Kudos to rojay, who cleared up a little confusion surrounding an IMG Halo preview teaser. Earlier this week, they posted this little hint on their screenshots page:
In the coming months we'll be visiting Bungie for a special preview of this hot new game.
Sounds like one among the inevitable flood of Halo previews that we should watch for, especially since IMG has longtime ties with Bungie.
News spam time! After purging my long unused email account of some 380 spam messages (and 20 apologies from my ISP for said spam), my tgreen@revelstoke.net addy is now working like a charm. The change is because it is more reliable than my former address, which will likely be terminated as soon as my former hosts notice it.
Due to the purge, I may've lost a few messages recieved in the last few hours... if I'm unusually slow in responding, try resending, just to be on the safe side.
Butcher has posted an excellent analysis of the Halo trailer, pointing out a few oddities and putting forth a few theories. Is there a camera object in the movie, and was it done entirely in engine in one pass, or edited later? Good food for thought.
Bah, after two months of checking Apple's Quicktime Showcase on a daily basis, Hamish and Marathon's Story still scooped me on this one! ;)
As widely expected, Apple has made Halo a featured item at their Quicktime Showcase site, virtually guaranteeing it thousands of additional viewers. Probably more. Time to pretty our sites up a bit, we may have visitors.
Also, kudos again to Xzzy, who has made the Halo trailer available on this server:
The forum archive is in place and running nicely now, as are the site's other scripts and things. With the exception of the Database, which I've just been too lazy to get going. Perhaps tomorrow.
In the meantime, third person is kicking first person ass in the poll, so you first person zealots better even the odds soon. Let's take a tally once and for all...
There were a few difficulties with the forum earlier today, partly due to a missing file. Sorry about any lost posts, though I think I got them all. Things seem to be working nicely now, though, and the archive will be operating sometime tomorrow. Depending on how the upload goes, of course.
A fourth lost colony world? Marathon's Story has a very interesting theory as to the meaning of Island Four . Most plausible one yet, though it may be a few days before we find it if they've got it or not. Funny that nobody had noticed it yet... we're getting soft!
As a part of settling back into the daily routine, I've set up a new poll (having lost the last one). A controversial topic this time: which would you prefer for Halo, a first or third person perspective?
There is a very vocal group of players for both sides, but I wonder what the usually silent majority thinks about this. And just in case you're impartial, there's an Undecided option too, in case you'd rather wait and see how Bungie handles the issue.