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Tuesday, June 1, 2004 |  |
CTF Tactics 3
[-GTC-] has put up the third in their series of CTF Tactics movies; this one focuses on grenade-assisted flag caps, though it shows a pretty slick technique for long-distance flag-shooting on Battle Creek. These are in some cases team-only techniques; the flag carrier ends up dying, so if there's not a teammate to finish the score, he's wasted a life. It's a small movie (1:20 long, 7 mb in QuickTime, 10.9 mb in DivX format), and multiple mirrors are available on their download page. (I was late getting him HBO mirror links, so our mirrors aren't up yet - but they should be soon.) If the download page is unreachable, send us mail - I'll put up a local copy. (Louis Wu 18:13:50 UTC) (permalink)
Halo: Blood Covenant - again
A couple of weeks ago, we mentioned that the 2D sidescroller, Halo: Blood Covenant, had a downloadable demo to play - but their bandwidth ran out pretty quickly, and a lot of people missed it. I grabbed a copy - but I couldn't get it to run properly on my Radeon 9600 (the screen was black). Today, Darker Industries pointed out that the site is back online, and there's a download link at Fileplanet - which should remove the bandwidth problems. I took the opportunity to update my Catalyst drivers to 4.5 - and now I can actually play the game! It's pretty hard - but a lot of fun. At only 6.7 mb to download, what are you waiting for? (Louis Wu 17:35:38 UTC) (permalink)
Colorblind
Hogmasta Chocobo writes to point out a movie of his hosted at GameTrailers - it's called Colorblind, and is available in streaming .mov format (or downloadable .mov and .wmv formats). It's gameplay, set to music. There's a forum thread on our forum if you want to leave him feedback. (Louis Wu 17:22:56 UTC) (permalink)
Halo Game Servers db at UXB
Carnage sends word that UXB Internet has put up a web-based Halo server database; they check several hundred servers each day for uptime, as well as provide a real-time stats page for each server. Currently, it supports Halo PC and Halo CE, though CE servers aren't yet collected automatically. If your server isn't listed, you can add it. (Louis Wu 17:17:05 UTC) (permalink)
CheatCodes looks at Halo 2
CheatCodes.com went to E3 - and posted their discussion of the Halo 2 material on Friday. Bunch of nice photos of the widescreen plasma screen they played on. Thanks, Cortanas_Brother. (Louis Wu 16:49:21 UTC) (permalink)
Halo 2 Music Transcription
Rampancy.net has posted a transcription of the music from the Halo 2 announcement trailer, courtesy of Poop Scoop. 2.5 mb, due to the 8 pages of hi-res jpegs - and there's also a Finale Notepad file containing the whole score. Nice! (Louis Wu 16:01:33 UTC) (permalink)
Doomba - like Dumbo, only meaner
The Bungie Weekly Updates database has been brought up-to-date, this time on time. Scary... we're on time with something? Ouch. (Louis Wu 15:52:45 UTC) (permalink)
So THAT'S where those quotes come from
Calvin and Halo reveals secrets behind the publicity business... (Louis Wu 15:29:33 UTC) (permalink)
More artwork from a master
Got a note from Tina Leyk - she's put up a bunch of new Halo-related artwork at her Angels of Iron website (which is sporting a new design, btw). We've mirrored it all here, to take the bandwidth hit off her - and added an extra tidbit. If you visit the Art of Tina Leyk page here at HBO, you'll find that it's now broken into sections; this should help with loading times for folks on slower connections (she's got so much artwork that even just loading the thumbs can take a while). Updated pages today are her Fan Art page (there are two new images, an older one I somehow missed and a killer Grunt image, as well as a pair of Character Profile Sheets she and her brother did a while ago) and the Other Creations page, which (finally) contains images of the t-shirt Tina designed for us to wear at E3 this year. (Louis Wu 15:18:05 UTC) (permalink)
Tricks to make you grin
Ducain continues his pattern of taking a known glitch (in this case, two known glitches) and making it his own; he's combined his discovery of partial immunity during warthog jumps (you're invincible for the short time you're actually ENTERING a vehicle - or during the time the engine THINKS you're entering a vehicle) with some cool clipping stuff to get inside the walls of Silent Cartographer - and even to get ON TOP of the map from inside. Very cool. 2:50 long, 9.5 mb, WMP9 format. Check it out. (Louis Wu 13:24:09 UTC) (permalink)
Server Update
Subnova HQ was hit with a pretty major storm this weekend - all power was out for a couple of days. This caused our mirror there to be offline (leading to the inaccessibility of the Fan Fiction section this weekend), and it killed the boot drive on the machine that hosts Subnova Hotline. The webserver is back up (so all HBO subsections are accessible again), but the hotline server is offline for a while. More details are in this post. (Louis Wu 12:41:02 UTC) (permalink)
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Sunday's news in brief:
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3D screenshot for folks who hate QuickTime I Thought IMAX Was The Other Guy... Lots of writing I gotta try that Feckless Cry idea Large vids showing... stuff. First Annual Enkidu Fanfic Contest - reminder |
