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Tuesday, April 6, 2004 |  |
Eat Needles!
The dialogue man himself, Captain Spark, turned in a huge collection of Stacker quotes a couple of weeks ago. Using HaloPC, turning off extra sounds, and carefully planning who was onscreen during the filming allowed him to get pretty amazingly clean recordings of almost 200 new quotes, including some really funny ones I've never heard before. Go check 'em all out in our Dialogue Databank! (There are still quite a number of queued sounds to be added; this isn't all there is.) (Louis Wu 17:04:09 UTC) (permalink)
I thought Spartans LIKED workouts
Today's Calvin and Halo focuses on some little-known Covenant species... (Louis Wu 12:14:40 UTC) (permalink)
The Angry Zen Master Speaks
I missed this, three days ago, when it went live, and I didn't even pick up on the references when shunji alluded to it on IRC yesterday... but Rampancy.net noticed it, so I got it on the rebound. Mat Noguchi, tools/sound programmer for Halo and Halo 2, has written a technical, but understandable-to-the-layman, explanation of why Sound is such a big deal in games, and why it will continue to be a thorny problem for a while yet. Go take a look! (It uses Halo as an example, which is what makes it relevant here.) (Louis Wu 12:11:51 UTC) (permalink)
haloTV - watch it
haloTV, in beta, goes live. A venture led by cookedGamers synide and rapture, haloTV will be broadcasting Halo movies in streaming format for those interested in a quick fix. You can watch existing movies, but the strength of the format will show in examples like today's CAL Season 1 Finals (8:30 pm CST, which is actually 2:30 am UTC tomorrow, with pregame show kicking in an hour earlier), broadcast live as they happen. Good luck, guys! (Public heads-up came from RIDIK, on our forum.) (Louis Wu 09:36:53 UTC) (permalink)
Team Sexy Goes Tournamenting
SexyJosh points out a couple of writeups (and a movie) of some local Halo tournaments his group participated in; you can find the writeups, and a link to the movie (13.8 mb, 5:44 long, QuickTime format) on their site. Toys-R-Us tourney + Halo freaks = potential for Barbie abuse... (Louis Wu 09:31:46 UTC) (permalink)
Modtacular!
(GT)Juggler continues with the modding vids; Modtacular (GT video 8) is now up for download in the media section of Halo GT. Format is QuickTime MP4 - you'll need the latest version of QuickTime to watch it. It contains clips of dozens of mods - everything from a Longsword on Blood Gulch to a maze-like map to, apparently, the ultimate mod for insecure folks; a gun that says 'Killtacular!' every time it fires. Check it out... there's some bizarre stuff in here! And before anyone asks - it was all done on an Xbox, no PC footage here. (Comments can go in this forum thread. But don't ask him about the format - he's tired of telling people to download a new version of QuickTime.) (Louis Wu 09:20:07 UTC) (permalink)
Monday's news in brief:
Sunday's news in brief:
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Upcoming Tourneys A White Spring Blood Gulch for UT2k4 - finished Andy Yuan returns to Halo Oh, the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune... Now THAT was a long puzzle. |
