Month: August 2005

Last month, we mentioned a helmet being created by corpseguy – I noticed today over at HaloPlanet that he’s posted a bunch of photos of the finished product. It looks great! Check it out.

A message came in yesterday morning that got missed – Gamecloud has coverage from the Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle; you’ll be able to watch the episode of Red vs Blue that showed there Friday night (and at Lincoln Center in New York a week ago) at RvB’s site tomorrow, but today you can read…

Two different montages (both hosted over at halo2forum.com) were posted on our forum today – SWAT Halo69’s 7th Montage and Halzred’s Montage 3. They just keep coming…

We’ve mentioned the Twin Galaxies Legendary Run competition a couple of times before – yesterday, Cody Miller posted on our forum that he’d completed the challenge: Halo 2 on Legendary, with no deaths. All I can say is… wow. Read his post for details.

One last thing before I hit the road – Stuntmutt created a special Sunday One One Se7en to commemorate his favorite moments of his trip to the US. We wish him all the best getting back home.

The lanfest that has been going on here for a few days will continue for a day or more to come – but unfortunately, it will do so without me. I need to head home to be with my family and responsibilities… but there was a game tonight that was notable for its competitors; we…

That’s pretty much the end of updating for the day. An internationally-attended lanfest (notables include Stuntmutt, c0ld vengeance, BOLL, and Canada’s Anton P. Nym, as well as US-based folks like Ducain, Warbow, and Shishka) kicks into full gear – it’s been going for a while now, but the largest number of attendees will be here…

Podtacular! has posted Episode 5 of their Halo 2 podcast – Warlock and custom gametypes head the topics of this hour and a half audio blog. Thanks, Kaizer Bun.

Wow, very cool. Chris Bryan has posted a couple of new renders from his upcoming reel – you can see them here and here. Gorgeous!

WaLKa put together a preview for a new montage – sticks, snipes, sword kills, Halo and Halo 2. Nice to see footage that combines the games! You can find a download link on our forum, and another (larger by far) thread about the vid over at Halo2Forum.com (thanks, Z). 62 mb, MPEG-2 format.

The Weekly What’s Update is now posted at Bungie.net – info about PAX, info about the new playlists coming out in the next couple of weeks, a larger version of Mike Hill’s amazing warthog pic we posted this morning, and a really, really scary pic of Mister Chief in a speedo. (Blame DanteThePoet if your…

A movie called ‘Untouchable’, by TheHaloGod, cleared our Movie Peer Review Rating System this morning, with a pretty unprecedented score. It’s a montage vid – but the timing is simply astounding, and the music choice is great. As luck would have it, I’m not anywhere near home today (nor will I be for the next…

Recently, Red vs Blue enhanced their website with a ‘Featured User’ option – each day, a different member is chosen, and people get to meet someone they might otherwise have overlooked in this community of thousands. Not long ago, one of these Featured Users was Elnea, an eye surgeon who enjoys playing Halo with her…

Too many people can’t pronounce important words – it’s Stuntmutt to the rescue. Today’s One One Se7en is brought to you by the word Gauss and the Number 7.

We got an art submission this morning that blew me away – I’m not going to have time to process the Miscellaneous Art queue right now, but I thought this should make it out into the community. Mike Hill put together a gorgeous action shot (347K) showing the Master Chief making use of that Warthog…

Halo Babies has hit 100! The current strip is a lot of fun – and has spawned three new desktops besides. Go read!

Looks like the Frag Dolls are recruiting – they’re looking for one more member, and will be vetting people at the Penny Arcade Expo this weekend outside Seattle. Details can be found at eToychest – thanks, Rampancy.net.

GameDaily has an article discussing Halo 2’s moneymaking power – almost 200,000 copies of the Multiplayer Map Pack were bought in its first month on the market. (It’s unknown how many have been sold as direct downloads from Xbox Live.) Some of the numbers in the article are suspect; they list 4.7 million total sales…

The World Cyber Games announced sponsors yesterday – and the US National Final will take place in New York in two weeks. 40,000 players competed in the US in preliminary events – 186 are in the finals. Of those, 16 will continue on to Singapore to compete for a $400,000 prize pool in the Grand…

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