Month: November 2003

Not really Halo news, but it’s certainly in the holiday spirit, so… Penny Arcade is working with the Seattle Children’s Hospital and Amazon.com to bring games to sick kids. They call it Child’s Play, and the details can be found at the bottom of their front page. (It’ll be there for the next month or…

Stuntmutt, tired of the constant sniping he puts up with in the forum, has taken his OWN shot – at the Mac version of Halo. Dang, if it didn’t make me smile, I’d have to smack him. Go read One One Se7en today.

Halo: Resolution looks at how hard it can be to ditch an AI…

ASPMaster showed off a cool little Flash Animation in which the MC is built, top-down. We’ve added it to our Miscellaneous section (1.4 mb).

Grenadiac stopped by our forum to point out a new movie for download at Halomods.com; the MC has been replaced by a Grunt. Great music choice. 8 mb (.rar-compressed), WMP7 format. Dance, boy!

Nice find by Ross Mills; there’s a Special Edition Halo Soundtrack now for sale, from Sumthing Else Music Works. It comes with a bonus DVD that contains trailers and videos of Halo 2, plus Surround Sound versions of new music. (This is the soundtrack Marty mentioned about a month ago, during a Music 4 Games…

We mentioned the new MacSoft Halo page a couple of days ago, and others have pointed out the Games page over at Apple… but travis brought to our attention that Halo is not confined to gaming pages any more. On a page devoted to extolling the virtues of the G5’s video capabilities, the screenshot at…

Missed it when it arrived, but SeeMePlayMe is hosting a kickoff party for its new Platinum Plus Gamer account. They’ll be giving away 5 lifetime gold accounts, 2 lifetime Platinum accounts, and one 1-year Platinum Plus Gamer account. This newest account not only allows you to set up a custom server on the fly… but…

Couple of Blue’s News-reported reviews for you: AllOutGames gave it 89% (though the front-page mention was quite a bit harsher, and even the reviewer made it clear that the 89% was because 90% is their cutoff for a ‘stamp of approval’), and Ferrago gave it 84%, complaining about the clunky console-born interface and the ‘stuttering…

Last week, a bunch of HBO regulars (and some new friends) got together at nof’s place to celebrate the second anniversary of the Xbox (and Halo) with 14 hours of lan play. nukedude filmed the whole shebang. This isn’t your standard lan footage; the actual gameplay takes a back seat to the event itself. (It…

GreenMJOLNIR’s Guest One One Se7en strip was written a couple of months ago… but the joke’s still there.

AGAIN with the updates. Finn, this time, picks out some of the juicier morsels from the Halo Story mailbag (and a forum post or two) to peel another layer of mystery from the onion that is Halo. Go read.

Bungie.net’s transfer over to .NET (and the use of .NET Passports) is complete. If you have a Passport already, simply log in, then link your existing Bungie.net account to your Passport. If you don’t have a Passport, create one, and link it. Finally, you can link your Passport to a new Bungie.net account. Existing functionality…

Several days ago, we mentioned that the backlog of strips for the One One Se7en Guest queue was getting out of hand, and described what we thought would be a reasonable solution for the problem. Well, maybe folks didn’t understand what was being offered… because we had exactly two voluntary submissions. Added to that are…

After a really long hiatus, Fire Team Charlie is back, with episode 9. It’s available in DivX-encode AVI format (and QuickTime, as soon as they link it), and weighs in at about 40 mb. It’s high-res (640×480), for EVERYONE – though members of XboxOttawa.ca can download it directly, while everyone else needs to use BitTorrent.…

Wow. Master Chief Cutter has put together a full size rocket launcher. It doesn’t actually shoot… but that’s probably a GOOD thing. It’s over 4 feet long, and there are a bunch of blurry pictures on his website here. (I grabbed local copies, so someone should drop me a line if this dies; we’ll put…

mnemesis has once again dipped into the Halo Story page mailbag, and pulled out some tantalizing tidbits. (There’s even one from forum regular Jillybean… hmm, I thought I told him to throw all of those away.) Good stuff.

Heh. Stuntmutt takes one final shot at the absurd length of the Guest queue in today’s One One Se7en. (Later today, the Archive will open, and SHOULD take care of that problem once and for all.)

There were 22 pieces of Fan Fiction submitted this weekend… get to it. Merick’s Journal’s: Episode 3 1/2: The Poem, by John Kitchen Halo The Respawned – Book One, by md Fight for New Tatley (Chapter 3: Bank Withdrawal), by CoLd BlooDed Brutus, The Spartans, Two AIs and the Pirate Fleet (Part 5), by Traumatised…

Noobs and guns… they don’t always mix. Halo: Resolution looks at one reason why not.