Wideload and Aspyr today revealed their upcoming Mac, PC and Xbox title, due for release in the summer of 2005. It's a third-person action game titled Stubbs The Zombie in "Rebel Without A Pulse". The full press release is on Aspyr's site and will soon be archived here. As yet there is no additional material on the Wideload site.
So far, it seems as if the game will feature:
A very long thread in the Gearbox forums has some of the usual complaints about Halo CE in it, mostly about lag and "warping", and a response from Randy "DuvalMagic" Pitchford, CEO of Gearbox, providing some of the background on the project to port Halo to the PC and how it affected the game's eventual network performance:
Halo World has an item on a program called Halo Map Manager, which allows you to activate and deactivate maps in your Halo Custom Edition folders. This is a big advantage, since the number of maps in that folder affects CE's load times. Thanks demented puppy dot com.
On the heels of the announcement that Halo 2 has received a 9.7 from the Official Xbox Magazine, their highest ranking ever, comes word that PC Gamer ha
HomeFront, a Halo-themed mod for Battlefield Vietnam, has put up in The Junkyard's forum a large collection of images showing the interior of a Covenant Cruiser, including docked Seraphs and Phantoms. Their own site at Planet Battlefield appears to be down, at the moment, but should be back soon, and features movies and links to their IRC channel. Thanks Mhaddy.
Aero at Halo Impulse interviewed Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford about the port of Halo to the PC. Some of the answers are interesting:
Aero: Is there an alternative way to get a patch for halo CE other than getting 1000 players? Perhaps you could give us a wider range of options that the community can work towards?
HSE, or Halo Server Extensions, has been announced for "almost public release". It is a framework that supports modules to extend the functionality of Halo servers. Modules currently include an Init file builder, a game type editor, a map voting feature, statistics and more. Thanks Halo Mods for the heads-up.
Thought PC Halo would never get patched again? Well you might think. But you weren't counting on the wonder that is Windows XP Service Pack 2 to create a remote crash possibility, did you? No. Well, after tomorrow it won't matter-- Bungie will release a hotfix for PC Halo to close this as-yet-unexploited hole.
Believe it or not, there's Myth news today. Over at MythForums there are two news items; one about an update to the Myth 2 FAQ, adding information about the community game servers that replaced Bungie.net; the other is the launch of Myth Gazetteer, a site that aims to be a meta-directory for Myth maps; they've got 500 so far. Thanks vinylrake.
BlackOps has posted in the Gearbox HaloCE forum about a modification that he and some associates have made to an Unreal Tournament 2003 statistics program. Now this statistics package works with Halo server logs if you have FTP access to the logs themselves.
More transcriptions of Halo music today from Poop Scoop: The Maw, On A Pale Horse, and Halo: Master and Chief. Each containins a MIDI file of the score, the PDF files and a Finale Printmusic! file of the score that can be edited if people have the software. (Note: Halo: Master and Chief is by Justin R.
I've been fairly bored over the summer, so ive put together a roundup of my work on transcribing, and this time ive done more than just send u a bunch of PDF files. In addition to the PDFs, i've included the accual file (Printmusic! 2004 format) and a MIDI that people can listen to and get a general feel for the transcription, as well as for use on ringtones.