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Friday, September 16, 2005 |  |
Sponsor the Codex
The Codex Series, a popular machinima series, has finished its first season, but is still seeing serious amounts of web traffic. (One of the news posts on their front page right now talks about numbers - they're pretty high.) To recoup some of their investment, they're offering sponsorships - there aren't any episodes to see, but if you donate enough, they'll send you a DVD, containing the full first season, plus plenty of extras. (Give 'em $50 or more, they'll even autograph it for you.) (Louis Wu 19:11:27 UTC) (permalink)
Halo Tourney - 24 Sept, Cincinnati
I nearly missed this yesterday, but Scott Vieth stopped by our forum to point out the next round of Hao tournaments to be held at Game Junkie, a video game store near Cincinnati, OH. FFA and Doubles, a week from this coming Saturday, entrance is $15 before the 21st, or $20 after that. Check the forum post for more details. (Louis Wu 15:34:41 UTC) (permalink)
Side Splitting.
Last week, the new playlists (Multi-Team and Team Snipers) went up on Xbox Live, and some folks complained immediately that the matchmaking system was breaking their teams up all the time - even when they went in as a group of three. As Stuntmutt points out in today's One One Se7en... that's not ALWAYS a bad thing... (Louis Wu 13:55:24 UTC) (permalink)
Armor Auction Followup
I meant to follow up on this when the auction ended - but the last couple of days have been really, really busy. Last week, we mentioned that Briar's Armor, one of the fan-created Halo 2 costumes we've been following, went up for sale on eBay. THe auction closed Wednesday - a few people were bidding on it, but the winner had put in an initial bid that trumped everyone... he (or she) picked up the suit for $2,324.99. Not a bad chunk of change! (Louis Wu 13:51:29 UTC) (permalink)
Friday Fanfic
Seven new pieces for you in today's Fan Fiction update. Ooh... (Louis Wu 13:45:55 UTC) (permalink)
Boxed In
Wow. Remember that cool box the Limited Edition of Halo 2 came in? The Inquirer has a story this morning about a company in Denmark that's suing Microsoft for stealing proprietary information about a metal DVD container, then passing it along to the rival company that ended up manufacturing the boxes. (Microsoft says it did no such thing.) It's still in court - but who'da thunk there'd be controversy about the BOX? (Louis Wu 13:25:40 UTC) (permalink)
Outpost Coagulation Ep 9
After a pretty long down period, Outpost: Coagulation has another episode up for download. Episode 9, 'Two Betrayals', is a long (10:09, 83.9 mb, in WMP9 format) piece, following ostracism of the Juggernaut Elite, and his subsequent capture by the Humans. There's one more episode left in season 1, and then they'll start filming Season 2; they've got the scripts done already, they just need voice actors. (If you're interested, drop them some email.) Thanks, trigger119. (Louis Wu 13:18:13 UTC) (permalink)
Paint By Numbers
Coolness. ManKitten posted his Halo coloring book a couple of days ago - today, psychophan7 posted a step-by-step 'how I colored it' article at LiveJournal. As someone who can't draw his way out of a paper bag, but loves to watch others do their stuff... I find this kind of thing fascinating. (Louis Wu 12:51:33 UTC) (permalink)
It's a legitimate strategy!
Halo features in a pretty funny Exterminatus Now comic today - thanks, Lothar Hex. (Louis Wu 12:12:33 UTC) (permalink)
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