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BunkBuster
Another nugget of info about the third Halo novel, 'Halo: First Strike', from Eric Trautmann, our favorite Halo Bible expert. Being added here so that when people jump onto our forum in two months and say "What do we know about the next Halo novel?", folks can point to this news post. (Louis Wu 19:40:09 UTC) (permalink)
Preparing for Halo PC Filmz
One last offsite vid for you: Dinky, of HaloJuggaloProductions, has put up a large (31 mb, DivX-encoded AVI) movie showing how to get video footage from your PC onto a DV camera. If that sounds like a lot to download for something you could explain in, say, a text-based FAQ... check out botman's suggestion for straight-to-disk recording. Supports up to 1024x768 resolution (better than the DV camera's 720x480) - though you'll need a LOT of disk space for the movies... roughly 1 gb/minute. Also, framerate drops more than 50% (on my system, with reasonable action on the screen, average framerate went from ~45 fps to ~20 fps when recording was turned on.) Still, it's easy to implement, and makes pretty high-quality movies... (Louis Wu 19:06:54 UTC) (permalink)
The vid parade
More vids - this time from halo_playa. You can find his list of offerings on his website, Nick's Halo Site. (Louis Wu 18:25:06 UTC) (permalink)
UK WCG in the news
Ghôlsbane points out that the UK World Cyber Games ended this past weekend; there are some photos on the iGames UK site. Even Halo PC made an appearance... and the whole shebang was mentioned by BBC Online. Go take a look! (Louis Wu 18:14:30 UTC) (permalink)
BG and Sidewinder stunts
Zowsky & Kabuki have put together 4 movies showing some multiplayer stunts in Blood Gulch and Sidewinder; we're not hosting these, so we aren't bothered by the fact that all of this has been shown before. Grab what's of interest to you:
- Clipping - Getting into BG walls
- SWOut - getting out of Sidewinder
- SideScrolling - Ghost jumping in BG
- Tower - climbing to the Tower (and beyond) in BG
All movies are in WMP7 format, and range from 1.8 - 3.5 mb in size. (Louis Wu 18:10:41 UTC) (permalink)
Gamers Depot looks at Halo PC
Another Halo PC preview over at Gamers Depot - again, it's single-player only (Beta 1.5 had only LAN networking), but they took a few nice screenshots. Thanks to Nick Danger for the heads-up. (Louis Wu 15:55:25 UTC) (permalink)
The Longest Short
A few weeks ago, we mentioned a CGI Halo movie being worked on by Mic Fedusenko. He's popped back into our forum with word of another few screenshots of his progress. Check 'em out! (Louis Wu 15:35:49 UTC) (permalink)
Doing the Right Thing
For what it's worth: Yes, we know that an older beta of Halo PC has been leaked. (Yes, Gearbox knows it as well; each build was individually numbered, so tracking down the leak shouldn't be too difficult.) We're not going to point you to web links for the download, or tolerate posting of such on our forum; we'd ask that you show respect to Bungie and Gearbox, and wait the few weeks until the full retail version is on the shelves. It won't be long now! Update: The official Gearbox response can be read on their forum. Update 2: The entire thread (all 600+ posts of it) have been yanked; there is no more official word from Gearbox. Update 3: Turns out I still had a window open with Marc Tardif's response in it. I think it's worth reading; I'm fine with the loss of the other 600 posts, but I think people should see his words (109k) on this one. (Louis Wu 15:31:34 UTC) (permalink)
To Speak, or not to Speak...
37 new dialogue snippets added to the Dialogue Databank today; 30 from Captain Spark, 7 from Electric Monk. Two new categories: Jackal and Hunter. There's no really good way to identify the Jackal snippets... so they're simply numbered. Again - all of these were collected in-game, no hacking. (We're not accepting sounds collected via hacking, for two reasons; Marty O'Donnell (and Bungie as an entity, for that matter) has expressed unhappiness at the bulk collection of private assets... and in truth, it simply isn't sporting.) (Louis Wu 15:27:53 UTC) (permalink)
The Other Warthog.
Do Halo fans get annoyed when other games begin to look like Halo? One One Se7en's MC does... (Louis Wu 11:31:59 UTC) (permalink)
Don't seem so lonely to me...
Hehe - Gearbox's Projects page lists a total of... one remaining work item for Halo PC. I wonder what it could be (and how long it'll take them to clear it)? Look for the game to go Gold pretty soon now... (Louis Wu 10:08:06 UTC) (permalink)
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