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Saturday, January 4, 2003 |  |
From 10,000, there are now 8.
Part Two - with a side of fries. The second (of 2) semifinal round of the Halo National Championship is now online. 6:53 long, 26.9 mb big, in QuickTime 5 format... 8 more competitors, plus Chris Carney and Hamilton Chu from Bungie, giving you some background on the game. Major props once again to Bigsauce, who brought us the hi-res mpeg version of this episode of G4's Arena! (Louis Wu 20:28:56 UTC) (permalink)
Halo National Championship films - update
Okay, the plan had been to release one segment of this program every couple of days; the first one was released on Thursday. However, yesterday we were contacted by one of the competitors, Bigsauce, who provided us with much higher quality mpeg versions of the films. (G4 provided these files to all competitors.) I'm currently in the process of converting these to a more web-friendly size... but it's slow going (there's a lot of crunching to do). Likely what will happen is that later today we'll release segment 2 (the second semifinal match) as planned... but with the new versions as the base, rather than the original VHS-ripped versions. At the end of the cycle, we'll re-release the first segment, for those who strive for completeness; folks who just wanted to see the vids can pass on it. I must say that getting a hand from one of the sixteen finalists (he placed 4th, overall, out of the more than ten thousand competitors who played in the HNC) simply rocks. Okay, back to re-encoding... (Louis Wu 12:32:18 UTC) (permalink)
Halo World comes online
Seen over at Battleground: Halo - a new Halo site has come online. Halo World is still under construction, but the content is beginning to fill in. (There hasn't been a Halo website by that name since Cyberbob's German site went under more than 2 years ago.) (Louis Wu 12:17:56 UTC) (permalink)
Lots of pretty pictures
A pretty nice collection of desktop images for you today - whether you're looking for something artistic, or lighthearted, or something in between, there are five new images which should give you something to play with. You'll find 'em in our Wallpaper section. (Louis Wu 12:02:54 UTC) (permalink)
Friday's news in brief:
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Where's Warbow? More Stories Go ahead... touch my nose. Concept art? Halo being crushed in VE poll HNC round 1 mirrored |
Thursday's news in brief:
