Month: March 2004

Hehe – here’s a fun little Halo-related flash thingy… Nice work from the HaloNATION team. Heads-up from HuMaN_fLy in our forum.

One One Se7en looks at those funny Subnova folks today. Poor MC.

Today’s Halo: Resolution pulls our poor MC out of the frying pan…

Wow. Wraith has managed to add a working Fuel Rod Gun to Two Betrayals; the graphics are a tad blocky, but the functionality rocks. (I’m not sure WHY the graphics are blocky; you’re using the gun that the Spec-Ops Grunts use on that level.) It was originally available as a PC mod, but he also…

There’s an interesting essay on Games, and the stories they try to tell, written by Greg Costikyan, Co-Founder of Unplugged Games. It looks at games in general, and is not Halo-related, in any direct sense… but Halo (and Bungie games in general) tend to try and tell stories, and they do it more successfully than…

Jonathan Eaton points out the third ACM @ MSU -hosted Xbox Halo Tournament, in East Lansing, Michigan, on April 10. $700 in cash prizes, plus goodies. The web page is here.

Blade posted a 22 mb, 8:37 long movie of Blood Gulch gameplay on his TeamHalo site. Fraps makes the gameplay pretty choppy, and the low-end video card makes the image quality… well, pretty low-end. It’s mostly just a few guys running around shooting each other. You need to register on the site (with a valid…

Akba and Allroy have written up a tutorial on how to play Xbox Halo using Gamespy Arcade. If you have the client already, or don’t like Xbox Connect for some reason, but you want to play online, go take a look! (You can comment in this thread.)

JM made a HUDless ‘trailer’ for Halo, and posted it (in two sizes) over at Halomods. It’s not very big, so take a look!

Wraith has put together a new model for a Covenant heavy attack aircraft; ground landings might be a tad awkward, but it looks pretty deadly. (The tail, which folds underneath like a scorpion’s, is flexible – making it a rather deadly weapon.)

Wonga. The Nightmare Armor guys updated their site – with the name of the winner of the Helmet raffle. Scott Mills, of New Jersey, congratulations! (He probably already knows, since the helmet was sent out last weekend.) Heads-up came from Madda Cheeb.

BOLL wrote an interesting paper for school recently; it’s called ‘Analysis of Halo: Combat Evolved using Game Design Patterns’. He uses a methodology developed last year by three Scandinavian researchers to break down gameplay in Halo, and determine how well the game would work without the patterns found. It’s an interesting read, so we’ve posted…

Keeping up with current discussions, that’s Finn. Not noticing until today, that’s me.

Bachus found a reference to Halo in today’s Real Life Comics… another step in the plan towards World Domination.

Hmm. Over at Rampancy.net, there’s a pointer to a new page at the Joyride Studios site, showing a ‘sneak peek’ at the Waves 4 and 5 action figures, as well as early views of the Halo 2 prototypes. However – this is just a rehash of the page posted at Bungie’s Truth and Reconciliation site,…

Calvin and Halo asks the question… are tigers part of the Covenant?

22 pieces for you in the Fan Fiction section today: Operation: Halo Part 1, by Chaos Elite Unknown, by Allisia Behind Enemy Lines, by ScorpionTankRider Halo: The Scythe of Death Part Nine, by LordofDestruction The Eye of the Storm: Prologue, by LordofDestruction You cannot help but wonder, by MasterCD Scope (Chapter 3, The Day Hell…

Battleground: Halo has some new content today – Viper’s posted a new mailbag (someone’s planning to write to Bungie and tell ’em about their dumb halo battleground dumb site), and Rams has posted a rant about how unreasonable it is that 4 of the first 11 Weekly Updates were posted here at HBO. (I guess…

To all the people pointing out that BOLL’s Warthog Launch game is now on Ebaumsworld, or AlbinoBlackSheep, or any of several dozen other sites – we know, thanks. HBO served over a million copies of the game to viewers in the first two and a half weeks it was online – and we’re still serving…

Updates on a couple of films; Eclarap writes to point out that Lord of the Ring is now mirrored at Halo-Game, in France, and Verdafolio dropped a note in our forum that Elevation has changed hosting (we’ve updated the movie database for this one). If there’s time today, I’ll add the new movies from last…