Month: July 2004
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Man, I’d have to clean it… (just kidding)
Ross Mills points out a winnable Limited Edition Halo Xbox, covered by Gabe’s doodling, that will be given away at Penny Arcade’s Expo in late August. As though you didn’t already have enough reasons to try and get there… Update: DOH! I’m as bad at reading as Ross is. Op-ivy points out that this will…
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Halo 2: Bigger, Badder, Uncut.
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/press/0705/halo2.htm?level1=enushome&level2=newsticker&level3=xboxsolutionOne thing they didn’t mention was the 5 days and 40 GB of raw data I had to render out at least three separate times. Plus the tools I had to write to handle movies bigger than 2 GB.Random trivia for the hardcore: I rendered the movies at 1280×960, 30 fps. This is the best…
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Halo 2: Bigger, Badder, Uncut.
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/press/0705/halo2.htm?level1=enushome&level2=newsticker&level3=xboxsolutionOne thing they didn’t mention was the 5 days and 40 GB of raw data I had to render out at least three separate times. Plus the tools I had to write to handle movies bigger than 2 GB.Random trivia for the hardcore: I rendered the movies at 1280×960, 30 fps. This is the best…
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I, Halo
Coolness. If you’re planning on seeing ‘I, Robot’, and your choices of venue include a Loews Cinema… pick that one. You’ll get to see a snazzy new Halo 2 trailer. (Thanks to cman for the heads-up on the trailer, and Frankie for clarifying where you can see it.) Update: It’s not just I, Robot -…
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She Just Needs To Know One Thing…
Stuntmutt finishes up the Female Marine series today with a One One Se7en devoted to my favorite character from Aliens.
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Riding that Pelican… finally.
Ducain pointed out a new vid mentioned on the High Impact Halo forums; it came from a post made by Juggertrout a few days ago. He suggested that object overload could be used to empty the Pelican that flies over the first bridge, allowing space for you on board. (This pelican was the object of…
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Enemy Rundown at Xbox.com
There’s an article over on Xbox.com I’ve never seen before; dunno when it got posted, but Character Close-up: Know Your Enemies is a fun read. (I’m not sure I agree with all the advice – in fact, I think almost every section had something that made me go ‘hmm…’ but it’s a nice complete list.)…
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Those guys are meanies
Top story at TeamXbox today is a Top Ten Villians article – and Halo’s Elites come in at number 2, losing out only to Darth Malak, from KotOR. Armored beasts that resemble what an Alien mother and a Predator father might pump out is a great pace to start when creating a player character nemesis.…
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Just Play Games
Hmm… Play video games with band members (I have to say I’ve never heard of any of them), win prizes. Interesting concept. Details can be found on this page. Thanks to W1ldfire for the heads-up.
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More time for Dew pics
Bungie mentioned yesterday that the deadline for entries to the Mountain Dew Halo 2 contest has been extended until July 21. (This means that the photoshoot has been rescheduled, as well – to July 24.) Thanks, Mad Cow.
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It’s Quiet…
Halo Babies Episode 48 is out today – go check it out. Looks like MC’s been hanging out with Bungie employees…
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GNF Phase 5
Going Nowhere Fast winner Sean Oehrle’s run of Assault on the Control Room is now available for download via BitTorrent. It has been known for some time that by jumping off the first bridge, enemies for MOST of the level will not be spawned (because the trigger to spawn them has been bypassed) – Sean…
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Truth and Recon via Direct Download
Apologies for the delay – the third release of the Going Nowhere Fast winning runs, Truth and Reconciliation, is now available via direct download. 850 people have already grabbed the vid via BitTorrent (along with 2000 copies of the Pillar of Autumn run and 1000 copies of the Halo run) – but I know there…
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Ferrex bleeds too, you know
I’m headed up to see Blackstar pretty soon, so before I go, let me toss out today’s Calvin and Halo, his comment on some potential pitfalls in upcoming level design.
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Halo at 1Up
1up.com has added a new Halo 2 preview today – it looks somewhat familiar, but I can’t find a record of posting it before, so I’m crossing my fingers. Dan Hsu, of EGM, clearly liked the game. Thanks, Anton. (It’s also interesting that Halo AND Halo 2 are on the 1up.com Buzzometer – in 6th…
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Sniper Derby at September Tourney
The Xtournaments Crew points out that they’ve added a Sniper Derby to their State vs State Nationals event in September. Your team’s best sniper will have 1 minute to shoot as many other sniper-equipped players as possible. The event is on Boarding Action, CTF settings (so that the sniper is one color, all targets are…
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Applegeeks goes Halo
Today’s Applegeeks comic is Halo-related; it’s the second half of a story they started a couple of days ago. Thanks to Inky and Black Six for pointing it out.
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New Toys. Happy Happy.
Bungie has posted an article detailing two new figures out from Joyride this month, a Cobalt MC (different from the current Battle-Damage MC at GameStop), available at EB and an Active Camo Elite at Hollywood Video. Looks like Coviehunter made a minor notice of the Elite on our forum today.