Month: July 2004

Direct downloads of the Keyes winning run of our Going Nowhere Fast contest are now available; visit the GNF Status page for your choices. Quick Update on BitTorrent stats for the contest vids in general – 12,000 total downloads have been handled by the network, accounting for 1.2 terabytes over the past couple of weeks.…

Last week, the Mountain Dew/Halo 2 contest ended, and a few teams got email that they’d won. Two of these teams showed up at Bungie headquarters last Saturday, and now one of the participants has written up his experience. 3 solid hours of Halo 2 netplay on Zanzibar is definitely enough to get a feel…

Halo Zone has posted a collection of ultra-hi-res screenshots; while most have been available from other sources (the 1920×1080 screen grabs from the Halo ad are new), they haven’t all been in one place before. If you want multi-thousand-pixel Halo 2 goodness, and you couldn’t be bothered to scour the web for these… visit Halo…

NiTrOuSoXiDe has released a no-leading patch for Halo CE; it’s currently in beta-testing. To be used, both the server and the client need to have this installed for it to work (a download link is in that thread). If you’re finding that the changes in client-side prediction made in Halo CE made playing more difficult…

In classic Stuntmutt fashion, today’s One One Se7en looks at an unintended consequence of a new Halo 2 feature. (No, it’s not bee-related.) If it makes no sense to you… use that mouse button.

The latest version of the Mac Halo Timer, now up to 1.5, has been announced. Lots of new features – if you’re running MacOSX 10.3 or higher, and you want to keep track of spawn times for various items, this puppy’s for you!

The final winning run for our Going Nowhere Fast contest, Trevor Fitch’s Maw run, is now available for download via BitTorrent. Once again – it hasn’t been mentioned for a bit, so here is a BitTorrent client download link. This run is really efficient – no deaths at all, and some really classy moments. 82…

While I was out last night, a huge thread erupted on our forum, arguing about my choice yesterday to ban the use of the word ‘bee’ from forum posts. I’ve been accused of stifling speculation, of favoritism, and of limiting new fans from entering the Halo community (among other sins). In my defense, I’d like…

Update on this morning’s outage at Subnova; looks like a storm took out power for a good chunk of the evening. Things are getting back to normal, so everything that used to be running on halosn (including Fan Fiction) is back up again.

Dang it – I just found the beginning of this news post; I started writing it yesterday morning, but must have gotten distracted. Stupid bees… Captain Spark continues his cel-shading-like manipulation of Halo screenshots; he posted a pair that are actually the same shot, with different coloring. Very cool, if you ask me.

Last Friday’s Weekly Bungie Update has been added to our Archive – the collection (29 in total) is getting hefty, weighing in at 220kb worth of text. That Frankie writes a lot sometimes…

HaloSverige.nu (a Swedish Halo site) is gearing up for full coverage of next weekend’s $50,000 CPL event (in English). Currently, the section holds basic CPL info (maplist, participants, rules, and so on). Check it out!

Nice catch by Ross Mills – a few weeks after we posted a note about Eric Trautmann’s leaving behind his involvement in the Halo world, Eric posted ANOTHER note on his blog stating that he might, in fact, remain on in his old capacity.My job transition may or may not happen, I may or may…

We’ve moved our forum to a faster machine, which should solve the viewing problems some people have been having since the ilovebees invasion last Friday. The downside: it might take a little while for the DNS change to propagate. Please be patient!

Red vs Blue Season 2 DVDs are now on sale; they’re not shipping until August 2, but you can plunk down your cash now. You get the full collection of episodes, plus directors commentary, outtakes, deleted scenes, line readings, easter eggs, and ‘Never Before Seen Videos’, all for $20. Sounds like a deal! First heads-up…

Figures.com has put up a gallery of pics of the newest batch of Halo 2 prototypes from Joyride, taken during last weekend’s San Diego Comic Con. Some are quite washed out, but you can get a decent sense for what they look like in any case. Thanks to gd for pointing them out (in a…

We’ve known for a while that halosn.bungie.org, one of the mirror sites for our material and the sole server for our Fan Fiction section, was moving – what we didn’t count on was losing touch with Deimos Fawkes, its proprietor, in the days leading up to the move. At this point, the machine has stopped…

Thanks to clarksbrother, for going above and beyond to help provide to Mac users what Windows users got last week. (Thanks, also, to Rufo Sanchez, who tried to do the same, just a little later.) You can now download a 1920×1080 version of the Halo 2 Ad released recently; it’s 43 mb, and it plays…

Kikizo.com has put up a bunch of very nice screengrabs from the Ad trailer – they’re listed as 800×600, but most of them are 1280×720, with a few that are 800×450. Very nice quality.