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Tuesday, January 25, 2005 |  |
Mullins - An Artist Apart
As a cap to a truly spectacular day, content-wise, we'd like to offer you a few gorgeous images. Swing by our Craig Mullins Halo gallery for a full version of the Arbiter and Master Chief image used in today's Sneaking wallpaper from Bungie. (There's a more recent version of this image - one that has an energy sword and some beautiful lighting changes - but we can't release it yet.) You'll also find 'Brute Kick', ad stunning pic of the MC taking out a Brute - and a sketch of that image, in progress. Thanks to Bungie for the permission to post these, and to Craig for the images themselves! Enjoy. (Louis Wu 22:09:01 UTC) (permalink)
Extreme Makeover: Desktop Edition
Three brand-new wallpapers have been released on Bungie.net - and man... there's some classy stuff there. Mister Chief, in a classic WinXP setting... Delta Halo, in all its glory... and a recently-leaked Craig Mullins piece, reworked by Shishka for your screen. (There's some good background in Sketch's writeup about this piece.) Go look, go download, go change your desktop. (Louis Wu 20:19:53 UTC) (permalink)
Halo 2 Legendary Walkthrough
Mike Miller has come to be known as a pretty amazing campaign player; if you don't know the name, you haven't been reading our news. The man has graciously agreed to share his knowledge and skills with the Halo community; we will gradually be releasing a Legendary Walkthrough of Halo 2, created by Mike. It contains general tips, specific strategies, and, because images sometimes teach better than words, video supplements for showing off techniques. Right now, we've got an Introduction (with plenty of general hints for Legendary-specific gameplay), and a walkthrough of Cairo Station, complete with 11 individual videos (in both QuickTime and WMP9 formats). Please - grab only what you need; our bandwidth has been hammered pretty hard this month. Thanks! And thanks to Mike, for the start of what looks to be a spectacular resource! (Louis Wu 19:27:28 UTC) (permalink)
Frankie - Put On The Glove!
Hehe - over on the Marty Army forum at Bungie.net, Marty posted the following suggestion (you have to be a member of the Marty Army to be able to see this):
The Marty Army members should all demand to see the video of Frankie attempting to "sing" Billie Jean. Talk about price.
FugitiveSoldier has put up a poll on the Bungie.net forums asking whether people agree - at the moment, it's 7-0 in favor. (Heck, Marty - if you can shoot me a copy of the vid, I'll happily host it here, in case you're being blocked by the Online Team...) Thanks to FugitiveSoldier for pointing out the b.net post on our own forum. (Louis Wu 18:22:00 UTC) (permalink)
Of Prophets, and Hunters, and Numbers, and Stuff
OMG Finn's not dead OMG! Big ol' update over at the Halo Story page today. Some of this is old stuff to forum regulars, some is not. There's definitely some grist for the speculation mill! Go read. (Don't forget to check out Jillybean's addition from last week; it was just a single tidbit, so I forgot to post news about it... but it's definitely thought-provoking!) (Louis Wu 16:36:36 UTC) (permalink)
Rise of the Machines
The Red vs Blue crew is at the Sundance Film Festival this week... and the Salt Lake Tribune has found them interesting enough to warrant a feature. A nice general overview... go read! (They see a million downloads a week? That's... um, like 25 or 30 terabytes or so. Gah.) Thanks, ICDedPpl. (Louis Wu 16:33:03 UTC) (permalink)
Episode 19: Question Mark???
That Weasel writes to let us know that Grunts Are People Too!!! has a new episode up... Project GN? What's going on? In WMP9, QuickTime, and DivX formats, 7-13 mb, depending. (Louis Wu 15:29:05 UTC) (permalink)
Critical Thinking
Narcogen, over at Rampancy.net, felt disgusted enough by the reaction of the school board decision in Puyallup to block a Halo 2 tournament that would benefit tsunami victims that he's written a retort. It's interesting to see WHY he's annoyed... it's not the action, it's the reasons BEHIND the action, and what those reasons might lead to. Go read. Update: Looks like there's some funkiness in Rampancy's code at the moment; if you try to read it without being logged in, you'll get a php error. The solution is simple: visit Rampancy's front page, and log in first. (Louis Wu 14:56:47 UTC) (permalink)
Explosions in the Sky
David Galindo has made a few movies for the Halo community - they've all been received pretty well. He's made a new one... this one's called 'Explosions in the Sky'. This one takes a look at the power of heavy weapons, with some amazing camera work. You can grab it from either bungie.org (QuickTime, 24.5 mb | WMP9, 30 mb) or mythica.org (QuickTime | WMP9). There are a couple of screenshots on the Videos page of David's The Sights of Halo 2 website. (Louis Wu 14:12:04 UTC) (permalink)
Happy Birthday, Mister Chief!
Thanks to Cody Brigan, who notified us that the Mister Chief contest being run by misterchief.com is now over - with the winners announced! Some pretty cool stuff came out of this one. (Mr. Brigan, not totally coincidentally, was the grand-prize winner, with a funny Flash tidbit.) Go watch. (Warning: Stuntmutt's entry might be considered unsafe for work. Or at least scary.) (Louis Wu 05:14:37 UTC) (permalink)
You Slay Me - and more
Yesterday (well, 2 days ago by this system clock, but trust me, it was yesterday), (GT)Juggler posted a note on our forum about a new movie he'd made. GT 14 - You Slay Me is 4 minutes long, and 26-31 mb large, depending on the version you get. It's a departure from his last few vids - no modding, just gameplay and nice effects. The initial rush should be over; it was announced on High Impact Halo yesterday... but for folks who haven't grabbed it yet, there are a few options: Halo GT has a bunch of links to the original MPEG-4-encoded version; that one weighs in at 31.3 mb, and is best viewed with a current version of QuickTime. We've re-encoded it as a more-compatible QuickTime, as well as in WMP9 format (both about 26 mb) - if the MPEG-4 doesn't work for you, go ahead and grab one of these. While you're checking out gameplay vids, our forum was hit with a few other links today: WaLKa posted his Halo 2 Montage, and quertykd posted TheSkills. Must have been the weekend for polishing the movies! Update: trigger119 just pointed out 'Bullets', a new vid from his clan, Vypers. 22 mb, WMP9 format. (Louis Wu 05:02:06 UTC) (permalink)
They call it 'sport'...
The 2004 Winter Pentathlon is over... and the writeup has been posted at Bungie.net. A masterpiece of spin, written by Newbies and Middle-schoolers attempting to downplay the TOTAL CARNAGE that was Old-School this year... it's a fun read. Check it out. (I gotta say, though, the Karaoke vid starring Cher O'Donnell is... disturbing.) (Louis Wu 03:36:12 UTC) (permalink)
Monday's news in brief:
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Fun is a tough metric. Mighty One Leads, We Follow Jump Tactics GU Comics - digging deep Dying To Meet You. Gamespot's Readers' Choice 2v2 H2 Tourneys A highly satisfying mixture of dramatic atmospheres |
Sunday's news in brief:
