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Thursday, April 24, 2003 |  |
iGames Summer Season ramping up
Oops - another one we missed during the outage. Bungie.net ran a request from emildux for you to submit your suggestions for gametypes for the upcoming iGames Summer Season. This is your chance to get your favorite game variant known! (Louis Wu 20:02:55 UTC) (permalink)
Will it fly high like a bird up in the sky?
HBO was down while this was going on... but BOLL started a thread a few days ago in which he posted a series of panoramic views of Halo. (These were created, as you'd find by reading the thread, by standing in one place and rotating slowly... then running the resulting movie through a homebrewed program that stitches together the same column of pixels from each frame.) Count Zero turned a few of these into QTVR panoramas; the end result is a nice 360° view of Halo in several different places. Oh, the ingenuity of fans... (Louis Wu 19:58:31 UTC) (permalink)
Black Ops HQ online
And ANOTHER new Halo site - Black Ops HQ. This one is also still being fleshed out, but the main design seems finished, and the forum is up. The community continues to grow... (Louis Wu 19:57:13 UTC) (permalink)
Pixel Madness
A week ago, we mentioned a Halo RPG that's being worked on by a forum denizen. This week, a website for the project came online, and many more screenshots have gone up. Take another look, if you want to see a rapidly-evolving role-playing game being developed. (Louis Wu 18:51:39 UTC) (permalink)
OOOHHHH AHHHHH
SketchFactor has posted a note to the Fanfest 2003 Chapter to let folks know that a special mystery guest will be appearing at the Fanfest. Want to join in the speculation on who this guest might be? Hop on by, and post to the fanfest forum! (You don't need to be a chapter member to post.) (Louis Wu 17:20:35 UTC) (permalink)
Halo50K - it's now or never!
The Halo50K tournament is well on its way to becoming a truly monster hoedown. Current prize purse is hovering around $8000, with a bunch of TVs to be given away as well. They were planning to accept registrations at the door, but they've decided to limit the tourney to 56 teams total (they were at 42 a couple of days ago), so there's a deadline for registration of tonight, at 11 pm EDT. (That's roughly 11 hours from now.) Team HBO will be there to represent this website - will you? (Louis Wu 15:45:10 UTC) (permalink)
New Halo website up
Thesomeone writes to say that Halo.CombatEvolved is now online. Still being worked on, but many of the sections are live. Take a look... (Louis Wu 14:53:52 UTC) (permalink)
Brits say 'eh' to Halo
Last month, we posted a news article about a program called Game Stars, running on ITV1, in the UK - web surfers could cast their votes for the best games in the UK. Griffon let us know that the show aired on Sunday... and Halo didn't do very well. It took the Games Radar.com Award... but was beaten in every other category. You can see the final rankings on the Game Stars page. And so it goes... (Louis Wu 14:48:09 UTC) (permalink)
IGN PC looks at upcoming games
PC Halo gets listed in the 'Big Games of 2003' article at IGN PC - you'll find it on page 3, in the First Person Shooters category. They suggest that folks might not like it because it's old, and its graphics are dated... and that the multiplayer aspect might be weak. But except for that, it'll be great, right? (Here's hoping they're smart enough to apologize when they see the final product.) Thanks to Skeletor for the heads-up. (Louis Wu 14:23:37 UTC) (permalink)
Status update
Whew. Back from a (very pleasant) 5 day trip to Belgium... and attempting to deal with some of the backlog here. I was very careful to make sure there were folks minding the store here, with access to almost all parts of the bungie.org infrastructure. The one part I left out was the HBO hardware itself. :( The box died at roughly 10:40 pm EDT on Sunday night... and nobody had any way of getting it running again until yesterday. I've already taken steps to ensure this won't happen again. In the meantime, I'm plowing through the dozens (hundreds, if you count all addresses) of emails and will be adding the backlogged content as soon as possible. Thanks for your patience! (Louis Wu 13:56:04 UTC) (permalink)
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