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Sunday, July 17, 2005 |  |
G-Phoria - Vote for Bungie!
G-Phoria is coming in early August - the Awards show on G4TV airs August 9th at 8pm ET, and Bungie's been nominated for 7 awards:
- Best Shooter
- Best Multiplayer Game
- Best Sound Design
- Best Original Soundtrack
- Best Voice Performance - Male (David Cross)
- Best Boss (Scarab Battle)
- Game of the Year
Voting is open now - go let 'em know what you think! (Louis Wu 23:59:33 UTC) (permalink)
Some VGL shows cancelled
Wow, bummer. Got an email from TicketMaster today - my tickets for the August 22 performance of the Video Games Live tour have been refunded, since the show was
cancelled. A look on the Tour Dates page shows a number of other cancellations - and since Boston is still listed as active, it's possible there are still more shows off the list. Maybe they're not selling well enough? Update: jdman2289 pointed out a thread on the VGL forum the info that suggests that the cancellations might be a mixup. Maybe. More to come. (Louis Wu 23:46:52 UTC) (permalink)
MC statue on eBay
HaloGod points out a 3-foot statue of the Master Chief he won in a GameCrazy tourney, and is now selling on eBay. Current bid is $250, 9 days remaining. (This is the same kind of statue I mentioned here back in January.) Go look! (Louis Wu 19:53:14 UTC) (permalink)
HSP Update
Jillybean grabbed a small handful of emails from the bulging Halo Story Page mailbag for a light Sunday afternoon update. Go read!x (Louis Wu 19:30:01 UTC) (permalink)
Halo Custom Edition - Still Creating!
MasterGrief sent along a couple of HaloCE bits for us - Yoyorast Island has been released (this map looks BIZARRE), and a group is working on bringing Metroid into Halo - just a teaser, but an interesting start! Check 'em out. (Louis Wu 18:16:15 UTC) (permalink)
The Codex - smaller downloads
Dennis Powers sends word that he's re-encoded the Codex Series vids to be a more appropriate filesize for the 320x240 presentation they are generally released with; the new files should be much more palatable to bandwidth-challenged downloaders. You can find the new versions in the 'Codex' section of the GearboxGameZone Movies site. (Louis Wu 18:12:23 UTC) (permalink)
Rockets on Prisoner 2005
Speaking of TWTv - we got this press release for the Rockets on Prisoner Awards:
August will be the month of Halo fan films. The 3rd Annual "Rockets on Prisoner" Awards official website will go live on Aug. 1st but before that happens, the community needs to make sure we has all the videos created since Aug. 1st, 2004 in our list. If your video isn't listed, then just use this simple form to make sure we have it. The submission process will end on Aug. 7th, 2005, so make sure we have your video in our list before then.
I just checked the list... and that's a pretty big list! (Louis Wu 18:08:01 UTC) (permalink)
Lots and lots of Halo vids
That Weasel, of That Weasel Television, writes to point out that last week TWTv added fifty more Halo Exclusives to their video collection, bringing the total number of TWTv-exclusive vids to over 500. Go look! (Louis Wu 18:04:47 UTC) (permalink)
Master Chief Adiumy
Adium is an Instant Message client for MacOSX - and Epyon has created a Dock Icon for it based on Halo 2. Nice work! You can add comments to this thread. (Louis Wu 17:57:03 UTC) (permalink)
Another Weapons Respawn Report
Infesord pointed out that he's got a Weapons Respawn thread over at halo2sucks.com with more info than either our online version or the PDF that bluestrike2 put together - worth a look if you're trying to make sure you've checked every angle. (Some of his data conflicts with the data here - users need to remember that ALL of this stuff, no matter WHERE you read it, is empirically collected, and subject to user error; Bungie has not confirmed ANY of it. The more lists you can find, and correlate with your OWN real-world experience, the better the chances you'll be on exactly the right spot at exactly the right time.) (Louis Wu 15:13:06 UTC) (permalink)
Cheaters, Matchmaking, and other fun stuff
kons0uL pointed out an entry he made yesterday on his RSCR: Respod blog, which uses Friday's Weekly What's Update from Bungie as a jumping-off spot for a rant about matchmaking and community exclusions. He also started a thread on our forum, if you'd like to chime in. (Louis Wu 14:58:34 UTC) (permalink)
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