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Saturday, March 8, 2008 |  |
Home Field Advantage, in HD
The Halo 2 HD Cutscenes have been updated to include 'Home Field Advantage', setting the stage for both the Cairo Station battles and the birth of a new 'Arbiter'. 150 mb, give or take (depending on which version you grab). Thanks again to HaLo2FrEeEk for capturing these! (Louis Wu 18:09:09 UTC) (permalink)
Forerunner Structures at HaloWars.com
Omega noticed that the Halo Wars website has updated with new concept art of some Forerunner architecture. (Our forum denizens don't think too highly of the design, apparently, if Omega's thread is any indication.) (Louis Wu 18:04:12 UTC) (permalink)
Play ball!
Icy Guy dropped off 13 new dialogue snippets, all captured from Halo 3 multiplayer - go listen in our Dialogue Databank! (Louis Wu 13:34:06 UTC) (permalink)
X-Play's Sarkathlon - Update
Mr Sark reminded us that the Sarkathlon Contest running over at G4's X-Play (we mentioned it last week) ends this Tuesday night (March 11) at midnight, PST. They aired the midway leaderboards on Wednesday, and the top time was DJ Maluu (the name should be familiar to folks who've watched Halo jump videos), at 1:50.13. The top 10 times were all within 20 seconds of that. (He also mentioned that although the High Impact Halo trick of grabbing a Banshee early on was innovative (and might even get someone a little schwag), it was far enough outside the rules that those times won't be counted. He's impressed by their creativity, though!) If you haven't tried the course yet, swing by his fileshare, grab the files (see last week's post for details on which ones), and get running - you've got a couple of days left! (Louis Wu 13:26:01 UTC) (permalink)
Cortana gets eyes, MC gets shoulders
Whoa, weird. I was closing out some temporary text files in preparation for heading up for the night... and found a news post I wrote this morning sometime, but forgot to post. Oops! John_117 made some more progress on his Master Chief wall painting - check his forum post for the pics! (Louis Wu 03:19:54 UTC) (permalink)
Requiem for the Damned
Pico stopped by (welcome back, Pico!) with a stop-motion flick showing aoff a battle between... well, a lot of folks. Including Master Chief, which is what makes it all Halo-related. Pretty fun piece! (I especially loved the bit where Diablo flips Kaneda's bike - nicely fluid, and great shadows!) There are multiple download links in Pico's forum post - you can grab his H.264-encoded QuickTime (56 mb), or our own Sorenson3Pro-encoded QuickTime (61mb) or WMP9 (54 mb) versions. Give it a shot! (Louis Wu 03:08:13 UTC) (permalink)
Luke doesn't want your manbabies.
SPARTAN 294 was the first to notice the new Bungie Weekly Update (it's in our Weekly Update Archive, too, if you'd rather have the light background) - lots of cool info in this one. Stuff about how matchmaking deals with 'mixed skill' parties, fascinating details about how the game chooses which spawn point to bring you back on, a cool tidbit about your plasma pistol, info about how screenshots are put together... and more. And a trap. bar. Go read! (Louis Wu 02:40:52 UTC) (permalink)
I don't think that's what Louie was singing about.
DigitalPh33r has kicked off a new machinima series - 'It's a Wonderful LIVE, Episode 1' chronicles his experiences with other gamers, as affected by his Recon armor. Thanks, SPARTAN 294. (Louis Wu 02:26:00 UTC) (permalink)
All's well that ends well.
Hawty McBloggy followed up on her story about Nathaniel, the unlucky gamer who had his Xbox 360 cleaned a little too well - looks like Bungie went a little overboard in an effort to even things out. A feel-good story for sure! Thanks, the Light Show. (Louis Wu 02:23:11 UTC) (permalink)
Halo 3 Launch wins PR award
The PRWeek 2008 awards were given out on Thursday night - and Microsoft and their external PR firm Edelman took home Technology Campaign of the Year for the Halo 3 launch. Nice work! (Louis Wu 02:20:32 UTC) (permalink)
halo.bungie.org news widget updated
Terminator182 has updated his HBO News Widget (for Mac OSX's Dashboard) - bug fixes and graphical tweaks make this useful tool even better! Check it out. (Louis Wu 02:08:20 UTC) (permalink)
Pixellated Halo: The Trailer
Leviathan has been working on Pixellated Halo for a while now - he's getting tired of boring still shots for updates. So he made a movie. It's a bit over 3 minutes long, and it does a good job of showing off gameplay, scenery, and cutscenes - it looks pretty exciting! You can grab it in WMP9 or QuickTime format from us - your choice. (It's about 7.5 mb, either way.) (Louis Wu 02:05:47 UTC) (permalink)
Friday's news in brief:
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Halo 2 Cutscenes... now in Hi-Def Friday Caption Fun - a Hit The beginnings of an Arbiter helmet Friday's Fan Fiction A Rare Humpday |
Thursday's news in brief:
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Halo music from the Austin Wind Symphony Friendly antagonism The Making of a Custom Spartan Helmet Halo 3: The Show Master Chief vs Spiderman Halo 3 Gamertag Stat Info App The Future of Forge |
