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RvB in NYC - Again
Red vs Blue has posted a fun film to pass the time until you get your Season 2 DVD (you DID order one, didn't you?) - it was displayed a few weeks ago at Lincoln Center, during the 'Wild Wild Web' program, and now it's available for the world. (This isn't sponsors-only.) Check it out! Thanks, Anlawn. (Louis Wu 20:59:36 UTC) (permalink)
Making Fiction Authors Better, One Comment At A Time
Another 8 stories added to the Fan Fiction database - it's looking like the new Fiction Comments setup is working. Lots of productive comments... keep it up! (Louis Wu 20:34:09 UTC) (permalink)
Magazines invade Bungie
A bunch of people noticed lots of activity on the Bungie Webcam last Friday and Saturday. Many, many people were playing Halo 2. (If you missed it, Tru7h Online was nice enough to archive it.) Well, the first writeup of this activity has appeared on 1UP.com; Che Chou, of Xbox Nation, has a nice update on his blog. (It's the top post at the moment.) There's no real content yet - "I can't talk about any of it for a month so ask no questions and I tell you no lies" - but at least you know who all those people are! Thanks to op_ivy for noticing. (Louis Wu 19:35:42 UTC) (permalink)
Easy way to win?
Konrad points out a pretty strange glitch that surfaced at the recent Dead Babies LANfest; the movie is truly crappy quality, and 7.4 mb in QuickTime format, but it shows KP racking up points in a slayer game by committing suicide. Can't say that I've ever seen this before... (Louis Wu 19:13:59 UTC) (permalink)
New/Old Halo Walkthrough at Xbox.com
funkmon noticed a new Walkthrough of Halo on the Xbox.com Halo site - well, not new, exactly. The walkthrough itself (a 1.2 mb, 81-page PDF file) is dated October 18, 2001 - a month before the Xbox was released. Its inclusion on Xbox.com, however, dates back no more than a week or so. Interesting... (Don't forget, if you're stuck, there are also walkthroughs at Bungie.net and right here at HBO - though these two are targeted towards Legendary play, whereas the Xbox.com one is more general.) Update: Nick points out that the walkthrough date is very odd. October 18, 2001 was almost a week before Halo went gold; how could a walkthrough have been completed by that point? On the other hand, some of the people mentioned in the credits are inside the industry... curiouser and curiouser. (Louis Wu 18:18:42 UTC) (permalink)
A possible way to increase PC framerates
A few days ago, Nick pointed out that Microsoft had released DirectX 9.0c, the next generation of DirectX. The end-user runtime is not installed via the normal Windows Update interface; you have to download it yourself, and run the installer. You'll be warned that it cannot be uninstalled, and that if you're using Windows ME or Windows XP you should set up a System Restore point before beginning. (This was enough for me to pass on it when Nick first mentioned it.) However, a number of folks on the Gearbox forums have installed this, with no noticeable ill effects, and there's a significant framerate boost for Halo PC/CE. (Folks noticed a 10 fps increase in the HaloPC timedemo... and I noticed a similar (but less quantifiable) increase in normal gameplay under Halo CE.) I'm not going to tell you to install this, because I have NO CLUE what the side effects might be - but the short-term data, at least with respect to Halo, look pretty promising. Check out the page, and decide for yourself! (Louis Wu 14:35:19 UTC) (permalink)
Gotta Catch 'em All
Last Friday's unusual Weekly Bungie Update has now been archived in our database. I think all you can say about the usefulness of this is that our db is complete. (Louis Wu 14:22:37 UTC) (permalink)
Spec Ops - The Tru7h.
Stuntmutt shows where the new Halo 2 Elite troops come from in today's One One Se7en. Personally, I'm starting to wonder about that boy - where DOES he get his inside info? (Louis Wu 13:44:19 UTC) (permalink)
Halo 2 Headset?
NuclearWinter discovered some pretty interesting info - Microsoft is getting ready to distribute a new style of Xbox Live headset, to be packaged with a game being released later this year. Evidence (read the post) points to Halo 2. If this turns out to be accurate, I think this is the first the Halo community has heard of it! (Louis Wu 00:30:22 UTC) (permalink)
Dead Babies
Saturday was the day for the Dead Babies LAN, visited by a passel of HBO regulars. Writeups and pics in this thread, and more pics from Juggler (the host) in this one. I couldn't tell if his Furhman fetish was bigger than his Spiderman one... (You gotta love the 'HBO' spelled out in Bawls bottles, though.) (Louis Wu 00:11:21 UTC) (permalink)
Sunday's news in brief:
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More Halo Goodness cooked Gamers come back Arkansas Halo Tourney Fonni Indeed Crimson is a meanie. |
Saturday's news in brief:
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GTA :: Sin City Update 82 mb of Maw Goodness Inheritance a Go Halo 2 Wallpaper all over the net Saturday Storytelling What Works, So Far How Stupid ARE People, Anyway? Bungie's Euro Dash |
