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Thursday, November 17, 2005 |  |
Pumpkin Wrapup
This was supposed to be up days ago - but what with one thing and another, I'm behind. All of the prizes for the 343 Guilt O' Lantern contest have been sent to the winners - including the voicemail messages recorded by Tim 'GuiltySpark' Dadabo and Steve 'MasterChief' Downes. Michael Coffing sent us mp3s of the two recordings he got from Steve (one, in fact, has BOTH of them on it) - you can listen to them here (255k) and here (396k). Thanks to Chris 'Max Power' Dewberry for supplying the lion's share of the goodies, and thanks to Dustin at splode for his generous contribution of gaming gear. And, of course, thanks to everyone who carved, and everyone who voted! If all goes well, there'll be another one in 2006! (Louis Wu 22:22:48 UTC) (permalink)
Network Troubles
You may or may not be able to read this. For some, there's no problem at all. For others, the site is utterly and completely down. For most of us in the middle, it's more sporadic than that (though for some reason, the front page seems to be most affected). If you can read this, know that it's a network problem, and we're doing everything we can to alleviate it. (If the site was down for you for most of Thursday, then by the time you're reading this it's back up, and you can safely ignore this.) Either way, apologies. Update: we're better now. (Louis Wu 17:45:40 UTC) (permalink)
DoA4 and the Halo Spartan
1Up has a huge article on Dead or Alive 4, and the inclusion of a Halo Spartan. (Her name is Nicole, for the record. They think of her as a person, not a suit of armor.) It's a great read - and there are three new Halo-specific screenshots. Check it out! (Thanks to 3Suns for pointing it out.) (Louis Wu 14:38:56 UTC) (permalink)
3.5 years later...
Back in April, 2002, NFL246 sent along some pictures taken in the Control Room on Two Betrayals; there are some decent (but not perfect) images of the huge Marathon logo created by the layout of the room. Yesterday, insidi0us sent along a new shot (104k); we don't really do Trick stuff any more, but this was a pretty beautiful screen cap. (He got it by flying up in a banshee, then jumping out and swapping weapons really quickly.) Nice work! (Louis Wu 14:28:20 UTC) (permalink)
Is Anti-Aliasing Bad?
Benjamin Brewster has taken a hard look at the anti-aliasing upscaling feature of the Xbox360, in theoretical terms (he's going on published reports, because he doesn't have a 360 yet) - but he's worried that the way in which Bungie has chosen to implement 720p support will lead to more image degradation than simply allowing the TELEVISION to do the upscaling. (Anecdotal evidence from admittedly unscientific reporters would suggest he's wrong - but until someone with both an Xbox360 and the will to confirm this does some real comparison tests, we won't know.) In the meantime, go read his article! (Louis Wu 14:22:43 UTC) (permalink)
All's well that ends well
A billion years ago (well, summer of 2004) High Impact Halo ran a contest to see who could get to the top of the beam towers on the level Halo with the most s7yle. The prizes for that contest took a little while (in the sense that dinosaurs ruled the earth for a little while) to get to their owners... but get there they did. Kudos to Ducain for persevering in the face of ridiculous odds! (Louis Wu 14:13:25 UTC) (permalink)
Looking Back
XerxdeeJ pointed out a new update on his Tied the Leader blog - a look back at the development of Halo 2 (and Halo before it) as community builders. Nice stuff! (Louis Wu 14:08:35 UTC) (permalink)
Another View - Halo vs Dating
The South Dakota State University Collegian has posted an Op-Ed piece written by HBO forumgoer Lady Rziha, addressing the complaints in the piece we mentioned a couple of weeks ago - another female perspective on the Halo-as-a-timesink phenomenon. Sometimes joining 'em (and beating 'em) is more fun than beating 'em. (Louis Wu 14:04:08 UTC) (permalink)
Wednesday's news in brief:
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Hell Quarters: Jonathan Quail 400 Not Out. Podtacular news Mid-week Reading DropShock - banned in Japan |
Tuesday's news in brief:
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The end of a good thing. CSports Halo Coverage Four on One Church on your 360 Halo Turns 4 Today BTB is sticking around |
