Month: July 2003

More content from IGN – the movies posted last night (that went up with an article on Halo PC Sound) now have an Insider article to go with ’em, explaining what they’re showing. 3 pages of explaining, even. (Well, they’re short pages.) The movies, which were only available in a large (640×480) size last night,…

Pretty interesting collection of Miscellaneous Art for you today, from a kneeling MC (that would work wonderfully as a desktop image, even though it was explicitly submitted to the Misc Art section) to an oil painting of the Chief, to the DOA girls playing Halo… go look at all of ’em.

It’s not that usual for us to release two movies back-to-back… and it’s certainly unusual for a movie to be released ahead of its spot in the queue, but I’m leaving soon, and this one’s not very big. Team Sexy (whom you might remember from their ‘Hall of the Sidewinder King’ piece) has whipped up…

Athol Productions has put together an artistic look at Halo 2; snippets of existing movies, interspersed with stills, all nicely composited. Nice soundtrack, too. ‘Requiem for Halo’ is available in both QuickTime 5 (19.6 mb) and WMP 9 (21.4 mb) formats. It’s 4:55 long, and has a screensize of 320×240. Take a look!

Didn’t get to posting Fan Fiction yesterday, so there are 13 stories for you today: Remnants of Reach: Prologue, by Shinai Purugganan Unexpected Surprises Part 6, by JediKnight114 (James) The Furious Hatred: Through the Eyes of an Elite, by MadJackal Project: Shadow Spartan, Chapter 4, by Agent Shade Landing on Dracon, by The Scribe And…

IGN continues to pour out the Halo PC goodness – today they focus on sound. Good questions, and lots of vids. Streaming lo-res vids for everybody, hi-res downloadables for Insiders. (There’s even footage of the flamethrower.) Go get your fill! Thanks to Dan Chosich for the heads-up.

Thirty new dialogue snippets for the Dialogue Databank, including a bunch of Monitor sayings and some pretty rare Sgt. Stacker quotes. (Before anyone gets on my case, there are some that are pretty similar to existing quotes – but they differ in small but substantial ways.) Thanks to Captain Spark and c0ld vengeance for this…

Lion pointed out that the FTC movies were mirrored on his Truth and Reconciliation site, so we decided there were enough mirrors to actually create an FTC Mirror list. Any future additions will be added to this list. (There are QuickTime versions available, if anyone needs them – but nobody’s complained about the DivX versions,…

Can you tell that today’s One One Se7en was written soon after E3 this year?

Another 25 snippets for the Dialogue Databank from BlackWolverine – and I’ve added some extra code to allow for more accurate display of found results. (Like, for example, just those results submitted by a single person…) Check these out – there are some great ones. Update: It just doesn’t stop – another 11 from Captain…

Whoa. I almost missed this… it seems that Gearbox has fixed (or is fixing) many of the glitches folks have discovered in multiplayer Halo… but it’s unclear to me how many of these will affect some of the more enjoyable exploits in the single-player game, as well. (I fully understand the need to close some…

Mythica continues to crank out gigabytes for you folks… so what the heck, let’s add to the load. This one’s called Fight Until We Learn To Love, and it was created by LeadHead. It’s gameplay mixed with cutscenes, set to pretty appropriate music, with some nice timing. 3 minutes long, 18.8 mb big, QuickTime format.…

Dust and Echoes: Adult Detroit League is hosting a 2 vs 2 tournament in Plymouth, MI on July 26th. If you’re in the area, you might just want to jump in! Cost is $20/team, winnings get split 50/50 between the winning team and the League fund. Check out the page for more details!

Gamespot has posted a massive video interview with Gearbox’s Randy Pitchford and Bungie’s Michel Bastien for Complete members… 6 minutes of discussions about how Halo PC rocks. (I was amused by Bastien’s comment that the new multiplayer maps ‘leverage some of the environments in the single player maps’ – Death Island takes huge chunks of…

Doug Radcliffe, the author of the upcoming Official Halo PC Strategy Guide, has returned to our forum, and this time, he’s soliciting game tips from veteran gamers – so if you’ve got some good stuff… send it to him! (He prefers email, since he’ll be checking it more often, but you can reply to this…

Seventeen more dialogue snippets for the Dialogue Databank, including the first batch of Crewmen lines. Check ’em out!

Gamespot has put up a Halo PC preview, with 11 new screens (heavy on the Banshees in multiplayer) – this game is looking mighty impressive! Go read the details. Thanks to KP on our forum, and an anonymous emailer for the heads-up.

The Cananimators, the two Canadian animators on the Halo 2 dev team, have decided that they really don’t have enough to do, so they’ve set up a new feature; Ask the Cananimators. It’s a database where you can ask these guys whatever you want. (There are some rules at the bottom of the news article…

Eight stories for you in the Fan Fiction section today: Master Gunnery Sergeant Chapter 1, by Chief-117 Thrill of the Hunt, by Gasmask Project: Shadow Spartan, Chapter 3, by Agent Shade New strength (Halo 2: Chapter 7), by Shadowrunner Oblivion Chapter 3, by Reclaimer Lament of Innocence, by Nike The Fallen: Chapter 3 Section 3…

There are ANOTHER 10 entries in the Dialogue Databank – the good news is, these are all relatively unique and hard to hear… the bad news is, since it’s the second DD update today, there’s no easy way to show you just these 10. You’ll have to comb through the 60+ entries for the day…