Month: July 2008
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The Superintendent’s Sorrow Music Video
Loading Ready Run releases “The Superintendent’s Sorrow” music video.
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Mattrick Says Ryan Laughed Off E3 Snub
I thought this story would fizzle out. If certain people had much any sense, it probably would have. Yet here we are. Eurogamer has an exclusive interview coming up tomorrow with Microsoft’s Xbox 360 boss Don Mattrick. They, of course, asked him about the cancelled Bungie announcement and the studio’s reaction: “Sure they’re disappointed. Any…
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Boring Comics Number One
OddGodHMK wrote to say that the first comic in his news series ‘Boring Comics’ is Halo-related. I can totally relate – any playlist with more than 4 on a team, and I say a LOT of stuff my teammates never hear!(Louis Wu 13:19:03 UTC)
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Microsoft’s Hiring – in the Halo universe
Bryan Young noticed a job listing at Microsoft (via Gamasutra, posted last week) for a “Creative Director – building a new Halo universe”. The listing links to a job description that’s several months old, and doesn’t specify Halo explicitly – recycled description, or just an unfilled position?(Louis Wu 13:06:25 UTC)
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E3 Comments from UK Sites
Couple of news stories about E3 wrapups of interest to the Halo community – Eurogamer will have an interview with Don Mattrick tomorrow, but today they’ve got a teaser in which Harold Ryan (Bungie President) is quoted as laughing off the cancelled project announcement (thanks, Peter Brown). And TechRadar UK talked to Brian Jarrard of…
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Kudos for Halo Wars
PlanetXbox360 gave Halo Wars the nod as the Best Strategy Game in its Best of E3 2008 Awards. Nice! (“No New Halo Game” was also a contender in the “Biggest Surprise” category.)(Louis Wu 12:40:14 UTC)
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What are YOU playing these days?
Major Nelson posted his standard LIVE activity list last night, for the week of July 14… and Halo 3 tops the list for the first time since the week of January 21. Folks have been discussing this (on our forum, among other places), and nobody has a really good explanation as to why (well, why…
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Kotaku: Halo Wars Looks Good
Of course fans expect that a Halo game will look good. Maybe it won’t be the absolutely most edge-bleedingly, envelope-pushingly, buzzword-compliantly beautiful game on the market at release, but it will look good. According to Kotaku, then, Halo Wars is a Halo game, and it looks good: Halo Wars has some impressive visual pop to…
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Halo 3 Back On Top
Well, it’s been awhile since COD4 and Halo 3 did the flip-flop on Major Nelson’s ranking of top games on Xbox Live, but it’s happened again: Halo 3 is number one, and COD4 is number two. Again. How long that lasts is anybody’s guess; perhaps the two games will get back on the seesaw. Until…
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Aleph One Bug Fix Release
Version 0.20.2 of Aleph One, the open source engine for playing Marathon games on MacOS, Windows and Linux, has been released.
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‘Chimp’ Genuinely Fun And Funny
Several websites have picked up a review of Hail to the Chimp by Billy O’Keefe of the McClatchy-Tribune news service, including the Star-Telegram of Dallas, the Miami Herald of Florida, and Macon.com in Georgia. Don’t bother hitting all the links as all the reviews are the same text: Fortunately, “Chimp’s” glitches are sporadic, and they…
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LIVE now free for PC gamers
PC gamers can now give Microsoft’s Games for Windows – LIVE service another look. One of the biggest gripes among PC gamers was the $50 annual subscription fee to LIVE which enabled all of the online gaming features like unrestricted online multiplayer, achievements, stats, and more. At launch, PC gamers were wondering why they needed…
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Games for Windows LIVE – now free
Ross Mills noticed a story on Joystiq explaining that Microsoft has just made the Games For Windows Live service free (it used to be $50/year, just like Xbox LIVE). This means you can play Halo 2 PC online for nada. w00t!(Louis Wu 21:50:51 UTC)
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Buy a Mullins
Okay… this isn’t Halo-related, but it’s still very cool, and the GUY is Halo-related, so… Craig Mullins has done a TON of Bungie-inspired and Bungie-commissioned artwork, and has built a pretty enormous following in this community. (You can see his Marathon-related work here, and his Halo-related work here.) Latekid noticed that he’s selling an oil…
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Halo Corpse Alphabet – Complete
Hawty McBloggy wrote to point out that the Halo Corpse Alphabet is finished… complete with a font. Amazing! Check it out. (Please, though – go easy on the font usage; it’s very cool, but I could see it getting… annoying pretty quickly.)(Louis Wu 20:52:44 UTC)
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Controlling the War(s)
Kotaku has posted an article detailing the control scheme of Halo Wars – go see if it makes sense to you! Thanks, KP.(Louis Wu 20:46:59 UTC)
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Let’s hope it doesn’t start moving.
Al7eredBeasT stopped in with pictures of an infection form plushie he made this weekend… cute!(Louis Wu 17:42:56 UTC)