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Fun is a tough metric.
Bungie has continued their long-dormant series of 'what's it like to work here' articles, this time with an interview with Steve Cotton, one of the lead multiplayer map designers. Interesting read, though Steve sounds a bit... brainwashed. Or maybe it's just hogtied. Thanks, Frankie. (Louis Wu 22:43:34 UTC) (permalink)
Mighty One Leads, We Follow
Captain Spark has updated his collection of dialogue snippets - you can grab a new batch of 48 zipped files over at his website, or search for them piece by piece in our Dialogue Databank. (The reason ours says 45 results and his says 48 is because there were a few that were improvements on existing clips.) (Louis Wu 20:54:41 UTC) (permalink)
Jump Tactics
Yesterday, High Impact Halo posted a note about a new jumping vid from Kahai_maluu and the Jump Tactics team; is this a new sport? (Some of the atmosphere reminds me a lot of skateboarders, actually.) The movie is a monster - over 50 mb for 15 minutes of jumping hijinx on Lockout - and it's some pretty amazing stuff. Amazing, as in you had no idea how far the Bungie physics could be pushed before now. Duke's note put a serious strain on Mythica's servers (they spiked somewhere near 120 Mbit/sec last night), so HALOChat has tossed the file up at Filefront, as well as made it available via BitTorrent - grab the links from his forum post. WMP9 format; folks who can't view that can save themselves the huge download. I dunno... this is just gonna make me MORE frustrated when I fall off a ledge on Lockout... these guys would have just jumped across to another walkway, or something. Go watch. (Louis Wu 19:17:01 UTC) (permalink)
GU Comics - digging deep
Friday's GU Comics uncovers the secret of Halo 2's spectacular sales numbers. Thanks, Meg. (They have a very cool little feature where you can search for comics by Game... in the past, they've looked at I Love Bees and Master Chief's PR skills, as well as the pirating issue that already got a news post. (Louis Wu 16:34:20 UTC) (permalink)
Dying To Meet You.
Today's One One Se7en takes a shot at... well, someone. I'm not sure who, though. (Louis Wu 14:10:48 UTC) (permalink)
Gamespot's Readers' Choice
A few days ago dude 69 pointed out that Gamespot's Readers' Choice Awards for 2004 had been posted. We were on-and-off following their Best and Worst of 2004 stuff - it started on December 18, and Readers' Choice was day 7; I'd have assumed that the Reader's Choice stuff was posted on Christmas Eve Day (or maybe the 26th, if they took Christmas off). I passed on the news tip. Then, today, I got ANOTHER one, this time from 3Suns; I went looking. Google cached THEIR version of that page on January 8, so it's been up for at least 2 weeks... I can't tell you how much longer than that. I CAN tell you we didn't report the results before - in fact, we didn't report ANYTHING past day 3. (Halo won nothing in the Genre awards, the Platform awards, or the GotY awards, so most of that is understandable.) The readers at Gamespot liked Halo 2 better than the editors, though - the game took home Best Xbox Action Adventure Game, Xbox Game of the Year, and Overall Game of the Year. Power to the people! (Louis Wu 09:22:48 UTC) (permalink)
2v2 H2 Tourneys
Couple of tourneys we heard about yesterday - over at High Impact Halo, there's a 2v2 Tourney being set up; sign-up is on the forum, and a small subsite has been put together for rules and participants... and Halo HQ is running a 2v2 doubles tourney, as well: signup for THIS is on THEIR forum, with a separate Ladder News post giving rules and details. Check 'em both out! (Louis Wu 09:01:08 UTC) (permalink)
A highly satisfying mixture of dramatic atmospheres
Music from the Movies has reviewed the first volume of the Halo 2 soundtrack - you can read the details on their website. The writeup is predominately positive; the reviewer liked it, both as a soundtrack to a video game and as a standalone CD. (The rating was 3.5/5, somewhere between 'recommended with reservations' and 'excellent'.) (Louis Wu 02:19:08 UTC) (permalink)
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