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Sunday, June 17, 2007 |  |
ARG Discussion Continues Apace
The game begun last week with the introduction of Adjutant Reflex is in full swing; our ARG forum is buzzing. (There are now almost 500 people signed up there - pretty amazing, for a site that didn't exist 4 days ago). Again, we'd like to point out a decent timeline of events so far (it's missing stuff that's happened over the weekend, but it can certainly bring you up to speed on the most important stuff) - and oriol asked us to point out a recap of events so far over at Grunts"R"Us. Read up, figure out what's going on, and jump in!
Update: apologies - I suggested that Sir Topham Hat's timeline of ARG events might be missing content from this weekend - I based this on the fact that the 'Last Edited' stamp on the post was Friday afternoon. There is clearly content from the weekend in there - the 'Last Edited' date is wrong. The post, in fact, contains everything that's been confirmed so far. (Louis Wu 18:07:00 UTC) (permalink)
The Rumor Mill Commences
wii60 has a collection of rumors about E3 'O7, purportedly from an E3 Floor Manager - among the tidbits was this: "Bungie working on new title/series not related to anything in the Halo/Marathon Universe." I guess we'll see when E3 rolls around. Thanks, Red Breast. (Louis Wu 17:58:16 UTC) (permalink)
Bendis talks about Uprising
Comic Book Resources was present at a presentation at Wizard World Philly, where Brian Bendis (author of the upcoming 'Halo: Uprising' comic from Marvel this summer) talked a little about what folks could expect. Don't read it if you don't want ANY info. (Louis Wu 17:55:11 UTC) (permalink)
The Riot 52
Sigafoos let us know about The Riot 52 - just before taking off for a huge clan gathering/LAN. 25 minutes, 10 mb, lots of mockery. Go listen! (Louis Wu 17:47:10 UTC) (permalink)
Fan Montages
A couple of montage offerings mentioned on our forum recently - Nick Burgos pointed out a collaboration between a number of fans, and trigger119 put together his own footage. Take a look. (Louis Wu 17:40:08 UTC) (permalink)
Halo on a DS - again
Bizarre - the rumor that wouldn't die. IGN is bringing back discussion of Halo on the DS. (This last came up back in January.) Thanks, The Lamonster. (Louis Wu 17:37:05 UTC) (permalink)
Sometimes, The Internet Makes Me Sad.
Wow... I'm pretty discouraged today. We have a lot of company this weekend (a half-dozen people from two separate branches of the family), so I haven't been near a computer for a while... but when I checked this afternoon, I found several dozen emails casting aspersions on every single entry in the Montage section of our Zune giveaway. Videos that had been displayed elsewhere before the contest, videos that included clips from existing films, one person even claimed that 3 of the 7 videos contained footage from his public fileshare space during the beta (this, of course, is totally unverifiable at this point). More people seem to be looking for ways to disqualify entries than seem to be interested in the contest itself. I'm not sure how to handle this; I have no doubt whatsoever that if we disqualified every entry, and put up 7 NEW films, we'd get the same collection of emails. I have no doubt that some of these accusations are true. I have no doubt that some are NOT true. And I know that we're halfway through the voting on this phase. I feel as though the whole montage section has been tainted; I don't know how to fix this. I'm going to let the voting continue on the 7 entries we have right now, and then I'm going to disqualify any films I can PROVE have violated our rules - and the prize will go to the remaining entry with the highest score. This is not ideal, but I can't think of a better way to handle this without scrapping the section entirely. Here's hoping the parody and machinima sections go better. (Louis Wu 17:30:40 UTC) (permalink)
Saturday's news in brief:
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Fan-made Spike Grenade Zune Giveaway - Montage Voting Open! Getting Tunged? Ew. |
Friday's news in brief:
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IGN's ARG writeup Work In Progress. Podtacular 116 Last chance to vote for Original Song Friday's Fan Fiction Goin' Inside Swords and Pistols H2V reviews at GT, VE Oh, Piss-boy... Watching... and waiting |
