Month: March 2006

imSuck and the HollywoodHalo crew submitted another vid to the MPRRS yesterday; it’s a spoof of the early 90’s Captain Planet cartoon. It’s a pretty funny piece, and (as is true of all of imSuck’s work) beautifully filmed. (To the whole HH crew – you guys need to move your mouths away from the mics…

Valley of the Forerunners, Part 5 has been posted on the Halo CE Chronicles website. The marine contingent doesn’t understand what they’ve gotten themselves into – Sargeant Roberts learns the hard way what happens if he stops trusting Harrington. Great integration of stock Halo footage, combined with lots of new stuff. 8:40 long, available in…

Incogneto submitted ‘Hitman: Redone’ to the MPRRS recently, and they liked it. So we’re serving it to you. It’s a movie about a guy who works for the mob, and one of his deals goes sour. Some nice effects here! Grab it in WMP9 format (41.5 mb) or QuickTime format (41.2 mb).

The Prometheus Team (the folks working on an all-inclusive Halo editor) has posted Update #6 on their website; it’s really long, and basically says ‘we’re doing a lot of stuff, but we still can’t show you most of it.’ (Well, it says a LITTLE more than that.) If you’re wondering what had happened to these…

r2 writes to point out a Halo 2 tourney coming up in West Palm Beach this weekend; $40 per team registration, 2v2 TS 2006 MLG rules, up to $300 cash for first prize. More details (including contact info and directions) are available at their website.

Looks like jman571 was first with the news that Frankie had posted a snippet about those new, limited edition (500 total) mylar prints mentioned in last week’s update. Swing by the Bungie Store, and for $30 (plus shipping), you can snag one of these signed-by-the-artist masterpieces!

Stuntmutt plays with the title of the upcoming Halo novel in today’s One One Se7en. Hmm… ‘plays with’ might not be a fair assessment. ‘Attacks with a hand-axe’ might be closer… Update: if you’re a REAL masochist, there are several followups in this thread. I blame trigger119 for starting it.

Over the years, number of people have put in serious hours converting Warhammer 40K characters to look like Halo characters. JoeIce stopped by several months ago with some cool pics – well, he came back this weekend with a whole batch of new ones. some of the shots are a bit fuzzy – but go…

Narcogen spent his whole weekend, it seems, writing up a comparison of Halo and Half-Life 2 (Xbox versions only). It’s a great read. It’s also really long. Pull up a mug of your favorite beverage and settle in!

Podtacular Episode 55 has been posted – it’s a Customs and Call-ins show. We heard about this from Mintz, who was a guest-host this week (and did their pod art, to boot). Go listen!

There’s an article at TMCnet.com about a Halo tournament that took place in Spokane, WA a couple of days ago. It’s interesting because it was clearly written for non-gamers; it’s nice to see this sort of stuff get coverage in more mainstream press. (It says they got this from the Spokesman-Review, but I couldn’t find…

Yesterday, Jillybean updated the Halo Story page with a choice collection of emails – evolutionary theory, sex drive, mad AIs, and… um, mad AIs. Apologies for not notifying you sooner; yesterday was pretty far from fun here.

Oh, before I go… Rockslider has added another piece to his second-level fun suggestions at Bad Cyborg; Mad Banshees. Ever feel like the enemy AI is letting their emotions override their logic?

It must be that time of year – there are posts all over the place from folks looking back on Halo 2, and trying to decide where the community stands. On the HaloGrid forum, trigger119 looks at what keeps him coming back to a game he thought he was done with. And on our own…

Mintz sent a note about what’s new over at Halo: Portable – a pair of psp-compatible vids (they were pretty popular in their original formats, so good choices), and the Weekly Update; go grab new content for your PSP!

In keeping with their Heretics & Heroes episode/flashback alternation, Slacker Entertainment has released Flashback 3: Fun with Numbers. Wellington runs up against a challenge he simply can’t overcome… counting to five. Yeah.

Another movie made it through the MPRRS this morning – this one’s from KingChuck and Team Conquest, and it tells the story of a man getting revenge for the death of a friend. The entire story (all 12 minutes of it) is told with music and visuals only; there is no dialogue. Powerfully done, though…

Heh – Hminn noticed a writeup on some funky computer games in which humans are pitted against protozoa… and the writer starts out by suggesting that he hopes he could beat the protozoa in a Halo match. I hope so, too.