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Halo Mac - almost Alpha
Halo Mac has changed from First Playable to Pre-Alpha on Westlake's Project Status page. Thanks to Harbinger, on our forum, for noticing. (Louis Wu 21:58:06 UTC) (permalink)
Cold fusion on me!
Bungie, not to be outdone by rabid fans, has released 30 new dialogue snippets in their OWN Dialogue archive (not to be confused with our Dialogue Databank) - some of these are not actually accessible in the shipping game, so you wanna get 'em from Bungie. I don't think we'll add these directly to our collection - but the nice thing is, they're classified by what action is needed to find them, so dialogue hunters might have a chance of collecting SOME of them the old-fashioned way... Bungie's page isn't searchable, but the latest additions are marked 'new'. (Louis Wu 21:51:00 UTC) (permalink)
System Overload Imminent - oh, wait, that was yesterday
For those who noticed some difficulties getting to a few Halo movie mirror sites last night (or the Rockets on Prisoner site) - that's what slashdotting'll do to you. We held off until now to say anything, because when this kind of thing is happening, telling people about it only makes things WORSE... but on the plus side, there'll probably be a much wider audience voting for 'best Halo movies' now. (Louis Wu 21:19:56 UTC) (permalink)
You guys write too much.
21 pieces (yes, that's 7x3) of Fan Fiction for you today - including one (M31, part 12) which somehow DIDN'T get approved last time around. Get to work:
- (Part 12) M31: First Blood, by Greg and Wes Foutch
- The Rise and Fall of the Flood Chapter 4, by BlackValkyire
- Earth, A Place for Death. Part 4: New Mombosa, by FuManChu
- CORRUPT [2], by GLADIATRRR3000
- The Last War, Prologue, by Agent Shade
- Halo: Mercy ch: 1, by ssj9000chilango
- Halo: Combat Re-evolved; Moonbase Alpha, by Steele
- Running Riot-Part 4, by Simon James
- Halo 2, an Elites version, Part II, by FOrunnER
- Last of the Walking Dead - Part One: Escape, by Walker
- Vengeance, by Steele
- The Advenantures of Lt. Jake, Part Two, by Hunter_Killer
- long Time Gone part 2, by grylsy
- An Officer named Starblade: Saving Sol, by Hunter_Killer
- Four Plagues [1]: The Beginning of the End, by Kancer
- Remnants of Reach: Chapter 3: Adversaries of Annihilation, by Shinai Purugganan
- A Marine's Tale: First Encounter, by pj-NYkr90
- In Light of Destiny Part I, Chapter II: Truth, by Jinkaiden-XI
- On A Pale Horse: The Beginning of the end, by Silent Hunter
- Project: Shadow Spartan, Chapter 12(Finale), by Agent Shade
- Halo: The MCconto Chronicles Part 4, by JCDenton
Wow. Good luck. (Louis Wu 19:20:42 UTC) (permalink)
Halo50K - as seen by a forumgoer
guy who doesn't post...too often has put up a forum post with a bunch of pics he took at Halo50K. You can get a good sense of the overall tourney by looking through these... check it out! (Louis Wu 15:25:08 UTC) (permalink)
Outer Limits
MaverickJ, a trickster who's released some pretty impressive movies (and who ran Project Spartan, a showcase for Halo skill), has created another movie - this one is called 'Outer Limits', and it probes some of the out-of-map areas that can be found on popular multiplayer maps. Some tricks have been shown before, some are new. Some are useful in multiplay (assuming your opponents haven't banned them), some are just plain cool to see. 4:09 long, 15.7 mb big, QuickTime format. (There's a WMP9 version, as well, but no bandwidth to host it.) We're still working on a more permanent solution, but in the meantime, Project C.O.E.R.C.E. continues to make new Halo flicks available to the public by pooling bandwidth resources of a number of hosts. (If you've got, say, 50 gb/month of bandwidth you can spare, by all means, contact gwdp....to (he's GOT to get an easier name to write) and toss your name into the ring! Go visit C.O.E.R.C.E. today and grab your copy of Outer Limits. (Louis Wu 13:37:42 UTC) (permalink)
Lame, lame, lame...
Well, it's time for the Seven Day Poll to come to a close - and if you hadn't noticed, 'Wait for me!' was the runaway winner of the 'lamest Crewman voice snippet award', garnering 62% of the 8200 votes (beating its nearest competitor by by almost 3300 votes). Interestingly enough, I just discovered today who did that snippet... and while I probably shouldn't say WHO it was, I can definitely tell you I was surprised. (None of the other snippets in the poll were voiced by the same actor.) We'll consider resurrecting the Seven Day Poll again if we run across something we think worthy of voting on... in the meantime, I'll leave this data up until tomorrow. (Louis Wu 02:34:34 UTC) (permalink)
New Halo Websites
Two new websites to mention to you tonight... A very classy Flash-based site called 343 Guilty Spark (Your 100% Unofficial Halo 2 Source) and a German clan site known as DGD-Clan. The Halo community is growing by leaps and bounds! (Louis Wu 02:16:10 UTC) (permalink)
Tuesday's news in brief:
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Fans rock. For lots of reasons. Video games as a way of life Die Schlacht Um Reach Get On Top Halo cover art - revisited You run faster than your mascara! Never Going Back. Movies, movies, and more movies |
Monday's news in brief:
