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Halo 2 Goes Gold

Posted by Zonk on from the back-to-the-ring dept.

schmiddy writes "This just in -- Halo 2 has officially gone gold as of today. Bungie has confirmed the story with an announcement on their front page. Trailers and such available here ."

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  1. I love bees... by Theaetetus · · Score: 4, Informative
    Incidentally, the countdown is steady at 00:00:00:00:000

    And there's a whole bunch of .wavs on the site if you go digging.

    -T

  2. ...not offtopic by Theaetetus · · Score: 4, Informative
    The ilovebees.com website appears to be a very well done viral advertisement for Halo 2. The story behind it is that its owner appeared on a blog asking for help a few months ago, that her site had been 'hacked'. As people investigated, more and more information came to light that this was Bungie-related, much like the Cortana emails prior to Halo 1.

    Latest development has been that a set of coordinates for payphones and times were decoded from the site, and people have been going to those payphones, picking them up when they ring, and speaking to "the operator".

    Neat, kinda spooky, and coming to a head with the release today.

    -T

  3. XBConnect and Aquaduct for Multiplayer by Caseyscrib · · Score: 5, Informative
    I usually don't pay too much attention to "the mainstream". But that's exactly what I like about Halo - diversity. It's just a fun game. It's still, even after all this time, fun to pick up the controllers, kick back and play (and this isn't just about replay value; it's about being able to just sit down and have fun with your friends).

    I completely agree with you. I still find myself playing co-op missions or against each other in TS or CTF. Its one of those games that just rocks in every aspect and never gets old, whether you're playing by yourself or against people.

    I'm sure just about everyone on slashdot knows and agrees with this, but I would highly recommend XBConnect to everyone who owns an XBox and PC (Aquaduct for Mac users). It tricks your Xbox into thinking players around the world are on your LAN so you can play against them in halo system link mode (or a range of other games). Its similar to XBox Live but free.

    1. Re:XBConnect and Aquaduct for Multiplayer by techSage · · Score: 5, Informative

      The one pro for XBConnect is the number of Halo players on there, but for a better experience (faster, cleaner UI, support for clans and ladders, and packet capturing written from the ground up for better performance with gaming packets vs. WinPCap that XBC and other use), try out XLink. A version with the new packet capture will be out 10/16 and is supposed to be about 10 times better than the version with WinPCap.

      XLink is available for Windows, Linux on 10/16 and Mac OSX shortly thereafter.

      XLink also works with PS2 and GameCube games that support LAN play. Read more about that at my tech blog.