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Al SackMaster rides again
Woohoo! A kilometer-long Pillar of Autumn, grenade-hopping, functional teleporters, And the Bumblebee… and MORE! This week’s Halo Update is at Rampancy.net, and it sounds like an extremely productive week. Go read it!
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More symbology
Josh Laird took a closer look at the symbol on the back of the red Covenant (the one that Mike Sholl abstracted a few days ago), and decided that Mike’s drawing might be a bit off. He sent us this one, instead (42K). What’s your call?
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Preview (sort of) at eUniverseGames
Thanks to Aginor, who noted (on our forum) that there’s a new Halo preview over at eUniverseGames.com. Pretty clearly written by someone who didn’t do their homework – screenshots are 18 months old, team list more than a year out of date (and not attributed to its source), and comments like this:For instance, say some annoying fool is snipering your teammates you from a nearby hill, you jump in the nearest truck and drive up to the sniper, get out of the car and cut him up with your knife or shoot him with your AK-47. Then you get back in your ride and a teammate sees you, he jumps in the car and becomes the gunner and takes down other peeps who are in range or enemy aircrafts.
– it’s still a pretty positive review of a game we’re ALL waiting for.
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New Halo preview in PC Gamer UK
fAt1 informs us that he finally got his subscription copy of PC Gamer UK (general release on the 14th) which has a new Halo preview. While there are no new in-game screenshots there is a piece of concept art of the human dropship (woohoo!). Here are some juicey quotes from the article courtesy of fAt1:“As with Half-Life and the other great leaps in gaming, it’s attention to detail that’ll inspire knowing glances among gamers.”
“Stealing their technology isn’t just going to give you some cool ways to blow them to space-chunks, it’s going to be essential to you success in the game.”
“While levels are big, they’re basically designed for recapturing that pillar-to-post fighting feel that was so inspiring in Half-life”
Finally:
“Well, sex sells and Halo, in an eye-meets-game and make beautiful love kind of way, is digital sex… It’s going to be a feverish wait”
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It’s all about the notes
Um… someone who can read music better than I can… is this what it purports to be? Update:SiliconDream says it’s from the Myth TFL level, ‘The Siege of Madrigal’. Shoulda known…
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open-sourced xbox closed down
Loren Petrich notes on our forum that the Indrema is dead. Loren first brought the Indrema to our attention in June of last year – it was to be a linux-based Xbox clone, available before the Xbox. Funding, however, has dried up, and the team has called it quits. You can read the details at Video Business.
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Jjaro good… or bad?
Mike Sholl comes up with another one. The Jjaro, as a source of good, or evil? Drawing on a lot of Marathon backstory, he builds up some theories about the purpose of the Jjaro in the Halo universe… and though he makes some questionable assumptions (foremost amongst them being the idea that the Covenant are out to kill the Marine, specifically, rather than to simply exterminate humanity), there are some interesting thoughts here. You’ll find his ‘Grand Theory Page‘ in our Theories section… and thoughts can be dropped off in our forum.
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Theories section updated
Whoa. From symbols strewn around the Halo to speculation on the origins of language, and quantum computing… Mike Sholl weighs in with a concept-heavy theory relating to symbols found in the E3 2000 trailer. Give it a read… then jump in with your thoughts on our forum!
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Halo to use the Tribes 2 engine?
News flash! We called him a troll, but maybe he knows more than we do! The Bungie Webcam is now showing a new Halo screenshot (here if you miss it)… it IS the Tribes 2 engine! (Before you hit that email link, ask yourself… did we really mean it?) Thanks, Aaron…
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New Storyboard on the Bungie Webcam
Mike Wong was the first to notice that the storyboard on the Bungie webcam has changed – the caption is ‘fighters fly by’. (It’s here if it’s changed by the time you read this.)
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New look at an old symbol
Mike Sholl wants to know why there isn’t more talk about the symbol that appears on the back of the Red Covenant in last year’s E3 movie. While it’s true that Hamish Sinclair has put together a collection of observations of those symbols, nobody’s abstracted them like Mike did (67K). Hmm… that DOES look sort of familiar…
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Pillar of Autumn, sketched
Nice catch by Zypper – the Bungie Webcam currently shows a bit of a concept pic of the Pillar of Autumn – that’s one big ship! (If it’s gone by the time you read this, you can find it here.)
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More tasty Fan Fiction
Young glanced round. The alien’s shot had struck the ceiling, spraying semi-molten metal fragments across the room. One such fragment had passed straight through one of the panes surrounding the central hologram and then straight through the engineer standing at it.
Today must be the day for Final Chapters – Chris Cox sends in part 4 of ‘The Prisoner‘, and the ending twist will keep you hooked. Check our Fan Fiction section for all the details.
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Fan Fiction section updated
“Prepare for dust off and immediate medevac, we’ve got a man down.” “Roger that Group 3, proceed to rendezvous point. Network trackers on-line, we see the enemy, Zulu out.”
Foxhound sends in the final chapter to his ‘Group 3’ story – you’ll find it in our Fan Fiction section. (Remember, you can read the entire story, in order, using the ‘More by this author‘ link in his entry.) Pax.
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Halo SETI Team 7 day stats posted
Dink!… The Halo SETI Marines fall a notch to 49 in the Battle of the Teams, despite the addition of Ghalidrim, and almost 1000 units… It looks like this will be DarthFlounder’s last week at number 4 – even with those 1000 thousand units, he STILL managed to produce a bit over 10% of the total team crunching. Wow! See how YOU’RE doing on the 7 day stats page. (The slight delay today was due to a server glitch here at HBO that you may or may not have noticed this morning – I think we’ve fixed it.)
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Electric Playground looks at the Xbox
Thanks to Char (IMG), who noted (on the R.net forum) that Halo was on TV – you can see a video stream (on a PC, at least) of the show here. Bonus material – there was a Halo preview last month that we seem to have missed… read it now.
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This Grenade’s For You
Last Friday’s update has been added to the Halo Update Database – this week’s search word is ‘grenade‘. See how long it took for Rob to go from ‘hop[ing] to start working on a hand grenade soon’ to being able to read the stenciling…
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Trippy new logo uploaded
Someone dropped us a new entry for our Logos page – if you made it, let us know. I gotta lay off that acid…
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Wallpaper section updated
More goodies in our Uploads folder… we got a nice desktop from LtPlayer with some good muzzle action – you’ll find it in our Wallpaper section.
