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Gettin' on IRC
KP has written up a rather comprehensive guide for IRC n00bs; if you would LIKE to hang out and chat with HBO regulars, but aren't sure how to go about it... go read this page. (It's aimed mostly at Windows-based chat clients... but the general ideas work fine with Mac clients, too. We'll be linking this in a more permanent location soon (but right now, I have to leave). (Louis Wu 19:02:11 UTC) (permalink)
Blow me away - the video
QuackJAG put together a great video for Elnea's 'Blow Boys Away' music parody (first mentioned here), and Elnea mentioned it in her Red vs Blue journal (RvB membership required). The thing is, it's hosted at YouTube, in small, Flash-only format, which seemed... belittling. So I offered to provide space for a larger version, and QuackJAG accepted. You can grab the vid (23.5 mb, 720x480, WMP9 format) from us, now. Great use of HaloCE! (Elnea also created a new sketch for him, in thanks - you can see it in our gallery here, or see what her son did to it in her journal there.) (Louis Wu 18:47:29 UTC) (permalink)
A RATING TEN's montage
A RATING TEN sent us word that he'd finished his montage, and that he had enough bandwidth left this month to serve it himself. The high-res version is six and a half minutes long, 640x480, in MPEG2 format, and weighs in at 246 mb. (There's a lower-res version available on the downloads page - 32 mb - for folks who can't handle the big one.) He also started a thread in our forum, if you want to comment. (Louis Wu 16:48:38 UTC) (permalink)
Those Godless Chiropractors...
Red vs Blue Episode 65, 'Looking for Group', was released last night for sponsors (which means it'll be available for the masses by tomorrow sometime). Clearly, Caboose is a closet RPG player. And Simmons is... well, pretty dumb. Props to sarge, for the best epithet of the week ("Great sodium chloride!"). If you're a sponsor, go watch. If you're not, wait a bit. (And please - don't feel you need to tell us when the public versions are live... we announce RvB episodes ONCE, and assume anyone who isn't a sponsor can count to 48, and figure out when to look for the version they can see.) (Louis Wu 16:06:44 UTC) (permalink)
Matchbox 360 Tourney Winners Announced
A couple of weeks ago, we mentioned a London-based tournament to be held over Xbox Live - it took place on Friday, and the winning team was [TmC]. Thanks to [TmC]'s Samscrim for letting us know! (Louis Wu 15:59:46 UTC) (permalink)
An epitaph - before it's even gone
The Philadelphia Inquirer's Dennis McCauley wrote a column for tech.life@play called 'Xbox Hitting the road'. (You have to sign in to read it in its original location, so you might as well grab it from a syndicated location, instead - The Wichita Eagle is running it, for example.) It's taking a look at the run the Xbox has had (assuming that it's dead now that the 360 is about to be released - a bad assumption, maybe). The end of the article lists McCauley's top 10 Xbox games - Halo is number 1, Halo 2 is number 7. Nice! (Louis Wu 14:49:16 UTC) (permalink)
Saturday's news in brief:
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This Spartan Life - blog 04 Destroying Rome in a Day Cairo Station speedrun - now higher-res Halo 2: Mombasa Trailer Halzred's Montage 4 Really bad coffee and wireless heaven |
Friday's news in brief:
