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Thursday, May 12, 2005 |  |
New meaning to 'High Speed Halo'
Hehe - hokeywebb22 came across a pretty fun truck, over at blennus.com... (Louis Wu 19:35:14 UTC) (permalink)
Balance of Power
The Codex, Episode 11, 'Balance of Power', has been posted at the Codex website. A solid episode, plotwise... it explores the relationship between the Praetor and the Cleric. There will be no episode next week; the top news post on the main page explains why. It's really nice to see a machinima team planning ahead! Go grab this episode today. Thanks, aardvark36. (Louis Wu 16:32:46 UTC) (permalink)
Someone get his tags.
Captain Spark grabbed another batch of dialogue snippets - you can find them in a zip file on his site, or individually (and searchable) in our Dialogue Databank. He's beginning to wonder if it's worth looking for more; diminishing returns, and all that. Chime in! (Louis Wu 16:18:23 UTC) (permalink)
A solution to bad voice acting?
Mother's Tooth sent along an interesting email this morning - and I wonder, now, what sort of repercussions this will have in the long run. He's looking for voice talent to play Miranda in his 'The Age of Miranda' machinima series; he'll supply a small script (10 words or so) to be recorded and judged. If there are enough applicants, he'll put it up to the fans; post the clips, let fans pick the best one. (Up front, in case anyone doesn't realize it - this is NOT a paying gig. It's for the love of the game, like any other machinima project out there.) If this works out, I could see the idea increasing the quality of voice talent across the board... voice acting is one of the weakest areas of machinima releases to date, and this idea could change that. If you're interested in applying, contact Mother's Tooth! (Louis Wu 13:41:56 UTC) (permalink)
XBL Team takes Bungie in HHC
Seems that last night's Halo Humpday Challenge was against the Xbox Live team - there's nothing up at Bungie yet, but Major Nelson has posted a quick summary on his blog. XBL took the first two games, the third was a tie. (To be fair, all THREE games were pretty close.) Thanks to Narcogen at Rampancy.net for pointing this out. (Louis Wu 13:28:46 UTC) (permalink)
New Dashboard Stats Widget
Didn't take long - the first Halo Stats widget for MacOSX 10.4's Dashboard has been released. You can check your levels in the various gametypes from your desktop. Thanks, Lacsap. (Louis Wu 10:54:32 UTC) (permalink)
New Action Figures
Ooh, that looks nice - According to Joyride, Gamestop will be selling a battle-damaged Warthog in July. There's also a new version of the Master Chief and an ODST (among other things) coming out in August. Poke around - there's tons of new ones listed. Thanks, Madda Cheeb2.0. (Louis Wu 10:29:19 UTC) (permalink)
Bad Dreams
Mother's Tooth has posted Episode 2 of his 'The Age of Miranda' series over at That Weasel Television. This one makes use of a mod we mentioned a couple of weeks ago created by TheTykoMan. That poor Miranda - I'm glad I don't have dreams like that! (Louis Wu 09:52:31 UTC) (permalink)
Tied The Leader
XerxdeeJ has started up a new Halo-related blog - this one's titled 'Tied The Leader'. There are a couple of articles up already; the most recent looks at how sportsmanship is related to online anonymity. (Personally, I think Penny Arcade nailed this one last year - but XerxdeeJ's take, while less pithy, is a tad more in-depth.) Give it a read! (Louis Wu 09:42:23 UTC) (permalink)
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