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Thursday, April 21, 2005 |  |
New Content at RvB
There are two new videos up at Red vs Blue - both are for sponsors right now, but at least SOME of the versions will be available to the general public later this evening. There's a second new map walkthrough - this one covers Containment. Hi and lo-res WMP9s again (we'll be posting QT versions later this evening, as well). The second is RvB's take on the Halo Humpday Challenge... it's pretty funny. Well, if you're not them. If you're a sponsor - go watch now! If you're not... wait a few hours, THEN go watch. (Louis Wu 22:49:45 UTC) (permalink)
Total Destruction
This week's Halo Humpday Challenge, against the Red vs Blue boys, is up at Bungie.net - it shows off Bungie's latest winning technique; invite in a group of people and make them play you on maps they've never seen before, but that you've been testing for 5 months! The results are pretty predictable. Thanks, Eric. (Louis Wu 20:57:38 UTC) (permalink)
Upcoming Tourneys
A couple of tournaments have been brought to our attention in the last few days - sorry for the timelag in posting them. The UGA Halo Club is hosting a Halo 2 tourney Athens, GA on April 24 - admission is free, top prize is $100. More details can be found in this news post on the Club's Bungie.net group site. (Thanks, AngelicLionheart.) And Game Junkie is hosting a multigametype tourney on April 30, in West Chester, OH - details can be found on this page. Entrance is $40 by the 27th, $60 after that (per 4-man team), $300 in cash and prizes guaranteed. Thanks, AeroJonesy. (Louis Wu 15:11:58 UTC) (permalink)
Shooting Straight
Overswarm has added an 'Aiming and Maneuvering' page to his Not So Common Sense Strategy Guide - go read it for some tips that will make your shots more accurate! (Louis Wu 14:27:30 UTC) (permalink)
Stubbs - A Zombie with an Attitude
Karri Scott, of Aspyr, wanted to make sure we noticed the interview with Matt Soell over at IGN - it's a pretty in-depth look at Wideload's upcoming Stubbs the Zombie game, including a discussion about what was added to the base Halo engine to make it work in this context, where the music is coming from (Mike Salvatori, Marty O'Donnell's Total Audio partner, is doing it), and another look at the business model that Wideload is using (a small core team augmented by contractors to supply content). A good read - check it out! (Louis Wu 12:08:33 UTC) (permalink)
Trautmann Roundup
A couple of interesting entries in Eric Trautmann's weblog - thanks for notice goes to Rampancy.net. Trautmann's 'The Art of Halo' made the Locus best-selling Gaming-Related Books list this month - it joins all three Halo novels on the top-5 list. (Locus is a big science fiction/fantasy mag.) And Ross Mills asked 5 questions which Eric answered - the first is an interesting discussion of game stories (and where Halo fits). Check 'em out! (Louis Wu 11:55:57 UTC) (permalink)
Too much fun.
Captain Spark did some character swapping with the original Halo - he wanted to see how well Elites could drive warthogs. The answer seems to be 'about as well as a 16-year-old American Male'. (Louis Wu 11:55:35 UTC) (permalink)
Quarantined
Rampancy.net has put up another in its series of Halo 2 Impressions - sistimatic takes a close look at Quarantine Zone. There are some things that bother him - but there are also things that bring him back to the high points of the first Halo. Go see if you agree. (Louis Wu 11:55:10 UTC) (permalink)
BR accuracy clarification
Significant confusion has arisen about the Battle Rifle's accuracy, following the release of Oranjoose's video showing its new non-existent bullet spread. According to Achronos, over on the Bungie.net forums, it's not so much that the Battle Rifle was changed by the Auto-Update - it's that a bug that affected the accuracy of headshot weapons was fixed, and the BR benefitted more visibly than anything else. (Louis Wu 11:52:48 UTC) (permalink)
Video Walkthroughs - Wizard
Red vs Blue's Burnie Burns has put together walkthroughs for the four new maps coming out on Monday; they'll be releasing 1 per day for the next four days. Tonight's release is Warlock; you can find both high-res (19.9 mb) and low-res (5.9 mb) WMP9 versions in their video archive (the hi-res versions are for sponsors only). We've agreed to help out with low-res web mirrors (both WMP9 and QuickTime - 5.5 mb), as well as hi-res BitTorrent links (with hefty seed bandwidth) - WMP9 and QuickTime. If you want to see how the levels are put together - grab these video walkthroughs, starting with tonight's entry of Warlock! Update: RT has posted the hi-res WMP9 for non-sponsors, as well, and HaloImpulse has put up both the low-res and the hi-res WMP9, with .rar compression. (Louis Wu 01:04:46 UTC) (permalink)
Wednesday's news in brief:
Tuesday's news in brief:
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Uprising - on Legendary Tuesday's Fanfic They'll never see it coming. Halo 2 Theme Tab THAT wasn't supposed to happen... New Map Media Frenzy Maptacular Monday! |
