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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.
Making of Halo 2
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Manufacturer Suggests New Retail Price
SketchFactor at Bungie.net, along with several other news outlets, including HBO, have reported that Halo's price has dropped to 29.99. While not quite the bargain-bin Platinum Hit price of $19.99, this is a significant reduction. Pick up a few backup copies.
Happy Birthday Halo
On November 15, both the Xbox and Halo celebrated their second birthday, and at least as important as the things that did happen were those that didn't happen:
- Halo 2 was not released.
- The vaporware "Halo Special Edition" did not materialize.
- Halo did not become a bargain-bin "Platinum Hit".
- Louis Wu did NOT have to shutter HBO for being "out of the loop" (which he isn't).
Here's what DID happen:
- A celebration was held at LANWerx, with players in person and on the Internet.
- The CobaltNova Halo League finished its first week of play.
- HaloBabies released a commemorative birthday comic.
Microsoft Names IBM As Chip Vendor
Similar to the earlier vague announcement that ATI will be producing chips for "future Xbox technologies", Microsoft has named IBM as party to an agreement wherein they are allowed to use IBM technology in "new Xbox products and services".
This has led to the widespread conclusion that the Xbox 2 will use a PowerPC architecture. It's not completely farfetched, as the PPC architecture is widely used in embedded devices where power and heat consumption are major issues; perhaps the plan is for the Xbox 2 to be sleeker and slimmer than its predecessor.
Combined with the ATI announcement, it seems as if it's possible that the next iteration of the Xbox console will use a different processor architecture and a different GPU architecture than the first; some point to Microsoft's acquisition of Connectix, with their VirtualPC product, as evidence that they will provide backwards compatibility with older Xbox games using some kind of emulation software.
Here's a roundup of stories on the announcement:
Some just report what the press release says, others jump right into the "Microsoft dumps Intel" line. We'll see.
when do you think halo 2
i think halo 2 will come out in april just because that is when my birthday is so hopefully i get lucky. but i want to know when you think halo 2 will come out
who likes the new halo 2 guns, and who wants to know where to get all xbox videos
i really like the new guns on halo they look really cool. like how you can have 2 smg's and 1 battle rifle at the same time, that is 3 guns at 1 time that will make the game a little more funner. oh and like a couple mounths before halo 2 comes out they will start slowly what halo 2 has in store for us
Oh and for the xbox videos and more videos go to msxbox-world.com you can see all videos of all xbox games
everyone should get halo pc it is the best
everyone should get halo on pc because it is the bomb. when i say bomb i mean it will rip you to shreads your teamates kill you for a vehicle they never let you have the banshee. but the fun part is that you kill them then you get it so if you don't got it get it
anyone know how to beat the halo levels on legendary like "the maw" "keys"
i have got far on my halo game i have betteen all on heroic and only a couple on legendary. i need help on the maw, library, keys, spark363.
I beat all the other levels with my friend toke us like 2 hours a level on legendary.
XBL To Roll Out In Korea This Week
A Reuters article on Yahoo news reports that Microsoft will debut the Xbox Live online gaming service in highly-wired Korea this week. After Japan, it is the first Asian nation to get the XBL service.
how long has one of your halo multyplayers game lasted
the longest time i have played a multy player game was like 1 hour and 30 minutes. me against 3 people capture the flag. i won afther many trys. but we had spone time ass like 15 seconds added after every death and i had 1 minute to get the flag while they where rejoining. it was fun
all the new thing on halo 2 that peole want and what bungie is giving us
i just found out that halo 2 will have like 2 times more drivable vehicales. more guns like way more levels and way more.
-more levels
-more enemys
-new races(to kill them all)
-way better ai
-ai hold better guns and switch guns with you
- you can hold more then 2 guns
-new ring world
-2 moon levels(from a tester not accurate)
-3 levels of the alien planet(found from a tester)
-and a better engine to run halo 2
dam and only if they could get halo 2 out by chrismas boo hoo(cry) "tear"
i hope this blog help you.
Red Vs Blue Takes Three Machinima Awards
Blood Gulch Chronicles, the popular webseries by the group Red vs Blue, using the Halo engine running on the Xbox and set in the Blood Gulch multiplayer map, has taken three prizes at the Machinima Awards 2003: Best Independent Machinima Film, Best Writing, and Best Picture. Congratulations to the Red vs. Blue gang, and thanks to jayWHY and Louis Wu at HBO.
MSN On PCs Vs Xboxen
Mat "MSN" Noguchi, tools programmer at Bungie, posted a blog entry on performance issues in PC Halo. That, and the comments following, are definitely worth reading, along with this forum thread at HBO that prompted him to write the blog.
UPDATE: There's a second part to this piece up now.