PC version. (The common belief up to this point was that it would be more or less a straight port.) Well, a contact at Westlake (the development house doing the Macintosh port) contacted us late last night with a pair of screenshots to whet people's appetites. Now, I know what you're thinking - it's April 1, this is all a joke. What you have to realize is that we had nothing whatsoever to do with the timing here. Eclarap found that strategy guide yesterday, the day before April 1 - and the discussion about it generated the email that got us the images. I seriously toyed with the idea of holding off for a day, and posting these tomorrow, so that folks would KNOW they were real... but I figure there's enough in them to vouch for their veracity that people could look past the date we're putting them up. Things to notice:
- The incredibly beautiful hi-res textures here. (blow up an existing screenshot and see what it looks like)
- The new weapons. (Okay, they're not new - they're back. How cool is that?)
- The aspect ratio. (Xbox shots are taken at 640x480, max... these are 1280x1024. The ratio is no longer 4:3, it's 5:4.)
We've been told (though we haven't seen for ourselves) that a modified Shadow (not the new one, but a version of the original Shadow) will be available in multiplayer games - and that there are two new outdoor levels to take advantage of this vehicle. Okay, enough talk. Visit our Screenshots database and check out the shots - one campaign, one multiplayer. Personally, I can't wait for summer! (For those still holding out, be warned - these do contain spoilers.) (Louis Wu 08:59:45 UTC) (permalink)
GURPS - oops, excuse me
poena.dare has taken the cleaned-up covers of GURPS Halo and interpreted what can be found in the text. Keats and new taglines... go read about it at Bungie Sightings! (Louis Wu 08:45:53 UTC) (permalink)
Your Name In Lights
c0ld vengeance, back from a long absence, has found what might be a pretty cool easter egg - the letters 'TR' (for Truth and Reconciliation) written out in the lights of the ship of the same name on the level Keyes. Clever! (Louis Wu 01:01:19 UTC) (permalink)
mnemesis takes a long look
mnemesis has put up a nice review of Halo: The Flood, over at the Halo Story page. There are minor spoilers in there - but mostly for the Halo storyline, not for the book. Suffice it to say, this book will shake up what you thought you knew about Halo. And it's available in stores today! What are you waiting for? (Louis Wu 00:55:00 UTC) (permalink)
Monday's news in brief:
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And Logos... More pictures, even. Halo Cheats made easier - no modding required. Halo PC Strategy Guide details Pictures for your desktop Even more stories GURPS cover - now mostly readable |
Saturday's news in brief:
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A day to play... Words LSW now online |
