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Tuesday, January 10, 2006 |  |
Another Halo Novel?
Interesting... Stephen Loftus ran across this page at Chapters (a Canadian bookseller) - it lists an as-yet-unnamed trade paperback based on Halo 2, written by Eric Nylund (author of two of the three existing Halo novels), and published by Tor books (previous Halo novels were published by Del Rey). According to Chapters, it's due out in October. Accurate? A mistake? The ISBN number listed comes up blank at ISBNdb.com... but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist. (Doesn't mean it does, either.) Intriguing, in any case! (While I was looking for other info about this, I ran across this entry at Amazon/Borders - an audio-book version of First Strike, available for purchase for $40. Scoop it up if you've been looking for this!) (Louis Wu 22:43:43 UTC) (permalink)
VGL Halo Clips for Download
Over at Joystiq, there's an article about the Video Games Live concert series (yeah, I know, I said I wasn't going to mention them any more... sue me). It contains links to video excerpts of a dress rehearsal of
the Halo segment, filmed several months ago (the WMP9 version is 53 mb, the QuickTime version is 125 mb), and the video also contains interview clips with Marty O'Donnell and Mike Salvatori. Go grab a copy! Thanks, Rota Jota. (This is, by the way, the same video that IGN had up for Insiders last month - except that it's free for everyone.) (Louis Wu 20:49:02 UTC) (permalink)
Stubbs the Zombie demo
Coolness - a Stubbs The Zombie demo has been released for Mac and PC; if you haven't had a chance to try this out, swing by Filerush and grab a copy! (200+ mb...) Thanks, hminn. (Louis Wu 20:42:30 UTC) (permalink)
HCEC now findable at machinima.com
Dennis Powers points out that machinima.com has become an official mirror of his Halo CE Chronicles series - nice going! (Louis Wu 20:33:27 UTC) (permalink)
DropShock Ep 9
Almost lost in the flood of 'BILL GATES CONFIRMS HALO 3!' emails - DropShock Radio has released episode 9 of their podcast. 50 minutes, 24 mb. They wonder what drives modders on XBL, among other subjects... (Louis Wu 18:44:21 UTC) (permalink)
Lance Holds Forth
Wow, I missed this yesterday - careless. According to a news post on Bungie.net, Marty O'Donnell did an interview with Kilroy, a member of Bungie.net's Chapter Founders. It's a pretty rambling piece - but it's full of tasty morsels. If you're an up-and-coming Marty Stalker, you owe it to yourself to read this! (Louis Wu 16:39:36 UTC) (permalink)
Halo 2 Faceplate for 360
Very pretty Halo 2 faceplate for your Xbox360 on eBay right now (2 days left) - I'd agree with ManKitten about the price, though. (Louis Wu 16:16:23 UTC) (permalink)
Cheap Halo 2
Newegg.com is selling Halo 2 for $17.99, today only. If you're looking for a cheap copy - this is it! Thanks, Snowy_Duck. Update: phoenixdude24 let us know that his local Blockbuster is selling copies of Halo 2 (still with the 'do not sell before 11/9/04' label on them) for $9.99... his email address suggests that he lives somewhere in southern Florida. Now THAT'S cheap! (Louis Wu 16:07:21 UTC) (permalink)
A new marketing idea
Some wishful thinking, and very nice graphics work, turned an idea into a cool pic - thanks, X3n0! (Louis Wu 16:04:42 UTC) (permalink)
A tired chestnut.
I really wanted to pass on this - but there are literally dozens of emails in our mailboxes (yes, boxes, plural - folks are mailing this to every address they can find, which is a lot of addresses), so I'm posting it to make people STOP WRITING - Engadget interviewed Bill Gates at CES this year, and he was asked about the release of Halo 3. His answer:
No, I have to make sure that any speculation I did about that is -- it's up to the team when they want to ship that, and they're going to take their time to make that a super great product. So even we don't know when that will come out. That's one of many games that are just phenomenal that are in the works, but it's up to the artists to do it when they feel good about it.
For folks who are really excited about this stuff, let me clarify a couple of things for you - the fact that he says it's one of many 'phenomenal' games does not mean he's played it, and thinks it's phenomenal - it means he knows how important the Halo franchise is to the Xbox(es). And this is not an official announcement that Bungie is working on Halo 3. There. It's posted news, you can read it, you can point it out to your friends. Can you stop telling us about it now? Thanks! (Louis Wu 15:25:07 UTC) (permalink)
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