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Friday, January 28, 2005 |  |
The Key to Home
Dennis Powers writes to say the Halo CE Chronicles Episode 2, 'The Key to Home', has been posted at Halo Maps. 4:20, Flash movie format. You can get some really nice camera angles out of Halo CE! (Louis Wu 21:11:18 UTC) (permalink)
There's A Script?
Eep - that last news post reminded me I forgot to post today's One One Se7en. Hmm... maybe that was a GOOD thing. (Louis Wu 19:30:24 UTC) (permalink)
Happy Winter-een-mas, Bungie!
Today's Ctrl+Alt+Del news post is a tribute to Bungie... and to Halo in particular. A nice read. Check it out. Thanks, Bonekin. (Louis Wu 19:28:41 UTC) (permalink)
Um... so that means...
We got an answer, of sorts, from Joe Staten regarding the titles used on the 'Hall of Murals' images we posted a couple of days ago. Not definitive by any means... but you take what you can get sometimes. (See the page for details.) (Louis Wu 19:14:47 UTC) (permalink)
EGM vs Bungie - redux
Remember how Bungie was gonna challenge EGM to a rematch, to try and regain their honor after the Humpday Challenge shellacking they took? Well, according to EGM Shoe's blog, it happened... on Tuesday. Three games. EGM came out on top for the first two, lost the third. Stats, commentary, and a tiny bit of trashtalking can be found at that last link. Thanks, psyho case. (Louis Wu 18:43:16 UTC) (permalink)
Speeding Through
Cody Miller has posted a number of his speedruns over at archive.org (home of the Wayback Machine, and a pretty darned respectable video game film collection) - you can find links to them in this forum post. (The Outskirts and Cairo Station runs were already posted in our news a couple of months ago - only the last two are new.) You've got to watch the Maw run; it beats the GNF winner by over a minute, and contains some pretty amazing moves. (Come to think of it, the Metropolis run's pretty slick, as well... I loved the bit where Cortana said 'those pilots are no pushovers either'... just before Cody smacks one of 'em in the back of the head. Oh, Cortana... sometimes you're just clueless.) Go watch. (Louis Wu 18:27:15 UTC) (permalink)
By Any Means Necessary
Yahoo's Buzz Log noted that folks are doing quite a lot of searching for game cheats... and Halo 2 is 4th on the list of games currently being scanned. Don't folks know there ARE no cheats? Thanks, Nathan Riggle. (Louis Wu 16:21:14 UTC) (permalink)
Soul Damage?
John Rivas also points out a Christian-perspective review over at Plugged In Online. (It's linked off the right side of the front page at the moment, the title is "'Halo 2': Save the World; Lose Your Soul?" - but it opens in a popup window; the full URL to the article, missing site navigation, is here.) This one suggests the game can damage you:
The heart-pumping action that makes Halo 2 so engaging comes at the cost of (potentially) reducing the value of real people in the real world.
Eh. I pretty heartily disagree with that assessment... but it's certainly an opinion. (Louis Wu 14:39:28 UTC) (permalink)
The Color of Money
Tons of articles today are looking at Microsoft's bottom line, and how it was bolstered by Halo 2. The LA Times has a piece showing that Halo 2's $300 million in revenue helped the entertainment division post a gain instead of a loss. (Total sales were $10.8 billion for the year; $1.4 billion of that was in the entertainment division... so a bit more than 10% of Microsoft's income comes from Entertainment, and one fifth of THAT came from a game that was released with less than two months in the year remaining. Not too shabby! Halo 2 accounts for almost 3% of Microsoft's overall revenues!) Other articles: BBC (thanks, Shinesevens), Gamespot. Update: Oops, forgot one; TeamXbox put up a story, too (thanks, John Rivas). (Louis Wu 14:06:52 UTC) (permalink)
Decreased Loading Times
New Halo Babies comic is up - a wry look at a contentious issue. Good stuff. (Louis Wu 11:06:33 UTC) (permalink)
A prize worth putting on the shelf
goweb reminded me that I neglected to post a note about a cool prize won by Flashman in a contest over at Xbox Resource. Very nice... he's not TOUCHING the wrapping on that! (Louis Wu 10:34:41 UTC) (permalink)
More jumping
I'm definitely behind on news... yesterday was a pretty rough day for me. MrJukes updated his website again; Jump Session #5 has been posted. Between Jump Tactics, synide's Lockout tips, and this vid, you should be able to jump through Lockout like a master now! (This vid also contains Waterworks and Zanzibar footage... and an appearance by another pretty amazing jumper.) (Louis Wu 10:24:37 UTC) (permalink)
A Wagnerian sense of pomp and bombast
Wonga. Another 'Work at Bungie' article is up - this one covering Marty O'Donnell, Audio Artiste Extraordinaire (yeah, I've used something like that before... Hi, Matt!). Frankie asks Marty lots of questions, gets a few answers. Go read! (Louis Wu 02:38:11 UTC) (permalink)
Thursday's news in brief:
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Dang... we only got basketballs. A Crack Team of Monkeys X-Play gives Halo 2 the nod Halo 2 - best ad of the year More time for art entries Gamestyle looks at Halo 2 MP Blue Fire - back up |
Wednesday's news in brief:
