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The Specter - A plane with a sting
Wraith has put together a new model for a Covenant heavy attack aircraft; ground landings might be a tad awkward, but it looks pretty deadly. (The tail, which folds underneath like a scorpion's, is flexible - making it a rather deadly weapon.) (Louis Wu 22:24:48 UTC) (permalink)
Free helmet for a lucky guy
Wonga. The Nightmare Armor guys updated their site - with the name of the winner of the Helmet raffle. Scott Mills, of New Jersey, congratulations! (He probably already knows, since the helmet was sent out last weekend.) Heads-up came from Madda Cheeb. (Louis Wu 22:00:47 UTC) (permalink)
Not Just Another Pretty Flash Face
BOLL wrote an interesting paper for school recently; it's called 'Analysis of Halo: Combat Evolved using Game Design Patterns'. He uses a methodology developed last year by three Scandinavian researchers to break down gameplay in Halo, and determine how well the game would work without the patterns found. It's an interesting read, so we've posted it in our Miscellaneous section. If he fails the class, we'll probably yank it. (Louis Wu 20:24:10 UTC) (permalink)
...little gray cells...
Keeping up with current discussions, that's Finn. Not noticing until today, that's me. (mnemesis 19:00:50 UTC) (permalink)
Run!
Bachus found a reference to Halo in today's Real Life Comics... another step in the plan towards World Domination. (Louis Wu 13:22:50 UTC) (permalink)
Toy Confusion
Hmm. Over at Rampancy.net, there's a pointer to a new page at the Joyride Studios site, showing a 'sneak peek' at the Waves 4 and 5 action figures, as well as early views of the Halo 2 prototypes. However - this is just a rehash of the page posted at Bungie's Truth and Reconciliation site, which went live back on February 14. ALL of these pictures came from the show itself, and if what you're interested in is Halo 2 shots, then what you REALLY want is this page at figures.com (a site first mentioned by Dan Chosich on February 18). There are much better shots of the Master Chief and Brute prototypes there, including closeups. (Louis Wu 12:31:40 UTC) (permalink)
Tree Warfare
Calvin and Halo asks the question... are tigers part of the Covenant? (Louis Wu 11:40:24 UTC) (permalink)
Readin', Readin', and more Readin'
22 pieces for you in the Fan Fiction section today:
- Operation: Halo Part 1, by Chaos Elite
- Unknown, by Allisia
- Behind Enemy Lines, by ScorpionTankRider
- Halo: The Scythe of Death Part Nine, by LordofDestruction
- The Eye of the Storm: Prologue, by LordofDestruction
- You cannot help but wonder, by MasterCD
- Scope (Chapter 3, The Day Hell Froze Over), by The Silver Spartan
- The Blood Gulch Gig (Part 1), by Jillybean
- Halo-strike, by someone that you dont know
- The Breaking Point, by CoLd BlooDed
- The Iron Hands of the Prophets (Part 6): Turning Back, by MadJackal
- Identfying Covenant (Humorous style), by MasterCD
- Insanity, by Frightener
- When Will It End?, by Sentinel
- Prodigal Son: Part 4
, by Scott D - Prodigal Son: Part 5, by Scott De
- In Chaos and Despair: The UNSC Council, by Maraxus6
- Unintended Consequences - or - A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Ham, by Flu
- Neverland: Home to Sparta, by SOS.Odin
- Gary Young: A Lucky One?, by SOS.Odin
- Halo Heaven: Chapter 2: The Story of the Surviving Spartan IIs, by Justin Harrison, Halo Heaven
- The Other Reclaimer; Part 1; Chapter 1: Mobuto and 'Aemasee, by Rebel Shuttle
Several good ones, but Jillybean's comedy was a standout for me. (Louis Wu 11:37:04 UTC) (permalink)
Updates at BGH
Battleground: Halo has some new content today - Viper's posted a new mailbag (someone's planning to write to Bungie and tell 'em about their dumb halo battleground dumb site), and Rams has posted a rant about how unreasonable it is that 4 of the first 11 Weekly Updates were posted here at HBO. (I guess I should stop sending Frankie chocolate now...) (Louis Wu 11:24:01 UTC) (permalink)
Of Warthogs, and Launches
To all the people pointing out that BOLL's Warthog Launch game is now on Ebaumsworld, or AlbinoBlackSheep, or any of several dozen other sites - we know, thanks. HBO served over a million copies of the game to viewers in the first two and a half weeks it was online - and we're still serving more than 100,000 copies a week. It was monstrous before those sites picked it up, and at least when it was here, BOLL was getting credit for its creation. It's unfortunate that these sites feel that it's acceptable to simply hijack a Flash game without asking the creator for permission - but I guess that's the internet today. (Louis Wu 11:14:05 UTC) (permalink)
Random Movie News
Updates on a couple of films; Eclarap writes to point out that Lord of the Ring is now mirrored at Halo-Game, in France, and Verdafolio dropped a note in our forum that Elevation has changed hosting (we've updated the movie database for this one). If there's time today, I'll add the new movies from last week to the database, as well. (Louis Wu 11:05:41 UTC) (permalink)
Digging up old interviews: Chris Butcher at IGDA
tLove found a profile of Chris Butcher, AI programmer for Bungie, over at The International Game Developers Association. It contains information about how Chris got into the industry, and some advice he has for those coming after him. it's not clear when this was posted, but The Wayback Machine has a copy that dates back to March 12, 2002, so it's at least 2 years old. (Halo 2 isn't even mentioned.) Not a bad read! (Louis Wu 10:25:03 UTC) (permalink)
Monday's news in brief:
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Link Roundup He's Gone Up By 61. Space Parking Is So Hard To Find These Days Who's got the better armor? Aquaduct 2 - coming along |
Saturday's news in brief:
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Nightmare Armor - killed by its own popularity HUDless - still new stuff to see In Stereo Where Available Wrapup Weekly WHAT? |
