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Sunday, January 23, 2005 |  |
Racing pigs ridden by monkey jockeys
The Weekly What's Update has finally been posted over at Bungie.net... Frankie sounds a little harried. It's got some fun info - lots on cheating (and how they chose who to ban), info on why it's as short as it is (something to do with the Bungie Pentathlon... sounds like Frankie's team might be losing), a few other tidbits. Go read! (Louis Wu 23:30:57 UTC) (permalink)
Action Figures - The Next Generation
Over the past few weeks, we've gotten a chunk of mail about the next series of Halo 2 action figures from Joyride; up to now, it's all been text-based, and we've passed on making it news. Littlebigman found a website with a picture of the Series 3 toys, though - and posted about it on our forum. I suppose we also ought to mention the text descriptions of Series 4 and 5, as well... no pics yet, though. (Louis Wu 16:52:34 UTC) (permalink)
More Halo 2 Toys
teh Havoc modded a Halo 2 LED flashlight (no longer available, sadly, at the Bungie Store) to end up with a Halo 2 USB flash drive. Nice work! (Louis Wu 16:37:52 UTC) (permalink)
Stories for a Sunday
As I sit here surrounded by 18 inches of snow (with more on the way), and some pretty heavy winds, I notice there are 17 new pieces for you in the Fan Fiction section. Nothing better on a cold, blustery day than reading by the fire! (Louis Wu 16:14:16 UTC) (permalink)
Better searching, for Firefox users
Another Friday bit, almost overlooked. This one is only useful to Firefox users on WinXP... but it's pretty cool. Go visit the MLG forums and grab a pair of search plugins (and their corresponding images), and drop 'em in your searchplugin folder (directions are in the post). Now you'll be able to search for gamertags or clans directly from your search bar! Thanks to Mantis819 for pointing this out. Update: Thanks to DDMagnaS, the creator of these plugins, for pointing out that there's an easier way to install them (for folks using WinXP/Firefox). (Louis Wu 00:06:41 UTC) (permalink)
AIAS Nominations Posted
Oops - this came out Friday, but I forgot to post it. The 8th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards nominations (awards come from the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences - Halo took home Game of the Year in the 2002 ceremony) were posted on Friday (thanks, CJAD 800). Halo 2 is up for six awards: Game of the Year, Console Game of the Year, Outstanding Achievement in Sound Design, Outstanding Achievement in Online Game Play, Outstanding Innovation in Console Gaming, and Console First Person Action Game of the Year - impressive, but not quite up to Half-Life 2's 10 nominations. The awards will be given out in Las Vegas on February 1... not long to wait! (Louis Wu 00:03:38 UTC) (permalink)
Halo 2 Cutscenes - in one package, via BT
Wow. If you want to get all the high-res Halo 2 cutscenes at once, without having to download them one at a time... HALOChat has made them available in a single 478 mb bundle via BitTorrent. Link can be found in this forum post. (I'm not sure how much demand there is for this... but certainly if you're starting with none of them, this is the easiest way to get 'em all.) (Louis Wu 00:03:06 UTC) (permalink)
Saturday's news in brief:
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One Bag for Two HUDless Halo 2 Flash Stuff Halo Do-Gooders Shut Down Heavy Metal Cry Cry Cry |
Friday's news in brief:
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Rotund Bovine Fresian? Online Tourneys - starting in 2 days Prima Donna is an understatement. Lost In Translation. Fully Destructible Environments Of pretty ladies, and missing teeth |
