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Monday, August 4, 2003 |  |
Enter The Matrix - bullet time in Halo
C.O.E.R.C.E., the bandwidth consortium, continues to make new movies available in our hour of bandwidth crisis. Newest addition to the archive: Enter The Matrix, from Athol Productions. 15.9 mb, 4:07 long, in QuickTime 5 format, this movie has some pretty awesome editing effects. It's not everything its creator wanted it to be, but it's still a killer piece of work! Grab it from the C.O.E.R.C.E. mirror page - and toss your comments into this thread! (Louis Wu 19:55:30 UTC) (permalink)
FTC6: The Story of Squatting Bear
Fire Team Charlie has finished FTC 6 - their most ambitious piece yet. Editing is fantastic, sound is good (though still rough in places) - this one has to be downloaded! One of these days, I gotta try that warthog trick... This one is 5:55 long, 20 mb, 352x128, in DivX5-encoded AVI format. (A 15.2 mb QuickTime version has been created, but I'm not sure where it's going to be hosted.) Stop by XboxOttawa.ca and grab this! Mirrors are, of course, highly appreciated - download the vid, send us a link, and we'll be sure to make it public. Thanks! (Louis Wu 17:59:22 UTC) (permalink)
You HAD to open your mouth...
Gettin' there... Desktops are now cleared out, as well - 16 new images for you (plus one size variation). Check out the Wallpaper section! Update: We removed one of the images, because it used an older wallpaper as a base, without permission. Removal was at the request of the original artist. People... please. If you're going to use someone else's work, ask first. (The only real exception to this is Halo artwork placed on Bungie's site - it's there for your use in this manner.) (Louis Wu 17:07:03 UTC) (permalink)
Wu is me!
Another Monday, another Weekly Review! If you think you might have missed anything in our forum this past week, read this post. (Even if you think you DIDN'T miss anything, read this post - it's got a nice spin on things you might have overlooked...) (Louis Wu 15:21:21 UTC) (permalink)
We've got pictures! Lots of pictures!
Since my return from vacation last week, the art sections of b.org have been woefully unattended. Here's step one in fixing that problem. 11 built-up pieces for the Miscellaneous Art section. A wide mix. Update: Oops, missed one. (Louis Wu 14:22:27 UTC) (permalink)
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow...
mnemesis is on vacation... but Finn, less than two weeks from a pretty major paradigm shift, has managed to update the Halo Story page with a tasty morsel culled from today's forum droppings. That Wado guy... he's pretty sharp. (Louis Wu 02:12:35 UTC) (permalink)
Halo50K2 - preliminary details
Full details will be forthcoming at the Halo50K site in the next day or two, but we got email from Bigsauce (a finalist at the Halo National Championships last year) with details about the top spots:
Top 4 for the FFA:
1. Ogre2
2. Ogre1
3. StrangePurple
4. TDT Alex
2v2 Winner:
Ogres
4vs4 Winner:
StK
Darkman took 6th place and in the 4vs4 TDT took 2nd.
For those not up on the Halo Tourney scene, TDT is The Dream Team, a team of four guys that includes Dustin 'HP Darkman' Langton, recently mentioned in our news as being the first Halo gamer to go pro. They won the 4vs4 competition at Halo50K. (StK won the 2v2 competition, and Ogres were 3rd in the 4vs4 competition there, as well; guess the top bracket has just switched positions a bit, rather than given way to a new regime). StK, this tourney's winners of the 4vs4 competition, is currently spotlighted at Halo50k - nice timing, that. (Louis Wu 01:52:41 UTC) (permalink)
A lost resource, dredged from the depths
After several months of being offline, Shishka's Megg FAQ has been resurrected over at Subnova. There's a few more steps than what you'll find in our own Megg mini-FAQ (created at the height of the Megg furor) - if you're new to the community, and have always wondered what the Megg actually is/was... check it out. (It's been found, however, and full details are linked to from both FAQs, so please, don't mail us with breathless messages about how you found it, okay?) (Louis Wu 01:40:12 UTC) (permalink)
Sunday's news in brief:
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Playing Catchup - Fan Fiction RingWorld, anyone? Auto-aim - not QUITE as helpful as all that A cacophony in E minor Blood Gulch Blues |
Saturday's news in brief:
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Halo's auto-aim... up close and personal Ownt.com reviews the E3 demo trailer Pictures from Halo50K2 What's your favorite movie? Flame On. |
