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Cortana pays the price for Master Chief's wardrobe malfunction in this week's Halo Babies cartoon. Thanks mrsmiley.
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Son Of Xbox 360 News Roundup
Yet another site has got into the business of listings links to Xbox 360 news; Slashdot's Xbox 360 thread is quite worthwhile if for nothing else than the sarcastic advice to Xbox-bashing trolls. In addition to sources we cited earlier, they also mention the following:
Please Show Bungie The Whine List
Bungie's put up their side of their loss to the Xbox Live team in the Humpday Challenge; they allege that XBL used a ringer. And according to SketchFactor, Major Nelson Suxorz.
UPDATE: Major Nelson is denying the charge of ringer leveled by Bungie against one member of the XBL team that played in the Humpday.
Xbox 360 News Roundup
Microsoft's new console is officially called Xbox 360 we know now because of happened on MTV on May 12. Here are links to some of the stories published after that special:
- Voodoo Extreme has a detailed rundown on the technical specifications. The basics? Three 3.2Ghz PPC cores, 1MB L2 cache. 500Mhz ATI GPU. 512MB GDDR3 RAM running at 700Mhz. Detachable, upgradeable 20Mb HDD. Support for 64MB flash memory units. All games to support 16:9 widescreen 720p and 1080i HDTV modes. Built-in Media Center Extender connectivity. Standard wireless controller and support for 802.11 a, b and g wireless network protocols. Voodoo's Robert "Apache" Howarth also says the system "looks pretty nice".
- GameSpot summarizes the revelations in the MTV special, including details and photos. This article is interesting because it asks about backwards compatibility with the first Xbox. The answer? They'll talk about it at E3, says Xbox's Robbie Bach.
- Xbox.com has an official Console and Peripherals Fact Sheet for the Xbox 360.
- IGN has opened a whole new subsite, xbox360.ign.com, for their information.
- GameInformer has photos and a description of the unit, as well as the official specifications and their take on them.
- MTV has a page on the special; however, try as I might I can't get it to show me anything but a short flash ad for it. YMMV. What they do have is an MTV page for the Xbox 360 console itself.
- Joystiq's Ben Zackheim acknowledges that the MTV special was for a mass audience, not really hardcore gamers, but says it was still "well done" and acquitted the console well. Some of the commenters are less charitable, calling the special "uninformative and simply a waste of time".
- Joystiq and Engadget teamed up for blow-by-blow coverage of the MTV special, including many screen captures. I've heard rumors that Halo 2 was shown during the show, but the captures I've seen so far are all from other games.
- Major Nelson has a special pre-special Blogcast, and links to the Official Xbox 360 site as well as three interviews by TriXie with Xbox 360 developers.
- TeamXbox's rundown on the Xbox 360 reports that it is apparently water-cooled.
More Xbox 360 Spec Rumors
Gaming site news.botros.net has linked to scanned magazine pages including specs and photos of the Xbox 360 and supposed shots from Ghost Recon 3.
It looks to me to be a Swedish or Norwegian gaming magazine, although botros incorrectly guesses it to be German.
UPDATE: Apparently this is in fact the Danish magazine Game Reactor, which is getting a lot of attention for reporting the rumor that Halo 3 will be out in one year. Take that with heaps of salt, folks.
Analysts Speculate About Xbox 360 Platform
GameSpot has an article interviewing representatives from industry groups about the information so far available on the Xbox 360 and how it is expected to stack up against the competition, including American Technology, UBS, and DFC Intelligence Voodoo Extreme linked to the story.
Xbox 360 Revealed, This Time Officially
Microsoft has put out an official press release for the Xbox 360's MTV Special launch.
Xbox Live Team Beats Bungie At Halo
Major Nelson has put up his summary of the latest Humpday Challenge that pitted Xbox Live against Bungie. Xbox Live prevailed, winning narrowly in Team Slayer and 3 Plots and pulling out a tie in Multi Flag CTF. All three games were played on new maps; Sanctuary, Turf, and Containment, respectively. (Against anyone else, Bungie might have an advantage playing on the new maps, but I'm betting Xbox Live personnel probably also got a chance to test them prior to release, so that advantage may have been negated in this case--Ed.)
Blam! Dink! Your Blog!
XerxdeeJ has announced in the HBO forum that he's started a Halo blog called Tied The Leader. There's an interesting piece there now called Sportsmanship and Anonymity that covers some well-traveled territory; the seeming need for many XBL players-- regardless of ability-- to utilize proximity voice for displaying their facility with colorful language.
(This is one of those rare social problems with a clear technical solution. Proximity voice is cool, but useless. It's only ever used for trash talk, swearing and racism. And the possibility of being overheard via proximity voice while talking to your team discourages the use of the communicator for legitimate purposes. Bungie, please-- make team talk the default without pressing any buttons, and either remove proximity voice entirely, or make the button-press a "broadcast" to all players in the game, like countless of other PC shooters with keyboard interfaces-- like PC Halo, for instance. Kudos for the innovation, but extra credit for realizing the experiment's gone wrong. The potential coolness of proximity voice for well-meant, consensual, and witty taunting is more than overwhelmed by everything else--Ed.)
Halo 2 Ranking Dashboard Widget
Just a short while ago, Apple released version 10.4 of OS X, codenamed Tiger. One of the new features it introduced was Dashboard, a controversially Konfabulator-like feature.
Lacsap has created a Dashboard widget that displays your Halo 2 ranking. He announced it in an HBO forum post; you can download it from Dashboardwidgets.com.
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