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Thursday, August 25, 2005 |  |
The Dolls Want More
Looks like the Frag Dolls are recruiting - they're looking for one more member, and will be vetting people at the Penny Arcade Expo this weekend outside Seattle. Details can be found at eToychest - thanks, Rampancy.net. (Louis Wu 14:11:46 UTC) (permalink)
Cash. Cold, Hard, Cash.
GameDaily has an article discussing Halo 2's moneymaking power - almost 200,000 copies of the Multiplayer Map Pack were bought in its first month on the market. (It's unknown how many have been sold as direct downloads from Xbox Live.) Some of the numbers in the article are suspect; they list 4.7 million total sales for Halo 2, when the numbers were above 6 million in April... but overall, it's a pretty interesting read. (Halo 2 has been the most-played Xbox Live title every week it's been on the market - even today, 9 months after release.) (Louis Wu 11:18:50 UTC) (permalink)
Where the cash is coming from
The World Cyber Games announced sponsors yesterday - and the US National Final will take place in New York in two weeks. 40,000 players competed in the US in preliminary events - 186 are in the finals. Of those, 16 will continue on to Singapore to compete for a $400,000 prize pool in the Grand Final - 16 of 800 gamers, pared down from a total of one million, worldwide, this year. Big numbers! (Louis Wu 11:07:18 UTC) (permalink)
Thursday's Texts
Fourteen new pieces for you in the Fan Fiction section today - go read! (Louis Wu 10:57:23 UTC) (permalink)
Dyslexia talks to IGS
Over at MLGPro.com, there's an interview with IGS (well, half of them), discussing their loss to TmG in Las Vegas, and playing in general. Entertaining read - check it out! Thanks, 3Suns. (Louis Wu 10:46:41 UTC) (permalink)
The Babies Get Smaller.
Halo Babies has reformatted its site to fit comfortably on the screen of the Sony PSP - go read about this at the main site, or visit HBabies.net to see it! Gotta love it. (Louis Wu 10:43:02 UTC) (permalink)
Lost Stratosphere Ep 2: Aftermath
A couple of days ago, the MPRRS processed the second episode in Final Supremacy's Lost Stratosphere series. It failed - because one of the reviewers decided that the download took too long. Since this is an absurd criterion for a failing grade, I've overridden the score - and the movie is available to you in either QuickTime (38.6 mb) or WMP9 (37.5 mb) formats. It advances the existing storyline of Episode 1 - humans are in a dire situation! Go watch. (Louis Wu 10:32:26 UTC) (permalink)
Delta Blow.
Dang. In the craziness that was yesterday, I didn't get around to posting Wednesday's One One Se7en - which means you missed some classic corn. Apologies. (Louis Wu 10:20:16 UTC) (permalink)
Wednesday's news in brief:
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Tuesday's news in brief:
