Halo 2 Sheet music for guitar
Hello everyone. I came looking for sheet music and now i have a guitar. I will soon tab a version of the Halo 2 Theme for the guitar. I hope that I can give back and contribute to this site.
Death by intelligence.
Halo Wars Is Playable
The February Halo Wars update by Thunder has a lot of fuzzy, censored pictures, but we're told flat-out that the game is in a playable state, and has been played by Microsoft bigwigs like Shane Kim. Still, he reports there is "a long way to go" and there is still no officially announced release date.
Halo 3 Betas Will Come Simultaneously
Don't believe the rumor going around that those who got into the Halo 3 public multiplayer beta by purchasing Crackdown are going to get a different version of the game, or get it at a different time, than those who gained entry some other way: it's false.
Bungie's own Frankie busted that rumor to HBO's own Louis Wu.
The Baby And The Bathwater
Last week I wrote about the website Halo2Sucks.com, a site devoted to discussing why Halo 2, despite being tremendously popular, was not actually a good game in the minds of some people; more specifically, why it was not as good a game as the original Halo. The key points of this argument were laid out by the original administrator, Shaker, who has since departed to parts unknown, leaving in his wake an absentee landlord.
Are you in the Halo 3 Beta?
Yes, made it in Phase 1 (Halo3.com signup).
7% (128 votes)
Yes, got in under the Rule of Three.
7% (132 votes)
Yes, bought Crackdown.
43% (797 votes)
Not yet, bucking for a Friends & Family invite.
6% (104 votes)
Nope. Just plain nope.
37% (683 votes)
Total votes: 1844
Bungie Confirms Fall 2007 Release For Halo 3
In a weekly update that was almost uncharacteristically chock-full of real information, including an update on Halo 3's current control scheme, button-by-button, one last morsel was hidden in plain sight, in the desktop wallpaper "teaser image" that features the Halo 3 logo above the glowing Forerunner artifact from the announcement trailer.
MTV Meets Gamecock
MTV is into all the things the hip kids do these days, including play videogames. MTV did a video interview with Microsoft's Phil Spencer about Halo, and MTV News has a piece up on Gamecock, the outfit that will be publishing Wideload's next game.
Wideload's Alex Seropian related a story about trying to find a publisher for the company's first game, Stubbs the Zombie:
Legion Of Jerks And Beta FAQ
Sometimes, you've got to take the good with the bad. So first, watch KP take on random jerks you don't know who are doing what you can't right now: playing Halo 3. Nobody else showed up for the Humpday this week, so you don't get specific jerks, just random ones.
When Winning Is Not Enough, Halo 2 Sucks
For most of the past few years the bulk of my attention has been on Halo's campaign play: story, characters, and settings. Partly it's my choice, since it is where my interest in Halo lies, but partly due to circumstances. For most of the past seven years, the Internet connections I had access to were unsuitable for online play.
Recent events, however, have conspired to bring my attention back to online play. The first is the upcoming Halo 3 multiplayer public beta. True to form, it appears that Bungie will have multiplayer ready to show the world before the campaign is finished; so between now and when the beta test ends, most Halo 3 discussion will probably focus on multiplayer aspects.
The second thing is that I finally have a reasonably priced Internet connection that makes it possible to participate in Halo 2 matches. While I still have more latency and less skill than a below-average Halo 2 player, for me, participation is the thing. I've already missed out on far too much.
The last thing was that during a discussion of an entirely different subject, my attention was drawn to Halo2sucks.com.
This is not normally a site I would pay much attention to. There's something incongruous about reading a site that labels Bungie "sellouts" and proudly (if largely incoherently) claims that Halo 1 is better than Halo 2 and this inevitably leads to the conclusion that Halo 2 sucks.
However, then I began to feel that simply dismissing all the points the site tries to make simply because of the presentation was prejudicial; and despite the fear of directing attention somewhere it's not warranted, I felt a need to address some of the points the site raised. Then I discovered what really bothered contributors to that site. More on that near the end.
Gamecock Wants To Float Like A Butterfly, Sting Like A Bee
Keeping a company light on its toes by keeping the core creative staff small and outsourcing the fiddly bits is how Wideload Games is approaching the problem of rising game development costs.
Hail To The Chimp: Family Friendly Satire
Alexander "The Man" Seropian (or should it be "The Chimp" from now on?) throws poop at GameSpot today about Wideload's upcoming party game for the Xbox 360 and Sony Playstation 3.
Is there going to be political satire? Yes, says Seropian. The Bush:Chimp comparisons are obviously unavoidable, but am I the only one who thinks the hippo looks like Steve Ballmer?
It's A Legitimate Strategy
XyonsWrath has an interesting suggestion for all those players like me who spend their time in Halo 2 running around like chickens with their heads cut off, waiting for the next player to come along and kill them while trying to ineffectually pepper targets with SMG fire. That suggestion is: pick a nice spot and stay there. Camping, you say? Crazy? Perhaps. But it beats dying. By a lot. Thanks Louis Wu at HBO for the heads-up.
Icy Hot Stuntaz
I'm way too uncool to even know what that means, but that's how Frankie described Halo 3 in an interview with Eurogamer.
On a more intelligible note, he also said:
Well, we haven't lost a single [new] weapon thus far, but we've improved a few. Our test process is simple. Play it, play it some more, take notes, make changes, play it more.
Hail to the Chimp Official Press Release
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS – FEBRUARY 12, 2007 – Wideload Games,
creator of the award-winning Stubbs the Zombie, announced today they
have picked Gamecock Media Group to publish their next title –
Hail to the Chimp. The title is expected to ship in Spring 2008.
Wideload Announces Hail To The Chimp For PS3, Xbox 360
Hail to the Chimp has now been officially announced as a humorous beat 'em up to be released for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 spring next year; more information is available from the game's official site (flash required).