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Tuesday, December 2, 2003 |  |
Gearbox loses one.
Wow. Dave Mertz, lead designer on Halo PC for Gearbox, resigned as of yesterday. Details can be found in this forum thread on Gearbox's forum. Hmm... I wonder what this means for the 1.03 patch, or the Editing Tools package? Thanks to progamerz for the heads-up. (Louis Wu 22:17:19 UTC) (permalink)
AGP details
For those interested in the AGP Fall Halo Championship, rapture has rounded up a bunch of links for you. Good stuff! (Louis Wu 21:22:45 UTC) (permalink)
Caboose Rules.
Woohoo! My Red vs Blue DVD came in the mail today... and man, this thing rocks. I'm not gonna get very much work done in the next bit here... All I can say is, if you haven't already ordered one of these, go do it. It's worth the bucks. (Louis Wu 19:56:10 UTC) (permalink)
Inside Halo 2 - in Hi-res splendor
Back in September, an interesting documentary was shown at the X03 event in France. It was a behind-the-scenes look at the making of Halo 2, created by Film Oasis, the company behind 'Inside the Xbox', a documentary shown on the Discovery Channel last summer. Unfortunately, the only version available has been a shakey-cam piece filmed at the show by a French journalist - better than nothing, but still unsatisfying. If you had access to a Best Buy in the United States, and were willing to spend $19.99 for a new controller, you could get a bundled DVD that contained the hi-res version of this film... but it wasn't available on the net. Until now. Thanks to Jim McQuillan at Film Oasis and the legal eagles at Bungie, we're able to bring you this video, in all its hi-res beauty. There are two versions; for the big bandwidth folks, there's a 100 mb, 640x480 copy, and for folks on smaller pipes, you can grab a 38 mb, 320x240 version. We've put up a pair of copies of each (on files.bungie.org and mythica.org) - but we're always happy to spread the bandwidth pain; if you've got the space, grab a copy, and send us the link, we'll add it to our Mirror page. This one's worth seeing. Update: Two new mirrors for each size - Coerce.net and Subnova have both tossed their hats into the Bandwidth ring. Thanks, guys! Update 2: Brian Towne has put up BitTorrent seeds for both large and small versions - grab these if you have the client; not only will they be faster, but they'll be less strain on our mirrors. Thanks! (Louis Wu 17:27:56 UTC) (permalink)
I Left My Combats On The Autumn.
Today's Guest One One Se7en strip comes from Traumatised Marine - and points out the soldier Bungie managed to overlook when they populated the Pillar of Autumn. (Louis Wu 16:06:41 UTC) (permalink)
Too many words
Once again, a 3-day hiatus in Fan Fiction posting has led to a ridiculously-sized update; 31 stories. (There was one more, valid one... but it was too big, and the database couldn't handle it. Hopefully, the submitter will resubmit in smaller chunks.)
- Final Fate: Mankind's Despise, by Jinkaiden-XI
- The Final War: Battle for Installation 02 [4:2], by Awacar
- The Last Battle of Earth prt 2, by Tlaloc
- A Rough Beginning, by Covie Armada
- Up to E3, by Steve
- The Last Forerunner(before part 1): Toward Another Halo, by Sentinel
- Covenant Grunt Morphology, by FOrunnER
- Out of Phase-Chapter 1, by BlackValkyire
- An HBO Christmas, by Jillybean
- The Exchange - Part 1 - Empensa', by Dispraiser
- The Second Ring (Part 3), by Jason
- Earth's Destruction Chapter 1: The Invasion, by Sentinel
- ES04 - Eternal Sunder (part 04): The Song of Sunder , by Wado
- Fight for New Tatley (Chapter 5: Arriving, Departing), by CoLd BlooDed
- Never Deny, by CoLd BlooDed
- The Serran part 1, by Tlaloc
- Fight or Flight: Chapter 4, by teemus
- Jonson Chronicles: Chapter 1:Boarding Parties, by Mattt
- All Roads Lead To Sol...Just Make Sure To Bypass Mars: Chapter 13, by S7N
- All Roads Lead To Sol...Just Make Sure To Bypass Mars: Chapter 14, by S7N
- All Roads Lead To Sol...Just Make Sure To Bypass Mars: Chapter 15, by S7N
- The Fallen: Halo 2 Chp 6 Sect 2 Just Passing By, by Hikaru-119
- All Roads Lead To Sol...Just Make Sure To Bypass Mars: Chapter 16, by S7N
- MSOG: Chapters 3 & 4, by Sprtn117John
- Unarmed, by Steve
- You'd Never Know, by CovieKilla
- All Roads Lead To Sol...Just Make Sure To Bypass Mars: Chapter 17, by S7N
- Closing with the Enemy Chapter 5 Night Approaches, by monitor101
- The Harvest Campaign Chapter 3, by Fleet Admiral
- Last Battle: In The Line Of Duty, by JOTD Fanfiction Team
- The March of the N00bs - Special Features, by Wado
Try not to miss Jillybean's HBO Christmas or Wado's March of the N00bs wrapup. (There's tons of other worthwhile stuff in here, too, of course...) (Louis Wu 16:03:30 UTC) (permalink)
The Doors Open...
It's been quite a bit of work, and not all of it's visible... but mnemesis and Finn have overhauled the Halo Story page, with new design tweaks, new organization, and new information. Poke around, see what you can find... there's some good stuff in there! (Louis Wu 12:45:44 UTC) (permalink)
Monday's news in brief:
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Edged It. What Does It Mean, Anyway? AGP Details HaloSpy updated Master Chief... in UT2 |
Sunday's news in brief:
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Halo: First Base |
