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Saturday, January 8, 2005 |  |
w00tness returns
Looks like we slipped up - we'd been following w00tness, a webcomic with Halo ties, for a while in November. Starting in December, a new chapter began - and 19 new comics have been posted since then. Thanks to Duo, for mentioning it. (The latest one has some pretty nice artwork...) (Louis Wu 22:06:21 UTC) (permalink)
Paul is Dead.
Whoa. IceWeasel listened to a section of the Whisper in the Storm cutscene that sounded odd to him... so he isolated it, sped it up, and reversed it - and found a rather odd prayer:
"I wander the earth. I seek your forgiveness for my horrible crimes against God. Amen . I wish to seek death, destruction. the light, let the light that cannot be extinguished-"
I reversed the audio myself, to make sure he wasn't faking this - it's really there. It's unlikely the Freewebs link in his forum post will hold up, so you can find his audio splice in its original .wma format, or a more compatible .mp3 format on our own server. If you listen to the reversed audio with NO other modifications at all, it sounds a lot like Gravemind... but what would he be doing in High Charity at this stage? This one is wild. (Louis Wu 20:49:59 UTC) (permalink)
Finishing This Fight
The Cutscene Library grows with the inclusion of the final Halo 2 scene today; the failsafes of the system are revealed. We have one more release for you - the credits, a rather large (and largely uninteresting to most) vid... but we'll release the small bit of story at the end as a separate download, for folks who want it but don't need the credits themselves. In the meantime, this is how the game ends. Enjoy! (Louis Wu 17:28:13 UTC) (permalink)
1Up Readers call Halo 2 GotY
Yet another Best of the Year award for Bungie - 1Up (the website for EGM, XBN, and CGW magazines, among others) posted their Readers Choice Awards, and Halo 2 took Best Online/Multiplayer, and Best Game of the Year. I got this one from Frankie himself. (Louis Wu 14:17:09 UTC) (permalink)
Trained Monkeys and Tree Frogs
Bungie has posted the next in its ongoing series of Weekly What's Updates at Bungie.net. A long answer to the 'why is cheating so rampant?' question (but one that probably won't assuage the most angry among the players), along with a bunch of other stuff. One rumor we neglected to report this week was that Halo was being created for the Gizmondo - it seemed a little too far out there to dignify. Turns out that assessment was correct. There's some stuff about downloadable content (though nothing about WHEN to expect it). There are a bunch of questions that anyone who can find a FAQ link should already know the answer to (but then, evidence shows that that's not a huge percentage of those online). There's a solid answer to the question 'how come I can't have black armor in MP?', which is nice. And there's the scariest Mister Chief artwork I've seen yet - and that includes the bug-eyed thing from a couple of weeks back. Go read! (Louis Wu 04:53:06 UTC) (permalink)
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