Month: July 2003

After a long span with no entries, we received another submission for the Halo 2 disk cover collection. Good to know folks are still thinking about cover art!

Derek Brown is starting up a new site called haloevents – he’s hoping to create a database of upcoming Halo events around the nation. Visitors will be able to search this database for events near them. This requires input from you; the more events submitted to this site, the more people who will come to…

IGN PC wraps up its week-long Halo PC coverage with two new articles; a general one is available to all readers, and gets a few last answers out of Randy Pitchford, and a more specialized, Insider-only one contains a 78 mb, 7:48 video interview with Pitchford. There’s a lot of feel-good discussion about Halo, and…

voX has put up the first of 5 pieces of a new series, called The Two Betrayels (sic) at his site, Halo2. The trailer is quite short (33 seconds), but sets the stage for another nicely filmed movie. (5.3 mb, DivX 4 avi) I’ve gotta say, I really appreciate what Red vs Blue has done…

Jake ‘Evergreen98’ Billo, over at the Junkyard, is taking a pretty close look at the PC version of Halo, comparing what’s in it to what’s in the Xbox version, and helping you decide where YOU want to be playing once it’s out. It’s a three part article – Part one is up right now. Thanks…

Never got a movie up at Mythica yesterday, and dang, if the bandwidth usage didn’t drop below 7 Mbit/sec. The inside of the pipe’s gonna start feeling lonely – not enough bits passing through! Next up is a movie we should have posted a while ago; it seems to have gotten slightly lost. This film…

We don’t do this very much… but then, b.org staffers don’t have babies that often. Lophan hasn’t been around much in the past year… but this is one of the things he’s been working on. Brandon Jennings was born on Wednesday morning, in Doylestown, PA – and Loph is already looking for an S-controller that…

These came in yesterday, but life got busy. Owm88 submitted three new dialogue snippets for the Dialogue Databank; I actually haven’t heard any of these in-game. I’m not sure how submissions are going to work in the next week; I’m on vacation, and I’m not sure I’ve made a decent-enough interface for the other guys…

In under the wire… Friday’s One One Se7en continues the Gordon Freeman lovefest. Wonga.

Last night, broony pointed out new renders and concept art at Bungie’s Tru7h and Reconciliation site. I didn’t have time to look for ’em… but he was right. (Last four images on the Renders page, last image on the Concept Art page.) Thanks also to Iceman1330, whose post today made me actually go looking for…

Live in south central Connecticut? Got nothing to do tomorrow? Tommy K’s (a video rental chain) is holding a Halo tournament at the North Haven and West Haven stores. $5 to get in, you get a free rental just for registering (so that’s most of your $5 right there)… top prize is a year’s worth…

Quick heads-up (which probably won’t be read by anyone actually AFFECTED) – the datacenter this server is housed in wants to move the server to a different switch; we’re looking at about 5 minutes of downtime, maybe an hour from now. If you visit then, and can’t get in, you’ll know why. (Alternatively, if you’re…

Red vs Blue has released Episode 13 for sponsors – and I can’t tell you much about it without spoiling stuff. Caboose, however, has proved himself to be dumber than toast. After sitting on the counter for a week. (It’ll be available to non-subscribers on Sunday. Please – don’t send us mail on Monday, telling…

Back in mid-May, we mentioned a tournament called the Killtacular Classic, put together by CobaltNova. Well, it seems like that tourney has joined up with iGames to become the Halo: Killtacular Classic, iGames National Championships. Looks like you’ll get another chance to call yourself ‘national Halo champion’! (Plus, if you win, you go home with…

IGN continues their Halo PC coverage with an article about Halo Graphics. (It’s available to all, not just Insiders.) It includes a five-question interview with Randy Pitchford about the visuals. (They say 4, but there are 5. Weird.) Interesting tidbit – “I tend to run in 1600×1200, but the game can go higher.” That’s definitely…

Dinky writes that HaloJuggaloProductions has put up a new trailer for the HJP Intro Video (hey, I just write what I’m told) – WMP7 format, 6.8 mb. Go grab it on his site.

Xbox sales and marketshare are growing, according to Microsoft’s “chief Xbox officer” Robbie Bach (quoted in this Reuters news article). Yeah, well, he would say that, it’s one of the things he’s paid to do. However, there was one interesting bit at the end: “Bach said Microsoft’s focus now is on more-lucrative game sales. The…

The ongoing Making of the E3 Demo series continues at Bungie.net with The Artists. A great discussion with Marcus Lehto, Dave Dunn, Shiek Wang, John Butkus and Nathan Walpole… read it and learn cool things!

Halogamers has put up Episode one of its Sidewinder Saga. 2:39 long, in QuickTime format, it’s available in two resolutions: 640×480 (23.5 mb) and 320×240 (7.2 mb). Nice filming! The story’s off to a rollicking start.

Six desktop images in the queue today, now cleared out and placed in the Wallpaper section. See what captures your fancy.