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Tuesday, August 9, 2005 |  |
Interview with a Star: AnubisUK
Nirvana pointed out a new feature running on his website - he calls it 'Interview with a Star'. The first installment is an interview with AnubisUK, one of the team behind Broken Console Productions, whose ongoing project is The Squadron. Give it a read to see where Anubis gets his inspiration, and what he feels is good - and bad - about Halo movie making! (Louis Wu 20:53:39 UTC) (permalink)
Make ME a sandwich!
Captain Spark dropped off another 27 dialogue snippets - you can grab them from his site, or browse them in our Dialogue Databank. Some funny ones in there! (Louis Wu 16:36:57 UTC) (permalink)
Spawn Man
Okinawa Productions put together a music video called Spawn Man, a video about a spawnkiller, and the player who gets revenge on the tactic, set to Soundgarden's 'Spoon Man' (which fits pretty nicely, surprisingly). Fantastic quality, great timing, great cinematics. A low-res version of this vid passed the Movie Peer Review Rating System - the high-res version is even better. Snag it in WMP9 format (67.6 mb) or QuickTime format (54.9 mb). I've gotta say - the 'Halo music video' genre is really maturing... (Louis Wu 15:30:30 UTC) (permalink)
Postgame Persiflage
The J Nice writes to say that WannaPartyUp.com, a site we mentioned a couple of weeks ago, has added a few dozen new clips, and the ability to rate clips (just click on the number of stars you want to give the clip). (Louis Wu 15:19:28 UTC) (permalink)
Legomania
It's been a few months since we last mentioned Saber-Scorpion's Halo-based Lego stuff... but he hasn't been idle. xyc0n noticed a bunch of new minifigs at Brickshelf - check 'em out! (To be fair, Bungie's agdTinMan pointed out one of them on a random blog last week, but I never got around to front-paging it.) (Louis Wu 15:09:46 UTC) (permalink)
Montages - and high-end gameplay
Lots and lots of movies over at halo2forum.com (which sports a new design, to boot) - Vrbas' Trailer for Montage 4 and S3X0RC1ST's Montage 2 can be downloaded from this thread (both WMP9 formats, 24.6 mb and 104 mb respectively), and a pair of games with top pro players (both in the same vid, WMP9 format, 113 mb) can be snagged from this thread. Good stuff! (Louis Wu 15:04:02 UTC) (permalink)
He should sing 'Blow me away' or something.
For the last couple of months, Aaron Walpole, brother of Bungie Cananimator Nathan Walpole (better known around these parts as bentllama), has been working his way up the ranks in Canadian Idol, a Canadian version of American Idol. (bentllama first let our forum know about this in June.) We haven't mentioned it because... well, because there's no real Halo tie-in there. However, 1Up just posted a story about it - and did their best to force a Halo tie-in, so we're piggy-backing. (Aaron is now in the top 7 - and still going strong. If you want to hear how he sings, check this blog entry.) For the record - I think it's pretty danged cool, and hope he goes all the way. (Louis Wu 14:23:56 UTC) (permalink)
Podtacular Ep 3
Podtacular!, the Halo 2 podcast we mentioned last week, has a new episode up - 21.4 mb, 46 minutes long, covers a variety of subjects, including general tips, specific level strategies, and more. Go listen. (We heard from a couple of people about this - Donaff Baz was first.) (Louis Wu 14:11:07 UTC) (permalink)
Spartan Comics
AJay points out SpartanComics over at MySpace, a series of well-done Halo-based comics. (To be fair - Shooty Guy pointed this out last month, but initially there was some unpleasantness about what ELSE was linked from the page Shooty Guy was pointing to, so I passed on it - and by the time it got fixed, I'd forgotten that it hadn't been front-paged.) In any case, go read now! (Louis Wu 13:54:00 UTC) (permalink)
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