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Wednesday, April 11, 2007 |  |
Podtacular Episode 108
ImmortalThree let us know that Podtacular Episode 108: Round Table Show is now available - guests are Robert Summa (of destructoid.com) and Anjo Banjo (wife of Uncle Gamer's Liquilife). 1:19 long, 72 mb. Go listen! (Louis Wu 19:52:14 UTC) (permalink)
New Map Shots from CA
Wonga. Certain Affinity has posted a large batch of screenshots and concept artwork for Tombstone and Desolation (and there's more if you poke around... at least until they decide to close off directory browsing - thanks, MasterChief2829 and pillar of awesome). Gorgeous stuff - and you can get a really good sense for how they've laid these two levels out! Only a few more days until we can play them ourselves... Update: Heh - directory browsing turned off now. Sorry. (That took less than 15 minutes...) Update 2: I was going to leave this on the forum, but it seems a lot of people are interested. With Shishka's blessing, I mirrored the content on the CA server; you can see the pictures on the pages they've got up, but also a few that AREN'T there. This is everything that was available before directory browsing was disabled. (Louis Wu 17:45:49 UTC) (permalink)
X-Plane Shortsword
DuBbLe has gotten inspired by the posts he's seen of Mid7night's X-Plane work; he posted some shots of a Shortsword he made a while back. Looks good! (Louis Wu 17:41:45 UTC) (permalink)
Lost: Halostyle Ep 13
Haloplayer stopped by to point out the second half of the Lost: Halostyle Season Finale - it's available in streaming format, plus 3 downloadable options, from their site, and (because we like this series so much, and because this episode is pretty darned funny) in several flavors from us, as well: we've mirrored the to larger WMP9 versions (720x480, 73 mb | 720x480, 169 mb) and added a pair of QuickTime versions (720x480, 72 mb | 720x480, 155 mb). There's a lot more death in this one than in previous versions... and you're certainly set up nicely for the return of the series, later this summer. Go watch! (If you've missed episodes, visit their website.)
(Louis Wu 12:25:50 UTC) (permalink)
Makeup Your Own Joke.
Speaking of Tombstone, Stuntmutt takes a new shot at it in today's One One Se7en. (Louis Wu 12:11:23 UTC) (permalink)
Affinity Machinima Challenge
We heard from imSuck (and others) about a new contest being held by HaloGrid - the Affinity Machinima Challenge. You've got between April 17, when Tombstone and Desolation are released for Halo 2, and May 1, when the contest ends, to create a cool new piece of machinima involving those two maps. There are cash prizes on the line for each of 4 categories (Action, Comedy, Montage, Music); check out imSuck's post for details on rules, dollars and more. Start planning today! (Louis Wu 12:09:11 UTC) (permalink)
Energy Episode Five: The Race
Simply Greg announced that Energy Episode Five: The Race is now available for download, in multiple flavors. The conflict between the humans and the Aeros has come to a head... (Louis Wu 12:04:11 UTC) (permalink)
Freespace 2 Halo conversion - progressing
Devrous stopped in for his fourth weekly update of FS2H, his Freespace 2 Halo mod. Lots and lots and LOTS of pictures - go see how it's going! (Louis Wu 11:57:01 UTC) (permalink)
PLAY! headed to San Jose
PLAY! is a video game symphony, a lot like Video Games Live; they're back on tour, and will be in San Jose, CA on May 26. If you're in the area, check 'em out! Thanks, Mrguy. (Louis Wu 11:54:23 UTC) (permalink)
Top 20 Weapons? Hmm...
TeamXbox put up a list of their Top 20 Weapons of All-Time - amazingly enough, the Grenade Shield (or Bubbleshield, as Bungie calls it) made the list. (Seems rather absurd to me, actually; not only don't we know how well it works, it's not really even a weapon.) Halo 2's plasma grenade and energy sword also made the list. Looks like RevDotNed was first. (Louis Wu 11:47:20 UTC) (permalink)
Man Cannon
Trunks stopped by to point out a new Halo-themed Trunks and Soto comic - I'm not sure their term for the Mancannon is any less... snicker-worthy than Bungie's, but you gotta love the t-shirt! (Louis Wu 11:40:27 UTC) (permalink)
Great Irresponsibility
Sane Intolerant sent word that a new Halo Toy Box is up - this series is becoming more and more incomprehensible to me, but maybe it's clearer to you. (Louis Wu 11:35:57 UTC) (permalink)
Full-sized Master Chief statue for auction
Adam Chapman ran across an auction of one of the full-sized Master Chief statues (6 feet tall) on eBay; it's pickup-only, in New York City, and there's about 2 days left on the auction. Starting bid is $500 - the statue has quite a lot of chipped paint, so if you buy it, realize that you're in for a restoring job. (These have gone for upwards of $1000 in good shape, so you'd be getting a bargain.) (Louis Wu 11:34:15 UTC) (permalink)
Guitar Hero Gameplay, Revisited
Heh - you might remember a post last weekend where KP and e tried hard to play Halo 2 with Guitar Hero II controllers; fugitivesoldier ran across a video of someone doing a whole lot better playing the ORIGINAL Halo with that controller. Check it out! (Louis Wu 11:23:44 UTC) (permalink)
Vidoc, Analyzed (within an inch of its life)
As could probably be expected, Bungie fans went a little crazy yesterday after the release of the Multiplayer Vidoc. Lots and lots and LOTS of tiny details were teased out of those seven minutes of footage. While many of these details were discovered one at a time, a few people have gone through the Vidoc and done a 'frame-by-frame' style analysis. Darkninja90
and Sk8erdmg both wrote up their views on our forum. Geary noticed a video version at GameTrailers. QuickTactical posted his at HaloGrid. IGN did one, too, but it falls a little short after looking at the depth the fans went to in the links above. Most of the screens/signs in the background have been deciphered, and lots of cool details like the new HUD have been discussed. (Beorn, for example, has taken looks at the HUD and " A message from Bungie" - and there are plenty of other morsels to be found.) Bungie employees tossed in a bit of info themselves; Evil Otto, for example, explained why much of the footage shows a green HUD, instead of blue. If you're late to the party, check out what others have noticed! Update: Narcogen has added an annotated gallery of screenshots to Rampancy.net, pointing out major features. (Louis Wu 11:02:54 UTC) (permalink)
Tuesday's news in brief:
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720p version of the Vidoc at TXB Held Hostage By Simplicity Yet Depth. Vanity Wet and Wild Shooting Your Kids May 16 - B-Day. |
Monday's news in brief:
