Halo 3 and Silverlight

Halo 3 and Silverlight are proving the ultimate combination: if you want access to all the latest and greatest Halo 3 content, then you've got to have Silverlight installed on your machine.

Today we just published the Halo 3 Game Guide online; it provides in-depth information on game play, the story so far, the key characters and the vehicles at your disposal. It's pretty neat. In honour of the imminent launch of Halo 3, the Tafiti experimental search interface is also wearing a rather attractive "Master Chief" skin. Lastly, all the Halo 3 trailer videos are of course available in high-definition exclusively using Silverlight, with a bunch more coming over the next few days.

I've been meaning to provide a general update on Silverlight progress, but life has gotten busy. Instead, I'll briefly provide you with a few links: break.com (check out the new spatial search), HSN, Worldwide Wrestling Entertainment, Terra (warning: this site is aimed at the Latin American region and their streaming servers don't offer great performance to North America or Europe), the Emmy Award site.

And lastly, if you've not seen it - check out theConverted - a utility that converts Flash SWF animations to XAML (in this case, WPF). It's very well implemented - a great way to take your Flash assets and start to build a XAML-based solution.

Comments

• Anonymous
  September 21, 2007
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• Anonymous
  September 21, 2007
  I don't think it's that odd.  Let's be fair -- Halo 3 marketing has probably been in the works for a LONG time.  It would be very difficult for them to have adapted so quickly to Silverlight.

• Anonymous
  September 21, 2007
  Interesting. When I visit the game guide that you've put on the Silverlight page it tells me that I need to download Silverlight in order to view the guide - even though I already have it. What's up with that? Thanks, Mike Downey, Adobe

• Anonymous
  September 22, 2007
  Mike- are you running Silverlight 1.0 RTM or a prior release?

• Anonymous
  September 24, 2007
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• Anonymous
  September 24, 2007
  Hi Mike,  can you also tell us more about your computer? I would be especially interested in your OS, Browser, and whether or not you had a pre-RC version of Silverlight installed on your computer.

• Anonymous
  September 25, 2007
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• Anonymous
  September 25, 2007
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• Anonymous
  October 13, 2007
  Sorry for the delay in responding. I'm on a Macbook Pro running Safari 2 with Silverlight 1.0 - the version you're offering to standard users (eg, not a beta version). This is a brand new machine. Not using IE 64-bit (heh). Thanks, Mike Downey, Adobe Platform Evangelism

• Anonymous
  October 25, 2007
  From time to time I'm asked if there's a SWF to XAML conversion tool. From Tim Sneath's blog: The Converted....