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French Commercial - now viewable
Another one from Hikaru-119; he's uploaded the French commercial mentioned earlier to Brian Towne's public service server - you can grab it from there. 2.2 mb, MPEG1 format. (Louis Wu 21:49:38 UTC) (permalink)
Halo 2 Xbox Live Starter Kit - again
I didn't really think this was news, since it existed in Germany a month ago - but loads upon loads of people are writing to us about it, so... looks like as of today, Microsoft has OFFICIALLY announced the Limited Edition Halo 2 Xbox Live Starter Kit in Europe - it comes with a copy of Halo 2 (but not, confusingly enough, the LIMITED EDITION copy), an Xbox Live Voice Communicator, and a 12 month subscription to Xbox Live, all for £59.99. There's a press release at Gamespot, among other places. (Louis Wu 21:42:14 UTC) (permalink)
Earth City
nilerogers.com continues its posting spree, with another snippet from the Halo 2 Soundtrack - this one is called Earth City, and is 2:40 long. The flash art is quite nice, but if you're on a low-bandwidth connection, the direct link to the snippet is here. Lots of heads-ups from fans, looks like the earliest one came from Hikaru-119. (Louis Wu 21:32:05 UTC) (permalink)
Will I Be Able To Play The Piano?
Stuntmutt feeds off a great scene in Aliens for today's One One Se7en - looks like MC ain't no Bishop. (Louis Wu 15:35:46 UTC) (permalink)
Movies
Two new video clips for you today, around the web; Xbox Central is hosting an MTV news clip showing the 'Halo 2 Council' (celebrities getting special Halo 2 goodies) and the Pelican case'd Xbox/screen that's among their loot: 8 mb, WMP9 format (thanks, Ben Bayes), and there's a higher-res version of the leaked EB Games commercial we saw a couple of weeks ago; unfortunately, the only place it's currently available is on a site hosting pirated information, so we're not going to pass out the URL. (It's also in French.) Thanks, Hikaru-119. Update: Gah, I should have passed on this news item altogether. Warbow points out that the MTV piece is no longer available, either. Sorry. (Louis Wu 14:41:19 UTC) (permalink)
Answering Questions
Ryan McCaffrey, from OXM, stopped by the TeamXbox forums to answer specific, non-spoiling questions about OXM's review of Halo 2, out now to subscribers in the December issue of the magazine (and on newsstand shelves on November 2). As of right now, there aren't a lot of answers, but there sure are a lot of questions. Thanks, Myles Leadbetter. UPDATE: Be careful when following along here- spoilers are starting to show up. -CZ (Louis Wu 12:50:20 UTC) (permalink)
Using that Mouse with Halo
IGN has reviewed the SmartJoy FRAG device, the mouse/keyboard combination for the Xbox. Overall, they liked it, though they said it worked better with some games than with others. Halo was near the top of the list of 'good' games. Thanks, Joe Larson. (Louis Wu 12:32:58 UTC) (permalink)
EP Game Servers host talks about Halo
There's a short interview with Nathaniel, one of the owners of EP Game Servers, over at BlamDink.co.uk. He takes a decidedly Gearbox-centric view of the development situation for Halo Custom Edition and Halo PC - that is, Gearbox is doing everything they can to help the fans, and the only roadblock is the big bad Microsoft and its left arm, Bungie. I suppose that's one point of view. (Louis Wu 12:30:04 UTC) (permalink)
Books for Fans
There's a new article over at Xbox.com about 10 fans who won all three Halo novels (two of them signed by the author). You can read their explanations about why they wanted the books. Thanks, Littlebigman. (Louis Wu 12:22:52 UTC) (permalink)
Excuses? You're asking for a beatin'.
Today's IGN Countdown article gives you 5 excuses to try with your significant other in order to garner some screentime on November 9. I can't see any of them working, unless your significant other has the intellect of a small fern. (Louis Wu 12:19:13 UTC) (permalink)
Da Funnies
New comics up - there's a wordless (but not even remotely hard-to-understand) strip over at Halo Babies... and a look at the MC's improvements over at Master Chief and Cortana. And yesterday, there was a continuation of the Joe and Monkey strip we mentioned recently - with another new one today. (We're definitely getting away from Halo-related... but it's a story, so...) (Louis Wu 12:12:16 UTC) (permalink)
Nico chats up the Elder One
Just a reminder, since it rolled off the front page so quickly - there's a great new interview of Marty O'Donnell in our Miscellaneous section. If you haven't read it yet - go do so! (Louis Wu 02:13:28 UTC) (permalink)
HEY LOOK SEVEN
Thanks to the very large number of people who wrote in to tell us that OXM has published their Halo 2 review and rated the game a 9.7- the highest score the magazine has ever given out. As usual, we'll post scans in a month, once the magazine is no longer for sale. (Count Zero 00:43:16 UTC) (permalink)
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