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December 19, 2002 Link to this post
PC Mag says Halo's the best
Lophan points out that the January 2003 issue of PC Magazine lists Halo as one of the best products of 2002 (yes, even though it was an Xbox exclusive for the entire year). Their description of the game is a little odd:
"As the Master Chief, you can shoot with semiautomatic pistols, rocket launchers, and assault rifles. At the same time, you can raid underground labs and rescue fallen comrades. Prepare yourself for a major story twist in the middle."
But hey - press is press, and it's actually something for a PC magazine to vote a console game 'one of the best products of the year'. It'll probably win again for 2003, since it'll be a PC game during that year... (Louis Wu 21:52:19 UTC)
December 18, 2002 Link to this post
Free Mini PEZ? Dude - I'm there.
A couple of interesting images for you... Martino sketches the Master Chief, and Brian Josselyn finds another marketing test. (Hey, I'd buy 'em...) Find both images in our Miscellaneous Art section. (Louis Wu 18:38:09 UTC)
December 13, 2002 Link to this post
Wonga.
A cornucopia of random art submissions for you today... bikeman and Kyle turn in Yellow Banshee-related pieces, Warbow shares a pretty funny postcard he received, and CYBRFRK passed along a pair of Master Chief sightings in major US cities. (Looks like this might be a rough winter for the MC...) You'll find all the goodies in our Miscellaneous Art section. (Louis Wu 19:27:11 UTC)
December 9, 2002 Link to this post
That Poor MC...
Bonk comes back from a pretty long absence with a new cutscene blooper vid; 10.5 mb, 2 and a half minutes, in QuickTime 5 format. Messin' with the Master Chief in the Shafted cutscene... to see what you can do with Bungie's prescripted stuff, go check it out at iBonk.com! (Louis Wu 05:09:00 UTC)
November 21, 2002 Link to this post
What's in a Voice?
Back in August, Mr.Poke discovered a pretty cool mp3 of some of Jen Taylor's voice acting credits. It's pretty fun to hear 'Cortana' selling body wash and chicken strips. It never occurred to me, or to anyone else who communicated with me, to look for other Halo voice actors... but today Stuntmutt found a similar file for Steve Downes, the voice of the Master Chief. That got me to do a bit of digging... and armed with The Names Behind The Voices, and the archives of Voicebank.net and The Talent Group, you can find clips from a large number of Halo voice actors. Moviemakers... start your engines! (Louis Wu 14:21:30 UTC)
November 20, 2002 Link to this post
A story and a poem
Just a couple of entries in the Fan Fiction database today:
- HALO: Pilots of Autumn, by Jake Anderson
- Sestina to Master Chief, by Megan Swaine
For those who don't know what a sestina is, you should read this. (Louis Wu 20:11:36 UTC)
November 17, 2002 Link to this post
Artwork stuff
Quiet weekend for Halo news, mostly because I'm taking it off with my family. :) Spec Ops Elite has sent in an image he calls the Covenant Homeworld... you'll find it in our Miscellaneous Art section. And to whoever uploaded a pretty cool-looking Master Chief/Xbox wallpaper from Switzerland yesterday... we only got the first 250k of it; could you try again? (And please - identify it while you're at it. Thanks!) (Louis Wu 02:32:21 UTC)
November 15, 2002 Link to this post
Chief's Bad Day
Mark Couto has put together a 5 minute video showing how bad a day the Master Chief can really have. The first 3 minutes are deaths by explosion... lots and lots of them. (Good views of various levels.) The last 2 minutes are a slight reworking of the final sequence in Halo. (Punchline's near the end.) Yes, there are lots of spoilers. It's in .wmv format, but the data rate is low enough that even Mac users should be able to watch it. Mythica's hosting this, all 17.7 mb of it. Enjoy! Update: This has been mirrored on Pez's ftp server. Thanks, Pez! (Louis Wu 18:36:16 UTC)
November 7, 2002 Link to this post
Man, those are purty.
How much would you pay for a Master Chief patch? How about a Legendary one? Warbow's just designing them, not actually producing them, but I bet if there were interest... (Louis Wu 20:35:42 UTC)
November 7, 2002 Link to this post
Warthog Shopping Carts - Yeah, Baby!
The boys over at Battleground: Halo have wrangled a bit of time with the Master Chief, and have posted an interview with the guy. Always nice to get a view behind the curtain! (Louis Wu 15:38:48 UTC)
November 1, 2002 Link to this post
I want candy - NOW.
Forum regular Warbow sent his son out for trick-or-treating last night as a Master Chief. You can see his post (and the resultant thread) on the forum, and we've added a local copy of the pictures. Now that's fatherly dedication! (Louis Wu 15:19:26 UTC)
October 29, 2002 Link to this post
Halo Electronica
SilverBrin****, of The Psyjnir Complex, has created another piece of Halo fan music. In SB's words:
Think Halo meets Oni... If the Master Chief and Konoko were out clubbing, you might hear this....then again mb not not :(.
It's interesting. I have trouble hearing the Halo influences in places... but you should check it out for yourself! Just under 3 megs, in MP3 format. And yes, this means I'm gonna get off my butt and set up a Fan Music section to this site... Soon™. (Louis Wu 11:23:51 UTC)
October 24, 2002 Link to this post
Man, how cool is that?
Dang, and it's times like these I wish I had a webcam. BOLL has created yet another Flash masterpiece; this one's a bit larger (640K), and requires that you have a webcam attached to your PC... but if you do, you can put your own face behind the visor of the Master Chief! (Three different image options.) Check it out. (Louis Wu 09:22:12 UTC)
October 14, 2002 Link to this post
Is that an MC in your pocket...?
Got an iPAQ, Jornada or a T-Mobile Pocket PC Phone? Want a Master Chief theme for your Today Screen? Thanks to Jack Ash, you can grab one from our Miscellaneous Art section. Cool! (Louis Wu 04:18:52 UTC)
October 10, 2002 Link to this post
Killing Time
Ack! A piece of artwork came in a couple of days ago - slipped by in the confusion. Recovered, now... you can find it in our Miscellaneous Art section. What the Master Chief is doing in his off hours... (Louis Wu 09:38:46 UTC)
September 30, 2002 Link to this post
Is that what I think it is?
Whoa... truth or fiction? We got this pic of a master chief model - it comes from a friend who works with ERTL toys. You make the call. (I hope it's real!) Update: picture has been yanked; too much potential trouble for all involved. Sorry... (Louis Wu 20:55:50 UTC)
September 26, 2002 Link to this post
Hi-Res Halo 2 madness from X02
Whoa. GameKult seems to have put up a collection of very high resolution shots from Halo 2 - all have been seen before, but none at this quality level. (Some have only been seen in leaked magazine scans, as a matter of fact.) There are 18 images, including several renders of the new Warthog, a bunch of bumpmapping demos of the Master Chief, and some hi-res stills from the trailer. These have been posted to several Xbox forums around the web - usually without attribution. Go to the source! (Louis Wu 09:04:15 UTC)
September 16, 2002 Link to this post
Tinker to Evers to Chance...
BOLL has created a nice Flash animation showing the cool bumpmapping of the Halo 2 Master Chief. We'll add it to the Miscellaneous section soon. (Louis Wu 01:24:23 UTC)
September 10, 2002 Link to this post
Killer Artwork
The Master Chief without a helmet? Wow. The Miscellaneous Art section gets an impressive submission, thanks to Covenant. (It was all done in Photoshop.) Take a look! (Louis Wu 14:31:25 UTC)
August 29, 2002 Link to this post
Master Chief - tomorrow?
Heh - this story has been floating around for a while, but the comic-book-ripoff angle is new for me, and pretty amusing. The US Army solicited proposals for a nanotech suit for the soldier of the future. (The concept art looks vaguely familiar...) If you want to read some background on the project, see this article at the New Scientist. MIT won the grant ($50 million)... but now have a little bit of trouble explaining how a comic book hero ended up in their design proposal. Thanks to Bowser for the heads-up! (Louis Wu 17:28:09 UTC)
August 26, 2002 Link to this post
They keep writing...
A bunch more Fan Fiction for you:
- Revolution, part 2 and part 3, by Gruntkiller
- The Mis-adventures of master chief, part 5, by el_halo_diablo
- Fafnir, part 4 and part 5, by KnightmareWolf
- Rise To Honor, part 20, by Shadow
Take a look... (Louis Wu 19:31:12 UTC)
August 14, 2002 Link to this post
Homeless Movies Find Homes
Even when we say no, someone says yes. Kevin Chambers' movie 'The Drunk Master Chief' was turned down here for hosting because it didn't meet our (rather stringent) posting guidelines... but it's already found 2 homes: Haloid is hosting it on the web (last item on the list), and the Psyjnir Complex is hosting it via Hotline (go to Files, then Halo -> Movies). 14 megs, .wmv format... go for it! (We've got a pair of homes lined up for the larger movie mentioned this morning, as well - just ironing out some details.) (Louis Wu 21:19:33 UTC)
August 14, 2002 Link to this post
Movie Bandwidth needs...
It's happening again. :( Recently we had two movies submitted to us (different submitters) containing interesting gameplay clips put to music. They're very different - one focuses on a Master Chief who can't drive, is in .wmv format, is almost 9 minutes long, and weighs in at 14 megs, the other focuses on what happens when plasma grenades and warthogs get together, is in .mpeg format, is almost 5 minutes long, and weighs in at almost 50 megs - but they have the same problem - they need a home, and neither one meets our Movie Posting Guidelines. The Halo 2 trailer is on the horizon, some other very promising pieces are coming soon, and some of our biggest bandwidth donors are facing troubles of their own... bandwidth is really, really tight. :( If anyone wants to help out with either of the files mentioned above, let us know - we'll send 'em off to you, and post a link (and our grateful thanks). If anyone has a large, unused bandwidth pipe that they are just aching to fill-drop us a line, we'll set up a movie mirror, and thousands of Halo fans will love you. (Louis Wu 16:42:14 UTC)
August 13, 2002 Link to this post
Mighty Morphin' Master Chief
Griffon has created a couple of morphing animations to show the difference between the Halo MC and the Halo 2 MC. You can find MPEG versions on his page here (the version with a background is 288K, the version matted on white is 256K), or you can grab local .mov versions (morphinchief.mov is 261K, mmwhite.mov is 296K). Go Go Gadget Assault Rifle! (Louis Wu 13:47:01 UTC)
August 8, 2002 Link to this post
Trailer description at GameSpot
For those who can't wait for the Halo 2 Trailer, GameSpot has put up a synopsis of what you'll see. You also get a taste of the Halo 2 story - here's a snippet of it:
As the Master Chief enters the hangar, it is revealed that his spacecraft is orbiting Earth--and that Earth is under heavy fire from Covenant warships. The Covenant are the enemy race from the original Halo game, and it seems that they have found the human homeworld and are seeking to destroy it outright. Therefore, the Master Chief's new mission is clear: defend Earth and save humankind.
Thanks to Nijhazer for the heads-up. (Louis Wu 17:43:12 UTC)
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