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Baddies in tights
Oh, my. I’m not even sure how to explain this. Well… first read the thread (it actually gets relevant here), then look at the picture. And then wonder about the free time Halo fans have… and be afraid. Be very afraid.
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Three different X-boxes?
Three different X-boxes? Daily Raider UK have an interview with J Allard of Microsoft concerningX-box’s global roll-out. Here’s a quote:DR-UK: If you buy a game in Japan, will it work on a UK X-Box?
J Allard: That’s up to the publisher. We’ll build three different boxes, one for each territory, and what thepublisher can choose to do is: they can make one disc that runs worldwide. Or they can make a disc thatonly runs in the US. Or they can make a disc that runs in Europe but has all the languages. Or they canmake a different disc for every language in every territory – it’s really up to the publisher. We hear frompublishers that there are a couple of reasons why they don’t want all games to run always worldwide.
The HBO Spin: Different boxes for different territories? Sounds like DVD region specific players. It’ll be interesting to see if Bungie fans outside the US will get Halo at the same time as those in the US.
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Matt says MR is full of it
In case anyone was unsure (and if you were, you should be ashamed of yourself), Matt Soell lays to rest the “Halo is ready” rumor in no uncertain terms. Turns out even the bit about Halo running on nVidia cards on Macs ain’t true. Watch that bull flying…
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Macrumors.com goes overboard
Geez. Thanks to Carth for the heads-up… Macrumors.com is reporting (reporting?) that“HALO for the Mac is ready but Microsoft are holding it back till at least 2 months after the X-Box is released. Although the game is ready to ship for both the Mac and the PC the game will be most marketed on the X-Box with a demo being bundled on the DVD that comes with the machine. Bungie confirm they are now using nVidia card on their Mac machines with the new beta drivers as the Rage Pro was getting too slow for higher resolutions. “
Folks… don’t believe everything you read. Time to batten down the hatches against the flood of email this rumor’ll bring…
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Story page fans pin down Nathan quotes
Heh… in case anyone didn’t realize how important the Marathon’s Story page is to the fans of Halo… several Story page fans noticed some quotes from Nathan Bitner (first made on our forum, here and here, over a week ago, and posted to the Story page yesterday), and the source of both sets of quotes are now known. Khalil Gibran and Smashing Pumpkins… let no one say Nathan’s not well-rounded. Thanks to the Story page fans for unearthing these!
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Halo editing tools… PC only?
Ack… very good question posed by PsychoBean on our forum. The Bungie job offering mentioned yesterday states that the mission editor will be developed in MFC (Microsoft Foundation Class)… does this mean the mission editor will be PC only? Or will Tamte’s group be porting this, as well? Hopefully, a Bungie employee will chime into this thread and clarify the matter.
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Bungie’s looking for a Tools Programmer
Kudos to TomeOne, who noticed another job opening on Bungie’s page: They need a Tools Programmer to build a mission editor for Halo! Wonga.
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Theories Page updated
Sebastian “The Tiny Toad” Brytting sends in a theory on the builders of the Halo. We don’t rate ’em, folks, we just publish ’em. If you like this one, let Sebastian know on our forum.
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Halo Command UK being revamped
Peter Askam writes to tell us that Halo Command UK has been revamped with more content on the way. Stop by and take a look! Pax.
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Antebios has Halo bias (or vice-versa)
JosephAW noticed a computer animated short film (‘Antebios’) highlighted on the SciFi channel. The movie itself is visible on SfiFi.com’s website… if you have a Macintosh, Netscape, and a (very) fast connection, the On2 link is pretty astounding. Otherwise, it’s available in RealPlayer format. Joseph mentions it because the alien sounds a lot like the Covenant sound in the E3 trailer. (There are other similarities… the humans have projectile weapons, while the alien uses an energy weapon, the doors of the base used by the humans and the hallways in which they walk bear a striking resemblance to the ancient structure highlighted in the Halo movies… the alien (well, the ‘good’ alien) has hooflike feet, similar to the covenant… and more, if you want to watch it.) The film was made in 1998 by a French designer who (among other things) makes video games. Definitely worth a look, if you’re on a fast connection!
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Halo SETI Team 7 day stats posted
Dink! The Halo SETI Marines fall one notch, victims of the unrelenting climb of Team Project Blue Book. On the plus side, Team Slashdot is only 500 units ahead… they’ll fall soon. cae takes La Crunch Honneur this week, and limbofrog snags the Frogblast Award. The 7 day stats page contains all the details.
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Flash your stuff on Halo, the Game
Heh… tired of waiting for Halo? Play Halo, the Game! Battleground: Halo has put together a Flash 4.0 game in which you can kill your fill of Covenant and vie for the top spot in their Hall of Fame. (Be aware, though, that a couple of people have already put up four-figure scores… in a game where you get two points for killing a Covenant soldier.) Are you good enough?
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Unreal Engine gets a serious makeover
We usually stay away from the competition’s news… but this movie is too good to miss. Epic Games (and specifically this article at Daily Radar) has released a movie showing some of the new features of the Unreal engine, including 3700-poly skeletal models, facial animations, improved level-of-detail (LOD) support, and large-scale terrain support. (The trees are quite nice!) The thing that got me most interested, though, was the ‘seamless mixing of indoors and terrain’. Usually, there are separate engines handling indoor and outdoor areas, so that you generally have one or the other, but not both. (Watch the Halo E3 movie… most of it is outdoors, except for the sequences inside the ancient base. Entrance is through a single door… meaning the engine never has to render both indoor and outdoor scenes together. Then take a look at the Unreal tech demo, specifically around 1:20 or so.) Looks like Halo has some serious competition!
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Halo-World fully online
Red Hot Ryan sends word that Halo-World is fully up and running. Go check ’em out! Pax.
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HL Halo mod is now a Tribes Halo mod
The word from Haloplayers is that the folks who were talking about bringing Halo to Half-Life have decided that HL is too limiting, and have switched over to Tribes. Anyone interested in this project can join in this HP Forum thread. Pax.
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The Psyjnir Complex up for previewing
We’re baaaack! (Well, okay, I”m back. Wirehead is still on extended leave, Ding’s bugging some military guys, and Crux… hell, Crux hasn’t been the same since that game of spin the bottle up at the Monastery.) Looks like it’s been a slow weekend… but there was a LITTLE news. Psyrixx writes to say that The Psyjnir Complex, which should be back online sometime this week, has a preview page up to view, so you can swing by and see what it’s going to look like. (BIG warning… do this with Internet Explorer (or iCab). Load time for these two browsers was under 3 seconds (on a fast connection)… Netscape took over a minute.) More news coming, a bit later!
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HBO closed for a couple of days
The crew of HBO is taking a break this weekend… we’ll be back late Sunday night (around midnight UTC, Monday morning). Enjoy your weekend!
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Miscellaneous Art page updated
Matthew Unger has composited a couple of Halo shots to come up with this ‘screenshot’ for our Miscellaneous Art page. Nice job!
The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft
