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German Translations
A couple of people have translated the German review - Wraith posted his translation on our forum, and I added a second sent in via email from The Dark One to the thread. Check 'em both out! (Louis Wu 20:29:13 UTC) (permalink)
More Bungie Wearables
A new Halo 2 shirt is available from the Bungie store - pretty simple, pretty nice! Thanks to Sledgefare for the heads-up. (Louis Wu 20:14:53 UTC) (permalink)
Ach!
Halo Universe has posted a preview of Halo 2 - in German. If you read German... go visit! (Louis Wu 14:54:33 UTC) (permalink)
When you open the door...
Yesterday, Warbow resurrected the Calvin and Halo strip to take a shot at Stuntmutt. (Stuntmutt returned fire, by the way.) Today, we have the first and last Calvin and Halo guest strip for you - Warbow's decided to let this one through, but it ain't gonna happen again. Enjoy it! (Louis Wu 14:25:06 UTC) (permalink)
Puzzlemania runs rampant
Gutupio has posted a NEW puzzle on our forum; it's self-enclosed. (That is, the puzzle is the post itself.) Prize is a Grunt Plushy (if enough people have signed the petition to convince Microsoft to market them - currently, there are 1752 signatures, can we break 2000?), or street cred if they don't get made. Warning - it's non-trivial. (Louis Wu 14:14:31 UTC) (permalink)
Day One in Marine Boot Camp
Today's Guest One One Se7en comes from Mr. Chubigans, and looks at a side of the Master Chief we haven't seen much of. (Thank Goodness.) (Louis Wu 14:07:08 UTC) (permalink)
An Electrifying Experience
A Halo review on Game Chronicles today... 8.8/10, with downgrades for the 'staggering system requirements'. Not a bad read. Thanks, Blue's News (via Ash). (Louis Wu 13:55:55 UTC) (permalink)
No waterguns for a week.
We got word from mrsmiley that Halo Babies is offline until the 22nd; they went through too much bandwidth, too fast. He did want to assure everyone that they'll be moving soon, and the bandwidth problems will go away! (Louis Wu 01:04:13 UTC) (permalink)
Wow. Just... wow.
Okay, so this one's WEIRD. Late last week, we got mail from Billy Oliva, talking about a bizarre glitch in Truth and Reconciliation (the third campaign level). Right after entering the ship, he came across a stack (literally) of covenant, piled up against a door, waiting to attack. he sent screenshots... but they were small, and not great, quality-wise. I held off, because I wanted to see if I could reproduce this. 24 hours later, we received ANOTHER mail, this time from AfroRyan, claiming to have found the same thing, in the same place. I was really suspicious, because not only did he send similar pictures, but they were the same (non-standard) size, and with the same filenames as those sent by Billy. (Afro, I apologize for not believing you. :) ) Then, 24 hours later, Ben Roth posted pictures he found on the Gearbox forums, showing THE SAME THING. Both Billy and AfroRyan sent in saved games... but it took me until today to find time to reinstall 1.03 (1.031 hosed saved games, so I couldn't use them). I made films from both saves - but the one you'll see came from AfroRyan's save, because he had TWO piles of baddies, not just one. I took much more footage than can be seen in this film... but most of it is useless; if you get too close to the piles, framerates drop into the low single digits, you can't tell you've thrown grenades until they explode (usually ON you), and there's no way to manouver. The save I was given was on Easy - you'll see why that's a GOOD thing after you watch the movie. Here's the movie; 45 seconds worth, enough to show you some out-there piles o' baddies. It's QuickTime format, 640x480 (so you have a good view), and weighs in at just over 10 mb. You can also grab AfroRyan's profile (with the savepoint inside) - 2.1 mb - if you want to play with it yourself. (You MUST work with HPC 1.03, not 1.031, to use this. Drop the unzipped folder into your savegames folder, and you're set to go.) Thanks to both these guys - Billy was first with the notice, but again, his bucket-o-covies was smaller, so I didn't use it. I'm guessing something was accidentally changed during the 1.03 patch development process... because I saw no reports of ANYTHING like this before now. (Louis Wu 00:57:05 UTC) (permalink)
Bungie, eat your heart out.
XLNC once again rocks the Casbah with some spectacular screenshots; he got somewhat creative with the hacking, and the end results are simply stunning. Check 'em out. (Who needs dev tools, anyway?) (Louis Wu 00:39:10 UTC) (permalink)
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