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Miscellaneous Section – now up to May 04!
After a very, very, VERY long dry spell, the Miscellaneous section gets the beginnings of an update – another 6 months of entries have been added, thanks to The Morningstar. (To be totally fair, I’ve had the Excel file with these entries sitting on my drive for almost 7 months now – this is NOT his fault, it’s mine.) The good news is, though, that there’s now an easy-to-use interface for adding more entries… so it’s quite possible that this particular subsection of HBO might get caught up soon!
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Halo 2 Tourney in London
There’s a large local tourney in London, this coming Sunday – Halo 2 is one of the games on the block, it’s £5 to play or £3 to watch, and prizes include Xbox360s and lots of other goodies. More info can be found in the press release on GamesIndustry.biz.
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Call for Halo Movie Entries
The DC Independent Film Festival is currently accepting Halo movie submissions – and if you go through MachinimaDudes.com, and your movie is deemed ‘worthy’, you won’t have to pay the $15 submission fee. Details (including length requirements) can be found on the MachinimaDudes front page – the entry form itself contains information about formatting and the like. Entries must be in by November 4, so get cracking! Thanks, Dan Bliton.
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Not To Be Sneezed At.
Sometimes, the real world intrudes on our virtual world, and shows up in Stuntmutt’s One One Se7en. This isn’t really one of those times.
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RoP 2005 – Best Editing, Sound, and FX
That Weasel dropped us a note to say that another Rockets on Prisoner pre-release is out – go grab the vid showing the nominees and the winner for Best Editing, Sound, and FX. Also, an official date has been set for the grand finale – next Sunday, October 23rd, at 8 pm Eastern. Go look!
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MLG LA Results
The full results for the MLG LA tourney can be found over at MLGPro.com – Team3D took the 4v4 title, and Karma beat Ogre 2 for the 1v1 competition. Thanks to 3Suns for the heads-up (who says the Video on Demand coverage of these games was spectacular).
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LiL Poison on GameSHOUT
LiL Poison was part of a roundtable discussion last week that was recorded for a podcast over at GameSHOUT – you can grab it from this page. (It’s the October 13 ‘Roundtable’ link.) Go listen to the youngest pro gamer in the world! 26.6 mb, mp3 format. Thanks, SexyJosh.
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Halo-verse Planetary Scale
Stephen Loftus put together a pretty cool image showing the various relative sizes of the planetary bodies we know about in the Halo universe. This is worth looking at if you’re having trouble pinning down how big, say, the Alpha 4 Halo is in comparison to Jupiter’s moons. The full-sized image is way bigger than your average monitor, so it’s been broken up for navigation purposes.
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SvF Ep 9 Teaser Posted
Sponsors vs Freeloaders has put up a short (36 second) teaser for Episode 9, ‘Faith, Hope, and Duality’, of their machinima series ‘Flamewar’. Their site is currently being crushed (Laird, the host, is today’s Featured User on the RvB site, and has used that position to publicize the teaser), so we’re hosting copies for them – you can grab the WMP9 version (4.4 mb) or the QuickTime version (4.6 mb).
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Rumors, Rumors, and more Rumors
Oh, not again. Gamespot’s Rumor Control has mentioned yet another viral marketing campaign, with the really, really, REALLY low-probability outcome that it’s pointing to an August 1 2006 release date for Halo 3. Go read the Gamespot writeup for details – I’m too tired of this kind of thing to bother summarizing. (It’s not clear to me that the viral campaign is even being run by Microsoft, yet – it’s certainly not clear that Halo 3 is involved in any way – but I’d like to send a note to Microsoft’s marketing department: you’ve mined the viral campaign vein for all the gold you’re gonna get out of it. Move on.) Thanks to Black Six for the heads-up.
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MLG LA Event Coverage at Team3D.net
This came in yesterday, but… well, it’s been a tough weekend here. F13ND is covering MLG LA over at Team3D.net – you can swing by for interviews, preliminary results, and more!
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Previous Commitments
Dang. All this water’s gone to my brain. Burnie posted last night that Red vs Blue Ep 64 would be up for sponsors about 12 hours ago (and for everyone else tomorrow night) – but I spaced. So if you’re a sponsor, go grab a copy. Because Andy is simply the best machinima character ever. And because Tucker is a hero. Sort of. And because Sarge does the Burt Ward thing.
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GDCTV – Bungie on Networking
Very cool. Gamasutra is bringing you a streaming version of Chris Butcher and Bart House’s talk about networking that they gave at the 2005 Game Developer’s Conference. It’s technical – well, obviously, you wouldn’t give a non-technical talk at the GDC – but it’s pretty fascinating stuff for folks who want to see some of the issues and decisions Bungie was dealing with when developing Halo 2. This time around, Google News Alerts beat Roger WIlco by about 5 minutes. (RW’s forum post, however, is a much better place for comments.) For what it’s worth – several other really interesting talks (non-Halo-related) are also available for viewing from that Gamasutra link.
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BSiK’s montage
Z writes to point out BSiK’s montage over at Halo2Forum.com. 70 mb. Snipey Snipey Sticky Sticky. (Halo and Halo 2 footage, combined.) Go watch.
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A rare blend of pluses
Tempus Fugit points out a really positive review for Stubbs the Zombie over at 1Up.com – they felt that the ‘first non-Halo game using the Halo engine’ did a great job of living up to the strengths of its predecessor.
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Stubbs reviews are starting to appear
1UP, the site that was hosting Alex’s ‘blog’ about Stubbs development, has officially reviewed the game. It’s basically a rave review for a fresh ‘strategy/action’ hybrid game that will debut for us mere mortals in just a few days. The highlights they note are really all that we’ve come to expect from Bungie/Wideload… an attention to detail beyond just actual gameplay. There is wit aplenty, and the mantra, coined by Jaime back during the development of Halo 2, of ’30 seconds of gameplay repeated over and over’ (often misunderstood by some as an excuse for level repetition) is fully embraced…
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Stubbs reviews are starting to appear
1UP, the site that was hosting Alex’s ‘blog’ about Stubbs development, has officially reviewed the game. It’s basically a rave review for a fresh ‘strategy/action’ hybrid game that will debut for us mere mortals in just a few days.
The highlights they note are really all that we’ve come to expect from Bungie/Wideload… an attention to detail beyond just actual gameplay. There is wit aplenty, and the mantra, coined by Jaime back during the development of Halo 2, of ’30 seconds of gameplay repeated over and over’ (often misunderstood by some as an excuse for level repetition) is fully embraced in Stubbs.
Those of you planning to purchase the Xbox version of the game when it debuts this Monday, the 17th, feel free to email me a pic of you holding the game or posing it in some creative (non-filthy of course!) manner, I’ll post the pic here if it’s funny/compelling enough.
Once I get mine, I’ll be sure to write a review. Halo 1 and 2 have spoiled me and my itch for the fabled First Person Shooter genre. I wonder how quickly I’ll forget all that as I play a game that’s Third Person and not quite a shooter. It’s my one concern based on previous looks at the game.
UPDATE: Another thumbs-up review, this time from the folks at Gaming Horizon.
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Stubbs reviews are starting to appear
1UP, the site that was hosting Alex’s ‘blog’ about Stubbs development, has officially reviewed the game. It’s basically a rave review for a fresh ‘strategy/action’ hybrid game that will debut for us mere mortals in just a few days.
The highlights they note are really all that we’ve come to expect from Bungie/Wideload… an attention to detail beyond just actual gameplay. There is wit aplenty, and the mantra, coined by Jaime back during the development of Halo 2, of ’30 seconds of gameplay repeated over and over’ (often misunderstood by some as an excuse for level repetition) is fully embraced in Stubbs.
Those of you planning to purchase the Xbox version of the game when it debuts this Monday, the 17th, feel free to email me a pic of you holding the game or posing it in some creative (non-filthy of course!) manner, I’ll post the pic here if it’s funny/compelling enough.
Once I get mine, I’ll be sure to write a review. Halo 1 and 2 have spoiled me and my itch for the fabled First Person Shooter genre. I wonder how quickly I’ll forget all that as I play a game that’s Third Person and not quite a shooter. It’s my one concern based on previous looks at the game.
UPDATE: Another thumbs-up review, this time from the folks at Gaming Horizon.
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Poppin’ Fresh
Well, the last 12+ hours have NOT been spent on Halo-related stuff; if you’re really interested, there’s a short journal entry over at RvB. That doesn’t stop the news from rolling in, though. Frankie was first – no, wait, he WASN’T – in telling us about this week’s Weekly Update… lots of Bungie minutiae, plus a few things that might be of interest to folks who just wanna know how this affects THEM. Things like… oh, well, the Leaderboards on Bungie.net are going away. (Yay!) Things like… a clarification of who’s NOT responsible for the holdup on the Halo 2 Soundtrack, volume 2. You know. Stuff like that. Go read. More news tomorrow.
The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft