Month: February 2005

A very large number of people have pointed us to this article on IGN. This page reports that, allegedly, Microsoft and Bungie are already working on Halo 3, and that it will be timed to coincide with the release of the PS3 (expected in early 2006, but Sony hasn’t fixed a date yet). Remember, this…

Over at Geezer Gamers, there’s a writeup of a game in which a team tried to glitch their way to victory – but didn’t count on the tenacity of geezers. (Go geezers!) Worth a read because it points out the sort of unsportsmanlike conduct you can run into on XBL – and what can be…

Matt Stum wrote to let us know about playroster.com – a new network that is billing itself as ‘the World’s First Online Celebrity Gaming Network’. Their launch title will be Halo 2 – and their goal is to hook you up with celebrities playing online. They plan to list what celebrities are online at any…

Today’s One One Se7en shows that you can, indeed, take a joke too far.

A couple of tourneys came across our inbox recently… Michael M. pointed out one that’s taking place in New Zealand – visit the Halo 2 Battle website for more details. (It’s happening the first two weekends in April.) And Kevin Bunch pointed out a pair of tourneys being run by MVP Gaming in Michigan; end…

Stephen Loftus has spent an awful lot of time studying the intricacies of the Halo world – to a degree that some might consider fanatical. In the coming weeks, we’ll be bringing you a variety of his speculations and analyses… but to start with, we’ve put up a page devoted to a 1/1000 scale model…

Red vs Blue episode 50 has been posted for sponsors; it’s MASSIVE. 124-129 mb, depending on format… 16 and a half minutes of revisionist history. A whole bunch of mysteries from Season One are finally cleared up – sort of. Awesome episode, overall… for everyone except Shishka. If you’re not a sponsor, this should be…

Jillybean sifted through some forum posts and emails to put up another few tidbits on the Halo Story page today; a novels-based morsel commented on by Eric Trautmann himself, along with some speculation about the mechanism behind Halo’s offensive capabilities. Go read!

Today’s Prickly City comic looks at one of the pitfalls of pushing the visuals envelope… thanks, pirate stunn.

HALOChat has also posted an interview with a high-ranking Halo 2 player – it’s described as part 1 of 3 of ‘Speaking with a Pro’… but from reading the interview, it looks like cAPPy204 is just someone who plays a lot. (I can’t see anything that suggests that he does this for money anywhere.) Comments…

MLGPro has turned the Pro-Player Spotlight on Tsquared, a 17-year-old signed MLG player. Go read for a taste of what it’s like to be young and a professional gamer. Thanks, 3Suns.

We got a note from Jim Smith that there’ll be a Running Riot tourney happening at the Sauchiehall GameStation (upstairs of the Sports Cafe Glasgow) in Glasgow, Scotland, on March 7th. Registration opens at 7, gaming happens until midnight. There’s a small entrance fee. More details can be had by contacting running_riot@btopenworld.com.

Dennis Powers dropped us a note to let us know that Episode 6 of the Halo CE Chronicles has been released – 3:49, 4.2 mb, in Flash video format. The Spartan takes on the Covenant troops that killed his friend, and finds he’s not just a killing machine. Update: Dennis writes to say bandwidth might…

Not long ago, we put up a page detailing the progress Alan James has been making with a new MC suit he’s building. He just sent us a couple of shots of the gun he’s building to go with it – we’ve added them to the page. Great start!

FugitiveSoldier and some buddies played a marathon game of Zombies, and the resultant film is pretty funny; Brain Ninjas is just under 5 minutes of Benny Hill-type humor (complete with soundtrack), zombies chasing a poor living spartan. Latest thread for this can be found here on our forum; the movie is WMP9 format, 20.6 mb.…

KillR posted a small Battle Rifle Functions video in our forum – stop-motion footage of a White MC action figure and his Battle Rifle. Pretty nice work! I’ve tossed up both the original WMP9 version (1.5 mb) and a QuickTime version (1.9 mb) on local servers, in case his bandwidth runs out.

After War episode 14 has been posted over at Black Arts Studios; the story’s getting a bit difficult to understand, but hang in there. Thanks, Kevin.

Small buildup of Fan Fiction pieces during the time I was gone; 26 new items added today. (There was some talk on the forum about starting to call it Fan Literature, so that searches for Fan Fiction in the news wouldn’t return more than the 777 items written before today… but no, we’ll stick with…

MrJukes has been busy – there are two more Jump Sessions and a pretty fun flag cap on his Trick Jumping site. Some pretty cool stuff in that new one… go start downloading! Update: oops – I should have reminded people that we’ve mirrored the entire site – if you have trouble getting to the…

The Bungie Weekly What’s Update is up, and boy is Frankie mad. Steaming mad. Luckily for us, however, he put aside his boiling rage long enough for another peek into the vast intellectual emptiness that is his mailbox, some answers to some questions, and an old-skool Mister Chief, simple-style.