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H2V Trailer Released
TheGhost sent us more news - Microsoft has just released a trailer for Halo 2 Vista, showing off the map editor, and the new maps (as well as some nicely crisp single-player footage). Check it out! (WMP9 Professional format, streaming - might be hard to see on a stock Mac.) (Louis Wu 21:48:32 UTC) (permalink)
H2V Delayed?
According to H2Vista.net, quite a number of game resellers are changing their listing of the availability of Halo 2 Vista from May 8 to May 23. Now, normally we don't put a lot of stock in release dates as supplied by game resellers... but May 8 is less than 6 days from now, If they're making changes at this point, it's likely due to solid info from the supplier. There's no official word on this subject yet - but as soon as there is (one way or the other), we'll post it. Thanks, TheGhost. (Louis Wu 20:57:21 UTC) (permalink)
Halo Science 101
Over at Gamasutra, you can read 'Halo Science 101', one of the pieces compiled in the recently-released book, 'Halo Effect'. It's a fascinating study of the science behind Halo - what Bungie got right, what they got wrong, what you can actually pull from the game - written by a geophysicist. Thanks, Roger Wilco. (Louis Wu 19:09:37 UTC) (permalink)
B.net Emblem Contest
Frankie pointed out a new story at Bungie.net - they're currently accepting submissions for a new emblem to be used in Halo 3. Go read the rules - and get designing! (Louis Wu 18:56:13 UTC) (permalink)
Meh-chinema.
Today's One One Se7en has our favorite Halo schmuck getting his hands on the Halo beta a bit early... (Louis Wu 18:16:39 UTC) (permalink)
Order your Kubrick Figures Now
Yesterday, we mentioned the Halo 3 figures coming from Gentle Giant - today, they're preorderable, for $18 for the set. Thanks to Carsten for the heads-up. (Louis Wu 18:07:20 UTC) (permalink)
Fantasy Halo Part Three
In late march, we mentioned Parts One and Two of 'Fantasy Halo', a machinima project that turns Halo 2 into a turn-based RPG. Yesterday, Deep Reaver stopped by to let us know that Part Three had been released - and I have to agree with RVideo on our forum... this is the best of the bunch. It's 24 minutes long, and an amazing 88 mb small for the WMP9 (for a video that long, that's an incredible compression rate - and it looks pretty good, too). We've added a local mirror for this, and added a QuickTime version for those who can't handle WMP9. (The QuickTime is even smaller (77mb), due to the vagaries of Squeeze, and the quality is not as good; I simply didn't want to take the time to try a second time (it was about a 2-hour runthrough), so if you CAN use the WMP9, you should. The QuickTime is watchable, though - and you SHOULD watch one of them.) Funny stuff - and really, really well choreographed. (Louis Wu 18:03:47 UTC) (permalink)
Told ya.
Heh - Yahoo has put up a feature called 'Games are Good for You', which points out some positive benefits that games have had (with specific examples). Halo gets mentioned as a tool to help students "understand the complexities of Homeric epics" (check out the original article at the University of Connecticut). Thanks, || Sgt Scope ||. (Louis Wu 16:44:36 UTC) (permalink)
Halo Painting
Nick Paton pointed out a large (4' x 5') Halo canvas painting for sale right now on eBay; if you're looking for a gigantic acrylic, this might help! No bids yet, but there's still almost a week left. (Louis Wu 16:27:22 UTC) (permalink)
Another Halo Poster
In the spirit of yesterday's wall poster, Zerowind117 put up pics of his own wall hanging... Halo is gracing walls everywhere!
(Louis Wu 16:23:54 UTC) (permalink)
Plantronics lets you game in style
Master Kim stopped by our forum yesterday to point out a new Halo 2 headset, made by Plantronics, for your PC - presumably in conjunction with the release of Halo 2 Vista. Looks good! (Thanks to rapture, who pointed out that MK also posted this at the H2Vista website.) (Louis Wu 10:49:19 UTC) (permalink)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
A couple of weeks ago, it became known that Luke Smith was leaving 1Up, and soon after that, he announced he was being hired by Bungie. Yesterday, Kotaku posted a an article explaining how it all happened. Sounds like Luke will soon be helping to bring Bungie's vision to the rest of us - and for the next few months, that's gonna be pretty Halo-infused. Welcome to our side of the thin green line, Luke!
Thanks to 3Suns, who noticed this yesterday afternoon.
(Louis Wu 10:35:35 UTC) (permalink)
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