Ben Walters InfoPath MVP : Halo 3

Halo 3 Launch

Ben Walters — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 01:00:09 GMT

Last night I attended the midnight launch of Halo 3. Finally after 3 years the story will be completed. Once more I was the first in line and at roughly 12:15 I was back in my study unwrapping my fancy new Spartan helmet.

So far the game is brilliant, graphics (although not on the level of a Gears of War or Bioshock) are a big step up from Halo 2.

Well it's back to the fight for me, check out the pics below of cool limited edition packaging (by far the best limited edition I've seen for a game yet)

Weekly Recap

Ben Walters — Sat, 19 May 2007 06:36:00 GMT

What a week it has been from Monday to Wednesday I was presenting at the Asia Pacific SharePoint conference. This was a great event with lots of speaker from all over the globe. Ian Palangio from Microsoft and I presented 2 sessions both on InfoPath, the first was more of a what's new in the zoo type session showing off some of the outlook integration and web enabled form functionality of InfoPath. The second was focused on extending your forms with managed code and also using your forms in an external facing website using the asp form viewer control. Personally what made this event so good (other than the content) was that there was a good mix of both technical people who wanted to know the finer details of SharePoint, and non-technical people who were purely there to see what SharePoint had to offer them.

Once I made it back to Melbourne I was greeted by my Xbox 360, yearning to download the Halo 3 Multiplayer beta. Sadly however this had to wait until Thursday night due to some issues at Bungie's end. I did however manage to download it and I have to say this game is shaping up to be the greatest FPS of all time. Aside from the expected non-stop killing action the environments are simply amazing. Little things like realism of the water simply blows me away (actually it was AJAX311 that blew me away but the water looked so pretty during the whole ordeal).Finally on Friday my repaired O2 Atom was returned to me. While in the states my phone decided it was no longer going to charge so upon returning to Oz I promptly sent it off to the service centre to get repaired. Well after around 3 months and a lot of bad service I finally have my Atom back. Plus it has a new screen and upgraded firmware. So now I have no excuse again for being late to meetings Well I'm off now to finish setting up my SharePoint play server.

Brute Upgrades in Halo 3

Ben Walters — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 22:10:00 GMT

So we all know that Halo 3 is on the way, and we know that bungie has a whole heap of new features up its sleeve. One of which was that we thought we would be able to play as the brutes (this however was squashed pretty quick by our friends at bungie) They did however release a video detailing some of the new Brutish features.If you want to check out this video I would suggest heading over to Joystiq to check it out There were however a couple of other little tid bits I noticed while watching this video

Brutes can now rip your arms off !!!!
You can now dual wield power swords!!!!

I took some screen shots as best I could but if you really want to check it out I would suggest watching the original video in the link earlier.

I know you can see that these are not final renderings of the actual action, and we all know that features get cut from games before the goes gold i.e. the quad bike from Halo 2, but if these do get included it should make getting killed by a Brute much more entertaining and on the flip side killing a Brute much more fun.