Month: June 2004

Whoa. RunningRiot managed to capture some pretty amazing footage in his living room…

Kikizo.com has put up a massive collection of screens – it’s all content that’s been seen in recent print articles, but it’s in digital form. Very nice stuff. Thanks to Zero Flaw for noticing. Update: Higher-resolution versions of some of the renders can also be found at Eurogamer.net (thanks, R.net). You know, of course, that…

It’s been a couple of months since the last batch… but XLNC is back with 10 new HUDless screenshots. These were taken using the detachable camera in Halo CE – which, unfortunately, only works when you’re alone. (It’s not networkable.)

Before anyone goes overboard… 1up.com has recently overhauled their website, and one of the things that changed was the listed release date for Halo 2. (They currently have it listed as December 15, 2004.) Normally, silly release dates on random websites are ignored by us… but 1up is a pretty big site (they’re the web…

Djof points out a contest on Channel 9, site run by Microsoft programmers – the Summer of Express Coding Contest. Create a ‘non-business’ application using the new Express products, and win one of 6 Xboxes (which come with Xbox Live and Halo 2)! Details are on the contest page.

GUzz3re points out a thread on the Halo Revolution forum containing a new video showing off New Mombasa, the ambitious mod from Mrs Doublefire, NiTrOuSoXiDe, and company. Last time I posted a link to a New Mombasa vid, I got bombarded with email screaming about how I was making a beta leak worse. (I wasn’t,…

Hehe – the Fire Team Charlie boyz have a whole bunch of goodies to give away, and they’ve finally settled on how they’re gonna do it. Play ’em on XBC, 2v2, and beat ’em, and you win stuff. That simple! There are some very reasonable rules laid out on the contest page – go make…

Today’s One One Se7en looks at our Going Nowhere Fast competition, and how Stuntmutt’s run stacked up. (In truth, he’s in third place, and had some pretty l337 moves near the start… as far as I can tell, he’s still in the running for the grand prize.) That said, visual manipulation of photos of me…

Sometimes, the obvious isn’t really enough. That’s what I learned from Halo: Resolution today, anyway.

A couple of months ago, Bungie ran a contest called the ‘Launch Week Prizetacular’ – they gave away cool stuff to randomly-selected B.net members. The second prize was a Limited Edition Xbox Console – and last night, rapture showed up in the #hbo irc channel with pictures. Seems Joyeuse finally received his prize, and posted…

We got word from Dolbex about a fun contest sponsored by MLG: Impress ‘Your Mom’, win free entrance to 50k3. The details: come up with the coolest multiplayer move ever, and ‘Your Mom’ (one of the Been Mawed crew, and a staff member of the 50k3 event) will give you a free ticket, an MLG…

Looks like Cortana.org has gone offline. A visit to the site gives a Denied message… and a visit to Forerunners.org, its parent site, shows a news post stating that it’s officially offline, with an explanation coming sometime in the future. Our links page has been updated.

MireL pointed out a glitch he found at Halo Online some time ago – it’s possible to climb out of the Pillar of Autumn, into space, through an airlock door. (The top pane of glass is passable by bodies, though not by bullets.) Goatrope quickly filmed the glitch (DivX format, 1.7 mb – I’ve also…

Battleground: Halo has become HaloPlanet – an official Gamespy Planet site. A new look, tons of new content (check out the interview with NiTrOuSoXiDe), and lots more to come – there’s a welcome message from the site directors explaining where they’re hoping to go. Explore!

Recently, Saint’s been running some fun mini-contests on our forum, called ‘Where’s The Master Chief?’ An invisible MC is placed somewhere in a screenshot of a Halo level, and it becomes your job to find them. (We haven’t been front-paging these because the files are pretty huge (a front-page link might swamp psyjnir.org, the host),…

SFGate.com has put together a list of games coming out in the next 6 months that could keep you in your house – forever. (Like that’s a GOOD thing.) Halo 2 is on it.

A forum member reminded me that I’d been meaning to mention HaloTV again. This is a site which provides streaming versions of many popular Halo vids, including some content not available elsewhere. Recently, they opened a beta Red vs Blue channel… a great way to grab a random dose of the funniest Halo serial on…

Calvin makes Hobbes happy (but not the converse) in today’s Calvin and Halo

A week ago, we mentioned an upcoming mod from Icetiger with low-gravity play and bots – it’s now available for beta download from Halomods. (If bandwidth runs out, there’s a mirror at Halo World and another at Fileplanet, as well.) If you’ve got Halo CE – give this map a shot, and send your feedback…

This is just a reminder – midnight, EST, on July 1 is just under 64 hours from now. That’s the final deadline for all entries to the Going Nowhere Fast contest – if you plan on mailing a tape, now would be a VERY good time to do so. (And you should send it Second…