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Wednesday, August 23, 2006 |  |
White Lie.
I've been wondering how long it would take for someone to make a wordplay joke about the Halo Graphic Novel's first story... figures it would be Stuntmutt doing it in a One One Se7en. (Louis Wu 20:11:57 UTC) (permalink)
Beautiful Music
Wow, very cool. TheGarbageMan posted a whole series of Halo theme variation sketches - there are 10 snippets, all for piano, plus some commentary. Great stuff! (If we kill his bandwidth, we'll certainly put up local copies.) (Louis Wu 19:52:34 UTC) (permalink)
Faceplate Contest - Results!
Took us much longer than we'd hoped it would... but the thousand entries we received for the Faceplate contest have been narrowed down to a pair of winners. Congratulations to Hawaiian Pig and Wheels, whose faceplate designs win them a prototype Halo faceplate direct from Bungie! Check out the Finalists page to see the final 14 entries. Update: Thanks to nam, for the great idea - we're making ALL of the submissions available, in a sense; you can download all the faceplates in this pair of QuickTime vids (horizontal, 463 plates, 27.6 mb | vertical, 485 plates, 24.4 mb), with each plate shown for one second. (The vertical plates needed to be reduced in size a bit, to fit on a reasonable monitor. If you're on a 1024x768 monitor, you'll need to reduce it even more.) (Louis Wu 14:56:03 UTC) (permalink)
Dirty feet are kind of a turn-on
Lost: Halostyle has released Episode 7, 'The Average Journey: Part 2' - it's hard to tell which side is more incompetent, but it makes for some pretty funny moments. 7:42 long, weighing in at 48.3 mb (in WMP9 format) or 47.4 mb (in QuickTime format), this one passed the MPRRS this afternoon, and deserves a watching! (Louis Wu 03:05:16 UTC) (permalink)
Lego Zanzibar - Help Needed!
Kooberz is back to work on his Lego Zanzibar model... and he's looking for help. Check out his forum post, check out the model sa it stands, and see what you can contribute! (Louis Wu 02:51:59 UTC) (permalink)
Faceplate winners - soon!
Lots of people are asking, so I'm going to post this tonight - we've managed to pick our winners, and runners-up, for the faceplate contest... but I haven't had time to put together a presentation page, so we'll announce the details tomorrow (well, Wednesday, which technically is today, news-wise) - look for an announcement in the next 18 hours or so. Thanks for your patience! (Louis Wu 02:29:08 UTC) (permalink)
A Slice of Pi
Vista Week continues at Bungie.net, with an interview of the guys from Pi Studios, the folks creating the tools that will let you create new content for Halo 2 on Vista. Great to see familiar names - Dave Mertz did some wonderful work on Halo PC (and the tools released with HaloCE) when he worked for Gearbox. They say several times during the interview that the end user will be provided with everything needed to create new maps for Halo 2 - it's not stated explicitly, but I'm guessing this means that you no longer need a copy of 3ds Max or gMax to actually build the level geometry. Nice! darthbob was kind enough to post a heads-up on our forum. (Louis Wu 02:17:15 UTC) (permalink)
Desolate
CROSSFIRE's 'Desolate' placed in the top 7 positions of movies that passed the MPRRS - making CROSSFIRE the second machinima creator to have two films in the top 7. It's a sequel to 'Havoc' (which came in third on that list), and it finishes up the story started there with a bleak look at the loss of hope. Gorgeous cinematography, great editing, great sound... this one's fantastic. It's quite long - almost 18 minutes - and weighs in at about 130 mb... but it's worth it. Grab it in WMP9 format (137 mb) or QuickTime format (126 mb). (Louis Wu 02:08:53 UTC) (permalink)
Tuesday's news in brief:
Monday's news in brief:
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Transmission Episode 0 - The Prologue A Speedrunning Competition in Canada Sun Tzwho? I'm gonna be a star, ma Nylund talks to FiringSquad The Human Entry Vehicle, Analyzed Elongation - in Lego. |
