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Thursday, September 29, 2005 |  |
xtina - home to rare Halo vids
Normally, we don't make site notices on our front page - but this one's a bit... unusual (special, I suppose). -Hp-FIL4, from the MLG forums, pointed out that his movie site, xtina, had never been mentioned here at HBO. And he's right. Which is surprising, because the collection of movies available is rather large, and in some cases quite rare. There's lots of gameplay footage, for folks who like to watch that... there are tips vids, and tricks vids, and the first season of Red vs Blue... there are hack videos. Lots of stuff. And the connection's decent, too (though a post like this might actually be a bad thing for that). It's been around for quite a long time - if you've never been there, you should check it out! (Louis Wu 20:03:55 UTC) (permalink)
Stubbs and Grubbs, and everyone in between
There's a great interview over at Gamasutra with Alex Seropian, of Wideload Games. He discusses how the business model works (outsourcing assets rather than creating everything in-house), and how they expanded the Halo engine to fit the needs of a zombie-based comedy action-thriller. It won't be long now - the game will be out next month! Give it a read. Thanks, Roger Wilco. Update: there's also a preview of the game over at GameSpy - they call Stubbs (the character) 'rotting, putrid [but] lovable'. Hmm... thanks, Rampancy.net. (Louis Wu 17:41:48 UTC) (permalink)
Thursday Themes
8 new Fan Fiction pieces in this mid-week update. Go read! (Louis Wu 16:22:50 UTC) (permalink)
SCLegendary, Less than Four
A month ago, we posted a sub-4-minute Silent Cartographer speedrun from insidi0us - the only thing that SLIGHTLY drew away from its awesomeness was the fact that it was run on Normal, instead of Legendary. He's fixed that. He uses roughly the same tricks to shave time off on this run as he did on the last one, with one exception - there's a grenade jump just after picking up the invisibility that's simply beautiful in its time-savingness. He panics a bit near the end, I think... but the last overshield holds until the checkpoint, and he comes in at 3:54 - amazing. We're hosting copies of both his original WMP9 version (33.2 mb) and a re-encoded QuickTime version (34.8 mb) - if you like speedruns, grab this one! (Louis Wu 15:45:36 UTC) (permalink)
Floodgulch for Farcry Instincts
Darksage has completed the first version of his Floodgulch for Farcry Instincts map; it's a reproduction of Blood Gulch for Farcry Instincts, but with quite a bit of standing water. He's planning on setting up a dedicated server for folks to download the map this evening, from 5pm-midnight, EST. (If you grab this, please set up your own match, rather than playing off Darksage's server - he wants to reserve the bandwidth for downloads. To download the map, join the game hosted by Darksage OSI or Darksage OSI V2.) He's planning on creating a flythrough of the map soon, so people can see what's involved... but here's your chance to play it first!! (Louis Wu 14:08:57 UTC) (permalink)
I Love Bees, Reordered - Parts 9 and 10
The reordered I Love Bees release continues - today we have a couple of large chapters, 9 (34 minutes) and 10 (30 minutes). The meat of the story is beginning to come out at this point... go listen! (Louis Wu 13:52:54 UTC) (permalink)
The Arc of Death
Wow - rockslider has written up a highly-detailed guide on a new bit of fun to be had on Halo (the second level of the original game). He calls it the Arc of Death, and from reading his description, it sounds like a blast! (Um, literally, I guess.) Give it a read, then try it out for yourself! (Louis Wu 13:48:40 UTC) (permalink)
The Stalker
StealthSniper22 created a 'new kind of montage' - it's called 'The Stalker', and it's composed entirely from real XBL Matchmaking Head-to-Head games. It's AMAZING how often his opponents don't notice him following them. (Or, in some cases, standing on their head...) It's hilarious. A lower-res (320x240, 22.3 mb) version can be found in this post, and a higher-res (640x480, 52 mb) version is linked in this post. Both are WMP9 format. (I'm willing to work on a QuickTime version if there's interest.) Go watch - and giggle. Update: Now available as a QuickTime, as well (480x360, 53.1 mb, smoothed a little bit). (Louis Wu 12:54:53 UTC) (permalink)
Wednesday's news in brief:
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The Toolbars Continue The Halo Table The Squadron Ep 5: Location Location Location Pick Up Artist. Ode to the Zed Word I Love Bees, Reordered - Parts 7 and 8 More montages at H2F More on Origen360 |
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