Month: March 2005

New Calvin and Halo from Blackstar this week – man, did that hit home.

W00T! Subnova is back online, which is awesome news for them – but it also means our Fan Fiction section is back online. Sorry for the downtime!

MLGPro.com put up an article about the Halo 2 expansion pack – it’s a weird read. It jumps back and forth between acceptance of the existing price structure (with solid logic including acknowledgment that the majority of Halo 2 owners don’t have Live, and the reminder that if you choose to buy the maps rather…

The Codex Episode 7 has been released – ‘The Siege of Halo Base’ features the shotgun action of Jack Foster. It’s action-packed, and nicely filmed. Currently in QuickTime only, but DivX and WMP9 should be posted later today.

Bronzemage sends us a link to a forum working on a Halo mod for the space-sim Freelancer. This general Freelancer mod site has more info, as well. I poked around a little bit, but didn’t find any existing artwork – yet. Check it out if you want to help!

Oliver Stopienski, from Halo Orbit, points out that they’ve got an image that’s supposed to be the Halo 2 Multiplayer Map Pack cover; this is the same artwork that Bungie used for its news post about the expansion pack, so who knows? It might even be true. (It’s too small a picture to rule out…

SkyLine asked us to point out Wild Card Production’s pair of Halo montages – lots of sniping. Hosting’s offsite, so what the heck. Wi1D CarD Montage 2 is 45.6 mb, MPEG 1 format (4:33 long). Wi1D CarD Montage 3 is 3:15 long, MPEG1 format, 32.5 mb.

Black Six points out a Halo 2 Sweepstakes at Gamestop – sign up to win a special edition Xbox, along with both Halo Xbox games. You must be a resident of the US, and a legal adult in your state of residence. You’ve got until April 13 to sign up!

mr smiley points out another hefty art update at Halo Babies. The Elite and The Assassin and Angel of Prayer were my two favorites, but check ’em all out!

Hehe – SuperSunny has figured out a way to bring the Halo 2 glow effect (light reflecting off the ground) to Halo CE. The innovation doesn’t stop! Thanks, MasterGrief.

Team Tabula Rasa has two new columns on Halo 2 strategy online – Furiont opens his ‘The Making of a Spartan’ column with a recap of how he got started in all this, and Faewraith113 fires up his ‘Sententia per Antiquus’ column with a piece called ‘Community of Electrons’, which looks at the growth and…

Overswarm is almost ready to start posting his Strategy guides… but he realized that many of his pieces would be better if he had an artist working with him. If you’re interested in helping out, and have some talent, drop him an email!

Mat Noguchi was one of several Bungie employees to present talks at this year’s Game Developer’s Conference. He was kind enough to provide both the paper and the slides he used for the talk itself (with his notes attached). You can read the paper here, and view the slide show (minus a few real-time demos)…

Hehe – when you absolutely, positively, can’t go another minute without your stats… view ’em on your Pocket PC. Thanks to HaloPlanet for the heads-up.

This is highly unusual, but I couldn’t wait… Jason Borne (you might remember the name – we’ve got a pretty amazing piece of artwork of his in our Miscellaneous Art collection) dropped off a new image, and since I have no idea when I’ll get a chance to update the misc art section again, I…

For all the folks writing to us – no, there isn’t a One One Se7en today. I think Stuntmutt is angry with me.

Captain Spark posted another 30 dialogue snippets on his website; grab the zip file from there, or browse the new entries in our Dialogue Databank.

Bigsauce is pretty excited about the new MLG Online Store… because the very first player shirt for sale is his. For AR lovers everywhere! (There’ll be other player shirts, with all the big-name Halo pros you’ve watched…)

Bull3tL@g posted a Halo 1 montage on our forum yesterday – lots of nice grenade sticks, and other stuff. 43.1 mb, WMP9 format. Hosted at ods.org.

Thanks to brokenwatch, of H2 Advanced Stats, for sending along the fixes needed to make our Gamertag emblem checker work again after Bungie.net’s tweaks recently. Sorry for the downtime!