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February 26, 2003 Link to this post
Short Notice on a Florida Halo Tourney
Ouch - sorry for the short notice on this one, but it was submitted as an add-on to a movie readme in our uploads directory; since Mythica was down for so long, it's simply been sitting in the 'to be dealt with' pile. MCheif-117 is holding an 8-hour Halo tournament in Vero Beach, FL, this Saturday night, March 1. It starts at midnight. Entrance fee is $10/head ($40/team), first place is guaranteed at least $100. Check out the details at the 7th Column Chapter of the Florida Halo Community. (Louis Wu 17:22:05 UTC)
February 26, 2003 Link to this post
With Trepidation, Fan Fiction Reopens
The Fan Fiction section of this site has been closed to new submissions for two weeks. Several options for overhauling the submissions procedure have been considered - most were discarded due to time constraints. The new rules are about as simple as I can make them. The length requirement has been increased slightly. The types of submissions we will accept have been restricted to three. Basic common sense has become a requirement in the submission process. A brightly colored box has been placed at the top of the Fiction section - if you miss it, you're blind. The new guidelines have been posted in a much more concise manner. If you submit a story that does not conform to these guidelines, we will simply throw it away. We will not contact you to tell you we did this. Subsequent inquiries will be directed to the Guidelines page. Several frequent submitters have suggested that we institute a screening process by which new fiction submissions are vetted by community members before being submitted to the archive - we haven't implemented this yet, but it's not off the table. If the quality level remains where it was when we closed down, we WILL set up a screening panel. As of now, the Fiction section is open for submissions... hopefully, the new rules will help, rather than hinder, the overall productivity of the site. (Louis Wu 05:01:24 UTC)
February 25, 2003 Link to this post
Screenies - with no HUD!
Spec Ops Elite came up with a pretty cool technique for taking screenshots that are similar to Bungie's cursor-less shots. They require a modded Xbox, and it only works in the latter half of the game - but if you meet these requrements, the basic steps are described in this forum post. Examples of what you can do with it are here, here, and here. (All of these images are under 50k each.) The possibilities for moviemakers are mouth-watering... (Louis Wu 18:51:54 UTC)
February 24, 2003 Link to this post
Random Halo Site News
A number of Halo sites have come online, or dropped offline, or whatever. These are the ones who've asked for some coverage. Kyle Gallagher has put up Kyle's Halo Website. Bullet, who started Halo World almost 2 months ago, has pulled it down and replaced it with a page about a band. Firestrike (now Shadowfox) wrote to ask for feedback on the site design (and a plug) for Wams.Fireion.com - but when I suggested (politely) that the design was pretty much of a ripoff of THIS site, and that maybe content should be fleshed out a bit, he told me to blame the site designer. And that's the link news as we know it. (Louis Wu 20:35:59 UTC)
February 18, 2003 Link to this post
The Ultimate Desktop
BOLL sent us a collection of three images, created from Bungie.net shots and NASA images, that are designed to be used together on a 3-monitor array. If you've got the screen real estate, this is a pretty fine desktop collection to use on it! And because these came in to our FTP site, they've reminded me that we've recently gotten many uploads with no attribution - if we don't know who made it, we're not going to post it. Drop off a small text file, containing the relevant info (name, email, what file you've uploaded, that sort of thing) - just like BOLL did! (Louis Wu 00:06:02 UTC)
February 15, 2003 Link to this post
Now where the heck is my grunt plushie?
As below, the American International Toy Fair started today, and pictures of the Halo figures on display are already hitting the web. There's a nice collection at Figures.com, including several Halo figures on this and the next few pages (use the "2", "3", and "4" links at the bottom). Thanks to Spartan ][ for noticing this. (Count Zero 14:31:03 UTC)
February 15, 2003 Link to this post
Cortana goes to the fair
According to Team Xbox, the upcoming Halo action figures will be shown at the 100th annual American International Toy Fair in New York, starting... tomorrow. (Anyone who actually makes it to the fair... TAKE PICTURES!) The fair runs through Wednesday, February 19. Thanks to Strato for the heads-up. (Louis Wu 10:11:15 UTC)
February 14, 2003 Link to this post
Speedrunning Halo, revisited
A few days ago, Åstro dropped into our forum to suggest that he was trying to speed-run Halo again. He was shooting for a 90 minute full runthrough, on Legendary. Yesterday, we got mail from Rory Hartley and Bill Copeland, a pair in Calgary, Canada that have done a full run-through on Easy:
| Pillar of Autumn | 5:45 | | 343 Guilty Spark | 8:48 |
| Halo | 15:28 | | The Library | 15:34 |
| Truth & Reconciliation | 14:45 | | Two Betrayals | 13:48 |
| Silent Cartographer | 10:02 | | Keyes | 10:00 |
| Assault on the Control Room | 11:40 | | The Maw | 9:52 |
Total time there: 110 minutes, 52 seconds. (I'd guess this means Åstro's estimate might be a little optimistic...) Rory and Bill weren't counting beginning and ending cutscenes, and they skipped all skippable cutscenes. (It's unclear what rules Åstro and company are playing by.) Could this be the start of some friendly competition? (Louis Wu 12:52:08 UTC)
February 13, 2003 Link to this post
The start of the pics
Finally clearing out some of the backlogged artwork - first up, two desktops in our Wallpaper section. (Louis Wu 11:35:34 UTC)
February 10, 2003 Link to this post
Self Righteous
Whatever problems mythica had recently seem to be cleared up. Therefore, we're going to post the latest movie in the queue for you - it's called 'Self-Righteous', and it was made by Mobius. (We'd planned to release it more than a week ago - and then the hacking craze hit, and suddenly we didn't have the bandwidth for it.) It's 13.7 mb, 3:30 long, in QuickTime format. Timing is quite good... and there's a short clip starting at about two minutes in that I just LOVE. We've mirrored it at the Psyjnir Complex hotline server, if you have trouble reaching mythica - and there should be other mirrors on the way. Enjoy! Update: Whoknew writes to say he's added a mirror. Thanks! (Louis Wu 13:21:30 UTC)
February 10, 2003 Link to this post
Team HBO - at Halo50K
Break Point writes to say that he's started a profile for Team HBO at the Halo50K competition. There are still two positions open - if you're interested in representing our site at this massive Halo competition at the end of April, stop by and sign up! (Break Point asked if there was another official 'Team HBO' before setting this up. There is a team made of HBO Junkies that played recently at the iGames Regionals... but they won't be headed down to Atlanta, so the name was available.) Show what you're made of... and bring the honor of winning (if not the $50k) back to HBO! (Louis Wu 01:45:41 UTC)
February 9, 2003 Link to this post
Stories, stories, and more stories
Been a few days since Fan Fiction was updated - here are 10 more:
- Sarges Platoon, FINAL CHAPTER, by Bobby Lucas
- Project Shadow Spartan: Chapter 2, by Shadow Spartan
- The Battle For Sigma Octanus Chapter 2, by moniter101
- Forest of Black Epsilon, by janglurevil7
- Freelance-Chapter 3, by Bloodcider
- Attack Plan, by Dispraiser
- A Fresh Start, part 4, by Simon James
- Chronicle of Neapolitan Ice Cream Banshee, by Sesshoumaru, Lord of the Western Lands
- And Raise Your Head With Pride! Part 1, by Arthur Wellesly
- Ring Of The Forerunners Part V, by Locke
Hopefully, I'll have time to check the forum tomorrow. (Busy weekend...) (Louis Wu 02:43:45 UTC)
February 6, 2003 Link to this post
Who'da thunk it?
Famine to feast. Within a day of the release of the Halo mod information, we've received 4 NEW hack-related movies (and there's still one non-hack related film in the queue). There's well over half an hour of unreleased footage at this point... we'll start releasing some of it in the morning, but please, please, please - don't send any more right now. :) Look for an update in about 8 hours. (It'll be doled out a movie at a time, every couple of days - we simply don't have the bandwidth for anything else.) (Louis Wu 02:15:15 UTC)
February 4, 2003 Link to this post
Hacking Halo Fun now online
Okay, there are more mirrors coming soon, but here's the starting lineup for the Hacking Halo video - visit the mirror page for all the links we have. As more mirrors come online, we'll add them to the page. (If you're interested in mirroring this file, PLEASE, let us know.) See yesterday's news if this post makes you go 'huh?' - I've got some kids to take care of. (Louis Wu 00:47:11 UTC)
February 3, 2003 Link to this post
Bandwidth needed - NOW!
Desperate call for movie mirrors! Dozi has just uploaded a 20 mb film showing a few of the things you can do with a modded Xbox and the cheat hack mentioned this morning. The problem is... we don't have the bandwidth to serve it up to all who want it! It's going to take a bit of time to re-encode it anyway, but I thought I'd get a head-start on the bandwidth issue. If you think you can support a mirror link for this movie, please - send mail immediately. As soon as we have the best version we can get, we'll get a copy out to you. Once the mirrors have uploaded the files, we'll make them live. Again - mirror sites only right now. Thanks! (Louis Wu 21:00:02 UTC)
February 3, 2003 Link to this post
Team HBO at the iGames Regionals...
Thanks to Miguel Chavez, for the heads-up on the activities of Team HBO at the Halo Winter Season Regional Championship held this weekend. As he mentions in his post, King Games has put up a page devoted to the event - here's a shot of Team HBO kicking some butt in round 1. (They're the team on the left; the head in a white shirt is Miguel, and the four players, left to right, are ninja on fire, neo, konrad9 (I could have those two confused - hard to tell from behind :) ), and KP.) And for a bit of humor, check out the screen names of Krypt, the blue team in the final game. (Louis Wu 17:42:46 UTC)
January 29, 2003 Link to this post
Who is Cortana, anyway?
Wow. I thought I had a handle on Cortana... but I'm starting to wonder. The speculation today started with Mark Simmons - he brings up some pretty intriguing points. Even if you feel you can slough off most of what he says, though... check out barkbat's reply. Wow - there's some serious food for thought in there. (It should go without saying that posts like these are FULL of spoilers - but I'm saying it anyway.) (Louis Wu 22:05:18 UTC)
January 28, 2003 Link to this post
Movies, movies, and more movies
Took some work... but the Movies database has finally been brought up-to-date. 20 films released in the past 2 months are now listed (and searchable). Hopefully, this'll help folks looking for that special film. The most recent addition hasn't even been mentioned here in the news yet - so let me do that now. Athol Productions has created The Blair Halo Project, a nearly-7-minute-long vid which starts, and ends, like the movie it got its name from. (In the middle you'll find gamplay and antics.) It's available in QuickTime and WMV formats, and weighs in at 30 or so megs. (Plus or minus 3, depending on your format.) We've put it up at both Mythica and The Psyjnir Complex Hotline server... but additional mirrors would be very much appreciated. Next up: The Miscellaneous database. (Tomorrow, maybe.) (Louis Wu 18:48:47 UTC)
January 27, 2003 Link to this post
More pics for your screen
Three new desktop images for you; a nice composite of the very old (one of the earliest wallpaper submissions we ever got) and the very new (a Halo 2 shot), a nice cleanup of some magazine art, and more playing cards. Check 'em out in our Wallpaper section! (Louis Wu 05:08:19 UTC)
January 27, 2003 Link to this post
Screens DB up-to-date
A little earlier than usual, maybe, but the Bucs kicked some serious butt tonight, so what the heck. The new Screenshots posted at Bungie.net yesterday have been added to our Screenshots database - unreferenced shots and all. (Louis Wu 03:56:06 UTC)
January 26, 2003 Link to this post
Of Shadows and Dynamic Lighting
Ferrex dropped in for a minute to pass along some tantalizing tidbits about the newest screenshot... and to update the community, in a roundabout way, on where the Halo engine is in lighting progress. Very, very nice to get new info... (Louis Wu 21:40:23 UTC)
January 26, 2003 Link to this post
Screens, screens, and more screens
Nice work by BOLL - he discovered a couple of unreferenced screens on Bungie.net in the newest batch of Halo 2 uploads; one of them has been seen before (in the recent Halo 2 Photo Story), but the other is brand-spankin' new. And a gorgeous shot it is! (Louis Wu 01:28:38 UTC)
January 25, 2003 Link to this post
One More Egg on the Books
A couple of weeks ago, a Halo easter egg that had been discovered back in March was finally documented on Bungie's website - so we've taken this to mean that we can finally include it in our Easter Egg collection. (Originally, Joe Staten asked that we not document it with a screenshot, so that future egg hunters could find it on their own.) The full discovery process is documented in the egg entry. (Obviously, the entry is full of spoilers.) (Louis Wu 12:20:43 UTC)
January 25, 2003 Link to this post
Serious Updates at Tru7h and Recon
Wonga. I sleep, Bungie works. The Tru7h and Reconciliation website has gotten some serious updating... there's boatloads of Halo 2 content now. All of it, as far as I can tell, has been seen before... but it's never been on the official site, and some of it is in better digital form than ever before. You'll find a pair of new desktops (using some of the coolest artwork released in the past few months), some new screenshots (at least two of those are angles we haven't seen before, in digital form), a page of concept art (again, available in magazine scans, but not officially in digital form before), and a whole bunch of new gallery shots (the weapons, especially, are great). Bungie's newest Online Team member, SketchFactor, is responsible for the overhaul... nice work! (Louis Wu 11:12:26 UTC)
January 23, 2003 Link to this post
Pictures for your screen
Three new desktops from fans today - check 'em out in our Wallpaper section. (Louis Wu 20:59:32 UTC)
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