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The beginning of the end
We have two cutscenes from the Maw for you today in the Halo Cutscene Library - the opening scene from the level, as well as the Bridge scene. Beautiful imagery, diabolical villians! Go watch. (Louis Wu 18:05:41 UTC) (permalink)
Game Glitching
Ferrago.com has an article about glitches in videogames - and the last (and biggest) example is Halo. Thanks, aaron. (Louis Wu 17:59:04 UTC) (permalink)
117 Days Later.
In today's One One Se7en, Stuntmutt takes a look at the Halo Movie buzz, and comes up with a scenario that makes me pray that Alex Garland doesn't like sticking with the same actors from movie to movie... (Louis Wu 15:39:32 UTC) (permalink)
Game On
XerxdeeJ posted a note about updates on Tied The Leader, his Halo-related blog. I swung by - and there are quite a number. Profiled XBL personalities, women gamers who can kick his butt, silly things you hear on XBL, a disturbing Halo 2 clan, and how multiplayer gaming has evolved over the years are just a few of the new bits. Go read! (Louis Wu 15:29:26 UTC) (permalink)
The Lost Humpday
Last week's Halo Humpday Challenge never happened; or maybe it just got postponed. There was a challenge match between Bungie and the Halo Babies crew last night, however. (mrsmiley spammed his Friends list last week, telling us not to bother him, because they were preparing for this match - Thursday, I think - so maybe something came up that kept it from taking place until now.) There's no writeup at either halobabies.net or bungie.net yet - but thanks to Bestmasterchief, you can look at the stats for the three games right now. They split the first two games, and the third (team slayer) was a squeaker... but Halobabies pulled it out, 2 out of 3. Nice going, guys! Update: mrsmiley has posted a writeup of the event on Halo Babies now - he takes great pleasure in showing off a nice triple kill in hi-res glory, and coming really close to calling Bungie cheaters on game 2. Hehe - let's see how this turns out in the Bungie writeup! (Louis Wu 14:59:04 UTC) (permalink)
Outpost Coag Ep 8
Outpost Coagulation Episode 8 has been released - you can grab a copy at Treeskunk's website, or at HaloMachinima.com. 8 minutes long, and the voice acting continues to improve. Nicely done, overall. 56.4 mb, in WMP9 format. (There's something funky about halfway through that keeps me from being able to encode this as a QuickTime file - it plays fine, but it won't convert. Sorry.) According to the Treeskunk website, this might be the last episode for a while. Update: trigger119 wrote to say that although the main writer was going to be gone for the summer, he (trigger) would finish the last two episodes of the season, so there are more coming. (There'll also be outtake releases and such while Bzerker's gone.) (Louis Wu 14:42:27 UTC) (permalink)
Reflections and Dynamic Mirrors
Wow - it's pretty impressive how far SuperSunny is bringing the rendered view of Halo CE - check out the screenshots in this forum thread. Thanks, MasterGrief. (Louis Wu 14:37:18 UTC) (permalink)
...and TeamXbox, too.
Yeah - more vids from the 5 new maps at TXB, too - 7 of 'em, to be precise. All in WMP9 format. Thanks, Reconaz. (Louis Wu 14:10:46 UTC) (permalink)
If it's on IGN...
ON-X points out that there's new map gameplay footage at Gamespot, as well (surprise, surprise). Go grab the five new vids! (Louis Wu 13:40:03 UTC) (permalink)
New map info at IGN
IGN has posted a summary of the last five maps to be released next month, as well as new vids for all of them (downloadable for Insiders, streaming for the public). If you haven't seen what these look like yet - go check 'em out! (Louis Wu 02:37:59 UTC) (permalink)
...and the salsa was to die for.
The highlight of E3 this year for many of us was actually not part of E3 - it was the party at Deanero's house on Friday night. Originally dubbed 'Plasma Fiesta', its name seems to have morphed to 'D3' - Dean's Desserts and Deathmatch. There's a great writeup of the party, complete with pictures and lessons that can be learned for your own lanfests, over at Bungie.net - and never let it be said that SketchFactor doesn't take every opportunity possible to rub in the fact that Frankie missed the salsa at this year's event. Go read! (Louis Wu 02:37:25 UTC) (permalink)
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