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Massive Halo Tweak Guide at TweakTown
TT Gamer has put up a very nice Guide to Tweaking Halo; lots of good information. Thanks to Djof for pointing it out. (Louis Wu 19:21:45 UTC) (permalink)
In the beginning, there was the word...
Forgot to post Fan Fiction yesterday, so today's update is 22 stories big:
- The Death of Ensign Lovell, by Walker
- Halo Poetry 101: Killing Stuff, by Brian Alexandrowicz
- Plasma Burns and Bullet Shells- chapter 8(finale), by Myth
- Halo 2 Rise of a Hero Chapter 2, by CovieKilla
- Halo Trilogy Side Story: The Grunt Interrogation (comedy), by Alpha Lance
- The fall of new york:the clearing, by hunter_elite
- Threat Assassin #1- The Prolouge, by Lone Jackal
- Aurora Squadron- Part 1, by RogueFox
- Halo 2: Reawakening of Halo (story1), by Christopher Matthew Gonzalez
- Halo: The Beckoning, by Darby Janssen
- My Life as a Grunt, by Alpha Lance
- The Final War: Chapter Three: Getting real... Part One: The landing, by Awacar
- The Last Assault [H&R 17], by Jillybean
- The Interlude [H&R Finale], by Jillybean
- The March of the N00bs - Part 1, by Wado
- Chapter Eight: Rise of the Phoenix, by Blue Jaguar
- Old Style, by Horror
- Attack on ERISTOCK Part 14: Only the Strong, by xitWOUND117
- The Ride to Dagon IV, by duckfoot
- Battle for the Norah: Part Nine, by Sterfrye36
- Orange Peanuts - A Halo Comedy, by Dispraiser
- Derailed Part 11, by Dispraiser
Quick note to the world at large: The Fan Fiction submission form is NOT an acceptable way to contact the administration of this site. If you need to talk to us, use email. If you do not want us to know your email address, we probably don't need to hear what you have to say. Thanks! (Louis Wu 18:17:43 UTC) (permalink)
Trick or Treat...
Gah. Chris Macias uploaded a picture of his Halloween costume a couple of days ago... we didn't get to it. Better late than never! He went as an Xbox (240K), and the costume was good enough that he received a copy of Halo from the Microsoft employee that lived at one of the houses he visited. Not too shabby! (Louis Wu 13:36:10 UTC) (permalink)
Bungie gets props from Macworld
Yesterday's big news in the Xbox world was that Microsoft has decided to go with IBM's PowerPC chip for the next iteration of its console. (This isn't Halo news, so we didn't bother reporting it.) As Miguel mentioned on our forum, one of the big hurdles to be overcome is the thorny issue of how to keep backward compatibility with Xbox games after this architecture change. PowerPC chips have been used in Macs for almost 10 years now, and Microsoft recently purchased Connectix, a company that produced Virtual PC, a Windows emulator written for PowerPC architecture, so some (like this Macworld UK article) are drawing parallels to other former Mac developers that have helped transform the Xbox into a successful product. (Yeah, we mean Bungie, with Halo. See? It's Halo-related, now.) Thanks to Lophan for the heads-up. (Louis Wu 13:13:57 UTC) (permalink)
Australian Halo Tourney starts this week
Cyber Slam is an Australian Halo tournament starting this Friday, November 7th. 16 national finalists will be flown to Sydney to compete in the finals on December 6 - and the winner will pocket $1000 in cash and be flown to the US to play in the International Halo Championship tourney in January 2004. You must be 18 or over to participate. Unfortunately, registration closed at midnight on the 3rd of November; we received this note a day or two before that, but it was sent to a hidden address (we were bcc'd), and my junk filter didn't let it through. Note to folks with time-critical info - in these days of heavy spam filtering, you're better off taking the extra time to actually mail the announcement to individual addresses. (There are even apps for this.) Good luck to all who entered! (Louis Wu 12:21:24 UTC) (permalink)
Death From Above now recruiting
HUNTR-KILLR writes that his clan, ..::DFA::.., has issued an invitation for tryouts; if you're interested, check out their webpage! (Louis Wu 12:12:53 UTC) (permalink)
A Bird, A Plane, A Talking Lady Tank
endrom has drawn today's guest One One Se7en strip... I'm at a loss. It's a RvB nod, I can say that much. (Louis Wu 11:48:57 UTC) (permalink)
Scavenger Hunt update
Okay, I'm ready to call it a day. Or a month. Or whatever. On October 6th, we kicked off The Great Halo Scavenger Hunt, and with the help of a whole bunch of Halo-related websites and Bungie, we set up what we thought was a fun, thought-provoking contest. Seems like we went too far, though - even in the face of more and more blatant hints (to the point of giving away key parts of the puzzle), we STILL have had just 5 successful entries (not counting the instant win tokens). Bungie supplied enough schwag for 28 winners - but we're gonna leave some of that unclaimed, I'm guessing, because I'm putting a one-month deadline on the game. As of 6 pm UTC on November 6th (that's 1 pm Eastern Time on Thursday), we're declaring this contest over, and posting a full solution on the net. Any unclaimed prizes will remain with Bungie, probably for use with future contests. (Part of the reason to call it quits is that there are at least 2 other contests I know of, waiting in the wings for this one to end; there will be plenty of other opportunities to snag cool stuff, and maybe some of them will capture more imaginations than this one did.) You've got a bit over 48 hours to finish up, if you're still interested in taking home some of THESE prizes; as far as I know, at least half the trinkets have been posted in full view on our forum, so finishing up shouldn't be that hard, if you really want to finish up. (Louis Wu 11:09:09 UTC) (permalink)
Lethal Rage 2
Pico submitted a new movie, called Lethal Rage 2, recently. The first time I watched it, I felt that he spent too much time trying to get that 'cool cinematic shot', and not enough time advancing the plot. Watching it again, I see that part of my problem was the confusing flag colors. (Seems to me the capture is going backwards. Maybe it's me being slow.) Anyway, a second runthrough shows me that it's actually a pretty slick film. It's the story of a Blue assault on the Red flag, and it's got all sorts of James Bond-ish features tossed in. (The drop-off-the-cliff-into-the-ghost scene is quite nicely done.) It's been re-encoded into QuickTime format, and weighs in at 16.6 mb (it's 5:40 long). I've posted copies at both files.bungie.org and Mythica - and if anyone feels the urge to mirror, we're always happy for extra links. Pico's asked for feedback in this forum thread. (Louis Wu 10:57:59 UTC) (permalink)
HBO HPC list posted
Ben Roth has compiled a list of HBO forum regulars, and the HPC handles they play under. If you're looking for folks from our forum when you're online playing Halo PC, this is a list you should read! (Louis Wu 10:52:48 UTC) (permalink)
Halo PC Vehicles Guide up at Halo Ops
Halo Ops has put up a Halo PC Vehicles Guide - and though the screenshots are quite nice, some of the info is a bit questionable. (I thought 'Phade' was a typo, at first, as the name of the Shade - but it's used more than half a dozen times.) As a discussion-starter, this article is worth a read. (Louis Wu 10:08:55 UTC) (permalink)
Blood Gulch for UT2K3
Titanium Designs, a modding group for Unreal Tournament 2003, has released CTF - Bloodgulch 2, a map design based on Halo's Blood Gulch. You can see screenshots on this page, or grab a 17 mb WMP9 vid of the level from their Videos section. (Personally, I'm having trouble seeing the resemblance...) The 3 mb map download can be snagged off FilePlanet. Thanks to Alex Bilas for the heads-up. (Louis Wu 09:53:52 UTC) (permalink)
Xbox modding scene goes injected
Okay, this one's weird. tjc2k4, a forum member over at xbox-scene, has managed to get injected models to work on his modded Xbox. (Not yet for Halo PC, unfortunately.) It's not ready for release yet, but there's a proof of concept movie showing a warthog with wings flying around. He didn't have the bandwidth to host it, and Haloskins hasn't posted the upload yet, so Break Point came to the rescue and put the movie up on his site. (We've also tossed a copy of this 2.2 mb WMP7 vid up on Mythica.) Bizarre-looking stubby-winged Warthog... maybe we should call it the A10. Take a look! (Louis Wu 09:42:41 UTC) (permalink)
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Reviews out the wazoo PDX tourney in January Boxing MC Elitettes? I have GOT to get on the stick. |
