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Saturday, October 29, 2005 |  |
Machinima synergy
In early October, Elnea released 'Blow Boys Away', a girl-gamer anthem - er, parody. A couple of weeks later, QuackJAG created a HaloCE-based video that brought that song to life, visually. Now, ANOTHER video version has been released; Amanda and Sevenar, of Silver Stars/Purple Hearts, have whipped up a pretty slick Sims2/Halo2 meld that uses the character that Elnea voices as a lead singer, coupled with great footage (both band and gameplay) - this one should be seen. I found this in Elnea's RvB journal, which has links to the hi-res WMP9 and low-res QuickTime that are being served by Amanda and Sevenar - if you're not an RvB member, you won't be able to see that anyway. To reduce strain on their server, I'm offering the hi-res WMP9 (17 mb), the low-res QT (8 mb), and a new hi-res QuickTime (16.6 mb) - grab the one that makes the most sense to you. (Louis Wu 18:00:19 UTC) (permalink)
Tied The Leader Update
The Tied the Leader blog has recently been less about general Halo musings, and more about clan-related activities (or coverage of the Doom movie, which might be interesting to the Halo fan from an instructive "here's what not to do" perspective), but there are still some entries of interest to the general Halo public. I enjoyed the analysis of similar player icons for clan members, and what this can mean for team coordination... and there are some great comments in the post asking for strategies for objective games on Coagulation. All in all, the writing in this blog continues to be top-notch - go give 'em a read! (Louis Wu 14:28:06 UTC) (permalink)
Gritting Teef and Distracting Spazzes
Last night saw the release of the Weekly Update over at Bungie.net - Frankie dropped heavy-handed (and almost certainly misleading) clues about the pimpin' nature of their next project, discussed the rediculous overload on Noguchi's desk, and provided some encouraging words about the Halo 2 Soundtrack, Volume 2. There's also info on a pair of new, upcoming playlists on Xbox Live (the Insane Team playlist seems like it would do okay pulling some of the wilder gametypes from the old HBO HaloPC servers...), and some subtle pimping of the Blow Me Away charity auction (that Frankie and his pimping...). And more. Go read. (And oh, yeah... Frankie was first.) (Louis Wu 13:39:15 UTC) (permalink)
MLG Cranks Out the Content
Bunch of new content over at MLGPro.com - you can find the second half of Dyslexia's MLG LA writeup (great read), an interview with Team3D (great podium shot), and some more video on demand from MLG LA. Thanks, 3Suns. (Louis Wu 12:42:14 UTC) (permalink)
Dropshock Halo 2 Podcast
We got word that DropShock, a new Halo podcast, just released episode 3. In their words, it has an M rating. (This means it's loaded with sexual humor and ethnic jokes.) You might need to follow the Feedburner RSS feed to actually download the shows. (Louis Wu 12:36:28 UTC) (permalink)
Friday's news in brief:
Thursday's news in brief:
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Inside the Bungie Offices Blow Me Away - Live! Marine MLG Midweek News Games, Movies, and the Links Spartan 458 - Officially PraetoriaGuard, Episode 4 - Redux |
