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Tuesday, January 20, 2004 |  |
Macosxhints says yes to Halo
Macosxhints.com has made Mac Halo their software pick of the week, giving it a rating of 9/10 and writing a pretty positive review. Thanks to Jarvis Badgley for the heads-up! (Louis Wu 18:38:56 UTC) (permalink)
Six vs Five.
Today's Guest One One Se7en comes from Dark Impaler... and checks out the advantages of the MC's new armor. (Louis Wu 18:08:30 UTC) (permalink)
That's gonna leave a mark.
Eep - we forgot about our Comic updates today! FIrst up is Calvin and Halo - this time it's the Warbow half of the tag team... and I gotta say, I was just IN that situation yesterday. Ouch. (Louis Wu 18:05:41 UTC) (permalink)
Mod Voting
On-X points out that halo-mods.com is holding a poll for your favorite mod; right now, MonoxideC's Library Multiplayer map is winning, but there haven't been many votes. If you mod your box, go add your vote! Update: I misunderstood - the voting is not just your average poll, it's to determine the winner of their modding contest; the winner walks home with $1000. NOW do you want to vote? (Thanks to Plaz for clearing this up.) (Louis Wu 17:58:44 UTC) (permalink)
FTC10 now available via direct download
Though we'd still love it if you used BitTorrent for your downloads, we've supplied the FTC team with a bunch of direct download links for FTC10. A pair of them are linked on their downloads page - go grab the 56 mb divx-encoded low-res avi (352x224), or a higher-quality-but-smaller QuickTime (400x260, 45 mb) from their site. We've got to be careful with some of that bandwidth; if the links stop working, come back here; we'll have posted new ones. (Louis Wu 17:39:09 UTC) (permalink)
Sponsors-only goodies at RvB
gutupio pointed out new content (sponsors-only) at RedvsBlue.com. There's a rejected version of the SpikeTV Video Game Awards trailer, and scripts for the first two Season 2 episodes. If you've tossed 'em a few bucks, jump on and grab this stuff! (Louis Wu 11:50:03 UTC) (permalink)
New info at Halo.bungie.net
Nice find by Mantis819 - Bungie has put up an official page about their HPC server hosting. (The servers aren't new - just the credit to Homelan is.) What's odd is that you can't rent a server from Homelan directly! (Well, that's not completely true. You can rent a 16-player Halo server from them for $0.98/hour... but Halo is not currently on their dedicated server list.) That may change, so if you're happy with the quality of gameplay on the Bungie servers, keep an eye on these guys! Update: There is now an official news post from Homelan on the subject, as well. Check it out! (Louis Wu 11:37:25 UTC) (permalink)
The REAL Master Chief
Wow, very cool. DocOctavius started with a shot from the Halo 2 announcement trailer... and morphed into the Nightmare Armor. Electronic to real, in 16 seconds. Movie link is in the forum post. (1.4 mb, quicktime format.) (Louis Wu 11:07:31 UTC) (permalink)
Homelan interviews Nightmare Armor founder
Oops, careless - Homelan interviewed the leader of the Nightmare Armor team yesterday, and we forgot to post it! Some new pictures, and some tidbits that didn't make it into the interview with Frankie at Bungie.net... worth a read! (Thanks to Battleground: Halo, where I saw this first.) (Louis Wu 10:13:59 UTC) (permalink)
Keeping Healthy
Evilburger has released the second of his 'Subzero Rivalries' comics; I'm a little worried about the mental health of at least one of the characters. He should be releasing one or two comics every other week - so we've added a link to the bottom of our Comics page, for easy access. Thanks to MarkHawk for the heads-up. (Louis Wu 10:07:53 UTC) (permalink)
Bugs fixed for Radeon users
For Windows XP users with Radeon cards - Nick points out that ATI has released a new version of its Catalyst drivers (4.1) that fixes a couple of Halo PC bugs. Grab this if you're affected! (Louis Wu 09:37:09 UTC) (permalink)
HBO-Subnova back up to 1.03
The HBO-Subnova Halo PC server has been updated to 1.03 again - what this means is that the wild and whacky gametypes pioneered on the HBO-GameDaemons server (but not playable there now - it's offline) can be enjoyed by Mac and PC users alike! Go shoot some people. (And don't forget to let Deimos know you're grateful. I sure am.) If you're a Mac user that's just logging on for the day, and thinking "huh?" - go grab the 1.03 updater for Mac Halo! (Louis Wu 00:38:28 UTC) (permalink)
Monday's news in brief:
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Mac Halo 1.03 - OUT NOW! Hurry up, before these guys learn how to shoot! STA now looking for Halo gamers Halo 2 Roundup Part 1 What Do You Get If You Cross...? Halo Pc Blues More toy fighting |
Sunday's news in brief:
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Toy Action, Baby! Miniature Halo Big Heads, Big Heads, Roly Poly Big Heads... Don't belly up to the Plinth; it's closed. |
