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Monday, July 28, 2003 |  |
The Halo Weekly Review - Now With Nuts!
Another episode of The HBO Weekly Review went up today. Looks like every bad word said on the forum this week made it in. Got some belly laughs out of me, though... absolutely, positively worth a read. (Louis Wu 21:47:40 UTC) (permalink)
Predator - stalking a marine near you
We didn't want to announce this on the front page before there was some backup... but now there is some backup. c0ld vengeance (who did a pretty amazing job with Haliens, once upon a time) is back with Predator, a remake of (a chunk of) the movie Predator, in the Halo engine. Some very, very nice touches. It's available in two formats; a 48 mb DivX-encoded AVI (it's almost 7 minutes long), or a 21 mb QuickTime 5 version. (Both are roughly the same quality, though the QT version is a tad darker in a couple of places.) You can find the .avi at c0ldvengeance.com (thanks to BOLL), doughmainename.com (thanks to gwdp...to), and FilePlanet. The .mov is currently only available at c0ldvengeance.com. Viewer comments can be found in this thread. As an aside, I find it rather amazing how many movies we've announced today, given the current bandwidth crunch... (Louis Wu 21:24:59 UTC) (permalink)
Online Halo Tourneys
This originally came in a while ago, but got missed. XBConnect is holding 1v1 and 2v2 tournaments - signup is $10/tourney, and the top 3 winners will take home prizes (yet to be determined). Info is here, signup is here. Thanks to Pulser for the (persistent) heads-up. (Louis Wu 20:44:10 UTC) (permalink)
Out for Blood is Up for Grabs
We just got word of a new movie called 'Out For Blood'. It's not really like anything else out there; it's all action. Great music, great choreography... really well put together. (Spectacular ending.) Team Scoog, and member Phatcorns, are responsible. It was originally posted on the Gearbox forums - phatcorns is hosting a version. Blade, our newest bandwidth angel, jumped in and put up a copy, as well. It's 9 minutes long, in WMP7 format, and weighs in at 20.6 mb. Any mirror offers for this one would be greatly appreciated... I'm afraid we're going to swamp the two existing links. (Louis Wu 18:43:13 UTC) (permalink)
Halo Forum for you
DarthTyler has asked that we mention his Halo forum, The Halo Elite. (Louis Wu 18:01:05 UTC) (permalink)
FTC: Bad News and Good News
The Bad News: XboxOttawa.ca seems to have gone down; no word on how long, or why. The Good News: Blade has mirrored both Episode 4 and Episode 5 of Fire Team Charlie's vids at his Team Ice movie mirror. We'll continue to update you on the movie situation... there are a lot of people trying to help fix the problem right now. I'm hopeful we'll have good news soon. (Louis Wu 16:13:01 UTC) (permalink)
These Are The Jokes, Kid.
PC Envy? Likely. Xbox MC disses PC MC on today's One One Se7en. (Louis Wu 15:17:42 UTC) (permalink)
WorthPlaying looks at Halo PC
WorthPlaying.com put up a Halo PC preview on Friday - they got in on the gameplay we saw at IGN and GameSpot last week. 10 new screenshots, all at 1024x768 size... nice! Pretty PC-oriented (as in, anti-Xbox)... but then, it IS a PC preview, so what the heck. Heads-up came from Konrad9, on our forum. (Louis Wu 14:04:22 UTC) (permalink)
So, you wanna go raid their fridge?
Wow, Monday, and we STILL haven't mentioned this week's Red vs Blue vid. It's not a standard episode - it's a look at how the Blue team makes it to New York for last week's Film Society of Lincoln Center presentation. (If you ask me, they were FAR too cavalier about the teleporter.) (Louis Wu 06:43:53 UTC) (permalink)
Renegade Theater, part Deux
The continuing saga of a group of our forum regulars and the bizarre events centered around a particular game... (mnemesis 02:05:53 UTC) (permalink)
Sunday's news in brief:
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The Bandwidth Situation, Continued FTC 5 is out Chief Nukem. He's Baaaaaack... |
Saturday's news in brief:
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It's Fiction - by the Fans This just in: Halo PC is Cool! Buttsock! |
