Year: 2002

For those of you who just can’t wait to actually SEE the Halo 2 trailer, Gamers.com has put up a transcript of it. Thanks to andrew katz for the heads-up.

It’s not a flood, just a trickle… but hey, they’re getting out. 3 more entries in the Gameplay Tricks section – a glitch, a new Blood Gulch technique, and a demonstration of class. Check ’em out!

Lion has created yet ANOTHER Halo mini-game – this time it’s a Space Invaders type. You’re the MC, shooting Banshees. It’s a little funky – all the Banshees got trapped up in the top left corner for me, so just holding down the fire button racked up the points until I got bored… but hey,…

Yeroen, over at Bungie.net, points out that even though the Rules page for the Halo National Championship seems to have disappeared from the EBGames website, you can find them online here, courtesy of iGames.

Three new Desktop images for you today:Chiefs, by DannoHung (I’m using this one right now)Bild1, by Ken SchreiberH2BackVI, by Paul TeetsGo visit our Wallpapers section for these.

Griffon has created a couple of morphing animations to show the difference between the Halo MC and the Halo 2 MC. You can find MPEG versions on his page here (the version with a background is 288K, the version matted on white is 256K), or you can grab local .mov versions (morphinchief.mov is 261K, mmwhite.mov…

Not everyone can tell yet… but HBO is back online, after a short outage yesterday, at a new home. Hopefully, DNS will propagate fast enough that by the time the Halo 2 trailer is released, folks can find us. Moral of the story – buy your bandwidth from nice people.

[BFoH]Sepultura writes to point out a clan page for the german clan ‘Battle Federation of Halo’. We’ve added them to our Links page.

Once upon a time, a big star in the Halo fan firmament was The Core, which morphed into Rampancy.net. Time went by, and R.net slipped off the radar screen – dns woes, loss of maintainers to the Bungie developer stable, and maintainer change of focus all contributed. Narcogen has resurrected the site, however, and it…

Apparently, Xbox Gamers has managed to secure an interview with the Halo 2 development team – they’re currently asking for questions. If there’s anything you must know, head on over! (Thanks to Aginor for the heads-up.) Update: you might want to check Matt’s own words on the subject before you send your questions in…

Clearing out the rest of the weekend Fan Fiction queue: Shadows of Archon, part 3 and part 4, by Wado Rise To Honor, part 15, by Shadow Cry for a Hero, part 2, by el_halo_diablo The Discovery, part 7, by strategyfreak Read ’em now, before we’re offline…

I said I’d do it – so I’m doing it. Too much mail about this – too many forum posts. Last Thursday, Halo 2 was announced – and at 6:15 am PDT, Bungie released a set of desktop images. One of them (‘The Mark VI’) contained some very-hard-to-read text spread around the image. About an…

Halo 2 secrets revealed… and why you shouldn’t worry. All in our Miscellaneous Art section.

And the Fan Music collection grows… SilverBrin has submitted a new piece for your listening pleasure. He writes:      I just uploaded a file called “Mahdrigalo.mp3”. It’s a piece I wrote the day I heard Halo 2 was announced. It is also in honor of Marty O’Donnell’s timeless music. It is exciting to think he is now…

The Psyjnir Complex claims to have a source on the inside – the inside of WHAT, we don’t know – with some information about the future of the Halo franchise. Or maybe it’s the local McDonald’s franchise. I can never tell. Check ’em out anyway.

Sometimes, you just can’t catch a break. Last month, HBO moved to new digs – bigger pipe, better server, yadda, yadda, yadda. This morning, I received a phone call – the owner of the colocation company that HOSTED that new server had skipped town, and the datacenter was threatening to cut power for non-payment of…

Got a kid? Do you play Halo with them? Jon Sager does – and gets beat by his 6-year-old daughter. When you’re done laughing, go read his column over at Gamespotting, for some pretty interesting observations about parenting and gaming (and how they relate). Thanks to Team Overkill for the link.

Skavenger_s7 found a pretty interesting little device which will take the four panels of a split screen and send ’em out in different directions – no more cheating by looking at your buddy’s screen in multiplayer! Mirrors and cardboard can bring fair competition back to your lan gatherings…

Strato99| noticed some new Halo 2 material over at the Xbox.com press site – a couple of isolated shots of MC (that is, separated from any background), a nice version of the Halo 2 logo, and the four main screens with no watermarks on them. These aren’t really hi-res or anything… but if you’re building…

Take a day off, come back to a flood of submissions. We’ll start with desktops – there are 5 new ones: h2_wait.jpg, by Justin halo2wal102.jpg, by Chome (3 flavors) hippopaper.jpg, by Justin MC.is.back.jpg, by Chromejr45 One.More.Time.jpg, by Dusty Patt You’ll find ’em all in our Wallpaper section.