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Sunday, December 26, 2004 |  |
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Ladies Like Lots of Stuff
We have another cutscene for you today in the Cutscene Library - this is the opening scene of Metropolis. As is true with a bunch of the cutscenes, the dialogue changes depending on which difficulty you're playing on - and thanks to Sniper 058, you can grab it in whatever difficulty you'd like. (We'd appreciate it if you'd grab only one difficulty in High resolution; the footage is identical for all 4, so it shouldn't matter too much what size you're watching for the alternate wordings. Thanks!) (Louis Wu 22:01:29 UTC) (permalink)
RSS to CSV utility
John Redman wrote a utility that will download user stats from Bungie's RSS XML feeds, and then conver them to CSV format (easily read by any version of Excel out there, back to 1.0). The package is a bit under 9 mb, and runs on Windows platforms. If you've wanted to try and work with your stats, but didn't have a version of Excel that could handle XML, this might be for you! You can download it from files2.bungie.org. (Louis Wu 17:43:35 UTC) (permalink)
Zanzibar Beach Egg discovered
Interesting. An easter egg based on the Xbox's internal clock has been discovered - brings me back to the days of Dark Castle. Skitelz posted over on the High Impact Halo forums that the Shark Warning signs on the Zanzibar beach were different on Christmas... that got folks changing their clocks, and 4 unique signs were discovered: January 1, July 7 (Bungie Day), October 31, and December 25. You can see all 4 in this image (41k). Clearly, SOME people had found these earlier - the Shark Petting sign is the opening shot of FTC's Episode 16, released last week. Nice job, all! (Louis Wu 16:18:43 UTC) (permalink)
Old Annoyance Be Forgot
Red vs Blue has posted a Holiday video for you to enjoy - reminiscences of Christmases Past, and such. Lots of such. First I heard of it was from Hawaiian Pig, on our forum. (Louis Wu 15:47:01 UTC) (permalink)
Halo 2.5... or something.
TeamXbox posted a bit of news they cribbed from the latest Official Xbox Magazine - details about Halo 2.5. 2.5? That's what they're calling it.
"Halo 2.5 will be an Xbox 2 launch title and is going to run in HDTV resolution with new, improved textures and graphical effects. All the stuff that people expected from Halo 2 but didn't make the cut will be there."
Before you get TOO excited, be aware that nobody who actually has any authority to speak about this stuff has commented yet. This might be true - and it might be a bit of undigested beef, a blob of mustard, a crumb of cheese. When we have more info about this, we'll be sure to post it. Thanks to Spike for the heads-up. (Louis Wu 15:43:04 UTC) (permalink)
Happy Holidays... from the fans.
A number of people sent along holiday wishes - XLNC created a new HUDless shot, Dennis Powers put together his own Halo CE Christmas Video (broadband and dialup), and Hawaiian Pig put up a nice RvB-themed image. I'm sure there are others that i managed to miss - if I find them, I'll update this news post. (Louis Wu 15:35:06 UTC) (permalink)
Legendary Beer Stein
Christmas is past, and I must say, I ate too much... but the time spent with loved ones was definitely worth it. Back to updating, though! Littlebigman noticed that there's a new beer stein available at the Bungie Store. The perfect thing for slugging down that after-Christmas... juice. (Louis Wu 15:28:14 UTC) (permalink)
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