Month: September 2002

Ask a silly question… (starts here.)

All I can say is… hehehe…

LAAG gun not cutting it for you? How about a nuke?

Okay, I’m doing this for my own sanity. Ever since the release of the Halo 2 screenshots a few weeks ago, there’s been quite a bit of discussion about the writing on the side of the assault rifle carried by the MC in this picture. (Here’s a very nice closeup, handily enhanced by Storm Singer.)…

You gotta love the hardcore fans… a couple of days ago, ElectricSheep said he thought the Admiral in the trailer sounded a lot like Pete Stacker (who provided the voice of Captain Keyes in Halo). dolbex, too, noticed this – and was bothered by it. Didn’t we kill Keyes? (I sorta remember putting a fist…

Do you live near Phoenix, AZ? Up for a Halo tournament with a top prize of $1000? Go read the details at CobaltNova. The short version: October 19, 13 and up, $30/person.

Yummy yummy trailer desktop art. In our Wallpaper section, thanks to Justin.

Friday’s Fan Fiction:HELLJUMPERS, part 4 and part 5, by Havok Cry for a Hero, part 10 (the finale), by el_halo_diablo The Shadows, part 3, by Glenny Havok originally posted as Andreas. I’d like to respectfully request that fan fiction authors pick a posting name and stick to it – editing information after the fact is…

The Halo 2 Trailer Transcript we posted recently has been updated with some input from Jay Weinland, Bungie Sound Gnome. Should be 100% accurate at this point… thanks, Jay!

Thought it was all scripted, eh? No in-game play, eh? Check out this multiplayer screen – a covenant warrior stalks the MC. Thanks to our spy in the field, Warbow.(j/k) Okay, okay… Apparently, not enough of you noticed the little (j/k) after that post – sure, it was in white text, and too small to…

Heh – head on over to Penny Arcade – looks like Tycho is apologizing for all the nasty things he said about Halo. (Well, actually, just that he’s not willing to judge Halo 2 by those nasty things.) Funny strip. Thanks to Zypper for the heads-up.

Boatloads of new mirrors for the Halo 2 Trailer – lots in Europe, more Hotline servers, and even though the main site for customsex’s new mpeg2 version died (from overdemand), a kind hotline server picked up the slack (and we’re adding a second hotline server as I write this). More mirrors for that large, popular…

customsex has converted the WMP9 video to MPEG2 format… and it’s gorgeous under QT6. It’s huge, though… and he had a bit of trouble with the aspect ratio, so if you grab it, be sure to reset the width to 600 pixels (keeping the height at 360). You’ll find the link on our Mirrors page.…

Take a break from the trailer madness to read a little Fan Fiction: The New Reach Campaigns, part 4, by Gasmask HELLJUMPERS, parts 2 and 3, by Havok The Shadows, part 2, by Glenny Shadows of Archon II, part 9, by WadoWe should stop posting now, so the page doesn’t take too long to load…

Two new international mirrors – Juegos Alkon, an Argentinian games site with a very fast connection (mirroring the large QT version) and DeadSwitch, a fast UK connection (mirroring the WMP9 version). Go get ’em! (They’ve been added to the Mirrors page.)

Assassin, from Computer Games in Romania, has sent word that they’ve re-encoded the high-quality QT version as an MPEG. Screensize is the same, filesize is 25.5 mb… quality is quite good. If you’re having trouble with QuickTime, but can’t get WMP9 to run on your system, this might be the way to go! (Server speed…

Jeff Lofland has turned in another very nice desktop image – take a look in our Wallpaper section.

This is bizarre – Gamesurf.de, a German gaming site, has put up a note on their Halo trailer announcement page stating that someone from Microsoft phoned them and told them they couldn’t mirror the trailer, because the content is not for foreign markets. What’s up with that?

The fans do it again. We’ve added a full transcript of the trailer dialogue to our Miscellaneous section (well, it’s not actually listed there yet, but it will be soon), thanks to the contributors of this thread on our forum (and a tiny bit of tweaking from me). There are two alternatives I’ve seen -…

Blackstar decided that 480×288 just wasn’t big enough… so he re-encoded to get to 600×340. We’ve added his 32.7 mb QuickTime version to the mirror list. (You’ll find it near the bottom, in the ‘unofficial sizes’ area.) Since the last update, there have also been two European mirrors added – one in France, one in…