Blue's News points us today to a German-language review of Halo at YiYas. According to the squishy yellow fish that starts wars, they missed co-op mode and don't like Chill Out much. Like many other reviewers, they wondered why the port took so much time compared to the amount of new material (no new single player levels, for instance).
The latest version of Qtracker, a game originally created to do matchmaking for online matches of Quake or Quake engine games, has added support for Halo. More information about the latest version and about the program itself is available from the Qtracker homepage. Thanks Louis Wu.
Some more additions to the ranks of PC Halo reviews today courtesy of Blue's News: GameOver and JIVE Magazine.
GameOver wished Halo had been over sooner, calling it "mind-bendingly, stultifyingly, dull and repetitious". But they liked the multiplayer and eventually rated it 83%.
We've updated our PC Halo Demo Mirror List, and given it a permanent place in our Files category.
There's an interview with Gearbox's Randy Pitchford over at Adrenaline Vault, focusing primarily on performance issues, what they describe as "choppiness at resolutions above 1024x768". Incidentally, that's twice the dimensions of Xbox Halo's, and requires your videocard to push about 3x as many pixels.
Louis Wu posted in his own forum that Bungie should soon have a few demo servers running for those who are downloading the PC Halo demo. They will be identifiable by the string BNG-Demo in their names.
Fresh on the heels of putting one of their journalists in the hot seat at EGM for a day spent playing Halo, CNN is carrying a piece by Gannett's Marc Saltzman on the PC port of the Xbox's award-winning shooter. It does a once-over on the history of the game's development as well as talking a bit about the new additions for the PC version. Nothing new for the hardcore fans, but a nice primer for the uninitiated.
XtraMSN, a gaming site in New Zealand, has a short article up about PC Halo and the servers they plan on running. Thanks to Michael M. in the HBO forum.
Mirrors are cropping up all over. We've added a few more, thanks to an item over at Blue's News. Other additions are courtesy of Louis Wu at HBO. The complete list is:
Exclusive or not, it seems that IGN Downloads is off the mark first with the PC Halo demo. Go get it.
Three (make that five) more Halo reviews today, courtesy of Shacknews: Boomtown, Entertainment Depot, and Adrenaline Vault.
The darn thing isn't even out yet, and already there are going to be three mirrors (UPDATED):
It seems like GameSpy will be getting the Halo Demo today as well, according to their Halo affiliate, Battleground: Halo. Thanks Rams.
As pointed out by a few disappointed HBO forumgoers, there's a minimum age of 18 for the PC Halo World Championship. Bungie Studios' SketchFactor noted that these aren't Bungie's requirements, but that many states have laws that govern the participation of minors in competitions, and that is the reason for the minimum age. FYI.