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Monday, April 26, 2004 |  |
Will it be you?
Just a heads-up... Bungie will be picking its grand prize winner for the Launch Week Sweepstakes in about an hour; someone will win an all-expenses trip to Bungie Studios. It will be viewable, live, on the Webcams. (Thanks, Brad, for the reminder!) Update: Congrats to Steve 0, for winning the Grand Prize. (The originally listed winner has been yanked due to an invalid B.net account.) Congrats to the other 14 names on the list, too! (Louis Wu 20:33:07 UTC) (permalink)
Seropian Talks Business
There's been some buzz in the Bungie community this morning about the announcement of Wideload, Alex Seropian's new gaming company. We had a chance to chat with Alex this morning about where Wideload is, and where it might be going... if the idea of a new game based on the Halo engine, built by old-school Bungie folks, gets you excited, go check this out! Hearty thanks to both Alex and Miguel Chavez for their time (and Mig's great questions!). (Louis Wu 16:36:27 UTC) (permalink)
Cooking Up Something Flash
Stuntmutt uses One One Se7en to take a shot that I've been taking for months on the IRC channel... trust that guy to recycle EVERYTHING. (Louis Wu 14:22:57 UTC) (permalink)
A World Power At Last
I think Halo: Resolution is confused about this whole World Domination thing... (Louis Wu 14:04:52 UTC) (permalink)
Monday Morning Reading
Starting today, individual stories will not be listed in Fan Fiction updates; we don't do it for other sections, so it seems unreasonable to continue taking up such huge swaths of front-page real estate. That doesn't mean you should stop reading, though - there are 17 new pieces for you today. Go get 'em! (Louis Wu 14:02:30 UTC) (permalink)
Spin called us WHAT?
Interesting-sounding article in the current Spin magazine (May 2004) - first person shooters and the controversy surrounding them. We can't bring this to you in scanned format until it's off the shelves - but go see what you can find on your local newsstand! Thanks, daedalus. (Louis Wu 13:30:46 UTC) (permalink)
First Strike Weekly Update 8
Crispy Spartan points out the latest (Number 8! The Highest Numbered Update Yet!) weekly update for First Strike, the Halo mod based on the book. General info, new maps, weapons designs... and a page on the team itself. Go check 'em out! (Louis Wu 13:25:02 UTC) (permalink)
Is Zion under attack? Nope, just hackers.
Wow. Grendiac and KaptainKommie have been working on a new tool called Sentinel - and it has some pretty cool features. It's designed to help folks running modded maps on a server get the word out, so that people can play these maps. Another feature it has, however, will be of interest to many server admins outside the modding community; it can verify that a joining player has the same mapfile as the server, and keep out people who don't match. There's far more that it does - read the thread. Way to go, guys! (Thanks to Devin Olsen for the heads-up.) (Louis Wu 13:10:35 UTC) (permalink)
AGP4 - in the history books
The Fourth AGP tournament took place in Washington, DC this weekend; there was more than $10,000 on the line. Thanks to rapture for the heads-up, and some summarized results. Congrats to Walshy and the Dream Team! (Louis Wu 12:59:01 UTC) (permalink)
Sudden catastrophic wha?? yecch!
Keen eyes among the hardcore Bungie fan community were aware that The Man, or I guess, the Ex-Man (heh), Alex Seropian was secretly planning to head up a new game company. He left Bungie back in 2002 and many of us wondered if he could really quit the gaming business after being in the thick of it for so many years. Well I guess not because his secret plans are no longer secret. You can read the press release regarding his new venture here. Most pertinent is that Wideload's first game will be based on the Halo engine! Stick around as we will have an exclusive interview with one of the founding fathers of Bungie later today. Update: another article has surfaced, this time on CNN's Money site; I find it fascinating that 7 of the current 11 team members at Wideload are ex-Bungie employees. Dun dun dun... (Thanks, Akilo) (Ding 07:46:12 UTC) (permalink)
Going Nowhere Fast
Recently, there's been a bunch of interest in speed runs through Halo - it's been the subject of two movies and a host of forum threads in the past week. Well, now you can actually GAIN something from your interest - Bungie.org and Mythica.org (along with the nonexistent Ninjas On Fire site) have teamed up to bring you 'Going Nowhere Fast', a contest to see who can get through Halo the fastest. Rules, prizes, history of the genre... it's all there on the info page. Go read it... and get planning! (We'd like to apologize in advance to all the people who will feel left out and abandoned by two of the rules; specifically, the 'No Co-op' rule and the 'Legendary only' rule. We realize this bars some of the most interested competitors... but we had to find a way to keep this from turning into 100 minicontests; this was the best we could do.) (Louis Wu 01:58:47 UTC) (permalink)
Enkidu?
I've spent much of the day outside, doing household chores... I returned this evening to find... well, a rather strange incursion on the bungie.org servers. I've left it alone for the time being, because (so far) it seems harmless... but it might pay to keep your eyes on it. If it's not one thing... (Louis Wu 00:10:40 UTC) (permalink)
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