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Monkeyitis...
Halo gets a funny mention in today's episode of 9th Elsewhere, an ongoing webcomic. I think many of us know people like Matt... Thanks, ThorsHammer. (Louis Wu 21:43:27 UTC) (permalink)
Escher? Gesundheit!
Hehe - I gotta say, I had the same impression as Stuntmutt expresses in today's One One Se7en... once. This should bring a smile to your face. (Unless you're just getting out of Botox treatment, in which case you CAN'T smile.) (Louis Wu 17:24:57 UTC) (permalink)
ODSTee
In various videos and still shots of Bungie employees, a simple (but very cool) T-shirt can be seen - it's grey, with a simple 'ODST' emblazoned across the front. (Jason Jones, for example, can be seen wearing one in this image from the Making Of DVD.) This shirt is not for sale anywhere... but one fan wasn't satisfied with that. Chris Hamilton made a similar shirt (same color, different font, different text color) and is offering it for sale at CafePress. (It also has a new line - 'Kill all covie bastards' - across the back.) He's not making any money off this; he's charging the base $14.99 rate that CafePress requires to make the shirt. If you like this concept, though, you're not going to get one from Bungie - so maybe this is your best bet. Update: Chris has added a second version - this one matches the Bungie version pretty closely. Take your pick! (Louis Wu 17:11:12 UTC) (permalink)
Another Halo Suit
Squid_squires created a suit of armor recently, and sent the pictures to mrsmiley, of Halo Babies. smiley figured they'd be better off here (we've posted a number of costumes like this)... so here they are (pic1, pic2). Fantastic work! One of these days, we'll have to organize all of these into a section of their own. (Louis Wu 16:00:05 UTC) (permalink)
SpikeTV Awards - again
A surprising number of people have written to remind us that the SpikeTV award voting ends soon - the ceremony airs in less than a week. (We mentioned it 3 weeks ago.) If you haven't voted, I suppose you should do so. Halo 2 is up for a number of awards. (Louis Wu 15:30:11 UTC) (permalink)
Afterwar Episode 8
There's a new episode of Halo-Afterwar posted at Black Arts Studios - it's a little messy this time around. Thanks, R3D L33D3R. (Louis Wu 15:24:55 UTC) (permalink)
Counting Stuff
Hikaru-119 went through all of Halo 2 and counted the weapons and bullets he found - and posted the results on our forum. It seems that correcting mistakes draws pretty negative responses from him, so just look at the numbers! (Louis Wu 15:21:34 UTC) (permalink)
How to draw Elites
v2 posted a note in our forum about an Elite Drawing Tutorial he posted over at DeviantART. (Be sure to read the commentary below the image, as well.) Definitely cool stuff! (Louis Wu 15:00:47 UTC) (permalink)
Net Stories
A couple of new Halo articles, courtesy of Google (though the IGN piece got us another dozen emails later on):
- Cnet Asia has a broader look at the effect Halo 2 Xbox Live traffic might have on broadband providers
- IGN has written an epilogue to their Halo 2 coverage, looking at whether it actually measured up to the hype that preceded it. (There are major spoilers here.) It's well-written, and pretty fairly evaluates the game on its own merits.
Third Person View, FOV Increase
Wow, nice. Over on the Gearbox forums, bitterbanana has released a mod that works with both HaloCE and HaloPC - it expands your field of view (works nicely on widescreen monitors) and lets you view yourself from behind (third-person camera). Nice! Thanks, VerdaFolio. (Louis Wu 14:45:33 UTC) (permalink)
GotY voting open at Gamespy
Gamespy has opened its Gamers' Choice voting for Game of the Year 2004 - make yourself heard. (Halo 2, obviously, is up for the Xbox award.) Thanks, Gothmog117. (Louis Wu 14:04:54 UTC) (permalink)
Pick your favorite Halo MP map!
It's time again for another HBO Poll. Thanks to Max Hoberman, Hawaiian Pig, and XLNC for making it happen. If you're interested in letting Bungie know which Halo map you'd like to see again in Halo 2, follow the link to the right and vote! The poll will remain up for a week or so. (Full explanation on how this came about is on that page.) Update: Apologies - In my haste to get this poll loaded, I left a couple of things off - like IP logging, and a vote button. I put the vote button in a bit too quickly... and a couple of overzealous fans ran up the vote on a couple of maps. I've since reset the counter; if you voted in the first few minutes of this poll's existence, you should vote again. Sorry about that. (Louis Wu 01:55:26 UTC) (permalink)
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