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Thursday, June 9, 2005 |  |
The Last Spartan, Tabbed
There's a new guitar tab - this time for The Last Spartan - over at Powertabs.net... thanks, Shadowsniper689. (Louis Wu 19:48:39 UTC) (permalink)
Discounted Halo 2 figures
Like Halo action figures? Wanna save a little dough? Over at littleplasticmen, all in stock, non-exclusive HALO 2 action figures are only $11.70. (Gee, I wonder how they came up with that price?) Sale runs through Sunday. Thanks, hacksolo. Update: PJ Hamlen points out that littleplasticmen's shipping costs are several dollars more than their competitors - so even though the figures are less, if you only buy one or two, you won't save very much money. Bummer. (Louis Wu 16:38:32 UTC) (permalink)
Getting off the ring - one way or another
Nearing completion of the Halo Cutscene Library - today's releases all show the end of the Maw, and include the standard ending cutscene, as well as the short piece that changes if you play on Legendary, and the scene you get if you DON'T make it to the Longsword before the ship explodes. Go watch! (Louis Wu 15:17:40 UTC) (permalink)
Voice Acting - Stars, or Contract Talent?
The Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists have been getting ready to strike over contract disputes with video game publishers - but a deal was struck yesterday that will keep that from happening (pending approval from the unions themselves). Voice actors will receive a substantial increase in minimum pay for video game work, but will not receive residuals (payment for each game sold). Residuals are standard for movies and television, and as voice acting in video games like Halo 2 and GTA: San Andreas is being done more and more by big-name Hollywood stars, this looked to be a thorny issue (probably will be again, in the future). Thanks, Mr Yun. (Louis Wu 14:51:44 UTC) (permalink)
Still Dancing
Over at Kikizo.com, there's a nice long video interview with J Allard about the Xbox 360 - and of course, Halo 3 gets mentioned. The interviewer asked if the idea that Halo 3 would ship to coincide with the PS3 (a comment that's already been discredited) would go against the existing philosophy of 'we'll ship when it's ready' - Allard's answer did a so-so job of staying away from the whole CONCEPT of Halo 3 (which is the current goal of Bungie PR):
We're never going to ship a Halo game (if we were to make, hypothetically, Halo games in the future) - we want to have the Bungie team - we want to give them the amount of time they need to create the product that they envision.
So: he's not saying that anyone's working on Halo 3 - but if they WERE, they'd be given free reign to finish it they way they wanted to. (This clip is about 6:30 in or so.) Thanks, Eastbeast314 (who found it on Major Nelson's blog). (Louis Wu 10:24:07 UTC) (permalink)
Fanfic Problems
Apologies - the server handling our fan fiction section is currently having problems. Its maintainer, Deimos, is on his honeymoon, and won't be back for a couple of weeks; we're hoping to get things running again before then, but for now, at least, FF is offline. Sorry about this! (Louis Wu 09:18:36 UTC) (permalink)
The Legacy of Halo Nationals
Major League Gaming has posted an info page for MLG Philadelphia, coming up in late July. It includes a look back at the Pennsylvania tourney that started it all for some of the staff - an interesting reminiscence of a much less professional time. Go read! Thanks, 3Suns. (Louis Wu 09:15:37 UTC) (permalink)
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