More kudos to CyberBob, who sent in a bit more information on the upcoming movies reported on yesterday:
The PC Intern and PC Player articles (both are basically the same - same press show probably)Something new here is that: Every player (model) consists of at least 2500 polygons - some up to 3000
The films (4 minutes new material - and LEGAL) are on both PC Games and PC Games Plus (both 1/2000 - German). From what I've got the films are on the American mags too.
Additional kudos to Astro, who chimed in on the discussion with an addy to an online version of the article mentioned below. While most of it is on other topics (still a good read), Halo does make a brief appearance towards the bottom:
Kudos to Ven Jance, who pointed out some Halo content in the eLife issue (Winter 1999) of Newsweek during a lazy day on CPHL. Alas, said content is limited to a picture of Bungie's Jason Jones (complete with a Halo above his heh... how witty) and a tagline... no new information for us this time.
Kudos again to CyberBob, who sent in some information on a new Halo preview in the latest issue of german magazine PC Intern. Quite of bit of new information... here's some excepts from the letter:
Just speculation, but rumors are beginning to filter through the forums and email that another new press demo movie can be found on a new issue of the german magazine PC Game (or is that PC Gamer?). In the letter detailed in the post above, CyberBob makes note of a 4 minute Halo movie on the January 2000 issue of PC Gamer... Same one? Oh, what a tangled web...
Keep your eyes open for new Halo coverage in the batch of January 2000 issues, and if you find something, don't hesitate to let me know!
A number of very interesting news items at Marathon's Story today, ranging from Cortana references in Oni kanji to the nature (and release date) of the mysterious #2. Definitely worth stopping by and checking out.
Our congratulations to former-Bungian Nathan Bitner, who announced an impending wedding (among other things) in halo.bungie.org's forum. Best wishes to the new couple, and enjoy your freedom while you can Nathan. ;)
Kudos to SpacemanSpiff for exposing this dramatic revelation in Halo's ongoing development: according to this transcript there not only exists a playable demo of Halo already, but it's spread beyond Bungie!
Ye gods!!
Well, this concludes our evening broadcast. Be listening again tomorrow when we announce Halo 2: Soulbringer, and provide release dates for all future Bungie releases.
This week's question comes from a few off topic posts in the forum about melee combat in Halo: should complex melee combat, which would include things like blocking and various melee strikes, play a major role in Halo? Or would such things detract from netplay and just not add too much fun to the game?