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Thursday, July 21, 2005 |  |
Beverly Hills: H2 Music Video
imSuck put together a music video for the song "Beverly Hills", by Weezer. It cleared the MPRRS last night - so go ahead and grab a copy! Pretty funny, mostly using footage from the newest netmaps. Nice timing. 32.3 mb in WMP9 format, 30 mb in QuickTime format. (Louis Wu 17:16:12 UTC) (permalink)
Direct2U: Sneak Peek
8BitOldie writes to let folks know that the Halo 2 CE mod team is almost ready to release Direct2U, an app that auto-updates team releases to make grabbing new content more painless than ever! Looks pretty cool! (Louis Wu 16:14:53 UTC) (permalink)
Multiplayer Video Tips
IGN has put up an 11-minute video guide to new map strategies - available only to Insiders, it covers Gemini, Terminal, and Relic. After watching, I'd have to say that unless you're REALLY a beginner, these aren't going to help you much. But hey - every little bit helps, right? Thanks, BitMaP. (Louis Wu 16:11:39 UTC) (permalink)
RvB Sex Toys?
Cornballer pointed out that Aint-it-Cool News got a shot of the Red vs Blue crew hawking their wares at the San Diego Comic-con - amazing where they show up! (Scroll to the bottom of the page.) (Louis Wu 16:06:39 UTC) (permalink)
MacOSX Halo Screensavers
Edwin Davis wrote to say he's got some Halo screensavers up on his site - these work with MacOSX 10.4 (Tiger). One is our news feed, on your desktop... the other is flying Halo logos! Check 'em out. (These are pretty cool - but be warned, if you're running a monitor off a PCI card, all you'll get is a black screen and 'Quartz Composer' running around it - I guess these need the video bandwidth of an AGP connection.) (Louis Wu 15:27:56 UTC) (permalink)
Giving the locals a hard time
Anton P. Nym sent along a scan of an article from today's London (Ontario) Free Press, covering the new Map Pack... but it's online as well. Takes a shot at Nathan 'Bentllama' Walpole, a London native... always fun. (Louis Wu 14:34:26 UTC) (permalink)
Project Torlan continues
zugy posted an update on Project Torlan, the UT2004 Halo total conversion, and it includes a bunch of screenshots. Some of the maps look pretty fun - I especially like the one that looks to be a blend of Hang 'em High and Gephyrophobia. Check it out! (Louis Wu 13:45:04 UTC) (permalink)
Happy Birthday, Halo!
I might have forgotten, if not for prometheus - but Halo was announced to the world 6 years ago today. What a long, strange trip it's been! (Louis Wu 13:26:00 UTC) (permalink)
Would YOU kiss that?
There's some more info on the Comic-con Elite mentioned yesterday in this thread, including blurry pics and a link to an award the costume won. (Louis Wu 13:08:38 UTC) (permalink)
Hide Lyrics
Patriarch917 added the lyrics to 'Hide', his parody of the Goo Goo Dolls' 'Slide' - we've put up a small page containing links to both of his songs, plus their lyrics - as he creates more, we'll add to it! (Louis Wu 03:15:54 UTC) (permalink)
Tartarus the Savior
GryphonOsiris wrote an ode to Ban Hammer - fun stuff. (Louis Wu 02:50:19 UTC) (permalink)
AutoUpdate 4.0: Installed
The Auto-Update is now fully in force - if you log into Live, you must either accept it or be blocked from Matchmaking. Some noticed modders online this afternoon, even after they'd been updated - this doesn't mean the update isn't working; as Achronos mentioned on our forum, you'll see a decline in cheating, rather than an instantaneous stoppage. Patience! Update: Some good info in the first post in this thread on the B.net forums, as well. Thanks, Dojorkan. (Louis Wu 02:46:25 UTC) (permalink)
The PGL Elites
Jay Marrero sent along word of a tourney taking place in Orlando in October - full details can be found on the PGL Events page. $1000 on the line. (Louis Wu 02:44:01 UTC) (permalink)
It doesn't end...
In the not-so-good category, we got mail from Tina and Tim Leyk - they thank the community profusely for their support, but wanted to pass on the bad news that as of October, they're out on the street (no jobs, no house). Not sure what the community can do for them - but the PayPal link is still up, and linked from our front page. (The address changed recently - so if you'd tried to help and had gotten an error message, you can try again.) Personal hardship is always a bad thing... (Louis Wu 02:41:07 UTC) (permalink)
Machinima book on the shelves
Recently, Phatcorns mentioned on our forum that a new book had hit the shelves - It's called 'Machinima: Making Animated Movies in 3D Virtual Environments' and it uses several movies from HBO regulars (including Phatcorns' 'Out for Blood' as examples. c0ld vengeance pointed out that his 'Haliens' is in there, too. Nice! (Louis Wu 00:08:26 UTC) (permalink)
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