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Pathways Into Darkness Part 3	08.18.24
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Halo 5: Advent (String...	cwhiterun	06.07.16
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Anger, Sadness and Envy Ep. 27: Craig Ha...	05.08.13
Anger, Sadness and Envy Ep. 25: Destiny...	03.05.13
Anger, Sadness and Envy Ep. 24: Halo Ann...	04.21.12
Anger, Sadness and Envy Ep. 23: Halo Ann...	06.26.11
Anger, Sadness and Envy Ep. 21: The Wint...	04.18.11

No Halo 2 For PCs, Macs

Randy Pitchford of Gearbox, the man who provided most of the information about PC Halo during the recent Fanstock event, has been interviewed by Computer and Video Games. Highlights include the fact that playing as the Covenant-- originally a central idea in Halo's design, pre-buyout-- was discussed and rejected. And while bots will not be in the game as shipped, the possibility exists for something in the future:

One is that the network architecture was re-written, so if we were to do bots, we'd start it now, which means the product would take even longer. This may still happen - I mean BotMan, the guy who created the foundations for all of the Half-Life and Counter-Strike bots, he works at Gearbox! He sits in that office right over there [points]. We'd like to expose this stuff to mod authors to see what they come up with.

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Shishkafied FAQ

Shishka has taken his excellent HaloPC Pre-Release FAQ 1.0 and upgraded it to 2.0, adding information collected at the Fanstock event at Gearbox's headquarters this past weekend. The new or updated items are marked in red.

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Red vs Blue Episode 16 Released: A Slightly Crueler Cruller

If the title is any indication, it looks like this one features Private Donut prominently; Episode 16: A Slightly Crueler Cruller is now available to the general public at Red vs Blue.

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Fanstock Update Roundup

A lot of sites have now been updated with words and images from Fanstock at Gearbox's headquarters in Texas.

Subnova features pictures and text from Shishka, and Steve from Forerunners.org has posted an update at the PC Halo Map Database site, Cortana.org.

Cortana.org, incidentally, has now launched-- instead of just a logo, they've got their site design in place, and there's a special page for Fanstock coverage.

Dark Helmet from Battleground: Halo has also put up a writeup for the event, and then added some images as well.

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Good Things Come To Those Who Wait

Several years ago, we heard on the Rampancy Hotline server that Halo was going to be "the most customizable Bungie game ever."

[image:3805,left] That was, of course, before Microsoft purchased Bungie and Halo was changed into an Xbox game. Now it looks as if that prediction is finally coming true.

Along with the news that Gearbox intends to make Halo's editing tools available for download on their site after the release of Halo for the PC, we also received some screenshots of those very same tools, including the Halo level editor, Sapien. However, we aren't allowed to release those screenshots until... sometime later.

What we can do, however, is to share with you some photos taken and provided graciously by Steve of Forerunners.org, who attended the event and brought a digital camera with him. We've put those in a special Gearbox Fanstock gallery created just for this event. When the screenshot embargo ends, that's where they'll be.

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Mac/PC Halo Info From Fanstock

Steve of Forerunners.org has supplied some of the bits of information he's been able to glean while down at PC Halo Fanstock at Gearbox Software in Plano, TX.

PC and Mac versions of Halo will not be released simultaneously. The Macintosh version is not yet as far along as the PC version. (Westlake Interactive still lists the Mac version as "pre-Alpha" as of this writing.)
Level editors will not ship with the game, but be downloadable from Gearbox, along with (hopefully) some tutorials.
It is unknown at this time whether there will be a Mac version of the editors.
The Halo editor is comprised of three programs.
The Halo level editor is called "Sapien".
The shapes and physics editor is called "Guerilla".
PC Halo has six new multiplayer maps. Many draw on the original game's solo maps for inspiration. They are:
- Death Island
- Timberland
- Ice Fields
- Danger Canyon
- Gephyrophobia
- Infinity
PC Halo is one of the quickest loading PC games ever. It is reported to load in approximately three seconds.
PC Halo has two weapons not in the original (unhacked) Xbox release: the flamethrower and the fuel rod gun.
User-created netlevels will be about 18Mb in size.
User-created solo levels can be up to about 100 Mb.
System requirements under Windows will be around a 700 Mhz processor (assuming P3 or P4, not sure), a "good" video card, and 128Mb of free RAM.
There is a new version of the Warthog with three cannons on top.
After playing a bit of Halo on the PC, the guys got to watch the same realtime demo of Halo 2 given at E3, and got to play a little Halo 2 themselves on Xbox dev kits. Observers report that Halo 2 is graphically much improved over the original.
PC Halo will ship on 1 CD, not on a DVD as the Xbox original did.

We will update this item throughout the day as more information becomes available.

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Cortana.org To Archive PC Halo Maps

Another short note at Forerunners.org promises that Cortana.org, which has been largely dormant for awhile, will update. At the moment there's naught but a logo there, but it does say "The Halo PC Map Database" which seems to imply what the site's eventual intent is. Not sure how long that logo has been there, so apologies if this is old news.

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F.org Updates From Gearbox

Steve's posted a short note from Gearbox today, where he is attending the PC Halo Fanstock event:

Met some really great people at Fanstock this weekend. I have the privilege of sitting in Gearbox right now. There seems to be an abundance of Half Life games everywhere. Halo PC is of course why we are all here.

F.org, as well as other sites attending the event, should have more updates throughout the coming hours and days.

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