Month: October 2003

Gamesradar.uk has put up a pretty massive article called ‘The Making of… Halo’. It’s a fascinating look behind the scenes – what made it in, what didn’t, and in some cases, why. This is a web version of the Edge Magazine feature ‘The Making of…’ – maybe the January 2004 issue (out in the UK…

Halo links sent to us in the past few days:Cracked Visor – Xbox Halo clan Master-Chief.net – Halo forum Icegames – Movies, pics (I enjoyed Faint) Black Death Squad – Halo PC clan Vector Squad – Halo PC clan Factor VIII Contingency – Multigame clan (including Halo) Couple of notes: Black Death Squad has a…

Gamers Europe reviewed Halo (8/10). They were pretty unhappy with it (“in terms of a port, this is pretty poor”), but the last sentence left me scratching my head:It’s hard to recommend if you’ve not played it before, but if you haven’t then in the name of God jump on the bandwagon while you can.Um……

Proving once again that corn monopoly is NOT to be muscled in on, Stuntmutt serves up a Halloween-related One One Se7en for you. (Personally, I was waiting for the ‘ouch’.)

Seems Halo: Resolution is trying to muscle in on Stuntmutt’s corn monopoly. Hmmm…

A couple of weeks ago, nukedude was playing around with a mod BOLL had created, one that allowed super speeds. (BOLL had made his own Xbox vid a couple of months ago, on Blood Gulch, with no sound… but after HPC came out, folks discovered that Death Island provided some unique jumping opportunities.) nukedude’s vid…

To kick off Halloween with a bang, we’ve got Jillybean’s ‘An HBO Halloween’ in our Fan Fiction section. Check it out… it’s full of forum regulars. I will say, in my own defense, that I have never, ever, worn a tutu. Except that once.

15 stories for you today in the Fan Fiction section: Spartans Of Darkness Part 1 Reclaimer, by SpartanOmega The Hall of Echoes; Chapter 1, by John The Hall of Echoes; Chapter 2, by John A Pilots Life: Chapter 5-The Jailbreak, by Captain Rasc A Pilots Life:Chapter 6-Making a Stand, by Captain Rasc The Cell, by…

Some time ago, Deimos Fawkes, over at Subnova, set up a small private monitoring service to notify a few people when Bungie.net posted new content. (Vengeance, a Subnova server, simply watched Bungie.net, and sent out mail – basically a list of headlines – whenever it detected a change.) Yesterday, Ross Mills asked whether this list…

Got a grunty thirst for a trinket? Try buying a clue.

Busy morning, but I’ve finally gotten around to formatting our own copy of the CPL chat last night. (Hehe – I had to go back to this one to remember some formatting I’d used before…) I realize there are half-a-dozen other versions out there, but my long-term experience says that if it’s not local, it’s…

There’s a report up on Bungie.net about part 3 of the Bungie Fanfest Documentary; this episode looks at the Halo 2 trailer, and the fun surrounding it. As has been the case, you can find 320×240 versions on Bungie.net (linked in that article), or higher-res versions here:QuickTime (500×333, 20 mb) at files.bungie.org or MythicaWMP9 (640×480,…

C.O.E.R.C.E. (an organization formed last summer to help alleviate HBO’s movie bandwidth woes) has now put another Halo PC server online – and we’re honored that its name is ‘HBO-COERCE’. You can find server password and Ventrilo password listed in this forum post, and the current map rotation (though that’s subject to change) in this…

Interesting sketch on the Bungie webcam right now – archived here in case it changes before you read this.

A couple more reviews for you – Hatekill loved the AI, thought the graphics were too simple, Gametactics thought the 2-gun limit was bogus. Also, Gamestar Magazine (in Germany) reviewed the game, and gave it an 87% (though they’re running a silly petition to get Gearbox to add coop play – as though Gearbox wasn’t…

CPL has posted an interview with Randy Pitchford – it’s pretty focused on league gaming (suprise, surprise), but has some really intriguing info in it. Like this question:Will HaloPC support demo-recording/playback functions?Randy : A multiplayer demo recording function is in development at Gearbox. We hope to be rolling this out in time for the winter…

Today’s Guest One One Se7en was drawn by Warbow, and looks at a pretty cool design created by another forum regular, Roger Wilco. Makes a good point, though.

A number of sites have put up transcripts of last night’s IRC chat on the #CPL channel of Gamesnet with Gearbox, Bungie, and MS – we haven’t had time to format our own yet (I wasn’t around last night, but I logged it anyway 🙂 ). In the meantime, you can check out clan|dcThe Junkyardblam.forerunners.orgHalomodsSome…

And again. This time it’s Finn, working toward the Tag Team knockout of the Halo Story Page mailbag (though the first post of the day is mnemesis’) – more stuff than you can shake a Forerunner at. (Can you even SHAKE Forerunners? I mean, given the doors on Halo, they must be pretty big, right?…