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Friday, September 26, 2003 |  |
NZ site reviews old beta
Stuff Entertainment, in New Zealand, has published a review of the Halo PC 1.5 beta. Crashed a lot for them. They still sorta liked it. Sorta. Thanks to... um, a guy with a really long handle. (Louis Wu 16:15:06 UTC) (permalink)
HBO News Messenger - a fan's way of keeping up
Sniperman27 has created the HBO News Messenger; a small Windows program that will let you know the most recent news post on HBO. I was a iittle hesitant about the color scheme (as shown in that forum post) - but I needn't have worried; on a PC running XP Pro and .Net Framework 1.1, I saw something different. If you're not interested in an entire RSS reader, but just want the latest post, this might be worth checking out! Update: please don't download this yet. It seems that Sniperman has it configured to poll the server every 10 seconds - if a thousand people download this, that's an extra 100 connections every second of every day. 10,000 downloads, and we're talking 1000 extra connections per second. HBO doesn't need that. (Likely, HBO can't HANDLE that.) (Louis Wu 14:59:34 UTC) (permalink)
Doomed.
Carmack... unoriginal? Never. Well, Stuntmutt considers it, anyway, in today's One One Se7en. (Louis Wu 14:25:08 UTC) (permalink)
Gamespy loves Halo. Really.
Gamespy has put up their review of the final version of Halo... and they loved it. Simply loved it. They're still not thrilled with the level design, and they're grumpy about the system requirements... but (by their own reckoning) those are niggles. Halo... as it was meant to be played. (Their words.) Comes with 24 screenies, too (12 campaign shots from Halo, T&R and Silent Cartographer, and 12 multiplayer shots, mostly from Blood Gulch, Timberland, and Gephyrophobia, though there is one Ice Fields shot). Thanks to LaMuerte for the heads-up. (Louis Wu 13:48:13 UTC) (permalink)
Master Chief - Roto Rooter Man
Forum regular Wado has pieced together the clues dropped by Bungie, and laid out the actual Halo storyline. They jazzed it up a little bit for the final product... but the basics are all there. (Louis Wu 13:28:30 UTC) (permalink)
Halo Coupling
I was watching the boob tube and figured I'd give the premiere of that new NBC comedy, Coupling, a look-see. Guess what opens the third act? Two guys playing Halo and chatting about sex. :) It was only for a few seconds, but there ya go. Nice. (Ding 01:56:18 UTC) (permalink)
Thursday's news in brief:
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CPL Winter tourney rules up Water levels, schmawter levels... SparkEdit to go public Haunted By A Ghost. Gamers Pulse looks at Halo PC Halo2World goes live Thursday Themes |
Wednesday's news in brief:
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Speculations R Us Tactics 101 We'll all get medals for this! Corntana. Wednesday Writings The Silent Cartographers Speak |
