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Wednesday, October 19, 2005 |  |
'Not For The Faint Of Heart.'
The Team Hardcore playlist went live yesterday. Stuntmutt takes a look in today's One One Se7en. (Louis Wu 15:35:11 UTC) (permalink)
WCG Group Drawing Completed
The Group Drawing for the World Cyber Games event, taking place next month in Singapore, occurred last night (well, this afternoon, Singapore time - about 10 hours ago). The Halo 2 competition pits 17 teams against one another - they're split into four groups, with two teams from each group moving on to the final 8-team single-elimination tournament. The US team made group D, and will be duking it out with the Netherlands, Colombia, Canada, and Switzerland for a shot at the final round. (The other three groups have only four teams each.) Good luck to all 17 teams - we'll see who comes out on top in just about a month! (Louis Wu 13:48:20 UTC) (permalink)
New artwork at PolyMallet
A couple of weeks ago, we mentioned PolyMallet, Chris Hughes' personal site. Recently, the gallery page was updated with new work, including a number of Halo pieces. (The Early Work in Progress Cortana is pretty interesting.) Go check it out! Thanks, Harry Al-Shakarchi. (Louis Wu 12:56:59 UTC) (permalink)
Mud-wrestling female ninjas
There's another top story up on Bungie.net tonight - it's an interview with Bob Glessner, the newest Bungie hire. He works for Mat Noguchi, doing Tools programming (the fact that he's working primarily with Halo map-creation tools says some specific things about Bungie's next project). I think Noguchi gets a bad rap in this interview - I mean, I've spent several hours with the guy, and I've NEVER seen him bite the head off a chicken. Good read, though. Check it out. As usual, Frankie manipulates the system to get credit for telling us. (He steals kills on XBL, too.) (Louis Wu 04:53:50 UTC) (permalink)
Gladiator Evolved - for your iPod
Eep - this passed the MPRRS yesterday, but I forgot to post it. I just want to say that this is probably the last of its kind that we'll entertain here; I do NOT want to become the defacto host of iPod-formatted films. That said, the reviewers approved it, so I'm passing it along. It's Gladiator Evolved (originally released a month ago, in regular web formats, to rave reviews), and it's been formatted to play on the new Video iPod. It's 54.5 mb, H.264-encoded, with a screen resolution of 320x144 pixels. (The original had 4 times as many pixels.) If you've got a Video iPod, and want to see how a great Halo vid looks on it, this is one to grab. For everyone who suddenly gets the idea to reformat every great Halo vid for the iPod (or the PSP, or any other non-web-standard viewing option)... please, find your own host. Thanks! (Louis Wu 04:51:37 UTC) (permalink)
Tuesday's news in brief:
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A swift defeat full of idiots Leaderboards out - Team Hardcore in Hey La, Hey La Wedow's Montage Preview MasterSurfer RoP 2005 - Best Villain McDonalds, Cheetos, and Teabags. |
Monday's news in brief:
