Month: August 2003

fireburner, bryn, and gravityman played with the flamethrower/gravity gun hack, and captured this footage of the gravity gun killing a player on Mount Wanker (their name). DivX-encoded AVI, 549K, and there seems to be a problem with the sound (though it’s not really necessary to see the action). Interesting… Update: Tons of pics of the…

Team Ice, Blade’s programming/gaming site that was doing some movie mirroring for the Halo community before it went offline for bandwidth overage, is back up and running. Downloads are now handled by a separate server, so the chances are good that the overage will not occur again. Blade is still in the process of uploading…

Seven pieces of Fan Fiction for you today. (There were 8, but one was unreadable.) Halo: Mercy Ch: 2, by ssj9000chilango Earth, A Place for Death. Part 5: Attack on the Gods Hands., by FuManChu Halo 2, an Elites version, Part III, by FOrunnER Four Plagues [2]: A New Enemy, by Kancer Marines: Rise from…

A long time ago, some screenshots of the Halo Flamethrower (in the Xbox version) floated around the net – speculation from Bungie employees at the time revolved around someone with access to an XDK (Xbox Development Kit), and the willingness to break their Non-Disclosure Agreements. When pushed, the producer of the shots in question backed…

Ross Mills pointed out some new screenshots over at the Home Front website (a Halo total conversion for Battlefield 1942 – we mentioned this about a month and a half ago). Models look a bit flat in their desert environments… but that’s probably gonna change. Check ’em out!

And their fame grows… BBC News has done a full piece on Red vs Blue, and its use of the Halo engine to tell a story. It’s well-written, but more than that… it’s mainstream. Thanks to Ulf for the heads-up on our forum.

Adam Vehige, the Grand Prize winner of our Pillar of Art contest, received the final piece of his winnings today – so we finally feel comfortable showing you what he got. (Be a bit unfair if you got to see it before he did, wouldn’t it?) Lorraine McLees outdid herself on this one – it…

Wow – is it tomorrow already? This one was gonna be on time! Wednesday’s One One Se7en looks at the inevitable outcome of a successful run…

Jason Mad writes to tell us that The Halo 2 Site is now up and running, with more updates coming soon.

Whoa. It’s been a little while, but SketchFactor notes that a new Bungie Soapbox article has gone live! CJ Cowan, a member of the Halo 2 Cinematics team, discusses…air conditioning? Man, those Bungie guys are wimps. (It’s a pretty funny read, all in all…)

Halo Mac has changed from First Playable to Pre-Alpha on Westlake’s Project Status page. Thanks to Harbinger, on our forum, for noticing.

Bungie, not to be outdone by rabid fans, has released 30 new dialogue snippets in their OWN Dialogue archive (not to be confused with our Dialogue Databank) – some of these are not actually accessible in the shipping game, so you wanna get ’em from Bungie. I don’t think we’ll add these directly to our…

For those who noticed some difficulties getting to a few Halo movie mirror sites last night (or the Rockets on Prisoner site) – that’s what slashdotting’ll do to you. We held off until now to say anything, because when this kind of thing is happening, telling people about it only makes things WORSE… but on…

21 pieces (yes, that’s 7×3) of Fan Fiction for you today – including one (M31, part 12) which somehow DIDN’T get approved last time around. Get to work: (Part 12) M31: First Blood, by Greg and Wes Foutch The Rise and Fall of the Flood Chapter 4, by BlackValkyire Earth, A Place for Death. Part…

guy who doesn’t post…too often has put up a forum post with a bunch of pics he took at Halo50K. You can get a good sense of the overall tourney by looking through these… check it out!

MaverickJ, a trickster who’s released some pretty impressive movies (and who ran Project Spartan, a showcase for Halo skill), has created another movie – this one is called ‘Outer Limits’, and it probes some of the out-of-map areas that can be found on popular multiplayer maps. Some tricks have been shown before, some are new.…

Well, it’s time for the Seven Day Poll to come to a close – and if you hadn’t noticed, ‘Wait for me!’ was the runaway winner of the ‘lamest Crewman voice snippet award’, garnering 62% of the 8200 votes (beating its nearest competitor by by almost 3300 votes). Interestingly enough, I just discovered today who…

Two new websites to mention to you tonight… A very classy Flash-based site called 343 Guilty Spark (Your 100% Unofficial Halo 2 Source) and a German clan site known as DGD-Clan. The Halo community is growing by leaps and bounds!

It took a LONG time, and a LOT of help from Warbow and Free at Last (who did all the real gruntwork)… but the Miscellaneous Section is finally up-to-date. (Well, almost. There were a couple of things yesterday that should probably go in it… but they’re not local yet.) Some of the search functionality has…

SketchFactor has posted some impressions from a fan who was at the CPL 2003 Summer Event – an inspiring read. Swing by b.net and take a look!