Month: September 2002

Halo 2 Trailer everywhere… but on G4 tonight, it was Randy Glass’ Warthog Jump and the E3 trailer! Thanks to Lorraine Reyes-McLees for the heads-up.

XboxManiak has recompressed the movie in WMP7 format, at 320×240 resolution – for those on a slower connection, it’s not bad. (If you can handle the larger/newer versions, definitely get them, it’s hard to express how impressive they are…) Also, several new mirrors have come online – if one doesn’t work for you (or works…

ElectricSheep has tossed up a transcription of the trailer dialogue. If you’re having trouble picking it all up… read this post (and the resultant thread)!

Guh. HBO’s connections are pegged at 120 simultaneous ones – so we’ve added a mirror for our Halo 2 Trailer Mirror list. (I’m guessing that’s pretty much the only thing people want tonight…) You can find it here: http://www.bungie.org/halo2trailermirrors/ These will be updated simultaneously, so if you can’t reach one, grab the other.

Mr. Zarquon and GamingHorizon have both added mirrors – .wmv and QT for the former, .wmv for the latter. (Gaming Horizon also has a news article about it.) Find the new links on our Mirrors page. (A french mirror is coming soon.)

Extremely cool writeup on the making of the trailer, at Bungie.net. Go read.

And the chase is on! The Halo 2 trailer has been released – you can find it at Xbox.com… and thanks to a kind soul, you can also get it in QT6 format from a variety of fan mirrors. All links (and any new ones we hear about) are listed on the Halo 2 Trailer…

A bit of Fan Fiction to hold you over until the trailer is released this evening:Taker of Life, Giver of Death, part 9, by Ian Barnes Helljumpers, part 1, by Havok Rise To Honor, part 24, by Shadow The Shadows, part 1, by Glenny This marks the end of the Rise to Honor series. Shadow…

Whoa, very cool – Jester, over at psyjnir.com, contacted G4 Media, the folks who filmed the Halo National Championship finals… and G4 is intending to release a highlights film on the web, at some point. Nice!

penne dropped us a note about a new movie created by the German Halo clansite HaloPlayers. It’s just under 2 minutes long, in WMP format, 9.2 mb zipped. 2 player gameplay on Blood Gulch, with some video effects. You can find it at HaloPlayers’ website.

Here we are, coming up on the 10-month anniversary of the release of the Xbox… and major new glitches are STILL being discovered. Frogblast shows how to get to Keyes from the very beginning of the level Keyes… and how to get to the lifepods on the Pillar of Autumn long before you’re supposed to.…

The countdown at Xbox.com has changed to show that the release time of the Halo 2 trailer will be 6 pm Pacific time today. 12 more hours… (Realize that several tens of thousands of people will be trying at the exact same moment to be grabbing that file – so in reality, release (for you)…

Some folks have noticed a bunch of outages at Bungie.net over the course of the day. Well, a new article by Matt Soell points out what was done behind the scenes during these outages. Bungie.net (and all of its subsites) have just become more useful, more flexible, funner to use. Check it out!

Dan Chosich’s Seven has lost a mirror (the main site is down for excessive use of bandwidth), but Rampancy.net and Appleicious have stepped up to provide more bandwidth. You’ll find these links on the Seven mirrors page. One more: Xerxes, from Halo Orbit (in Germany) sent word that they, too, are mirroring the file. (Link…

Mad Cow points out that he’s working on a version of the Halo multiplayer map Chiron for Marathon: Resurrection, an Unreal Tournament mod. Check out some screens!

Yeroen, over at Bungie.net, points out that at the G4 website there’s an episode of ‘Arena’ called ‘Halo Tournament’ – this is likely when the HNC finals will be broadcast. Friday, November 20, at 11 pm EDT. This make it more likely that the earlier link we provided is just for the Halo 2 trailer.

A pair of Fan Fiction pieces for you today: Revolution, part 5, by Gruntkiller Shadows of Archon II, part 8, by Wado Take a look…

Randy Glass points out that G4 (the guys who filmed the Halo National Championship finals) is airing a special Halo episode of their ‘Cinematech’ show on September 4, at 8 pm PDT. There’s no synopsis posted yet… but if any HBO readers get this cable channel and would like to tape it and send it…

For your perusal, more Fan Fiction:Revolution, part 4, by Gruntkiller Rise To Honor, part 23, by Shadow Unexpected Surprises, part 2, by JediKnight114 Titan, part 5, by Jaywhit10 Last post for the day, methinks…

A new desktop image from Dante – you’ll find it in our Wallpaper section.