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A kid in the candy store
Great video interview with Marty O'Donnell over at IGN - Marty talks about sound design, and emotion tweaking. Good stuff! Thanks, darthbob. (Louis Wu 22:55:32 UTC) (permalink)
Doodle THIS.
Pinkuh calls them doodles (here and here, on the forum, or here, and here, in her gallery). I say pshaw. (Louis Wu 22:45:38 UTC) (permalink)
Storytelling Roundtable
The roundtable discussion about storytelling in games this morning at X06 between Peter Jackson, Greg Zeschuk (Bioware) and Peter Molyneux (Lionhead) - moderated by Frankie - has been put online, in its entirety, by TeamXbox, in WMP9 format (almost 200mb). I haven't had time to watch more than a couple of minutes - but grab a copy, it sounds like a fascinating discussion! Thanks, Tempus Fugit. (Louis Wu 21:38:41 UTC) (permalink)
Out of the gate at a flat run
Hmm... this is pretty bizarre... Team Xbox has Halo Wars on the list of games arriving in time for the holidays this year; I have a little trouble believing that, since that means they pretty much need to have sent it to the duplicators by now... but hey, stranger things have happened. I say, until Ensemble confirms, count this as a typo. Update: Thanks to Black Six, who noticed an all-but-invisible line (see screenshot) which separates some of the games on this list from the actual Holiday releases - Halo Wars is NOT coming out this year. (Louis Wu 21:27:01 UTC) (permalink)
Unused Halo 2 Animation Clip
I'm not sure how good an idea this is, but... BARBARIC RAGE stumbled across the portfolio of the Treanor Brothers, a 3D Animation and Cinematics company - apparently, they created a a 10 second web trailer for the launch of the Halo 2 website back in 2004. As far as I know, it was never used - but it's pretty cool! Take a look. Update: Tempus Fugit says I'm wrong - he remembers seeing it. (Louis Wu 20:17:17 UTC) (permalink)
Comical Mesh
Paul Maestri writes to say that Halo Heads 13, with a visit from One One Se7en, is now posted; this makes much more sense (and is actually quite funny) if you listened to Podtacular 82. (Louis Wu 20:13:35 UTC) (permalink)
Jackson discussion available as audio
Gah. I grabbed this this morning, but forgot to post it. Microsoft has made the streaming feed from yesterday's press conference available again, for those that missed it live - but the video is so small, and (in the case of the discussion with Peter Jackson) so irrelevant, I simply cut out the audio portion of the Peter Moore/Peter Jackson section - you can grab it in MP3 format (under 2 mb for 6 minutes) here. Listen for yourself to how he describes the upcoming products from Wingnut Interactive. (Louis Wu 18:28:32 UTC) (permalink)
Wikipedia never sleeps
Heh - rapture is amused by how quickly Wikipedia info is compiled - check it out, there's already a pretty comprehensive page on Halo Wars. (rapture also wanted to point out that the new H2 for Windows screens are browsable at halo2pc.org - though if you happen to be browsing in Safari, the page is invisible.) (Louis Wu 15:08:16 UTC) (permalink)
The Life Obstacles of Special Ted, Episode 4
Haloplayer, of Injured Knee Productions, sent the MPRRS 'The Life Obstacles of Special Ted, Episode 4', a video depicting the troubles Ted has in the fast food and automotive sales industries. Poor Ted. Funny stuff - grab a copy in WMP9 format (34.4 mb) or QuickTime format (34.2 mb). (Louis Wu 14:16:59 UTC) (permalink)
X06 Humpday Challenge (sort of)
Sneaking in under the radar, SketchFactor posted a Humpday Challenge writeup yesterday, missed (by our readers, anyway) until this morning, when hnc wondered about it. It's not Halo, this time around - they played Shadowrun and Gears of War - but the end result (Bungie gets battered) was pretty much the same. Well, that's not TOTALLY true. Sketch and Frankie played against bots in Shadowrun... and got demolished. Then Frankie played Sketch in Gears of War - and Frankie won. (Hmm...) Anyway, fun read, take a look! (Louis Wu 13:47:37 UTC) (permalink)
He's hit bottom, and just started digging
Foo Mo Jive points out new content at Podtacular.com. Episode 82 has been posted, with guest host Stuntmutt, who is so self-effacing that the Podtacular boys have started a 'save Stuntmutt' fund. (It also covers stuff like the Bungie Podcast, Halo news, a glitch roundup, and more. This was all recorded on Sunday, which means the X06 revelations from yesterday aren't mentioned.) And Halo News 6 is up, the latest episode of a new parody machinima news show, in both YouTube (Flash) and iPod (mp4) versions. Get to downloading! (Louis Wu 13:39:52 UTC) (permalink)
Down the Road
One of the biggest discussion topics flooding our forum at the moment (and flooding is the right word; we've jumped from an average of about 200 posts/day to about 800 in the last 24 hours) is the idea that Halo content is now being created outside of Bungie's direct control. This may or may not turn out to be a bad thing, in terms of the quality of Halo game content down the road... but many of the issues have been laid out by Hawaiian Pig, on our forum, and Narcogen, at Rampancy.net. Both are good reads; check 'em out. (Louis Wu 13:32:22 UTC) (permalink)
Machinima: Over The Years
TheMaker420 put together a tribute film entitled 'Machinima: Over The Years', looking at some of the better vids out there. The MPRRS reviewers liked it, for the most part... so we're hosting it. It's 50 mb, and comes in WMP9 or QuickTime formats. Grab one! (Louis Wu 01:52:52 UTC) (permalink)
Halo Heads - Gerbil Wars.
Paul Maestri, having no idea that the Halo news scene would get flooded by goodies coming out of Barcelona, sent us a link yesterday for Halo Heads 11, which continued the running gerbil gag. (Made me laugh out loud.) As soon as he saw the treasure from Spain, however, he whipped up a topical strip, Halo Heads 12, and sent it along. I didn't want to confuse anyone with out-of-order episodes, so we're pointing out both at the same time. Enjoy! (Louis Wu 01:18:53 UTC) (permalink)
It's not yesterday anymore.
Just a reminder - if you've been away from the Halo scene for a day or two, you REALLY want to check Wednesday's news; there were quite a lot of tidbits worth reading. (Louis Wu 01:13:42 UTC) (permalink)
HaloOrbit interviews Halogen Leader
Thanks to Oliver "HO Legend" Stopienski, who pointed out an interview with Dispraiser, of the Halogen team, at his website, HaloOrbit. An interesting read, and an interesting choice of release times... (Louis Wu 01:10:22 UTC) (permalink)
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