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Tuesday, June 15, 2004 |  |
Writing, and some suggestions
Fourteen pieces for you today in the Fan Fiction section. To submitters: if you feel the need to stick a huge honking piece of material at the beginning of every chapter, with, say, your cast of characters... make SURE that the actual STORY CONTENT meets our word minimum requirement, or your piece will be rejected. (If, for example, your submission is 800 words, but 300 of those are your cast of characters that showed up in your LAST chapter... we're tossing it.) Sorry - but if you can't find enough to write about to actually FILL 750 words with content, you shouldn't be submitting at all. And to the guy who submitted a 1000+ word story with almost no periods at all... don't do that again. Thanks! (Louis Wu 21:26:49 UTC) (permalink)
Superplay Scans
Thanks go out to Tim Alvner, who scanned an article from last month's Superplay (a Swedish magazine) and sent it in. (The June issue is now on the shelves in Sweden, so we can put this up now.) You can find it in our Press Scans section. The highlight, for me, is a gorgeous Eddie Smith piece that spans a couple of pages... but there's also a small pic of a maskless Grunt, which should ease the pain of the masses not able to find Xbox Gamer in the US. (The Xbox Gamer scans won't go up for a couple of weeks, yet.) Take a look! (For most of us, this one is pictures-only... Swedish is a rough language if you don't know it.) (Louis Wu 18:35:52 UTC) (permalink)
Goodies for Music
Hehe - Xraf posted a note on Bungie.net's Underground forum, with lyrics for a song called 'We Will Frag You', set to Queen's 'We Will Rock You'. Sketchfactor jumped in and offered a bonus:
Someone record it to music and send in an .mp3 of it! I'll send you a prize. =)
Sounds like a deal! (I'd guess that the offer only applies to the first mp3 he receives, though I don't know for sure; you might wanna check with him for details.) (Louis Wu 15:16:50 UTC) (permalink)
G3NEOCIDE
Mike Blanton writes that his clan, GaB, made a montage video recently; pretty much straight gameplay, but with some nice editing touches. It's a big file (40.5 mb, mpeg1 format), and I have no idea how long his clan server can hold out serving it... but he said to post it, so I'm posting it. (Louis Wu 14:32:57 UTC) (permalink)
The Case of the Misplaced Grunts
Weirdness. Ducain has posted a vid he made from a videotape sent to him by TablesandChairs - there are a handful of totally out-of-place grunts on the top of Halo. They're really up there (the vid shows them shooting and yelling, though not moving) - the question is how? Getting to that particular spot is not that hard, and several people (including Ducain) have done it/filmed it, and no grunts have ever been seen up there. So how did these guys get on top? It's a mystery... Update: apparently, they WERE moving, on the original tape; that footage just got cut out. (Louis Wu 13:29:19 UTC) (permalink)
The Zanzibar Project
A new modding team has started up - the Zanzibar Project has posted its first weekly update on both the Halomods forum and the Gearbox forum. (It's pretty interesting reading the comments on the two sites - totally different feel to the communities.) They're reproducing the Zanzibar map for Halo CE. No word yet on a timeline. Thanks to Stefander for the heads-up. (Louis Wu 13:21:42 UTC) (permalink)
Sarge went 404
Sector 7 has put up a new episode of Marines, their local comic strip. It pokes fun at their server's flakey connection. Thanks to Wolfy for the heads-up. (Louis Wu 13:20:48 UTC) (permalink)
Prostrate before the Altar
Calvin and Halo reminds me to remove all the televisions from my house, before my kids get home from school. (Louis Wu 13:15:27 UTC) (permalink)
Reviewing games not yet out...
What the...? Xbox Nation went to a fortuneteller to find out how Halo 2 was going to do. The prediction - there will be legal issues, the ending will be weak, and a third game is in the works. Predicted score: 7/10. This article has got to take the 'silliest article from a respected gaming mag' award. Earliest heads-up goes to Jeremy Hay, who found it last night. (Louis Wu 13:08:07 UTC) (permalink)
Flintstones? I don't think so.
Sketchfactor, over at Bungie.net, has put up their site stats for the past couple of months... and they've been doing some business! 28 million pageviews in 9 weeks; that's some serious bandwidth! (I guess I'd worry more about the 4 death threats in that timeframe, though...) As a measure of how busy their forums are, they've seen 177,000 forum posts since April 13 - HBO's forum, which is pretty darn busy, you ask me, has seen about 30,000 in that time period. Keep 'em going! (Thanks to pilotelite for noticiing the news story.) (Louis Wu 02:13:14 UTC) (permalink)
deviantARTwork
Deimos, of Subnova, spent a LONG time hunting through deviantART and came up with a list of 17 unique wallpapers that aren't also hosted here. Some of them are quite nice!
- My First Car
- Halo -True Soldier-
- Red vs Blue
- Master Chief
- Halo 2
- Halo Sketch
- Halo photograph...nearly...
- 7th Column: We're Everywhere 4
- Earth's Halo
- Falling
- MCGhost
- 7equalsMarathon
- Halo Covenant Wallpaper
- Pelican: Hell's Bird
- Belly of the Pelican
- Halo Bliss 2
- Halo 2 Wallpaper
(There are others, but they were either submitted to HBO as well, or stolen from other sites (unattributed to the original authors), so we haven't linked to them.) (Louis Wu 01:59:30 UTC) (permalink)
Rejected Halo 2 Ideas
Hehe - nice. Owl found a fun Halo-related issue of Aikida, a web comic. Good stuff. (Louis Wu 01:42:06 UTC) (permalink)
Monday's news in brief:
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Link Page - Automated Online Halo Tourney Fanfic contest ends SOON Update Update Behind the Mask This Is Why He's Not In The Union Jugglin' Chief More shakeycam gameplay Are you tired of Wallpaper yet? |
Sunday's news in brief:
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Sunday Afternoon Reading Intermission Picture Invasion, Part 2 |
