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Halo SETI Team stats posted
The Halo SETI Marines have still not climbed back into the top 50 in the Battle of the Teams… but our chances are improving. Adam, who joined the team last week, blasted his way up the charts this week, snagging both La Crunch Honneur (172 units) and the Frogblast Award (an astounding 352 positions climbed) – the added crunching power puts us within striking distance of the Austin Shaggers, who hold the position above us. Are you doing YOUR part? Check the 7 day stats to see!
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thirteen feet of meat and bone
We’ve added last week’s Halo Update to the Halo Update Database (which is now easily searchable from our forum, btw). The most-discussed entry is the ‘thirteen feet of meat and bone‘ entry, discussing the penetration capacity of the sniper rifle… but Marcus’ hormone therapy gives a new insight into the lovely gorgeous waterfalls he was working on a while back…
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Online Universe is… well, online
The Watcher writes to let us know that The Online Universe is up and running. This is a site devoted to giving game publishers and developers some insight into the needs/wants of the gaming public – so it needs YOU, the gaming public, to visit and make your needs/wants known.
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Hormone Therapy at Bungie Studios
This week’s Halo Update is over at Haloplayers… lots of bug fixes and art stuff. Marty and Jay auditioned some potentially surprising actors for voice parts… and oh, yeah, Marcus got a sex-change operation. Check out the details at HP.
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Gaming Site Interviews continue
Ack – we missed it! Adam ‘Barak’ Perfect, of Haloplayers, was interviewed for the Junkyard’s continuing Gaming Site Interview series yesterday. Go check it out!
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Counterstrike meets Halo
Stephan from Germany sends us this link – we tried Babelfish, but it choked on the translation, so we have no idea what it says… but hey, a composite is a composite, right? (They should have added a shadow, I think.) Update: Nick Rolfe informs us that Babelfish works just fine if you remember the umlaut – the translation is something like ‘Terror Fight in the year 2098’. I think I liked it better when I didn’t know…
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Poetry… but it’s short
The shortest Fan Fiction in our archives, I think… Vector40 starts the poem he finished a week ago. You’ll find it our Fan Fiction section. (We’d give you an excerpt, but it would probably be the whole thing…) There’s more to come, we hear. Take THAT, Ape Man…
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Grunt manhood rituals?
Lorraine Reyes (currently of the Phoenix team) weighs in with an explanation of those large protrusions found on the backs of the grunts. Maybe there needs to be more inter-team communication at Bungie Studios… or maybe Lorraine needs to cut back a bit on the coffee. (And before we get too much earnest mail from well-intentioned fans… yes, we know she was joking.) As theories go, though, it’s as good as anything out there right now…
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More Fan Fiction for you
Tursas sends in the next installment of his ongoing fan fiction saga, Hermes Trismegistus. This is starting to get… weird. Just read it.
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The Roman Guard now recruiting
Haloplayers brings word of a Halo clan, The Roman Guard, that is currently actively recruiting for new members. If you’re interested, stop by and sign up! Update: Thomason writes to tell us that the Halo Guard is not a Halo clan – it’s a division of the Roman Federation, which is a Halo clan. So a Halo clan division is recruiting – apologies for the misrepresentation. (I guess this means that if you’re accepted, you’re not a full member of the Roman Federation, or something… you’ll have to check with them.)
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Black Ops gets 2 more chapters
Battleground: Halo has put up two more chapters of its fan fiction opus, ‘Black Ops‘ – it’s up to 12 chapters now. If you haven’t read it, go check it out. (As far as I know, it’s the only Halo-related fan fiction on the web that’s NOT in our Fan Fiction archive.)
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Raise your glass to Tru7h!
Marginally Halo-related, definitely bungie.org-related: just in time for MacWorld, bungie.org has unveiled its first t-shirt, featuring many of your favorite Bungie characters (including the Halo Marine). It’s pretty, it’s high-quality, and it costs between $5-17, depending on how you pay for it – go take a look!
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Halo SETI Team 7 day stats posted
The Halo SETI Marines have a new top cruncher today – Niklas Brunberg processed 150 units to claim La Crunch Honneur. This pulled him within 11 spots of the top 100 team members, and gave him second place in positions climbed, as well – beaten out by Croz, who leapfrogged 61 teammates to take the Frogblast Award. And who is that new guy on the team… ‘msoell’? Why does that name sound familiar? Check all the details on the 7 day stats page. Pax.
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Halo Update Database made current
Last week’s Weekly Update has been added to the Halo Update Database – go play with the search page. How long from conception to finished map? Ask Hardy. It’s like a jar of Ragu; it’s in there…
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Dang, Louis – open that mouth!
The Junkyard Gaming Site Interview series continues… and today’s contestant is our own Louis Wu. Looks like he’s been taking brevity lessons at the monastery… his answers are pretty short. You can tell how old he is, though.. just check out question 15. Pax.
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Unreal 2 Designer looks to Halo
Ph.D. points out (thanks to MSXbox) that GameSurge has interviewed James Parkman, Senior Level Designer for Unreal 2. At one point, he’s asked what games he’s looking forward to… and the answer is amusing:As for FPS games, I’m looking forward to playing Red Faction and Halo, as much to analyze as to have fun (maybe more ;-).
Nice to see that the competition isn’t saying they’re ignoring Halo…
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Fan Fiction section updated
Blossoming open into a surreal starburst of fire and smoke, the blast sent the Wraith wheeling off towards the sea, and its concussion bowled over the Elite and most of the Grunts alongside the tank. Jackals flew into the air, screaming and spinning, discharging their plasma rifles in random directions, before they were lost in the billowing cloud of dust and sand thrown up by the explosion. “SPNKR, get back up!”
Ape Man‘s latest fan fiction, ‘The Mantled Wings of Angels‘, puts a good chunk of the Halo dev team (and even part of the Phoenix team) into a battle for their lives… check it out in our Fan Fiction section.
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Dogs of War have been let loose
William Malmi writes to say that the Dogs of War squad has changed servers, and updated their site. There are some new rules of behavior, designed to improve performance of the squad… stop by and check it out.
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Mirroring can be painful
MichiganJ.S has asked us to pull his server’s listing (CitrusV) from the GameStar movie mirror list, because the huge demand caused him to go way over his bandwidth limit (9.5 gigs in 2 days). Folks – it’s not unusual for a new Halo movie to be downloaded by 10,000 people or more. At 30 megs a pop, that’s more than 250 gigs of downloads… if you add your server to a mirror list that contains 10 other sites, you can count on traffic increasing by AT LEAST 10 gigs almost immediately. (I bet FilePlanet served over 100 gigs of that movie.) As much as I hate the idea of discouraging folks from volunteering with mirror space… PLEASE be aware of what you’re getting into before you do so. Thanks.
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Let’s get that bitch in there…
Matt’s Weekly Halo Update surfaced at Battleground: Halo this week – and it’s tasty. Lots of Sin-O-MaTiXXX stuff, some good multiplayer morsels, and the Shadow is out again. (Oh, and Jason’s listening to some scary stuff.) Go check it out!
The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft
