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Saturday, November 27, 2004 |  |
Content around the net
There've been a few articles posted in the past few days that have been passed over due to time constraints - here's a list:
- Waterloo Cedar Falls (IA) Courier - Halo is taking over college campuses
- The Tennessean - kids say Halo is disappointing, but they keep playing
- CNN.com (review) - Halo 2 gets almost everything right (no numerical score)
- Christ Centered Game Reviews - 90% (95% when not considering Christian audience appropriateness - thanks, Ross)
In addition, Rampancy.net has begun to publish Halo 2 impressions - somewhere between a review and a walkthrough, these discuss the game from the perspective of a long-time Bungie fan. The first three chapters are up now. (Louis Wu 21:05:46 UTC) (permalink)
Ode to Bungie
Ryan 'Mhaddy' Matthews, over at the Junkyard, has started up the 'Write a Poem for Bungie' contest - well, actually, it starts up on Monday. No Haiku, unfortunately... but pretty much everything else is fair game. Lots o' schwag for prizes. Check it out! (Louis Wu 18:50:38 UTC) (permalink)
Frankie, Do You Remember Me?
Bah. I spent far too much of yesterday taking care of business - I missed the day's One One Se7en. It was doubly relevant given the fact that Frankie skipped yesterday's Weekly What's Update because of the Thanksgiving weekend. Go read! (Louis Wu 18:25:37 UTC) (permalink)
Red Feather Ranch
DocOctavius posted a new map he just finished for HaloCE; it's called Red Feather Ranch, and it's pretty gorgeous to look at. Really feels like the high hills of Colorado - as DocOc intended. The map's quite large... but the two bases are actually pretty close together. I don't know how it plays (haven't had time to try it out), but the forum post lists a server it's running on, so give it a shot! (Louis Wu 17:08:48 UTC) (permalink)
Who were these guys?
BOLL found an interesting feature on a later level - does this tell us anything about the origins of the Forerunner, or is this just a coincidence? (Again, spoiler issues for folks who haven't gotten here yet, but the Forerunner were a big part of the original Halo, as well.) (Louis Wu 16:50:40 UTC) (permalink)
Now THAT'S a gun.
I'm STILL not finished with the new HBO/HIH Tricks site (this holiday week threw a glitch in a lot of projects), but there was a vid posted to our forum this morning which is pretty cool, and worth seeing. Gil27 managed to film the handheld Scarab gun - a plasma rifle, hidden away on Metropolis, that fires Scarab bolts. (Given that the Scarab was seen in Halo commercials, it doesn't really seem to me that there is any spoiler material in this video... but you never know.) The video is 12.4 mb, DivX 5 format. What a deadly gun! (Louis Wu 15:02:36 UTC) (permalink)
Friday's news in brief:
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Reasons to be thankful Banshee Boarding A way to circumvent the spoiler system Potential Spoilers I think I saw Alvin. Payback Don't call her. She's busy. A Tur.... what? Halo 2: The Movie |
Thursday's news in brief:
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Artwork now up Stinks to be 6. Bandwidth needs for match hosting Halo 2 Info - again More mirrors Halo Walks the Walk (of Game) More Funnies |
