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March 23, 2002 Link to this post
Maw 700 Contest 2 - Complete!
It hasn't been without roadblocks, but the Maw 700 has finally come to a successful conclusion. Contest 2, in which participants needed to get from one end of the Maw Run to the other with Maximum Style, closed 27 hours ago - but instead of a few screenshots (and a well-defined goal, as Contest 1 had with its time target), the judges had to get hold of 4 separate 15-megabyte files (a feat in itself), rate them on content and composition, and come to a consensus on the conclusions - something that took a bit longer than we'd anticipated. Then, we had to make sure the files were hosted, so that visitors could download and view them for themselves - major thanks go out to Brian Towne, of mythica.org, and Vector40, of The Repertory, for handling this part. All our ducks are finally lined up now, though, so stop by the Maw 700 Contest 2 page for all the details! (Louis Wu 02:43:08 UTC)
March 22, 2002 Link to this post
Starcraft now gets Sidewinder
Whoa - a new fad has started. Bezerk Fury follows the lead of Jonathon Cairns, and creates another Starcraft map - this time of Sidewinder. (It's 40k.) The question is... can anyone do the SOLO levels? :) (Louis Wu 14:38:25 UTC)
March 21, 2002 Link to this post
Maybe it should have been 'donut'
The Halo plot hole defined by this quote from Truth and Reconciliation:
While the Covenant had us locked up in here, I overheard the guards talking about this ring world. They call it... "Halo."
has been discussed extensively on our forum. (Why could Keyes understand what the guards were saying when the super-duper translator in our own suit can't even do that?) However, Master Chief IV used this line to ask an even better question - why, if Keyes is just now learning what the Covenant call this ring, does the screen behind him on the bridge of the Pillar of Autumn ALSO call it 'Halo'? (Yes, it's just a game. Bungie makes few enough mistakes like this, though, that it's worth pointing them out when they DO happen.) (Louis Wu 10:39:02 UTC)
March 20, 2002 Link to this post
Long, sappy bandwidth thanks
And now, a word from our sponsors... in a manner of speaking. One of the most enjoyable aspects of the Halo community is the ability to see what insane - erm, intrepid people are doing to push the Halo engine. However, because Halo's got no built-in film feature, stunts have to be recorded as video... and video eats bandwidth like Homer Simpson eats donuts. We'd like to take this opportunity, then, to thank some of the bandwidth providers from this community (and point out the newest files they have for you to download):
- Mythica.org - Brian Towne has been here since Day 1, pretty much, and has provided homes for most of the high-ticket items out there. He hosts all the iBonk movies, as well as almost everything that's been mentioned here at HBO. Latest morsels: Eleet Ops Faction's Various - EOF film, and the Xbox Goodies that disappeared recently from Team Xbox.
- The Repertory - Vector40 started this site up with the express purpose of giving a home to homeless movies. Latest tidbits: Various - EOF and Dan Chosich's Montage Video.
- That Weasel Television - That Weasel started off with the Warthog Jump movie, but has recently put up the Xbox Goodies (both the full package and the music tracks by themselves), and created an HBO Video Mirror page in case there is more to add.
There are others, of course... but these three had new content RIGHT NOW. :) To all in the community that make it possible for us to keep people informed about the latest funkiness... thanks! (Louis Wu 18:21:59 UTC)
March 20, 2002 Link to this post
XBox Japan goodies for grabs
Alan Wu did the community a nice favor, and extracted all the interesting stuff off the Xbox Japan site we mentioned yesterday. Three music clips (in MP3 format), and a bunch of mini-screenshots... plus one bizarre grunt sound. All in a package only 260k! Grab it today. (Louis Wu 17:40:49 UTC)
March 19, 2002 Link to this post
Japanese Halo site up - nice!
Nice find by protexts... The Official Japanese Halo site is up, and it's not simply a copy of the US site (as so many others are). Nice Flash layout, nice music, good screenies (if a bit too small). Now if only I could read Japanese... (Louis Wu 10:23:03 UTC)
March 17, 2002 Link to this post
Links, Links, who's got the links?
Link action - halo24.de is now listed correctly on our Links page, and Silent Halo has been added. German Halo action and... some rather strange pictures, respectively. Additionally, we got word from Cal that he's started a new Xbox portal site, to help people find Xbox-related sites. We decided a long time ago that we weren't going to include Xbox sites in our Links section (there are too many of them, and this isn't an Xbox site, it's a Halo site) - but if you want to check it out, look at Xboxx.org. (Louis Wu 16:50:48 UTC)
March 15, 2002 Link to this post
Multiplayer pointers at drunkgamers.com
Drunkgamers.com has started a new feature - It's a section with multiplayer pointers, accompanied by movies. The first one shows a nice flag recovery in a game of CTF Pro - and some damn good pistol shooting. guS, of drunkgamers, says to expect regular updates with more movies and pointers in the coming days. Worth a look! (Louis Wu 18:35:51 UTC)
March 13, 2002 Link to this post
The Egg Page grows
Three months ago, it was discovered that a piece of music written for the Bungie game Myth could be heard from a difficult-to-get-to spot at the end of Assault on the Control Room. Recently, it was learned that the same piece of music could be found in another, also-difficult-to-get-to spot at the start of the same level. We've added this information (including video documentation) to the Easter Eggs page. Interestingly enough, that particular piece of music, in sheet form, showed up on the Bungie webcam almost a year ago - does this mean we can date the inclusion of this particular pair of eggs? (Louis Wu 17:21:54 UTC)
March 13, 2002 Link to this post
What programmers write when nobody looks
Heh - the digging has started. Someone hacked around with their Halo disc, and found some interesting strings buried deep in the code - check 'em out. Evidence that cheats ONCE existed, at least... and some pretty funny (if colorful) error language. Definitely PG-rated for strong language. Thanks to Ray Rose for the heads-up on our forum! (Louis Wu 15:46:10 UTC)
March 13, 2002 Link to this post
Mirrors for the Montage Video up
Ask and ye shall receive. Three kind bandwidth mavens have proffered up connections for the newest Halo vid - we can call it the Montage Video. You can grab it at:
- Mythica.org (Thanks, Brian!) - HTTP
- The Repertory (thanks, Vector40!) - HTTP
- Psyjnir.com (Thanks, Psyrixx and *Ar!) - Hotline
More when we hear about 'em! (Remember, this puppy's 20 megs large, 320x240 in .wmv format, and just under 4 minutes long.) Be sure to option-click or right-click the http links - otherwise, you might get a load of junk on the screen. (Louis Wu 05:29:47 UTC)
March 12, 2002 Link to this post
XGamer Halo review up at Games Radar UK
A new magazine called Xgamer went onsale in the UK last month, and the first issue contained a 12-page Halo spread. (We'll be posting scans, courtesy of Ghôlsbane, later this week, when issue 2 hits the stands.) In the meantime, though, Games Radar UK has put up a chunk of the text of the spread - most of the actual review part is there. You can read the review now (they gave it a 9/10), and check out the added details later, when the scans go up. (We've added this one to our Reviews database, and put the 11 screens into our Screenshots database.) Thanks to Ghôlsbane for the heads-up on the online review, as well! (Louis Wu 18:54:07 UTC)
March 12, 2002 Link to this post
Psyjnir Complex isn't dead yet
Psyrixx dropped us a note to let us know that they're working hard on bringing the Psyjnir Complex back online. In the meantime, he's redrawing the comic series he started before the server melted - with more detail than the first time. Check back every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for a new comic - until the site's online, they're not going to be archived, so if you miss 'em, you miss 'em. (Louis Wu 06:34:25 UTC)
March 11, 2002 Link to this post
Fanfest action, webcam-style
Freewill has put up a video comprised of over 1500 webcam snapshots taken over a 14 hour period... it's 6 megs, and shows (mostly) the projection screen we used for the first 12 hours or so. However, there are people shots, as well... if you've got a fast connection, give it a look! (Louis Wu 13:49:30 UTC)
March 7, 2002 Link to this post
A new challenge
Regarding the new images posted at Tru7h and Reconciliation yesterday - Dave Candland has thrown down the gauntlet, with respect to this picture:
Regarding scrn_084.jpg, you're going to have to scrutinize very closely to find this one. The hippo was all over the place. This image can only be found in one location. I'll be surprised if this is discovered by Easter.
Will it be you that finds it? Where will you look? The race is on! (Louis Wu 18:38:23 UTC)
March 6, 2002 Link to this post
Truth and Recon updated - cool stuff
Games Magazine afficionados will recognize the latest batch of Screenshots at Bungie's Tru7h and Reconciliation site as a fun game of Eyeballs - can you figure them all out? (Don't play this game if you haven't played Halo...) Additionally, a new section (inspired in part by an HBO fan request) has opened - Desktops. Getchyer official Bungie wallpaper here! Thanks to mnemesis for the heads-up. (Louis Wu 21:50:25 UTC)
March 2, 2002 Link to this post
Halo icons galore
More icons for everyone! Liquidex has redone his as a WIndows icon file - you can grab it here. For those among you for which .ico files are very hard to use (you can count me in that group), the .gif version at the start of this post is the same image. Also, Djoey.154 created a whole series of .ico files (which I've also converted to something a bit more web-friendly) - you can see all of them here. (Louis Wu 00:29:52 UTC)
March 1, 2002 Link to this post
26 light years and no time to sleep
Another look at a post-Halo possibility, from drexx - Earth: Combat Evolved picks up where Halo leaves off, and the action starts right up. You'll find it in our Fan Fiction section. (Louis Wu 02:09:29 UTC)
March 1, 2002 Link to this post
Start your engines...
Think you're a l33t Warthog driver? Can you do donuts on the back of a Pelican, while your gunner takes out the swarming Banshees? Do you love nothing more than the smell of engine grease on your armor? If the answer to any of these questions is yes, your Sarge wants you! (Your psychiatrist probably wants you, too, but that's no concern of ours.) Grab your grease gun and head on over to the Maw 700, an honest-to-goodness bungie.org contest! Submissions are accepted beginning now, soldier. (Louis Wu 00:00:00 UTC)
February 23, 2002 Link to this post
New Halo Links (and catching up)
Whew! 1600 forum posts and two extra-heavy titanium-alloy drillbits (needed to remove the lock from the command center here at HBO Central, since Count Zero wouldn't open it voluntarily) later, I'm finally caught up with older material. We'll start with the easy stuff; there are a couple of Halo websites to inform you of. Halo Norge is a general Norwegian Halo site (it's pretty annoying to see scans I created myself with someone else's imprint on them, but hey...), and iBonk.com is a very nicely done Halo Movies site, containing clips of everything from funny sequences to tutorial-type demos. (iBonk isn't new, exactly - but we've neglected to bring it to our readers' attentions before now.) These have been added to our Links list. Wallpaper update coming soon. (Louis Wu 21:57:17 UTC)
February 23, 2002 Link to this post
Time, now, to break for the door
I've just received word that Louis Wu is back from his vacation. That means that all the content I've been too lazy^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hunable to post will go up pretty soon, probably as soon as Louis gets Security to break into the control room and remove me. Oh well, I was starting to miss that basement anyway... (Count Zero 03:26:21 UTC)
February 13, 2002 Link to this post
Tweeter LANfest described
Lophan has posted a Halo @ Tweeter Day postmortem on our forum, detailing the goings-on this past weekend of the Philly Halo Anonymous chapter of the Seventh Column... if you weren't there, you missed up to 15 players fragging each other on huge bigscreen HDTVs for over 6 hours. (Freewill, another attendee, posted a couple of pics recently.) Wow... a 2 hour, 6x6 CTF game... ouch. Go read it! (Louis Wu 03:00:47 UTC)
February 11, 2002 Link to this post
Warthog Jump goes WMV
Cybrfrk writes to say that he's put the Warthog Jump movie up on his site in .WMV format (with permission) - sound quality is pretty low, but for folks having trouble with QuickTime, this might be the way to go - plus, it's only 8.5 mb. (He's also started his filmed cutscene collection - the Maw final cutscene (non-legendary), as well as the final credits, are now up.) We've added the Warthog Jump link to our mirror list. (Louis Wu 00:51:10 UTC)
February 10, 2002 Link to this post
Mac Hall and the Xbox
Not fully Halo news... but it's pretty funny: This week's Mac Hall comic at Inside Mac Games focuses on the inline safety release built into each Xbox controller from Microsoft. (Interestingly enough, the Mac Hall general response to this feature characterizes them strongly as PC (as opposed to console) gamers - almost every console gamer I've talked to about this thinks it's brilliant, and that every controller should contain this feature. Hell, I thought it was silly... until the first time I backed away from the screen, trying to avoid that charging Hunter, and accidentally knocked my chair over backwards; that inline release saved a lot of equipment that day (as well as my game; instant pause until I reconnected, giving me time to regain my equilibrium.) It's a good thing, I think... but that doesn't mean it's not fodder for the Mac Hall Funny Machine. :) Plus, it gives 'em a chance to take a shot at the size of the Xbox...) Thanks to Vector40 for the heads-up. (Louis Wu 16:03:12 UTC)
February 9, 2002 Link to this post
Screenshots db updated
The Screenshots database has been updated with the 25 new shots that go along with the Legendary walkthrough of PoA - there are spoilers in here... but some of these shots are just amazing. (Louis Wu 01:23:40 UTC)
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