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Thursday, June 5, 2003 |  |
Keeping you informed about Halo PC
The Nightrider points out that Bungie's Halo PC FAQ gained 3 new questions yesterday - check 'em out for info about playable demos, beta tests, and the Mac version of Halo. (Louis Wu 18:41:14 UTC) (permalink)
the Junkyard focuses on Halo-ites
In our third Halo50K post of the day, Ryan 'Mhaddy' Mathhews of the Junkyard writes to let us know that a spotlight of dolbex is now up in their Spotlights section. (I like his favorite sites list.) While you're there, you should read the spotlight posted a couple of days ago of Michael 'Fluffy' Karlsson, the site director of Battleground: Halo. Mhaddy also mentioned that in the next few days, there'd be spotlights on some Bungie and Gearbox guys... so check back! (Louis Wu 18:35:51 UTC) (permalink)
Team HBO Halo50K writeup now online
Ninja on Fire has put up a LOT of pictures (over 100, I think) from his Halo50K experience, right here on HBO. (He was a member of Team HBO, after all.) There are lots of pictures of unnamed teams... so if you're here, and not labeled, let nof know! This layout should give you a sense of the chaos of the event... and its scope. (Louis Wu 18:21:09 UTC) (permalink)
Stick with me, baby.
Another mini-movie from HUNTR-KILLR. This one shows another setting you can toggle with a modded box - it's called 'magnetism', and it determines whether marines (and the MC) will automatically exit a warthog when it flips. (It also keeps you from being ejected from a Banshee if you hit something, or fly vertically.) I'm POSITIVE that some of the moviemakers out there could find a use for this feature... the movie's only 3 mb (QT, no sound), so grab it and see what this looks like! (Driving upside down is pretty funny.) (Louis Wu 13:17:34 UTC) (permalink)
Gamefaqs asks... is MC popular enough?
Bigsauce writes to let us know of a competition over at Gamefaqs.com. The Summer 2003 competition is a popularity contest; who is the most popular video game character of all time? Master Chief is ranked 3rd in the East division. Go register and vote! If you pick the winning characters, you have a shot at cold, hard cash. (Louis Wu 13:07:21 UTC) (permalink)
Halo50K - get ready!
dolbex, of Halo50K, writes to let us know that the website has been updated with lots and lots and lots of info. All the details from the first competition (in Atlanta, in April) are now online; you can see how everyone did in tournament play. They've also instituted a new Team Spotlight feature, for you to get to know the teams involved. Halo50K2 is coming up in August, in New Jersey - will you be ready? (Louis Wu 13:03:36 UTC) (permalink)
Downtime... over.
Welcome back to the madhouse. Apologies for the up-and-downtime of recent weeks... there's another short outage coming this weekend, when the server this site runs on is ripped unceremoniously out of the rack and stom- um, replaced with a better-functioning alternate. Shouldn't take more than an hour or two to synch the data between the two machines... details will be posted on our forum. In the meantime, we have to hope this puppy can limp along until UPS does its delivery thing. (Louis Wu 12:57:49 UTC) (permalink)
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