Rank Whore With The Heart Of Gold
New edition of Calvin and Halo today by Blackstar; at least the trash-talking is equal opportunity. Thanks Louis Wu who pointed it out and Blackstar for the comic and the tips on sniper positions in Colossus.
New edition of Calvin and Halo today by Blackstar; at least the trash-talking is equal opportunity. Thanks Louis Wu who pointed it out and Blackstar for the comic and the tips on sniper positions in Colossus.
Katana writes on demented puppy dot com that he's going to be covering Halo Custom Edition for that site.
This week's What's What Update is a one-note songbird: where's the downloadable content? Frankie says the date will be known soon. In addition, he disavows any knowledge of the recently-discovered Maji skull.
In other news:
*_mc* mrsmiley at Halo Babies writes that he and Gruntsbane put together five new Halo Babies emoticons they said "no Halo forum should be without." We interpreted that as a direct order and installed them. For the sake of convenience, the codes needed to use these at R.net are the same as those at Halo Babies.
Claude "Louis Wu" Errera of HBO, the "ultimate Halo fansite" adds a few sticks to Jack Thompson's bonfire his input in the latest addition to the CBS interview series on videogame violence. (The pic of Wu with the Battle Rifle model adds a lot to the presentation--Ed.)
James "Fiend" Schneider of Major League Gaming has interviewed Alfonso "AYB Fonzi" Chartier. Fonzi and his teammates came to the fore with the launch of Halo 2. Thanks Dolbex.
[image:9067 align=left hspace=5 vspace=5 border=0] Frankie posted today in the HBO forum that the webcam image we spotted last month was, indeed, the Pippin version of Super Marathon.
More Xbox 2 specs, this time from GDC through GameSpy via Voodoo Extreme. The upshot? A triple-cored PPC, 256Mb of total memory, optional hard drive, 720p standard output and a new 500Mhz GPU. Yowza. Apparently part 2 of this series is due tomorrow.
In other news:
CBS News is putting up a series of interviews on videogame violence in their weekly GameCore column, shooting a battery of questions at various figures in order to compare the answers. First up was attorney Jack Thomson, who routinely sues companies whose games are mentioned in conjunction with violent acts by teens who play those games.
The Junkyard has broken its three-month Halo spotlight silence with a new piece on Ross "Oz" Mills; check it out. Thanks Mhaddy. Also, the Junkyard's opinion piece on the Xbox power cord replacement program by Jake "Evergreen98" Billo is also worth looking at, if you haven't already.
[image:9096 left hspace=5 vspace=5 border=0]Only slightly more than three years have passed since the Xbox brought Microsoft into the console wars, and the next generation, if rumors are to be believed, will be upon us by the 2005 holiday season. Ahh.. Xbox. A console of infinite games... assuming they're all made by Bungie.
Here's a look at recent items about upcoming consoles, as well as goings-on in the Bungieverse:
But before we do, we'll just note that TheTaintedOne posted in our forum about his latest video release, Tainted Love. Check it out.
So here we go again, clearing out the fuel lines as I get ready to leave the site on autopilot for a few days. A few things of note recently:
This movie, produced by GTC, including MaverickJ and Titan, shows various important multiplayer tips, including special tips for jumping, use of powerups such as active camoflauge, and using grenades to acquire distant weapons.
To view this copy, you need QuickTime.