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Holiday Over?
Halo Babies has a new guest strip up - 'Holiday Over?' - from Turalim. Oh, the hassles of union labor! Thanks, PlasmaFire. (Louis Wu 19:46:52 UTC) (permalink)
Ship Concepts
Omega has taken a stab at illustrating ships which appear only in the novels. He's finished 5 of them so far - two are currently visible on our forum (here and here). Nice work - check it out! (Louis Wu 19:32:07 UTC) (permalink)
Operation: Anxious Armadillo
Heroes & Heretics Episode 6 - Operation: Anxious Armadillo - has been made available to the public over at the Slacker Entertainment website. (It's been up in high-res format for sponsors for a week.) The team does their best to make it to the power station before the Covenant take over; it doesn't help that their AI is a bit cranky, or that their sergeant is a psychopath... go watch! (Louis Wu 19:23:54 UTC) (permalink)
Narratology and Halo
Tom "Eastbeast314" Eastman let us know about a research paper he'd written about narratology (story and character analysis), and its role in explaining the success of Halo: Combat Evolved. It's a tad heavy on the jargon, but that's probably helpful in snowing the professor... wait, no, that's wrong. Give it a read; it looks at why Halo succeeded so well, and maybe why its story grabbed many people more strongly than the more in-depth Halo 2 story. If bandwidth becomes an issue, we'll host a copy. (Louis Wu 19:12:33 UTC) (permalink)
Adrian!
Captain Spark turned in another couple of dozen dialogue snippets - grab the batch from his website, or browse them in our Dialogue Databank. Some funny ones today! (Louis Wu 18:24:16 UTC) (permalink)
Halo 3 Cover Art
Now that Halo 3 has been announced, people are beginning to submit cover art mockups. We've added them to our existing Cover Art section (on a separate Halo 3 page). Take a look! (Louis Wu 15:57:50 UTC) (permalink)
More Desktop Customization
Funkmon points out that JJ Ying, the guy who created the very nice dock icons we mentioned yesterday, has updated ALL of his desktop skins; swing by his blog for a look at the integrated set. Now THAT'S some Halo lovin'. (Louis Wu 11:01:58 UTC) (permalink)
The World of Halo 2 Cheating
This showed up yesterday, and I found it interesting enough to mail to someone who'd had lots of questions about cheating... but it didn't occur to me to post it on the front page - thanks to Phi Delta on our forum, and Fulcan via email, for convincing me I was wrong. GamesFirst has put up a primer on cheating - a description of the various types, and some discussion about why people bother in the first place. If you've ever wondered what 'standbying', 'bridging', or 'boosting' are, this article should help. (Louis Wu 10:59:42 UTC) (permalink)
News Flash - there are at least 10 islands on Earth.
The Weekly Update this week is available at Bungie.net (or in our Weekly Update Archive) - there are some bits about Halo 2 Vista, and some bits about changes to the XBL playlists... and then a bunch of random user-submitted questions (with answers that range from pretty cool to KP-quality). Go read. (Louis Wu 01:18:07 UTC) (permalink)
Friday's news in brief:
Thursday's news in brief:
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