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How do you shoot at a moving target?
Hijack found an interesting article about game marketing over at the Hollywood Reporter, via EvilAvatar.com. Beth Featherstone, Director of Marketing of Microsoft Games, talks about how much trouble it can be to market a game with no fixed release date, using Halo 2 as an example. (There are tidbits of nice info in there, too – like the fact that Halo 2 has over 20,000 lines of dialogue in it already.) Give it a read – but don’t look for a fixed date yet!
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Price Drop on the Xbox – coming soon?
Recently, Nintendo cut the price on its Gamecube to $99 (making it cheaper, amusingly, than its Gameboy Advance SP product), in an attempt to regain market share. (It worked; Nintendo sold more Gamecubes in the US in 2003 than Microsoft sold Xboxes.) There’s an article on CNN Money today that suggests that MS might be considering a price drop to the same level by Labor Day – preparing the market for the Xbox 2, maybe as early as next year. (An intermediate drop – to $129 – might happen between now and E3, in May.) Good news for Bungie gamers, anyway… the platform your developer favors is that much cheaper to snarf up! (Thanks to Mr Yun for the heads-up.)
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I Play at HBO.
Comics, Part II: Today’s Guest One One Se7en comes from Gram shows why taunting in multiplayer isn’t always a good idea.
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Comics, Part I
Today’s Calvin and Halo (from Blackstar) looks at obsessions, and their effects on your outlook on life. (Obsessions? What are those?)
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Banshee Handling II: Crash and Flow
A month ago, vector40 wrote an article on Banshee flight tactics. Today, he’s released part 2. It’s entitled ‘Crash and Flow‘, and covers more advanced techniques and strategies. Read the first one, if you missed it… then read this one. It’s currently hosted at Rampancy.net (link above), but should be available at the Junkyard and Subnova in the not-too-distant future.
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Why have nightmares, when you can daydream?
We got an interesting note from Halojunky yesterday:Inspired by the ‘Nighmare’ real armour created a few weeks ago, i made this 117 helmet. It’s made out of corregated plastic card, tin foil and stickytape. I also added a light and a mission camera.
If anyone wants to buy it, im selling it for £499. A bargain for such a high quality item that took 19 years to complete.We couldn’t decide on which of the pics he sent us was best – but they were small enough that we thought we’d show you ALL of them (26k).
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Halo Babies – now with 70% more corn!
Halo Babies has released content a day early this week, because mrsmiley is getting on an airplane tomorrow to come HERE and play some Halo. There are a pair of strips; the first is Gruntsbane’s entry in the Plinth of Art contest (which I liked a lot, but which didn’t get a lot of points due to its lack of Art focus) – the other is a Stuntmutt-submitted One One Se7en/HaloBabies crossover. It’s pretty funny stuff… and you won’t find it in the One One Se7en section here, so go check it out!
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Halo 2 speculation at BGH
Battleground: Halo is running a two-part series called ‘Halo 2: Precognition‘. Part 1, released today, speculates about the characters and races we might see in Halo 2. It is based on information gleaned from the Halo novels and the game itself, and contains spoilers for both. Before anyone gets bent out of shape, remember that Viper is NOT claiming this info to be fact.
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Pictures needed
SESpider wrote to ask for input for his Miniature Halo series. This time, though, he needs pictures. In his words:I need fans, that can, to get images of the inside of a Covenant Cruiser’s Hallways and Cells (and maybe bridge Room).
The Halls:
The Halls can be Empty or with Covenant In them. There can be NO weapon fire, simply because it’ll take too long to edit out. The views can be from above the ceiling or from a walking position. NO Humans whatsoever! But I can edit out Master Chief’s gun if need be.
The Cell Room:
These have to be somewhat well-lit (but normal like) with Covenant walking about. The views can also be from any angle you choose as long as the Covenant inside are not always in the same spot (unless sleeping).
The Cell:
I need a few good low shots from inside the cells (with or without plasma doors). These shots have to have the cell itself empty and looking out toward the Plasma Door or/and ceiling.
I would get these images myself, but I don’t have any decent program to make them large, clean and clear enough for use.
Send to:
Send all images to SEspider2@yahoo.com in Jpeg or Gif Form ONLY. And provide the name you want used when given credit. Once again, Thank you all for the help and ideas you’ve provided.Well… you heard the man! Send him some pics!
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PCMag: HaloPC among best of 2003
=DFA=HK HUNTR-KILLR writes to point out that PC Magazine included Halo PC in their roundup of the best products of 2003 (games category) in the January 2004 issue. (It’s the only pure first-person shooter on the list.) An article showing a small review of the game is online; you’ll have to buy the mag for the rest.
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Halo Toys
Richard White Jr sent us some information about the 2004 toy lineup from JoyRide, straight from its distributor (he’s a retailer). We have no way of confirming this information right now – but it seemed reasonable… It’s too big for a front-page news post, so you can find the list in our MIscellaneous section.
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HBO – on Homelan!
It took a little while, but the kinks have been worked out – and HBO is very proud to announce the presence of two more HBO Halo PC dedicated servers! Thanks to Homelan, those looking for the somewhat different flavor of gameplay on the HBO servers (no-shields BC Shotties, anyone?) can find what they crave at Homelan_HBO_East and Homelan_HBO_West, so named because of their geographical location. Try ’em out, see how good the gameplay is; low ping, low lag – these servers rock! (As with other HBO-branded servers, you can see a status report by clicking the link at the top of our main page. We’ll be setting up a 32-seat Ventrilo server in the next couple of days, so that players can always jump into voice chat when they want to. Come Play With Us! (And don’t forget to let Homelan know that they rock.)
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Whoa – who’s on what side?
Today we have another Miniature Halo for you from SESpider… the plot thickens. So much so, in fact, that he needs your help in advancing it.
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Legendary in 3 hours?
The community has been abuzz with Bungie’s newly released title and for those who have asking for help, your prayers have been answered.
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Halo 2 Mod updated
Obsidian CZ writes to point out a new build of a Halo 2 mod that’s been under development for a while by NiTrOuSoXiDe; it brings a gravity gun, a covenant sniper, SMG, faster warthog, and a powerful plasma cannon (turret) to the game. You can grab a copy from this thread in the Gearbox forums. (The listed server is no longer running this mod, but the mod still works.)
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What’s Old Is New Again
(GT)Juggler has posted GT6 – It’s a Boy!, the newest in a series of tricks/glitches films. This one is full of really early stunts; grabbing the banshees on AotCR, color glitches, unlimited ammo… I felt like a younger man, watching it. (Well, okay, only a couple of years younger, but…) It’s a 33.4 mb 3ivx-encoded MP4; go grab it from HaloGT.com!
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Pictures at 343GS.com
IXIGhandiIXI points out that over at 343gs.com, there’s a new wallpaper in the Downloads section (I find it to be a pretty impressive picture, though I doubt I could ever actually use it as a desktop), and a new Art section has opened up (though only one of the two images shown is actually viewable). Check ’em out!
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Two for the price of one
Wow, I’m not doing very well; I managed to forget yesterday’s Guest One One Se7en strip. Rather than simply skip it, I’m posting it anyway – along with today’s main strip, from Stuntmutt. Yesterday’s, ‘Fr@med’, was Guest number 77, and was created by Someone2die… while today’s, entitled ‘Insult to Injury’, might explain why the MC doesn’t always take as much care saving those marines as he could…
The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft
