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The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Month: August 2004

  • Fall Foliage: Crisp Death

    Normally, I wouldn’t put this on the front page… but it’s the best way of making sure everyone who needs to see this will. The next HBO Junkies lanfest has been scheduled for October 2, 2004; details (and instructions that EVERYONE WHO WANTS TO ATTEND MUST FOLLOW) can be found on the HBO Junkie’s Events…

  • Misc Art Grows, Too

    Equally as surely, we’re working our way through the Miscellaneous Art backlog – another ten pieces have been posted today. We’re still in July, as far as submissions go… but that won’t be for much longer.

  • MLG VoD footage for the masses

    Dolbex, synide, and Jason of MLG put together an 8-minute long retrospective of the MLG-Seattle Halo 2 experience; you’ve already seen the in-game footage, this will give you some flavor of the event itself. 26.9 mb, QuickTime format; we’ve put copies up on both files2.bungie.org and mythica.org.

  • Can Anyone Recommend A Good Lawyer?

    No matter how hard you try, sometimes info gets out before you mean for it to. Take One One Se7en, for example.

  • More pretty pics for your computer

    Another day, another 10 desktop images for the Wallpaper Section. Slowly but surely…

  • Wideload Aspyrs to Greatness

    Nice. Wideload Games, the brainchild of Bungie co-founder Alex Seropian and the first (and only?) company with plans to release a game using the Halo engine, has finalized a publishing deal with Aspyr Media, a Mac publishing house. (This doesn’t mean Wideload’s first offering will be Mac-only… in fact, it’ll be released on Mac, PC,…

  • Hawt chicks and scalped tix

    Frankie showed up at the PAX event (the Penny Arcade blowout last weekend) with 12 Xboxes loaded with Halo 2 in hand… and seems to have had a good time. Of sorts. Check out the pictures and entertaining commentary over at Bungie.net. (He states, near the end, that this is probably the last chance the…

  • And the art keeps flowing

    Didn’t think I was going to get to it today… but sometimes you get lucky. The next of about 8 backlogged batches of Miscellaneous Art (ten items per batch) is now up for grabs – so go grab. Cool sketches today.

  • Inactive and Camouflaged

    Boxer points out that Episode 5 of Adventures in Disaster has been posted at akba.net. Careful where you step.

  • I’m goin’ under

    Don’t expect to hear from me until after September, maybe….

  • Halo 2 Wallpaper Kit

    About a million years ago, or maybe it was just back in July, drelnathi sent along a collection of 18 Halo 2 figures, nicely separated from their backgrounds and saved as layered Photoshop documents. They were designed to help people make cool wallpapers – which is why he called it the Halo 2 Wallpaper Kit.…

  • Imported from Reach.

    John Kamphus found an old cigar box in his attic, and added some flavor (14k). Sarge would love him…

  • Halo FAN Opens

    Subnova has launched the Halo FAN – a Fansite Advertising Network. If you run a Halo fansite with banner ads, joining this network will give your site exposure across the Halo fansite continuum, as well as providing you with a professionally-managed backend for your advertising particulars. Visit the info page for more details, and information…

  • Halo 2 Preview at MuchMusic

    MuchMusic.com got a chance to play the Zanzibar build at X04 in Toronto a couple of weeks ago – and they, too, have written up their impressions. Check ’em out. Thanks, Bored_dude.

  • Hardcore Mapping

    Now THAT’S some dedicated mapping. Eric Loux sat down with what looks like graphing paper and a pencil and mapped out the Pillar of Autumn. Image is only 10K, so take a look.

  • synide – graduate, Halo skool of ownage

    Ryan ‘synide’ Thompson, who was recently Spotlighted by the Junkyard (go read it – it’s funny!), wrote up his own Halo 2 review based on his experience at last week’s MLG Seattle Downpour event. Swing on by Gotfrag for the lowdown, and some cool pics.

  • Death of the Common Grunt

    Okay – the film quality is pretty low (it was filmed with a digital camera, in movie mode), and the dialogue leaves a little to be desired… but Collin Ferry’s ‘Death of the Common Grunt’ film still brought a smile to my face. It’s available in WMP9 format (3.6 mb) or QuickTime format (3.4 mb),…

  • Still more wallpapers

    And again, continuing to clear the Wallpaper queue, there are 10 new desktops for you in the Wallpaper section this morning. Eep – time to get back to the Misc Art queue!

  • German Halo 2 preview at Halo Universe

    If you can read German, you should swing over to Halo Universe, where they’ve put up a preview of Halo 2, based on thier impressions at the Games Convention last week, along with another small (2.7 mb, WMP9 format) shakeycam vid of the action.

  • 55-0 in 6 Seconds.

    Stuntmutt takes a shot at passed-over assets in today’s One One Se7en. Might make you cry instead of laugh… (For some of you, that won’t be anything new, when it comes to One One Se7en.)