MacGamer Giving Away Mac Halo
Louis Wu at HBO passed on word from RavenEA that this week's MacGamer Giveaway features five copies of Mac Halo; the subject of the contest is creation of an image of the Master Chief on vacation. The five funniest win.
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Kill Claude, Vol. II
Blackstar at Blackstar Productions has received word that he's gotten approval to host another Halo LANfest at the Collins Center in Andover, MA-- the location of last summer's Are You Big Enough LANfest that featured a forty-foot projector screen (as well as several smaller projection areas).This next LANfest will be held next summer. I attended the last one, and can vouch that it was a lot of fun, I'm sure this one will be, too. Blackstar has put up a promotional trailer loosely based on the trailer for Kill Bill.
Halo PC Server, Client Updated To 1.03
SketchFactor at Halo: Truth and Reconciliation has posted that the version 1.03 updates to the dedicated server and to the PC Halo client have now been made. Interested parties are urged to read the PC Halo 1.03 release notes before they download the update; likewise, if you're running a dedicated server, you should peruse the 1.03 server readme before getting the patch file, which requires that you already have version 1.02 of the dedicated server.Technically, the game should update itself automatically, but you can do it manually if you prefer.Changes abound in this version, major and minor. Perhaps the most anticipated are the anti-teamkilling features, but welcome are the lengthening of chat and player name strings, as well as ping and assist displays on the scoreboard and "persistent" teams across map cycling.
Mac Halo Has Gone Gold
News of the Mac Halo Gold Master spread everywhere over the past few days; it seems the disc went to duplication on the 5th and is expected to hit store shelves on or near the projected target date of December 11; news broke at HBO, Subnova, Bungie.net, MacCentral and Blue's News. If you haven't already, you can preorder through Amazon and support Rampancy at the same time.
Here's Your Last Chance... For Now
An Anonymous User popped into our forum to remind everybody that the iGames Regionals for Halo for Windows are coming up on December 7. (Hey, register for an account so we can thank you properly.) Full details in the forum post.
Team Killing Solutions On The Way
Marc "Cysco" Tardif of Gearbox has posted a detailed description of changes in the forthcoming 1.03 patch for PC Halo, due out on Monday December 8. Included will be anti-teamkilling features, such as increasing respawn times for teamkillers, removed respawn penalty for teamkiller victims, persistent teams, and network play enhancements. No word about some of the more advanced Tribes-style votekicking mechanisms. Thanks Louis Wu at HBO.
Count Zero: Not The Louis, Not The Louis!
Usually when we make a mistake at Rampancy and attribute an HBO news item to Louis Wu when it wasn't really him, it's because Count Zero has surprised us by coming out of hiding and posting some news. Well, now he can't hide anymore, because Mhaddy and the team at the Junkyard have put a spotlight on him.
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GameSpot has one of those poll thingies that asks which 2004 release you're most looking forward to. In honor of that, all the game titles have been converted into their leetspeak equivalents; how cute.More to the point, Halo 2... err, that is, H4L0 2, currently leads the pack with 28% of the vote, perhaps because it's the most legible entry, but if any Bungie fans are at all worried, you might as well go put in your two cents. Thanks Louis Wu at HBO.
Mirrors Of Making
We've put up a mirror of the lo-res QuickTime version of the Making Of Halo 2 video in our Halo 2 Movies page of our Movies section. It's also available from RHL.
Not Quite The First Strike
Okay, this is official this time, not a few backroom stockboys itchin' to put the new stuff out front before they're supposed to-- Eric Nylund's new Halo novelization, Halo: First Strike, has been released. Lorraine "Mehve" McLees' cover art has been turned into wallpapers at Bungie.net to celebrate. Thanks SketchFactor.
Halo: First Strike picks up where the game Halo: Combat Evolved (and the novel Halo: The Flood) leave off. Nylund last wrote Halo: Fall of Reach, a prequel to the first Halo game.
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