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Saturday, October 16, 2004 |  |
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Every once in a while, a Halo movie comes along that's head and shoulders above almost everything else out there. Great filmography, awesome sound, fantastic voice acting... if you look back on all of the Halo machinima creations that have been released (we're not talking music videos now, or gameplay presentations), there are only a couple that are up there in a class that can stand alone, be of interest OUTSIDE the Halo community. (Red vs Blue is probably the most prominent example.) Now (in my opinion), there's a new one. 'The Heart is a Lonely Hunter' is a 30-minute movie which has it all; great acting, great storyline, great cinematography, great music, great effects. Humor and pathos, all rolled into a Halo-driven package. 30 minutes is WAY too much to release on the web in this format, so they've broken it up into 6 episodes. The first one (as well as a 1:14-long, 7.5 mb trailer) is available on the HiaLH website; It's 2:51 long, 20 mb, in QuickTime format. To ease the load on their server, we've mirrored this episode at mythica.org (and the trailer, too). Episode 2 will be released sometime early next week. Our forum is still down, so comments should be sent directly to the team (check their Contact page for email addresses) or to us - we'll pass them along. Update: As many of you have noticed, the HiaLH website is offline right now, for exceeding their bandwidth. We're tossing up another mirror of both of these files; you can find the trailer and Part 1 at files.bungie.org. We're talking about BitTorrenting the entire thing, but give us some time to work it out. (Louis Wu 15:18:51 UTC) (permalink)
Freebies with Halo 2 in Canada
Recoil points out nice bonus deals from Canadian sellers, if you haven't already ordered your copy of Halo 2. Best Buy is offering a free T - the Blue '2' logo on the front, 'Go Earth. 110904' on the back. (This doesn't seem to be available on the online store, and Recoil doesn't say what color this shirt is; most of the freebies I've seen have been black, though a white one exists, as well.) Over at Futureshop, they're offering free mini action figures (one of two packs). Again, this doesn't seem to be available online, so visit your local store. (Louis Wu 14:34:56 UTC) (permalink)
Full story mode laid out - in December OXM
There's a note over on Xbox.com from the Assistant Editor of the Official Xbox Magazine talking about their next issue, and the massive Halo 2 article planned for it. The mag will be out on November 2, one week before the game is out, and will contain (it looks like) information about the entire Campaign mode. Up to you whether you buy it then, or wait until after you play. (Subscribers, of course, will get it even sooner.) Thanks, Ash. (Louis Wu 14:27:40 UTC) (permalink)
Sk8r Chief.
Oh, man... in all the mess of yesterday, I managed to forget to post yesterday's One One Se7en. That might have been a good thing... you decide. It's up now. (Louis Wu 14:21:32 UTC) (permalink)
Lockout
IGN's Halo 2 Countdown article for yesterday is called 'Lockout', and gives a couple of decent Multiplayer ideas for use on the map Lockout. Go read! (Louis Wu 14:12:24 UTC) (permalink)
Halo2.com translating simplified (for macs)
Very cool. Chappy has created a Konfabulator widget (138K) to ease translation of the code found on halo2.com. This requires Konfabulator, a MacOSX in-system javascript runtime engine that allows you to put cool functions on your desktop. This one is pretty useful, if you're trying to decode a message; simply click the appropriate symbols, and the message will be typed out in the text bar at the top. A sample screenshot is here (78K). Again - this works in MacOSX only. Update: I just noticed that there's a PC equivalent, of sorts - IWTPH2 created a small app that allows you to do the same thing. A tad harder to use - but it runs on a PC, which the widget does not. :) (Louis Wu 14:09:00 UTC) (permalink)
Broken, glass filled, acid-ruined ruminations
While I took the night off, the Halo world went on - and Frankie posted another Bungie Weekly Update, this time over at Rampancy.net. He rants a bit about piracy, and then describes a weeklong Press event in San Francisco he just got back from, where journalists were allowed to play the game from start to finish, in order to write their reviews in time for the November deadlines. There's some nice imagery in his description of Legendary difficulty... Go read it, and feel sorry for the crying Mister Chief. We got lots of notes - earliest one was from 343. (Louis Wu 13:34:19 UTC) (permalink)
MTV Special on Halo 2 next month
On Breaking Benjamin's website there's a mention of an upcoming MTV Making the Video Game: Halo 2 special, which they will be featured in. It'll air on both MTV and MTV2 between November 5 and November 9 - a full list of showtimes can be found in the link above. Thanks, Ted Ruscha. (Louis Wu 13:21:17 UTC) (permalink)
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