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Tuesday, July 19, 2005 |  |
Zee Smack, she eez coming!
Wow. Go check out Bungie.net - there's a new article up, explaining how tomorrow, July 20, Autoupdate 4 will be released - if you've got modded content on your box, and you connect to Live, you'll be banned from matchmaking. Period. Permanent, no appeals. You've been warned... (There's more info, including details - go read. And comment on our forum!) (Louis Wu 22:54:44 UTC) (permalink)
Halo CE Chronicles - the Why
Dennis Powers has written up a page explaining the goals behind his Halo CE Chronicles series, answering some of the frequently asked questions he hears, and addressing some of the criticism. Give it a read! (Louis Wu 21:32:28 UTC) (permalink)
Halo - the Movie (ShadowX version)
ShadowX submitted a vid to the MPRRS last week, entitled 'Halo The Movie'. It uses Halo 2 cutscene footage, married to dialogue from the Final Fantasy trailer (much as Brian Josselyn did three years ago for the original Halo) - some reviewers felt that it actually impinged on Brian's intellectual property. (I can't accept this - it's game footage and a trailer soundtrack, and the clips that ShadowX used are different than the ones Brian used.) He's done a nice job picking relevant clips, and the vid is quite small (7.7 mb for the WMP9 version, 8.2 mb for the QuickTime version) - so what are you waiting for? Go grab it! Update: We got a rather strange series of emails about this - apparently, this movie WAS made by ShadowX, but was not SUBMITTED by ShadowX. He told me that it WAS inspired (heavily) by Blackstar's film (which, by the way, was re-encoded by Blackstar sometime back, and can be found in its latest form on this page), and that he (ShadowX) would rather be judged by his newer film, which he mentioned here. The only mystery remaining is who is the guy who submitted this movie... and why? (Louis Wu 21:28:05 UTC) (permalink)
Cairo Station
Over on the High Impact Halo forums, comradx released Cairo Station, the first of seven episodes that will make up his full-length feature film based on Halo 2. A significant percentage of the film is made up of cutscenes from the game - but then, if he's reproducing the Halo 2 story, doesn't it make sense to use them? The movie is almost 40 minutes long, and contains some great camerawork. (I haven't had time to watch the whole thing yet - but I'm impressed so far!) comradx has released a 120 mb WMP9 version via YouSendIt - likely by the time you read this, it'll be offline. There's a slightly lower-res version hosted by trigger119, at halomachinima.com. We got word of this too late to be able to help out at the moment - but it's possible I can get something online in the near future. (It won't be today.) Go watch! (Thanks also to Ibeechu for additional info.) Oh, yeah - and don't forget to download the credits video as well! (Louis Wu 20:33:22 UTC) (permalink)
Zelda mod alpha available
Dennis Powers, of GearboxGameZone, writes to point out that Jahrain, the creator of the Zelda mod we've mentioned a few times (for Halo Custom Edition), has released a 'pre-alpha' version of a single level.
The map, Hyrule Field, features a Zelda biped instead of the Spartan and includes new weaponry in the Zelda theme, a working and mountable animated horse and a large interesting landscape. Although there are still some Halo style weapons and a large "bug list" this early release will give players a taste of what is to come.
You can grab a copy from GGZ. (Louis Wu 15:08:01 UTC) (permalink)
When you absolutely MUST fill pages...
A rather odd story was posted on TechnologyReview.com yesterday - it contains speculation that Halo 2 could have been released at the end of 2003, but was delayed a year to add polish necessary to push Microsoft past Sony's Playstation 2. Aside from the fact that Halo 2 WASN'T ready for release in 2003, and that the position that a more polished game will sell better than a less polished one is so obvious as to not need an article like this to be clear to most people... I guess this might be worth reading. (I can't really understand why it's even up - maybe someone can explain this to me someday.) Thanks, Google News Alerts. (Louis Wu 14:27:20 UTC) (permalink)
VGL - No Cancellations?
More info on the Video Games Live tour 'cancellations' - jdman2289 points out that on the news page of the site, there's an explanation stating that due to the overwhelming success of the series, many dates are being added, and many dates are being rescheduled. At this point, existing tickets are expected to be honored - don't rip 'em up yet! More when we know it. (Louis Wu 13:12:29 UTC) (permalink)
Tourneys around the US
Jeff, from Video Gamers League, points out that there's new info about tourneys in Dallas, New York, and LA up on their website - swing by for rules and entrance info. Dallas is this coming weekend, LA plays on August 6, and New York happens on August 7. Get ready! (Louis Wu 12:59:40 UTC) (permalink)
Installation 451
trigger119 wrote to say that a new machinima trailer has been posted at Halomachinima.com - it's for a project called 'Installation 451', and the trailer's nicely done. WMP9 and QuickTime. Go grab a copy! (Louis Wu 12:46:02 UTC) (permalink)
Illustrators needed
coaxke, of futuristic sex robotz, wrote to say they're looking for an illustrator/cartoonist to do robot characterizations (Futurama style?) of all the members of Futuristic Sex Robotz for their new web site. Samples should be sent to this email address. (These guys put together one of the funnier Halo rap vids out there.) (Louis Wu 12:43:28 UTC) (permalink)
Halo 2 Talk Podcast
prometheus did a bit of searching, turned up a few Halo-related podcasts. You can find links to the one that worked for him in this forum thread. (Louis Wu 12:39:04 UTC) (permalink)
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