Month: October 2005

CROSSFIRE submitted his vid, ‘Hell Quarters’, to the MPRRS last night – and it passed with flying colors. Reviewers liked the camerawork, the ambience, the action-driven story. You can grab a copy in WMP9 format (49.6 mb) or QuickTime format (51.1 mb). Worth watching!

Overswarm has submitted a slew of articles for his ‘Not So Common Sense’ Strategy Guide – you’ll find a pair of interviews (Hotshy and Gh057ayame), a video walkthrough of Midship, and an article called ‘Relearning Instinct’, talking about habits that can trip you up. Check ’em out!

Z dropped us a note about a couple of vids to be had over at halo2forum.com; some great FFA gameplay filmed by ItWasLuck (quality is superb, and the gameplay is intense, especially as the game gets going), and a frenetic montage from HockyFreak22, with lots of sticks, snipes, and effects. (Z also wanted to point…

splode, a site devoted to gaming swag, has generously kicked in to the prize packs for the 343 Guilt O’ Lantern contest – we’ve got bumper stickers and t-shirts for all three prizewinners. (This is one set of prizes you can snag for yourself, even if you don’t win – the tees are about $15,…

Stuntmutt goes with a holiday-themed Monday strip for today’s One One Se7en. I hear moaning already!

Two more notices about Stephen Cawood’s Halo 2 Hacks book popped up today – Game News says it’s ‘totally fresh’, and an official press release (with links to sample text and info about the author) can be found at gameindustry.biz. Check it out!

Fourteen new stories in the Fan Fiction section over the weekend. Go read!

devildeggs owns a set of Nightmare Armor, and is considering selling it. No prices yet… but it looks like he’s feeling out interest. Let him know if that’s you!

Over at IGN, there’s a pretty interesting article on the matchmaking system on Xbox Live that will be ushered in with the Xbox360. The current system in place for Halo 2 is used as a comparison throughout the article (from here on in, all games will use the same system, rather than leaving matchmaking up…

In what is easily the most dedicated attempt to get a movie out to the Halo Community, PajKajJL submitted his ‘Bulletspeed’ to the MPRRS this morning… for the 8th time. It took two and a half months, and 8 iterations, to get through the rating system with a passing grade… but the work was worth…

MrHen pointed out today’s Unshelved, a webcomic about libraries – it takes a funny shot at videogamers (and Microsoft, I suppose). Go read!

Over on Stuntmutt’s blog, you can find a bunch of guest One One Se7en strips sent to him recently (including one he did himself, but decided was a bit too uncouth to include in the normal collection). He also pimps the Blow Me Away Charity Auction – especially his contribution. You’ll make him feel really…

Jillybean sent word that there was a ‘small’ Halo Story Page update. Dunno… looks pretty meaty to me! Go read.

Podtacular has released Episode 20, with custom gametypes and call-ins from fans. Go listen!

There’s a slightly unusual piece of dialogue from Cortana on Halo’s Truth & Reconciliation level; it comes at the end of the hangar bay (after the pair of Hunters). It has to be really quiet to hear it; it is in our transcript of the level, but jman571 just sent us an audio recording of…

While we’re doing site updates… I’d like to thank weephun, who donated the I Love Bees Commemorative DVD for the ‘Blow Me Away’ Charity Auction, for contacting the 4orty 2wo team that put the campaign together – he’s gotten them to agree to sign this DVD! If you win this item, you’ll not only be…

At the moment, we have a total of 24 entries for our 343 Guilt O’ Lantern Pumpkin Carving Contest. (A few are simply spectacular – but there’s room for competition.) The deadline is still a day and a half away, so there’s plenty of time to get your entry in… but you don’t want to…

In early October, Elnea released ‘Blow Boys Away’, a girl-gamer anthem – er, parody. A couple of weeks later, QuackJAG created a HaloCE-based video that brought that song to life, visually. Now, ANOTHER video version has been released; Amanda and Sevenar, of Silver Stars/Purple Hearts, have whipped up a pretty slick Sims2/Halo2 meld that uses…

The Tied the Leader blog has recently been less about general Halo musings, and more about clan-related activities (or coverage of the Doom movie, which might be interesting to the Halo fan from an instructive “here’s what not to do” perspective), but there are still some entries of interest to the general Halo public. I…

Last night saw the release of the Weekly Update over at Bungie.net – Frankie dropped heavy-handed (and almost certainly misleading) clues about the pimpin’ nature of their next project, discussed the rediculous overload on Noguchi’s desk, and provided some encouraging words about the Halo 2 Soundtrack, Volume 2. There’s also info on a pair of…