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Thursday, March 27, 2008 |  |
Uncomfortable Silence, in HD
The opening cutscene of Sacred Icon, 'Uncomfortable Silence', is now available in HD for your downloading pleasure from our Cutscene Library. Thanks, as always, to Infectionist Machinima and Wraith7n. Man, I'd forgotten how gorgeous some of the settings in that scene were... (Louis Wu 22:35:13 UTC) (permalink)
BELIEVE Spiker for sale tomorrow
Wow. If you've got REALLY deep pockets, the Spiker from one of the Believe commercials is being auctioned off live, tomorrow - starting bid is $3500, with an expectation that it might reach $5500. (I've never participated in a live auction on eBay before - but apparently, they get to charge a premium on top of your standard bid - realize that whatever you SAY you're bidding, you'll be owing 20% more. That means starting bid is actually $4200...) Thanks, x Zero x. (Louis Wu 22:32:08 UTC) (permalink)
Phantom Pistols on Waterworks
Up on Bungie.net, you'll find a new interview with an old name... Shishka is back at Bungie, and he's here to make your matchmaking experience oh so much better. Go read what he's gonna do for you! (And welcome back, Shishka!) (Louis Wu 18:15:00 UTC) (permalink)
Rules of Engagement
Have you ever wondered what grenades do when you're not using them? ZZoMBiE13 has. Go read Another Halo Comic Strip for details. (Louis Wu 17:54:16 UTC) (permalink)
High Score Halo
Cody Miller announced the opening of High Score Halo, a subsite of High Speed Halo whereby you can win fame and accolades (or at least your initials on a cool retro high score list) by garnering the most points in a Halo 3 campaign run. Go see! (Louis Wu 15:40:52 UTC) (permalink)
Only two million matches in the last 24 hours.
If it wasn't enough to see articles that say "Halo sucks, even though it gave us the underpinnings of an entire generation of shooters", and "Halo sucks, even Barbie's Horse Adventure is more fun", now SPARTAN 294 reminds us that Halo sucks, and has come in second again, to Call of Duty 4, for the 856th consecutive week on Xbox LIVE. Excuse me - I've got to go start a website for a different game. (Louis Wu 15:39:00 UTC) (permalink)
Prayer
Wow. OboeCrazy wrote an English Horn solo with some Oboe and experimentation with guitar pedals... and Elnea added some background effects... and the result is haunting. Go listen to 'Prayer', a "Covenant prayer to their Gods for the Great Journey...a prayer essentially for death, and filled with Flood." (It's unlikely that there'll be bandwidth problems, but if there is, we'll be happy to mirror this.) (Louis Wu 15:09:02 UTC) (permalink)
Halo 3 - the game bloggers love to hate
Man, it's the day to hate on Halo 3, I guess. ExtremeTech has an article that rates games as to whether they're better, or worse, than Halo 3. Only one game lost to Bungie's newest release on their entire 10-game roster - Crysis. I realized I couldn't take the list seriously, though, when they described 'The Darkness' as 'a bargain bin game' with 'a game-stopping bug', and AI that 'sucks'... but still rated it better than Halo 3. Go see for yourself. (Louis Wu 14:56:18 UTC) (permalink)
Dan Baker's Halo Comic Grows
Dan Baker let us know that he's added new content to his (very high quality) Halo comic - Page 3 has two new panels since we last mentioned it a couple of weeks ago. Go look! (He says more is coming soon.) (Louis Wu 14:17:21 UTC) (permalink)
What Halo brought to the party
Over at Games Are Fun, there's a summary of what Halo has done for the shooter genre on consoles. It's a funny article, because the guy who wrote it clearly doesn't like Halo at all... but still admits that it did a few things right. Give it a look. (Louis Wu 14:13:31 UTC) (permalink)
Important Qualifications
Elnea's posted Halo Action Figure Theater #139 - the pretty blue lady explains how she makes her most important choices. I think it's a valuable glimpse into the female mind. (Louis Wu 13:48:49 UTC) (permalink)
Sony Ericsson Halo theme - now downloadable
Yesterday, we mentioned a Halo theme for Ericsson phones - there was interest in the forum, so Don sent along the theme itself. It's quite small (30k, zipped); to install it, put it in your phone's "theme" directory then apply it by going to settings > display > theme. (The theme itself has an underscore in the front of its name; it's there so that the theme sits at the top of the list. If you'd rather remove it, there's no problem doing so.) Thanks, Don! (Louis Wu 13:33:04 UTC) (permalink)
Wednesday's news in brief:
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