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Spotlight on a new webmaster
Mhaddy points out that the Junkyard's Spotlight series continues with a focus on Bluestone, webmaster of the new 343 Guilty Spark website. Swing on by and check out what makes him tick! (Louis Wu 19:53:56 UTC) (permalink)
FTC vids avialable again - both DivX and QT
For folks looking for FTC vids, now that XboxOttawa.ca is offline, Team Ice has uploaded QuickTime versions of all 6 existing movies at this point, and will be adding new movies as they're released. (They of course have the DivX versions as well.) Go get 'em! (Louis Wu 19:25:06 UTC) (permalink)
Halo action figure update
Ouch! We missed a Bungie.net update - and one that's important to a number of fans! Yesterday, SketchFactor posted a note about the availability of the upcoming Halo action figures - it contains a list of some of the major stores that will carry these. Check it out - the release date is drawing near! (Brandon, on our forum, pointed it out. I missed the email from b.net yesterday.) (Louis Wu 19:01:08 UTC) (permalink)
German Halo PC Preview (with new screens)
3DCenter, a German gaming site, put up a Halo PC preview last week; Kooky Bastard found it for us today. It contains 15 new screenshots (serious spoilers, for anyone keeping track), and shows what I think are the first shots we've seen that demonstrate how the graphics scale down on lower-end graphics cards. The shots are at 800x600, and are missing some bumpmapping/reflection mapping that we've come to expect - but they still look pretty good! (The cards used in the testing PCs are all decent... but not DirectX9 cards, and now you can see what that'll mean for you.) The preview, unfortunately, is in German, which means I have no idea what it says. If you read German, though - check it out! (Louis Wu 18:51:08 UTC) (permalink)
One For Randall.
Hehe - good thing that Warthog is indestructible... today's One One Se7en is posted (on time!). (Louis Wu 16:05:54 UTC) (permalink)
Let's try this again.
Once upon a time, there was a major Halo site known as Haloplayers. (They were big enough to be in the rotation for the original Halo Updates.) In early 2002, they went through some bizarre problems, and reemerged as Realhaloplayers.com. Again, they ran into trouble... but in late February, 2003, they came BACK online. And in early March, disappeared again. Well, Barak says they're back, for good. He's got a new site design, but needs some help fleshing out the site. (After all, they've got a few years of content to catch up on...) If you're interested in joining the team, Send Barak some email - or look for him on #haloplayers on irc.quakenet.org. (Louis Wu 16:01:06 UTC) (permalink)
I think I feel an aneurysm coming on
Red vs Blue has released Episode 15 for Sponsors - go grab your copy now. And don't adjust your monitor when it starts... it's supposed to be that way. If you're not a sponsor, you'll need to wait until Sunday... (Louis Wu 14:47:53 UTC) (permalink)
Massive Halo50K infusion
Dolbex, from Halo50K, writes that the competition stats and over a hundred photographs taken during Halo50K2 last week are now posted. Go check out the action! (Louis Wu 13:40:50 UTC) (permalink)
GameFAQs poll
Beginning in a few hours (August 8, CST), The Master Chief will go up against Aeris in the GameFAQs Character Battle. You'll have 24 hours to help MC defeat the Final Fantasy Flower Seller... go vote. (We'd credit this to someone, but we've been getting notes about this since MC defeated Golden Sun's Felix, over 3 weeks ago. Go visit GameFAQs... and vote! (And stop writing to us about this, okay?) (Louis Wu 02:29:42 UTC) (permalink)
Faces of Bungie Webcam - Fresh!
Cybrfrk, recently back (and vibrantly bouncy) from a 2-month vacation (yeah, some of us have pretty cushy jobs), has posted a major update to his Faces of Bungie Webcam page, with 36 new (and unidentified) images. How about you visit, and point out some names for him? (Louis Wu 02:15:56 UTC) (permalink)
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