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Now that the Xbox is down to $149...
In case you have a boatload of cash sitting around, and you're wondering how to make your Halo playing experience more gratifying... Frankie has written up a nice article over at Bungie.net called 'Halo Home Theater', running down some of the nicer toys you can buy for improving your audio-visual intake. Go read it! (Louis Wu 23:02:01 UTC) (permalink)
The Ultimate... something Warrior
There's a new .comic over at Subnova; Boxer[sn] looks at one of the more annoying practices on public HPC servers, and one nice way to take care of it. (Louis Wu 22:33:36 UTC) (permalink)
It was a decent run...
Halo made it to the Final 8 in Gamespy's Title Fight... but lost today to Half-Life, by almost 3000 votes. Not unexpected... but disappointing. Better luck next time, guys! (Louis Wu 20:24:57 UTC) (permalink)
A Day at the Beach
Halo Babies has a new comic up... and it's the start of an actual SERIES (with a plot, and everything). Go take a look! (Louis Wu 20:22:38 UTC) (permalink)
Stunning.
Never too late for One One Se7en - this one points out one of the coolest pages of artwork we have here at HBO. Go look. And get bubbles around your head. (Louis Wu 20:19:24 UTC) (permalink)
Friday Fiction
20 pieces of Fan Fiction today - sorry they didn't get out earlier.
- Halo: Lost and Found, by Riley217
- Civilian Assault, pt. Three- Unexpected Air Support, by ONI_operative_343
- Operation: Stingray Ch. 2: --Desperation--, by Nick Kang
- Assault Part 3: What no Pelican?!, by Joe Ehret
- Prodigal Son: Part 6 (beginning), by Scott D
- Battle of Earth(part one the battle starts), by Shadow
- Replacement-prolouge, by Spartan81388
- Earth's Destruction [6:3] All Alone...For Now, by Sentinel
- Halo 2: The New Front (Chapter 4), by System Failure
- The Strive to Survive (Chapter 6: Nothing to Lose), by CoLd BlooDed
- No Other Alternative Part 1, by Watsaru
- Untitled, by JJiggssaw
- Prodigal Son: Part 6, by Scott D
- Scorpion Strike, by MT
- Makin' It Real (Comedy) Part 1 of 2, by CoLd BlooDed
- The Iron Hands of the Prophets (Part 7): The Second Siege, by MadJackal
- Halo 2: Chapter 5 ; Part 1 of 2, by Mark Lieberg
- Halo 2: Chapter 5 ; Part 2 of 2, by Mark Lieberg
- War Is Hell: Prologue: The Hard Way, by Burny
- Halo 2: The New Front (Chapter 5), by System Failure
Read. (Louis Wu 20:06:08 UTC) (permalink)
And You Were So Sure You WANTED Animals In Halo
Halo: Resolution begins to get... weird. (As a side note: Fuzzy would appreciate it if you email him if you notice his sprites being used on another website. Thanks!) (Louis Wu 19:45:51 UTC) (permalink)
Halo Special Edition Xbox - again
On March 12, we mentioned that the US version of the Special Edition Halo-branded Xbox would be available 'very soon'. Since it was the third news post about that Xbox in as many days, we said we were done talking about it... but yesterday, IGN posted a story about it - and until this morning, EB Games had a page where you could preorder. (They seem to have pulled it - rather strange...) These pages have induced a huge number of you to let us know that this product is coming - so we're mentioning it, once again. I suppose there'll be a FIFTH news post at some point, once the EB mystery clears up. (Louis Wu 18:15:07 UTC) (permalink)
3D models available
Roger Wilco found some 3dsmax models and meshes of Halo Vehicles and Characters and Guns over at Turbosquid; they're not textured, but if you want to work with the models, there they are. (Deeper down in the thread is an example of what you can do with these.) (Louis Wu 17:18:21 UTC) (permalink)
Halo vs Half-Life... Redux
So if you were following the Gamespy Title Fight between Halo and Half-Life earlier, you probably noticed that Halo racked up over 20,000 votes in a couple of hours - twice the number of votes it had received in any other Title Fight during the entire 24 hour run. GameSpy noticed, too... and the rules have changed a bit. You now must have a GameSpy ID to register a vote. (This ID is free.) Because of the change, Halo is now TRAILING Half-Life, 1127 to 1693. If you have a GameSpy ID - go vote! If you don't... we urge you to create one, if only to show the Counter-Strike guys what you think of Halo. (Louis Wu 02:57:48 UTC) (permalink)
It's been fun.
Okay, the foolishness has ended... we're back to normal. It was fun, and there'll probably be a postmortem in the next few days, detailing the various pranks pulled over the course of this April Fools Day, 2004... but for now, rest easy, knowing that nothing major changed yesterday. (Louis Wu 02:29:32 UTC) (permalink)
Thursday's news in brief:
Wednesday's news in brief:
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