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Thursday, July 1, 2004 |  |
The Unbearable Lightness of Text
Wow - 3 days, 22 Fan Fiction pieces. That's more than 7 a day... you should go read some. (Louis Wu 19:20:41 UTC) (permalink)
US and UK upcoming tourneys
Couple of tournaments for you, both sides of the Atlantic: first up, there's a tourney in Tewksbury, MA, on July 10, with a $5 admission and a top prize of a $1350 Dye DM4 paintgun. (Thanks, Pepper4099.) Second, in London, on August 21, there's the Elite Gaming Championships, with a £25 entrance fee and top prizes of £100 gift vouchers. (Thanks, [PU55]dHoLpLayEr.) (Louis Wu 18:07:20 UTC) (permalink)
The problem is the bullets, obviously
Calvin and Halo steps back from comedy for some philosophy today. (Louis Wu 16:26:17 UTC) (permalink)
It's gonna be a rough holiday season...
Gamindustry.biz has a story about how this Christmas is going to be rough on gaming companies, because of the huge amount of competition. Halo 2 is one of the few titles listed as likely being immune to the loss of market share. Makes you wonder why some of these companies don't hold off a couple of months (or release in September)... (Louis Wu 16:18:45 UTC) (permalink)
Xbox SP to MP
Wow - SwampFox has managed to convert Singleplayer to Multiplayer (in this case, the Library) - on XBOX. If you have a modded box, go grab this now. (If you don't, and want to know HOW to mod your box - go there now, anyway. HBO is not the site you want for Xbox moddding info.) Thanks to Darksage for the heads-up. (Louis Wu 13:58:45 UTC) (permalink)
A Halo movie - in German?
Weirdness. Carlo Zottman has discovered a German site that claims to be in negotiations for a Halo movie. Boll Kino-Beteiligungs-GmbH & Co. KG (no relation whatsoever to our resident Flash maniac) has a prospectus on their download page (everything is in German - no English anywhere) that lists, on page 29, movie licenses for existing game properties that are 'currently in negotiation' - and Halo is on the list. If you poke around the site, you'll find links to existing movies they've done... and I must say I'm not sure I'd be happy seeing them do a Halo movie... but this is one rumor that simply won't go away. (Louis Wu 13:34:40 UTC) (permalink)
GNF Clarification
It seems that some folks took our 'Midnight July 1 2004' deadline on the Going Nowhere Fast contest to mean LAST night at midnight. Sorry for any confusion this caused. As long as the entry reaches us before the END of July 1, we'll accept it. (Two large videotapes came in yesterday, and haven't been digitized yet - if you don't see your times up on the leaderboard, realize we're getting a FLOOD of last-minute content, and might be a bit behind posting stuff.) (Louis Wu 11:56:51 UTC) (permalink)
More on that Maskless Grunt
Nice find by munkeypantsman... in one of the new screens released yesterday, there's a cowering grunt covering his face. What nobody else noticed (or at least nobody else MENTIONED) was that this grunt is NOT wearing his rebreather apparatus... but clearly, the shot was taken in an oxygen atmosphere (there's a marine on the LAAG with no helmet or external breathing equipment). Can Grunts breathe oxygen (at least for a little while)... or was this guy doomed even WITHOUT the MC shooting at him? (Louis Wu 11:53:03 UTC) (permalink)
Polygonal Beauty
Hehe - TeamXbox is running a feature called 'Top Ten Xbox Babes'... and Halo's Cortana makes number 9. Not bad for a hologram! Thanks, daedalus. (Louis Wu 11:33:44 UTC) (permalink)
A Plethora of HUDless Screens
Wow. Halo Boy has posted an entire collection of HUDless screenshots - and they're very, very good. The entire set is hosted at Photobucket; if the bandwidth runs out because of this news post, drop us a line, we'll see what we can do about mirroring the files. (Louis Wu 11:27:28 UTC) (permalink)
The Library Gets New Tomes
Saint mentions that the Library has been updated with a bunch of new entries and screens. If you haven't looked over this treasure-trove of Halo information, you really should - it's chock-full of goodies. (Louis Wu 10:51:00 UTC) (permalink)
Blood Gulch - Framed.
w00t! Nesnora, a mod on the Red vs Blue forum and a spectacular artist, is creating 50 first-edition prints of her gorgeous Blood Gulch artwork (which was added to our Wallpaper section a couple of weeks ago). They will be signed and matted, with a pricetag of $30 (if purchased before July 6) or $50 with a brushed steel or stained wood frame. These rock - get one for your wall today! (Thanks to the heads-up from Anim8rJB, who rightly thought it might be of interest to our readers...) Remember - there are only 50 in this first run! (Louis Wu 01:11:54 UTC) (permalink)
Halo 2 Content Flood
As expected, Bungie has released a great collection of new renders, new screenshots, a gorgeous new print art piece by Eddie Smith, and a great background piece on the technology behind the new shots. Go read, download, and otherwise revel in the new content! (Louis Wu 00:55:48 UTC) (permalink)
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