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Friday, August 12, 2005 |  |
Some Kind Of Java Game?
Today's One One Se7en takes a poke (geddit? Poke?... eh.) at the whole Hot Coffee controversy swirling around the videogame industry at the moment. I'm so embarrassed. (Louis Wu 16:57:45 UTC) (permalink)
Friday's Fan Fic
Eep - been a little while since the Fan Fiction section was updated - there are 11 new pieces for you there (including the latest chapter in what I think is the longest-running serial fanfic on our site - the first installment was posted more than 31 months ago). Go read! (Louis Wu 16:47:08 UTC) (permalink)
A Tale of Two Countries
Arcadian Flame, of Chairleg Productions, has put together A Tale of Two Countries - an attempt to highlight some of the differences between the UK and the US. Chairleg uses (appropriately for this site) the Halo engine in this display. The Movie Peer Review Rating System passed this by a wide margin. You can grab a copy in WMP9 format (29.8 mb) or QuickTime format (27.1 mb) - and laugh all the way to the pub... er, I mean, the bar. (Louis Wu 16:36:56 UTC) (permalink)
Over-Rated Games
Another Games.net article - Ten Hugely Over-rated Games. (Neither this one, nor the FPS Weapons article we mentioned earlier, are new - this one was posted in late May, and the weapon article was posted in June. They're simply new to this site.) Halo is rated #8 - ironic, since the same author believes its primary multiplayer weapon is the most kickass FPS weapon out there... Thanks once again, 3Suns (who also points out some well-thought-out comments on this article at GameTab). (Louis Wu 14:24:53 UTC) (permalink)
MLG Philly Postmortem
MLGPro.com has posted an interview with Team 3D, the dominant force in professional Halo this year (well, up until MLG Philly, where they were taken down by Str8 Rippin). They talk about their loss in Philly, and why it happened. It's an interesting read - 3D never comes out and says 'yep, they played better than us', there's a lot of talk of 'they set the pace of the game, which is different than what we're used to, we should have stepped it up' and 'the gametypes were flawed, because they got the power weapon and we were stuck'. It'll be interesting to see if Str8 Rippin can stay on top - if they do, 3D is going to have to come up with new reasons why. Thanks again, 3Suns. (Louis Wu 14:14:03 UTC) (permalink)
Illinois Halo 2 Tourney
Jason writes to point out the Eastview Halofest IV, a 4v4 Halo 2 tourney to be held at the Eastview Christian Church, in Bloomington/Normal, IL on September 23rd. Registraiton is $10 per person, prizes to be awarded to the top team and the top FFA players. You must be 18 to enter. More details (and a signup sheet) can be found on the website. (Louis Wu 13:56:11 UTC) (permalink)
Pound for pound?
Games.net has written up a piece on 'The Most Kickass FPS Guns Ever' - and Halo showed pretty well. Halo 2's Energy Sword made #8... and Halo's original M6D pistol received the top honors - #1! Intriguing reasoning. Thanks, 3Suns. (Louis Wu 13:42:30 UTC) (permalink)
The Eric Heiden Effect?
BattleAngel points out a Halo skin for CounterStrike for... plumper Master Chiefs. The guy could definitely use some thigh reductions. (Louis Wu 13:05:51 UTC) (permalink)
Halo Home Shopping
New strip over at Halo Babies today... you'd think a soldier would have better control of his weapons. Then again, maybe that's just because he's the BABY MC... (Louis Wu 12:47:12 UTC) (permalink)
Fan-made RvB Season 4 Posters
Hawaiian Pig is back in the RvB Movie Poster business - he's made a few different versions in honor of the upcoming start of Season 4. His first try was in this post - then he messed with fonts to get the image in this post... and finally offered up the image in this post. I've added local alternate links to all three posts; if his bandwidth gets out of control, and he pulls the originals, the alternates will continue to work. (Louis Wu 12:42:22 UTC) (permalink)
Thursday's news in brief:
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Lightbearer's XBL Tourney Saturday Imto - Death Strike Things I Learned While Playing Halo 2 (Ep 2-Redux) Pinkuh - A Halo Lover with Art Skillz Return of the Seeker |
Wednesday's news in brief:
