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MacAddict reviews Halo
Blackstar points out that the March 2004 issue of MacAddict magazine contains a nice review of Mac Halo. It got 5 bullets (‘Awesome’ – I miss the Max days of ‘Freakin’ Awesome’, but what can you do?) and does something very few other reviews have done – it adds spoiler-laden pics and descriptions of the later game elements. We’ll post this once it’s off the shelves.
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Range… 20 yards.
Today’s Calvin and Halo is from Warbow – and I’m tempted to get away from this computer and go outside. Really.
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Technical Difficulties.
Today’s Guest One One Se7en comes from SHARPE – and looks at hardware incompatibilities. If you ask me, them Covenant are pretty silly…
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More Lanfest stuff
Dan Chosich has updated his Tetraboxing reminiscences with a writeup, to accompany his movie. Looks like today’s Dan’s birthday, too – Happy Birthday, Dan! Update: Blood, as well, has updated his content – there’s now a text writeup to go with his pictures on Bloodgulch.com.
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Halo may be cut from CPL summer event
The Cyberathlete Professional League is threatening to cancel the Halo portion of its Extreme World Championships 2004, to be held this summer in Texas. Angel Munoz, president of the league, sent out an email to registrants warning that if registration didn’t pick up by Friday, February 13, they would cancel the $50,000 Halo tournament. The admission discount period has been extended until that point; $60/gamer for the 5-day event will increase to $80/gamer after the 13th. Thanks to synide, of Cooked Gamers, via Rampancy.net for the heads-up.
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RvB on G4’s Pulse
tsudico points out that Red vs Blue is on Pulse on G4TV this week. Next air date is today, 2 pm.
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The Bungie Pentathlon Writeup
Yesterday afternoon, Frankie posted a writeup of the Bungie Pentathlon, an event that takes place annually and pits the employees against one another in mortal combat, divided among seniority lines. Frank brings his own inimitable style to the writeup, but fails to obscure the fact that his team (the Newbies) got soundly thrashed by everyone else there – in fact, I haven’t seen such ownage since the 49ers trounced the Broncos in Superbowl XXIV. We got a lot of mail about this one, but the first note came from Pete Brown.
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Yahoo Block To Be Removed
The following missive was received this morning from Yahoo. Yahoo has been blocking mail from Synfibers for more than two months now following abuse of one of our proxy servers by spammers. Unlike many other blacklists, Yahoo does not re-test open relays for at least 60 days, which is why the problem was not resolved before now:
Thank you for contacting Yahoo! Customer Care.
We have retested the IP address you submitted and it appears that the open proxy/relay situation with this IP has been resolved. We have now removed the block from our servers for this IP address and will begin accepting connections again within the next day or so.
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More tidbits… from those who KNOW.
Our Halo Story Page wizards got the pair of Erics, Nylund and Trautmann, to sit down and answer a few questions about the Halo backstory. (I’m pretty sure their methods involved duct tape and a cattle prod.) The result can be found in our Miscellaneous section, to be filed one day on the Interviews page.
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Because it’s there.
Hehe – people are STILL going where nobody’s gone before. Ducain jumped into our forum with a pictorial explanation of a climb he did on Silent Cartographer. I’ve never seen pics of anyone getting up to that particular spot before. Glad to see folks are STILL exploring!
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Playable Pelican
Still catching up… Nick posted a link to a movie of a Pelican in Death Island (Halo PC) a couple of days ago. Looks pretty neat – you can jump in through the front, but vehicles bounce off. Seems like a pretty gnarly assault vehicle; no offensive weapons, but imagine flying 6 or 7 teammates across the map to the opposing base at Pelican speed! Movie is 20 mb, in .rar format; uncompressed, it’s a WMP9 file.
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Halo music used in political video
Mooreburg found a rather strange report – apparently, according to the Palestinian Media Watch organization, the Palestinian Authority is using Halo’s theme in a video aimed at promoting the Palestinian cause. Microsoft has made a statement that the use of the music was wholly unsanctioned. If you decide to participate in the forum thread on this subject, please remember that political discussion is simply not allowed on our forum; keep your comments Halo-related, or the thread will end up locked. (The wider topic is pretty incendiary, and we simply don’t need it here… we’re a game site.)
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Dolbex and 2070Wired weigh in
More Tetraboxing material: Dan Chosich has posted a 25 mb QuickTime movie about his experience (a bit over 2 minutes, movies and photos combined), and Dolbex has posted his own writeup of the trip (Georgia to Connecticut and back in 60 hours – with a LOT of Halo in the middle!) on the Been Mawed site. Good stuff!
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Another word that angers me
Reimagined and its various forms. Holy chirst, can’t these people have the balls to say remake?
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The Llama Speaks
bentllama, the Bungie animator and master of offtopic bizarreness on our forum, sent along a cool link to the CGTalk forum, in which he posted some preliminary (non-Bungie) work on some 3D models of Wonderboy in Monsterland, an old platformer that got released on many, many consoles. (Here are a pair of Commodore64 shots.) With all the time he has to post about pancakes on our forum, and slick models like this one, you wonder how he’s getting those Halo 2 animations finished… can we blame that Fall 2004 date on him?
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One One Se7en visits the Miniature Halo set
SESpider has sent in another episode of Miniature Halo – the set gets a visit from another HBO denizen. It should make you laugh!
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Funny’s Cousin.
One One Se7en looks for new talent for the jokemaking. Whether it’s successful is totally your call.
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I’m Surrounded By Idiots
Halo: Resolution continues the Matrix-like sub-story… and the bad jokes come fast and furious.
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That Halo Screenshot – nosehairs and all
Sector 7 has written an entire article about the new Halo 2 multiplayer screenshot released last week – it’s pretty clear that when a Halo site chooses to analyze a single screen so carefully, it feels the community is starved for content. If you agree, go check this out!
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Halo: Best Competitive Game of All Time
Gantry dropped us a note that Halo was voted #1 Best Competitive Game of All Time on G4 TV’s show “Filter”, episode #223 (beating out Battlefield 1942, Rainbow Six, MechWarrior 4, Starcraft, UT 2003, and several others). Next showing is February 4, at 12:30 pm. Not too shabby!
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