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Playable Pelican
Still catching up... Nick posted a link to a movie of a Pelican in Death Island (Halo PC) a couple of days ago. Looks pretty neat - you can jump in through the front, but vehicles bounce off. Seems like a pretty gnarly assault vehicle; no offensive weapons, but imagine flying 6 or 7 teammates across the map to the opposing base at Pelican speed! Movie is 20 mb, in .rar format; uncompressed, it's a WMP9 file. (Louis Wu 22:43:01 UTC) (permalink)
Halo music used in political video
Mooreburg found a rather strange report - apparently, according to the Palestinian Media Watch organization, the Palestinian Authority is using Halo's theme in a video aimed at promoting the Palestinian cause. Microsoft has made a statement that the use of the music was wholly unsanctioned. If you decide to participate in the forum thread on this subject, please remember that political discussion is simply not allowed on our forum; keep your comments Halo-related, or the thread will end up locked. (The wider topic is pretty incendiary, and we simply don't need it here... we're a game site.) (Louis Wu 19:49:02 UTC) (permalink)
Dolbex and 2070Wired weigh in
More Tetraboxing material: Dan Chosich has posted a 25 mb QuickTime movie about his experience (a bit over 2 minutes, movies and photos combined), and Dolbex has posted his own writeup of the trip (Georgia to Connecticut and back in 60 hours - with a LOT of Halo in the middle!) on the Been Mawed site. Good stuff! (Louis Wu 19:11:12 UTC) (permalink)
The Llama Speaks
bentllama, the Bungie animator and master of offtopic bizarreness on our forum, sent along a cool link to the CGTalk forum, in which he posted some preliminary (non-Bungie) work on some 3D models of Wonderboy in Monsterland, an old platformer that got released on many, many consoles. (Here are a pair of Commodore64 shots.) With all the time he has to post about pancakes on our forum, and slick models like this one, you wonder how he's getting those Halo 2 animations finished... can we blame that Fall 2004 date on him? (Louis Wu 17:04:18 UTC) (permalink)
One One Se7en visits the Miniature Halo set
SESpider has sent in another episode of Miniature Halo - the set gets a visit from another HBO denizen. It should make you laugh! (Louis Wu 16:51:48 UTC) (permalink)
Funny's Cousin.
One One Se7en looks for new talent for the jokemaking. Whether it's successful is totally your call. (Louis Wu 16:41:01 UTC) (permalink)
I'm Surrounded By Idiots
Halo: Resolution continues the Matrix-like sub-story... and the bad jokes come fast and furious. (Louis Wu 16:39:00 UTC) (permalink)
That Halo Screenshot - nosehairs and all
Sector 7 has written an entire article about the new Halo 2 multiplayer screenshot released last week - it's pretty clear that when a Halo site chooses to analyze a single screen so carefully, it feels the community is starved for content. If you agree, go check this out! (Louis Wu 16:32:58 UTC) (permalink)
Halo: Best Competitive Game of All Time
Gantry dropped us a note that Halo was voted #1 Best Competitive Game of All Time on G4 TV's show "Filter", episode #223 (beating out Battlefield 1942, Rainbow Six, MechWarrior 4, Starcraft, UT 2003, and several others). Next showing is February 4, at 12:30 pm. Not too shabby! (Louis Wu 16:25:07 UTC) (permalink)
Selling Mac Halo - finally
Ghôlsbane was sifting through some Bungie employee data, and ran across David Joost's website; David was Director of Sales at Bungie before the Microsoft buyout. The top news post (obviously written last fall sometime) discusses the long, strange trip Dave's been on, with respect to Halo sales. Interesting tidbits... (Louis Wu 16:15:11 UTC) (permalink)
Poster Design Contest
Catching up on older news... MeatSaw points out that he's sponsoring a poster design contest over at the Gearbox forums; the person with the best Halo-related poster design wins that design printed on 11x14 (or larger) poster paper. It's just for fun - so go check it out! (Contest ends on February 26.) (Louis Wu 15:37:51 UTC) (permalink)
Lanfest pics, revisited
More lanfest pics from the Offensive Tetraboxing event this weekend here at HBO: Konrad9 put up a bunch, (GT)Juggler put up some at Halo GT (including a couple of Konrad's shots), Blood put up about 50 shots at Bloodgulch.com, and Have Blue posted his own set (including some early pics of my vandalized car - more stuff was added after that last pic was taken). More as we find 'em! There's a pretty cool shot of the four downstairs projectors at once in HB's collection. Update: Blackstar put up a collection, as well. His movie focus is evident in the preponderance of shots that include the Film Oasis crew - but there are plenty of good people shots. (Louis Wu 14:20:29 UTC) (permalink)
Ph34r the Claw!
We didn't get a chance to post this on Friday, as we normally do - but Red vs Blue posted a new Public Service Announcement this week, in lieu of episode 23. It's out for everybody now - for sponsors in Hi-res (as it has been since Friday), and for casual visitors in 320x240. Go see what happens when NASA goes overboard... (Louis Wu 13:18:19 UTC) (permalink)
Sunday's news in brief:
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Saturday's news in brief:
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