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Tuesday, December 14, 2004 |  |
Head(long) over Heels
Mr. Jukes has updated his Trick Jumping Guide with a 22.5 mb WMP9 video covering Headlong. Nice work! (Louis Wu 21:59:23 UTC) (permalink)
Stinky Bad-bad.
Nate sent along a soundfile of the Egg grunt on The Great Journey. (If this means nothing to you, you'll need to wait for the Eggs page to go up.) We've added the entry to the Halo 2 Dialogue Databank. (Louis Wu 21:18:05 UTC) (permalink)
Play Halo with Chevelle
Weird. The Game with Fame promotion (play over XBL with famous people; previous participants include Willis McGahee and Ben Burnley) continues - with the band Chevelle. Sign up on this page; grand prize winner will get an Xbox and the chance to play Chevelle online on December 20. 100 runner-ups will also get to play (but won't get Xboxes). An additional 10 people will win a copy of Chevelle's new album. Thanks to DailyGame for the heads-up. (Louis Wu 18:32:09 UTC) (permalink)
Stryke Force - now mirrored
Last night, we mentioned a new machinima series, Stryke Force. Within a couple of hours, it was dead in the water, a victim of enthusiastic downloaders. Episode One was interesting, and deserves to be seen... so we're helping out. You can find the original WMP9 version (20.4 mb) at both mythica.org and bungie.org, and a QuickTime version I just encoded (19.9 mb) also at mythica.org and bungie.org. Hopefully, these will lighten the load on the original server, and allow the HTML pages they have to be displayed. (Louis Wu 15:28:53 UTC) (permalink)
Let's give 'em a shot.
Calvin brings up a pretty good point in today's Calvin and Halo. Food for thought... (Louis Wu 08:49:01 UTC) (permalink)
A Triple A Title Worthy of your Time and Money
ars technica has reviewed Halo (in general, they stay away from console games). They liked it. Quite a lot. Except the ending. They also liked the Plantronics headset. Thanks, Drake213. (Louis Wu 08:46:52 UTC) (permalink)
How Hard is Hard?
Hmm... yesterday, we mentioned that Frankie had weighed in on the matter of what happens when you collect all the skulls - folks worked pretty hard to figure out what he meant. Then, yesterday afternoon, he stopped by again... and apologized for misreading the original post.
I thought he was talking about beating the Vidmaster's Challenge. Apply my original post to that.
The thing is... nobody's even DEFINED a Vidmaster's Challenge for Halo 2, yet... is it the same as Marathon's Vidmaster Challenge? (Louis Wu 08:35:53 UTC) (permalink)
Of Idealism, and Blowing Stuff Up
Remember that note on the bottom of the Bomb? The one that goes 'Thus, I Refute Thee'? Turns out it was put there for none other than our very own Finn, of the Halo Story page. The full explanation can be found over at Team 7hr33's website. (Louis Wu 08:27:35 UTC) (permalink)
Headshot.
Compassghost whipped up a pretty slick 550x100 signature for forums that allow them (and allow Flash files in signatures, I guess). You can see it in this post on our forum. (Personally, I'd go nuts after the 3rd or 4th time it repeated... but maybe that's just me.) (Louis Wu 08:24:13 UTC) (permalink)
Retox
Another vid - this one by Hogmasta. It's called Retox, and his forum post states that it's his last Halo vid. It's available as streaming QT and streaming WMV - the downloadable links either don't work or point to an Enter the Matrix vid. Pretty standard stuff, overall... but feedback on the forum is quite positive, so maybe I'm getting jaded. (Louis Wu 02:22:01 UTC) (permalink)
Stryke Force Starts Up
Feenix dropped us a line about a new machinima series known as Stryke Force - a promo video and the first full episode are now posted. Video quality is quite good, and the story is intriguing... can't wait for the next episode! Take a look. (WMP9 format, 20.5 mb for Episode 1 - the promo vid is DivX format, and 9 mb. The Opening credits are included in the first episode, so unless you HAVE to have the hi-res version of them, you can save yourself the 8 mb download.) And don't forget to stop by their forum and let 'em know what you think! Update: well, that didn't last long. We got word about 2 hours after we posted this that the site had gone down for exceeding its bandwidth. (I'd have posted this note earlier had I noticed, sorry.) I can't do anything about helping out right now - but it's possible I can get a copy of the vid up later today. (Louis Wu 02:14:25 UTC) (permalink)
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