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The Ninjas Revealed
Today's Guest One One Se7en comes from Lt Devon, and blames US for the ninja conflagration that is Halo 2. Hrm. (Louis Wu 11:56:14 UTC) (permalink)
Car Bombing
(GT)Juggler has posted a new movie on his site - this one's called 'Car Bombing (Random Insanity)', and weighs in at 14.2 mb. It's a 2:09 long story of a guy who goes to work, then gets blown up when he leaves for home. Feel free to add comments to this forum thread. (Louis Wu 11:52:01 UTC) (permalink)
A Halo Christmas Tree
I've seen this done on Xbox, when you get a dozen people together in one room, on a closed system... but never over the internet, on an open server. Kudos to the obsessives who made this happen. (Louis Wu 11:45:12 UTC) (permalink)
Generational Comparison at IGN
IGN has put up the first part of a video comparison between Halo and Halo 2, for Insiders (part 2 will be posted next week). It's 55 mb at 640x480, or 33 mb at 400x300. It shows side-by-side analogues from each engine, pointing out how Halo 2 improves on the original. (The one mistake I caught was the assertion that the MC model has more polygons in Halo 2 - from what I remember, a Bungie employee said that the poly count actually DROPPED, but that the bumpmapping and lighting improvements made this irrelevant.) If you're not an Insider, this isn't worth buying a subscription for; it's all footage you can find yourself on the net,and anyone with a little extra time could put together the comparisons... but if you already have a subscription, it's a fun download. Thanks to rendar for the heads-up. (Louis Wu 11:38:15 UTC) (permalink)
Want another Halo league?
T3muJin wrote to us to ask us to get the word out; apparently, The Stronger Than All League stated if enough interest was shown in Halo PC, they would start a league for the game. If you're interested in a league where you can play on set nights and times (as opposed to the random environment of the ladder sites), you should post a note in this forum thread. (Louis Wu 11:18:59 UTC) (permalink)
Homefront update
News on the Battlefield 1942 mod Homefront, for those keeping track of this stuff; there are new screenshots posted (some are rather bizarre, if you ask me), and a release set - Christmas Eve at 6 pm EST. Thanks to MADDA CHEEB for making me look. (Louis Wu 11:06:14 UTC) (permalink)
Got network programming experience?
Hmm... interesting find by Nick. There's a job offering on Microsoft's site for a Software Development Engineer to work on Networking for Bungie. This job is NOT listed on Bungie's Jobs page. Hmm... (Louis Wu 10:45:02 UTC) (permalink)
E419, Ep 7
343GS.com has put up episode 7 of EchoFourNineteen; it's a Christmas episode. Take a look! (Visit the site, hit the 'Downloads' link. While you're there, look around; there's quite a bit of new content since last we mentioned them.) Thanks to IXIGhandiIXI for the heads-up. (Louis Wu 10:33:18 UTC) (permalink)
Viper in the Spotlight
The Junkyard continues with their Spotlight series, this time covering Matt 'Viper' Anderson, of Battleground: Halo. Take a look! (Louis Wu 10:10:51 UTC) (permalink)
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