Month: April 2005

Captain Spark posted another batch of dialogue snippets on his website yesterday – they’re now in searchable form in our Dialogue Databank. Elites and Grunts, this time around.

Michael M. was vacationing in Australia, and ran across a hotel that looked familiar.

HunterXL points out a Halo 2 mod from TheTykoMan, part of the 7th Sanctum modding clan. Looks like he’s managed to bring together a LOT of marines and either sword-wielding or beam-rifle-wielding enemies… if you’ve got a modded box, and you want to get into a pretty big battle in single player, check this out!…

There’s a Team Slayer tournament at Cal Poly Pomona on May 13, sponsored by MLG – more details are in this news post. Thanks, 3Suns.

Another ‘Game with Fame’ opportunity – the band Goldfinger will be online on Sunday, May 1. You can find full details in the official press release.

Today’s Weekly What’s Update is posted over at Bungie.net – and it focuses mostly on the new playlists, due to be in place on Xbox Live late next week. There are a bunch of changes made to decrease the effect ‘griefers’ (folks who play mostly to make OTHERS miserable) have on games, and also some…

Today’s One One Se7en will make more sense… soon.

Some interesting stuff going on in the HaloCE world… Halohoger has released a trailer for his upcoming Area 54 – you can grab it at HaloMods. And jahrain is working on a mod that remakes a village from ‘The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time’ – pics are up on the Gearbox forums. Thanks to…

Mothergoat is trying to compile a list of gamers that enjoy objective games, but aren’t obnoxious Live-users. If you’re interested, read his post, visit his forum, add your name.

Twelve new pieces for you today in the Fan Fiction section – go read!

Matt Scalcione points out that HaloTournies.com is running a free tournament on Monday, May 2. Winning prize is a $35 EBGames gift certificate. More details can be found on the site.

DSmooth writes to point out that 2old2play.com has set up a new service whereby you have access to lots of information if you link your gamertag on the site; a Friends list, wireless Friends list, stats integration, and more! Check out all the details.

Wow. This is a little off-topic… but not really. I’ve spent the morning running some tests with QuickTime 7, and the new H.264 codec. It blows away EVERYTHING I’ve used up to this point – I’m seriously considering making it the new ‘default’ QuickTime codec for HBO-released movies. (QuickTime 7 is a free download for…

Lionhead Studios, creators of Black & White and Black and White 2, has put up a page with questions and answers for the developers about the making of B&W 2. If you scroll down to the section entitled ‘Blooming and Trees’, you’ll see that the inspiration for this technique came straight from the original Halo.…

Shinesevens noticed a signed Xbox on eBay – there are 5 days left. This was brought to the Seattle fanfest the day Halo 2 was released, and has been signed by many Bungie employees. No bids, currently. Interesting collector’s item!

rRootage scanned the display case for the new Multiplayer Map Pack – he found it on display at EBGames. It contains pretty solid confirmation that one of the remaining maps (almost certainly Backwash) is set in a 343GS-type swamp… which would pin down Frankie’s last remaining hint word, ‘Firefly’. The original post is here, with…

HaloPC slips to number 9 on the Top 10 PC Games list for the week of April 10-16. The most amazing thing about this is that week is some 80 weeks after the game was released! Thanks, 3Suns.

mrsmiley was unhappy with the changes to the magnum in the recent autoupdate – his response is today’s Halo Babies.

Stephen Loftus has posted yet another in-depth study of Halo – this time, his focus is the signage of Cairo Station. Awesome job – and the pictures, all hand-done in Adobe Illustrator, are gorgeous! Check it out.

Stryke Force had released hi-res versions of their movies on the cover DVDs for Xbox World – now they’re making them available on their website. You can find WMP9 versions of the Opening Credits, plus Episodes 1 and 2, in nice hi-res, on their Videos page. QuickTime links should be up there soon.