Month: July 2003

A couple of logo enhancements for you, as well – check the Logos page.

Clearing out the Desktop queue from the weekend – five new images for you. Check the Wallpaper section.

The weekend’s Fan Fiction, posted early on a Monday morning: Cortana’s journey (Halo 2: Chapter 6), by Shadowrunner A John Before Halo: Part 2, by J-117 The Maiden Fight: Reality Strikes A Stone Mind, by pj-NYkr90 Human vs. Covenant War: Part Five, Masterchief’s Man Hunt, by Ronald Maszk Chapter 2: Ancient Artifacts, by Nightblade Project:…

Yet ANOTHER movie at XboxOttawa – this one’s not an FTC film, but instead a fun Oddball match on Blood Gulch. The Matrix-like effect at the end is generating some interest these days – it was discussed yesterday in this forum thread (and that thread references this one, from a few months ago). Useful for…

Several people have written to us about the new Elite sound included in the Bungie Dialog Archive – some have gone so far as to attempt to reverse and filter the snippet. Bottom line – it conforms to the standard rules that xbill and others discovered about ALL Halo: CE elitespeak; it’s the Sarge, with…

We didn’t release any movies yesterday because I was out of town… but here are a few more from the queue. These have all been released on their own already – but bandwidth might have been tight, or you might have chosen not to download them because we weren’t hosting them. (That may sound silly…

Short notice… but we just heard about it. Game On Entertainment is hosting a Halo tournament (21 and older) in Chicago, this Monday, July 14, at 6:30 pm. Prizes are not listed yet – but entrance is free. Take a look!

Red vs Blue Episode 12 is now available to the publc. Normally, this doesn’t warrant a separate news post (we announce the RvB movies when they hit the Sponsor pages)… but in this case, there’s some additional info which might be of use to some of you. First, the archive of existing episodes has been…

Just got home from Brian Josselyn’s Are You Big enough lanfest – here’s a shot (68K) of some of the folks present, set against the backdrop of the largest screen we used. (No, we didn’t play on this surface – there was a real screen that had been stored by the time this picture was…

As i write this, it’s 4:50 am, local time, and in just over an hour, a 2-car caravan filled with 8 psychos – er, Halo players – will head north from here for the Are You Big Enough lanfest in East Bumfu – er, Andover, Massachusetts. There probably won’t be too many site updates today,…

Well, we might not have access to Marty O’Donnell’s vast snippet archive… but Captain Spark is doing his best to keep up. 14 new submissions, based on some creative torturing, can be found in our Dialogue Databank today.

11 Fan Fiction bits for you today: Project: Shadow Spartan, Prologue, by Agent Shade Return of the Chief: Chapter 1: Lab Experiments, by Nightblade Escape from Marakesh, by The Scribe Battle for the Colonies Part One: Alpha Comus 8, by Hunter_Killer True Purpose(14), by Frensa Geran Oblivion Chapter 2, by Reclaimer Project: Shadow Spartan, Chapter…

IGN has a realtively new feature where readers can rate the game they’re reading about. Yesterday, they posted the top 10 rated Xbox games, as decided by their readers… and Halo is number 1. Thanks to Hank for the heads-up.

Massive updates at Bungie.net today. (Yeah, yeah, you all know about it already – that’s what happens when I’m away from the keyboard for 6 hours on a Friday afternoon.) Lessee if I can get all of it into one post:Part III of the Making of E3 demo article has gone up; Sketchfactor interviewed Marty…

The continued adventures of a MC Puff(y) on One One Se7en today… that Sarge, man, he’s cold.

Wow. Looks like if you preorder Halo PC at Gamestop, you get a mini Blue Master Chief action figure, free. We’re not usually big on preorders… but this one seems like a pretty good deal. Thanks to Jonah for the heads-up.

Red vs Blue have put up Episode 12 for sponsors – and man, this one is nicely done. Filmmaking is topnotch, and plot twists abound. There’s a new server online, and it’s working considerably better than the old one (though it’s not clear if it will be available to non-paying visitors) – but if you’ve…

FTC, of Xbox Ottawa, is rapidly making a name for themselves in the Halo moviemaking world. Their first and second movies were both critical successes – and they’ve just released Number 3: When in doubt, take a ghost and jump out. It might take a couple of watchings to get the whole storyline, and the…

Annihil8or sent in a few adjustments for the Weapons Respawn list – always good to have folks double-checking.

12 new snippets for the Dialogue Databank, thanks to Captain Spark. We’re up to 220. I still haven’t found time to re-record the Loony Toons signoff.