|
Search the News Archive |
Spoilers are currently disabled. (All newsposts are visible.) |
 |
Tuesday, June 28, 2005 |  |
Film Oasis Overviews - Relic
As promised, the Hi-Res Film Oasis flythrough/overview of Relic is up for your enjoyment - man, I love the timing in this one. Marty's music is SO well incorporated... wow. And the imagery and camera work give you a fantastic sense of the epic feel of this map for CTF games. Go grab a copy! (Louis Wu 22:43:28 UTC) (permalink)
Elongation Walkthrough at RvB
Red vs Blue has released their next map walkthrough - this one is Elongation. Burnie's walkthrough is much less exciting than the Film Oasis version we released a few hours ago, but it's far more practical, if what you need is weapon placement and commentary on flow. (Grab 'em both!) We should have QuickTime versions available in a few hours. Thanks to many people - first was Ibeechu. (Louis Wu 22:33:03 UTC) (permalink)
Briar's SMGs
Briar, the guy we mentioned yesterday making some really nice Master Chief armor, has added a pair of shots for the SMG to go with it. (They're the first two shots on the page.) Thanks to beetlecrazy12 for the heads-up. (Louis Wu 22:20:59 UTC) (permalink)
More About the Posters
Word came from Bungie - those two posters you can buy on eBay, for potentially inflated prices... you'll be able to buy them anywhere soon, at standard poster prices (the last batch at the Bungie store were $8.95, if that helps). Here are larger versions: Master Chief on Turf (577x894, 212k) | Arbiter (577x894, 140k) (Louis Wu 22:12:16 UTC) (permalink)
Maptacular Vids - the way they SHOULD be seen
Some not-so-standard promo vids of the new Maptacular levels have appeared recently - Containment was first, followed by Warlock,then Sanctuary and Turf last week. I've been a little unhappy with these releases - some have had encoding problems, others have watermarks or splash screens added by the sites releasing them. I did a little digging, and we've gotten permission to release high-quality, watermark-free versions of all of them. We're starting with one you haven't seen yet - Elongation. We'll add Relic later today or tonight, fill out the existing releases in the next couple of days, and then start on the final 3 maps. Thanks to the Xbox.com team, Film Oasis (who made them), and Bungie (whose fantastic work is so beautifully shown off in them) for helping make this happen! (Louis Wu 19:17:50 UTC) (permalink)
New Posters - for auction only, right now
Wow, funky. 7he One found some posters on eBay - they're listed as 'fully licensed', though I haven't seen them for sale anywhere else yet. Nice looking images! (Louis Wu 11:59:01 UTC) (permalink)
MLG St. Louis - an overview by Overswarm
Overswarm wrote up his impressions of the MLG St. Louis tournament last weekend, complete with pics; you can find it in his Not So Common Sense strategy guide, in the Articles section. (Louis Wu 11:31:56 UTC) (permalink)
Less Buggy Bipeds
We mentioned the Vertex Weight Injector, a tool created by rec0 to add new bipeds to HaloCE, a few weeks ago. Yesterday, he released a new, less buggy version of the app - you can find a download link and comments in this Gearbox forum thread. Thanks, MasterGrief. (Louis Wu 11:05:03 UTC) (permalink)
RvB Merch Mania
Thanks to the seven thousand people who wrote to point out that the Red vs Blue Season 3 DVD is now on sale in their online store. Season sponsors will get a $10 discount via email (look for the code before you buy) - otherwise, the DVD is $20. (This is a preorder only; the DVD won't ship until July 6.) While you're at the store, be sure to hit the 'New Items' link at the top left; there are a bunch of new shirts and some stickers for sale as well. (Louis Wu 11:01:26 UTC) (permalink)
Aussie Halo Players get lucky - sort of
Wow - THIS is gonna cause problems, I can tell. Looks like EB Games Australia might have made a pretty big mistake; they're selling the Halo 2 Maptacular Map Pack NOW - you can buy the DVD in stores. (It's not supposed to be on sale before July 5.) However, they emailed customers with this info:
"...Customers will not be able to access live with this title before the 7th of July. If a customers tries to access live before the 7th of July there account will be disabled. We apologize for the late notice on this information but we have just been notified."
Ouch - how many Australian accounts do you think will get disabled by folks who didn't get (or didn't read) this email? Thanks to BeardedFerret, who wrote to us with the DVD in his hot little hands - and who is looking forward to some lan play with these maps in the next week. Update: I misunderstood BeardedFerret's first note; the email went only to EB Games stores in Australia, not to customers; it was information for store personnel only. (BeardedFerret works in an EB Games store, which is how he saw it.) His store won't be displaying the Map Pack on shelves before the 5th, and only selling it to people who ask for it - but he's guessing that this will NOT be the case in most stores. Buyer beware! (Louis Wu 10:44:45 UTC) (permalink)
Monday's news in brief:
Sunday's news in brief:
