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Wednesday, November 9, 2005 |  |
18 score and 5 days ago...
In honor of the one-year anniversary of the release of Halo 2, there's a huge retrospective posted at Bungie.net. Bungie insiders, press representatives, and some loser fansite maintainer reminisce about the past year, and how Halo 2 has changed it. Great pics (Alta is hot in a formal evening dress), great memories. Go read. And then get on XBL and play! (Thanks, Frankie. For everything except the Kenny Rogers shot.) Update: Frankie is very unhappy that I passed over the whole 'Halo looks totally awesome in 720p running on an Xbox360 which you better have already ordered if you want to see this before the turn of the century' thing. It IS pretty cool; I passed over it because I'll be old and grey before I have a 360. Oh, wait... (Louis Wu 23:41:29 UTC) (permalink)
Gourdian Knots
The votes (almost 25,000 of them) have been tallied for the 2005 version of the Guilt O' Lantern contest... and the winners are repeat offenders! Michael Coffing, who took first place last year, did it again this year, with his Arbiter and Master Chief pumpkin. Eric Rodrigues, who took second place last year, pulled in both the second and third place prizes this year, with his renditions of Tartarus and Cortana. Both winners will be contacted via email about their prizes - but in the meantime, you can browse the pumpkins and view the final scores. Congrats to everyone who entered, and made this contest a success again! (Louis Wu 18:42:45 UTC) (permalink)
TXB Interviews Nile Rogers
Over at TeamXbox, there's an interview with Nile Rogers about the future of audio in gaming - Halo, and Marty O'Donnell, are credited with putting Sumthin Else Music (Rogers' company) on the track it's currently on. Thanks, Tempus Fugit. (Louis Wu 17:34:41 UTC) (permalink)
If Rubens did AIs...
Gruntsbane stopped by our forum to point out an interpretation of Cortana he drew (he's labeled her Not Safe For Work, because... well, because she's not wearing any clothes). She's a little more curvaceous than some other versions we've seen... but it's a pretty impressive piece! (There are also in-progress sketch links.) (Louis Wu 17:28:27 UTC) (permalink)
The Pumpkins Are Picked.
Thanks for all your voting - the 2005 Guilt O' Lantern Pumpkin Carving Contest, voting phase, is now over. We'll tally the votes of almost 6000 people later today, and announce the three top winners! (Louis Wu 13:32:20 UTC) (permalink)
Not Unlike The Whisky Diet.
Stuntmutt looks at a very real hazard brought about by Halo 2 in today's One One Se7en. Definitely appropriate for the Halo 2 anniversary... (Louis Wu 13:31:50 UTC) (permalink)
Offending Every Grunt
That Weasel points out that the latest episode of Grunts are People Too!!, episode 22, 'Offending Every Grunt', has been posted in multiple formats - this one has been put together by TW and fans, rather than Mother's Tooth, but the series lives. Singing Hunters and trampolining Grunts... oddness. (Louis Wu 13:28:00 UTC) (permalink)
A DeviantARTist hooked on Halo
Exiled Zealot found a really nice Arbiter drawing over at DeviantART - be sure to check out Kamino185's whole gallery - there are a whole bunch of Halo and Halo-related pieces in there. (Louis Wu 13:23:07 UTC) (permalink)
Best Prophet Yet.
Trickwaffle points out that today's episode of the 7th Facet webcomic celebrates the one year anniversary of the release of Halo 2. Check it out! (Louis Wu 13:18:32 UTC) (permalink)
Why the Xbox succeeded
3Suns found an article at Amped IGO that counts down the five top successes for the Xbox platform - and number one, in their opinion, is The Acquisition of Bungie. (I think I'd agree.) Go read. (Louis Wu 13:15:22 UTC) (permalink)
Buy your own copy! We just don't know when.
Chappy found a pretty funny poster at his local FYE - they're advertising the presale of a game that hasn't even been announced yet. (Check out a blowup of the critical piece - they didn't even bother to make the effort to blend the central area.) This is news not because someone's trying to make a buck off this game (Gamestop and EB Games have had placeholder webpages up for it for months), but because someone actually went to the effort of creating a poster. Silliness. (Louis Wu 13:12:47 UTC) (permalink)
Tuesday's news in brief:
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Halo Fr3ak's Montage Waiting... Sanity? Um... Tour Bungie Studios - For Charity New CE Maps from the Yayap Boyz Totally KimPossible. Live? Or Memorex? TmG does their own post-mortem Pumpkin Soup |
Monday's news in brief:
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Hardly 'Moving Pictures.' Monday's Reading DropShock Ep 4 The Maw, Legendary - No Shots, No Deaths Halo Script Reviewed? |
