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Wednesday, May 18, 2005 |  |
Time for Toast!
Captain Spark posted another 30-plus dialogue snippets today, this time all from Sargeant Stacker. You can find them on his website, or in our Dialogue Databank. That man is pretty full of himself! (Stacker, not Spark.) (Louis Wu 21:29:55 UTC) (permalink)
Who are those guys?
Whee! Bluestone whipped up a very pretty Flash montage showing all the HBO Helljumpers (and their special talents - or whatever). You can find it in this forum post on the HBO Clan forums. You can also comment on it in this thread. (Louis Wu 19:57:07 UTC) (permalink)
The Wallpaper Flood
Gah. You want a lot of desktop choices? We got a lot of desktop choices for you, in our Wallpaper section today. 71 of them, in fact - or almost 90 if you count variants. I'm praying right now for the safety of the server. (You can use this link, instead, if you'd like to look at 9 at a time, instead of all 71 thumbs at once; just remember to use the 'next' nav arrow at the top to see the rest.) It's insane how much I let stuff build up - but at least for the day, it's cleared out! If you submitted a Wallpaper in the past month, it's either in here, or it didn't meet our hosting guidelines. (Louis Wu 19:41:15 UTC) (permalink)
Thursday's Reading
Eight new pieces for you in the Fan Fiction section - including a story by someone who usually submits artwork to us, instead of words. Check 'em all out! (Just clearing queues before I leave for E3...) (Louis Wu 18:25:30 UTC) (permalink)
eBay - the friend of college students everywhere
MarkHawk is broke, and looking to make up a little of the cash he needs by auctioning off a pair of Civilian Warthog action figures and a giant promotional poster. You can find the forum post here, and the eBay auction here. Not a bad starting price for a pair of extremely rare hogs and a poster! (Louis Wu 16:34:02 UTC) (permalink)
Rollin' Rollin' Rolling'...
I'm thinkin'... that's Stuntmutt behind the wheel in today's One One Se7en. Could be wrong, of course. (Louis Wu 13:58:35 UTC) (permalink)
GNF Highlight Reel at Archive.org
Gah - I almost forgot that I'd submitted the Going Nowhere Fast Highlight Reel to archive.org! You can grab all four flavors (high and medium res, WMP9 and QT) from their download page; we haven't run out of bandwidth on other links yet, but it's always nice to have a really large pipe at your disposal. (Could use a review or two, as well, to keep from looking so lonely...) (Louis Wu 10:53:30 UTC) (permalink)
Halo and Halo 2 BOTH to play on the Xbox 360
Microsoft promised to announce whether the Xbox 360 would be backwards-compatible this Monday - and they kept their word. The answer is yes - but only for a limited number of titles. (Emulation will be required.) They haven't released a full list - but according to Newsday (in an article about the Playstation 3), David Hufford, Xbox group product manager, specifically included both Halo and Halo 2. Good news! Thanks to a bunch of people - first heads-up came from Fear Of Falling. (Louis Wu 10:28:28 UTC) (permalink)
Zelda mod flythrough
Dennis Powers points out an update to a recent news post we put up - the Zelda Ocarina of Time mod for Halo CE is coming along nicely, and in fact has released a video flythrough of the levels they're working on. You can find commentary and download links (WMP9 or QT) in this post at gearboxgamezone.com. Check it out! (Louis Wu 10:16:10 UTC) (permalink)
Fall of the Covenant
trigger119 points out that Fall of the Covenant, his second machinima project, has been posted at halomachinima.com. It's available in four flavors - high and low-res versions in both WMP9 and QuickTime. (Size ranges from 50 to 100 mb or so.) It's the story of the final battle between Spartans and the Covenant - and the visuals are quite good. In fact, my only real criticism is that the movement of the entire movie is held hostage to the visuals; battle scenes are prolonged well past their comfort point in the name of arty slow-motion death. This gripe notwithstanding, the hudless filming and great choreography give this film some nice polish! Go watch. There are comment threads set up both on the halomachinima.com forums, and our own. (Louis Wu 10:09:31 UTC) (permalink)
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