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Thursday, May 26, 2005 |  |
Halo 2 Soundtrack Vol 2 - Mastered
There's a short note over at Bungie.net - apparently, the official Nile Rogers website has announced that Marty has finished mastering the Halo 2 soundtrack. No other info is given - but if you'll remember, the Weekly What's Update on May 14 suggested an early July release. (Louis Wu 19:40:58 UTC) (permalink)
Almost Parcheesi
It's not a Top News Story, for some reason... but the Halo Humpday Challenge has now been written up by Frankie. Polite and genteel - he's a gracious winner. (I'm not sure what that 'continued on page 2...' thing is at the bottom of the second game...) Go read. (As a side note to SketchFactor: when your internet and cable TV both go out, there's this thing called 'outside' - you can go there and find stuff to do. It's cool.) (Louis Wu 19:35:52 UTC) (permalink)
Halo Cutscene Library Opens
Wow. It's taken an inordinately long time to prepare - and for that I offer abject apologies - but as of today, the Halo Cutscene Library here on HBO begins to be built. (The Halo 2 Cutscene Library has been online for several months now.) Today, we offer you the opening scene from Pillar of Autumn, as well as a film containing all four versions of Sarge's speech to the marines (depending on difficulty). If you're on a high-bandwidth connection, you can grab the 640x480 versions, in either QuickTime or WMP9 formats... and for those on slightly slower connections, we're also offering 320x240 versions (in both formats). At the moment, we've got a pair of mirrors for each film, but we're happy to add any other mirrors; if you'd like to host these yourself, simply send us the link and we'll add it to the page. Enjoy! (Louis Wu 18:55:22 UTC) (permalink)
The Argument
Another movie has passed through the Movie Peer Review Rating System - this one is a filming of Monty Python's 'The Argument' sketch. It's the work of The7ftman, and what reviewers liked was the editing and environment choices. (Don't look for a lot of gunplay in this one...) You can grab it in QuickTime (29.4 mb) or WMP9 (29.6 mb) formats. (Louis Wu 18:34:40 UTC) (permalink)
Modeling the Rocket Launcher
Early this week, Paradox sent along a couple of pictures of his new work-in-progress, a model of the Halo rocket launcher. We've started a gallery for this, and will add pictures as they come in. Looks to be pretty heavy-duty! (Louis Wu 16:02:14 UTC) (permalink)
Return of the Bex
Looks like this week's Halo Humpday Challenge pitted Bungie against 2070Films - Dan Chosich posted links to the games themselves, though we still need to wait for the official Bungie writeup. Bungie blew 'em out for the first two games, but 2070Films won the third game, and the unofficial chaser was pretty darn close. Nice playing, guys! (Louis Wu 14:19:33 UTC) (permalink)
HaloCE 1.07 hotfix now available
Dennis Powers, of the Gearbox Game Zone, points out that the HaloCE 1.07 Hot-Fix patch is now available for download on his site. (Gearbox has chosen that site as its primary distribution point for this file.) It's 4.6 mb, and brings HaloCE back into parity with HaloPC (which was patched a couple of days ago). This patch fixes a vulnerability which could allow a malicious client to hang a server. Go grab it now! (Louis Wu 10:44:56 UTC) (permalink)
Wednesday's news in brief:
Tuesday's news in brief:
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This Ain't Your Daddy's Wizard. E3, from one Bungie fan Hollywood Halo Goes Jumping Lots and Lots o' Movies at GGZ HaloPC 1.07 Hotfix Released Bach Backpedals on Release Date Claims |
