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Saturday, April 3, 2004 |  |
Passions Enjoying Themselves
It's music day here at HBO. We got word from Marc at Halo Universe that they had a new piece of fan music, created by Ultrash, called 'Halo: The Resistance'. It's a gorgeous piece... techno-ish. It reminded us that there were a couple of pieces here, waiting in the queue... what better time to release than on Music Day? The first is a piece called 'Programmed for War', created by Rayagon, and originally posted 6 months ago on the Overclocked Remix forums (found and brought to our attention by Pepper4099); I contacted the author, and he had no problem with our making it available to the Halo community in general. He considers it a work-in-progress, but he's not sure he'll ever get around to another edit, so this is a fine time for release. In his words, "I was just feeling like channelling the Master Chief badassedness into some music one day, and the mix came out." It's got an interesting feel to it. The other piece we have here is a bit different; it's bits of dialogue, set to a Halo soundtrack, comprising what the author, Rob (Hippo) Palardy, considers "some of the finer parts of Halo, both gameplay and story." Between the three, you should find something you enjoy listening to!
- Halo: The Resistance (6.1 mb) (first item in 'Songs' section)
- Programmed for War (3.3 mb)
- The Best of Halo (3.4 mb)
Stuntmutt's Frankenstein - now with more bolts!
BOLL, never one to rest on his laurels, has added yet ANOTHER cool feature to his AutoMagic 117 Stripmaker - now you can choose the background color! Specify it via the sliders, if you want... or just type in the hex code you're looking for, if you know it. Changes happen in real time. (All of this requires Javascript; if you have it disabled, you'll still be able to generate strips, but the ONLY way to set the strip background color is by knowing the hex code. There are plenty of online references for colors, though, like this one at Webmonkey. Without javascript, you'll also have to count manually to find strip numbers...) In any case, if you leave either the strip value or the color value blank, they will be randomized, so you'll get a useable strip no matter what. Update: BOLL, the man who cannot leave well enough alone, has added another 20 panels to the collection you can use to make your funniez. Go to work! (Louis Wu 11:59:07 UTC) (permalink)
Still got the stuff
Travis Cossel sends in a Halo sighting in a relatively obscure magazine called 'Boards' (it's aimed at television advertising types). The current issue contains an interview with a creative talent for the ad agency OWN+P (they've been developing commercials for EA Games, among others), and the response to 'what is your favorite game?' was interesting:
"I've been playing Quake: Arena and I've been playing a ton of Halo. But I play so many. The flavor of the month is playing with 16 or 18 guys hooked up on Halo."
It's pretty cool to see someone calling Halo 'the flavor of the month' almost 30 months after its release... (Louis Wu 10:34:56 UTC) (permalink)
Getchyer Red-Hot Story Nuggets Here...
So, while I was out enjoying my family last night, mnemesis was updating the front page... but he didn't stop there; he went a little nuts with the Halo Story Page mailbag. For a while, Finn has been carrying the ball... but it looks like a lateral pass took place somewhere without anyone noticing. Go read! (Louis Wu 10:04:52 UTC) (permalink)
Dream Team
Recently, we'd mentioned that we'd mentioned the translucent green Xbox/copy of Halo/special-Halo-logo-S-controller deal. Well, Ross "I Suck" Mills has found a press release detailing the US availability of the boxes and has printed it out in our forum.
Of course, he didn't actually provide a link to the release, but luckily for you I found it at PR Newswire. Only $169.00 and only 200,000 available, so go check it out! (mnemesis 00:58:03 UTC) (permalink)
Dual-Wielding Flowers. WooHoo!
The Bungie Weekly Update is over at Battleground: Halo. Like they need another update. Kidding! Kidding! Jeeze, stop throwing stuff at me! Ow! (mnemesis 00:36:59 UTC) (permalink)
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