Month: August 2003

Ownt.com took a pretty in-depth look at the E3 demo trailer recently – you can read their 2-page review on their website. On our forum, reaction seems to be mixed, with some readers enjoying the article and others finding it inaccurate… check it out and judge for yourself!

Halo50K2 begins today… and dolbex sent word of a photo diary. Currently there are only a few early pictures… but they’ll be updating as the day goes on, so stop back regularly!

The Rockets on Prisoners Nominees have been pared down to 5 per category… and now it’s time for the people to speak. Visit the site, pick your favorite film from those listed in each category, and vote! Deadline is August 9th just before midnight PST. Go for it!

Busy Friday becomes Saturday (at least in UTCland) – and two items that SHOULD have been posted earlier today get belated screentime today. First up: Friday’s One One Se7en. Cortana nails it again.

Ack! This came in Monday, but somehow it got lost in the ‘cleaning up from vacation’ rush. Chris Bryan, who you might remember from his pretty awesome Maya renders in our Miscellaneous Art section, or his Battle Rifle model which would have won him cash had it been submitted to the Pillar of Art contest,…

MSN Halo Emoticons? Xbox Web has a package of 5 small images that, when put together in MSN Instant Messenger, spell Halo. If this means something to you, grab them from the Xbox Web Downloads page. (18k zip file… even if you DON’T get it, it won’t take very long.)

Still more new Halo sites – UNSC HQ and Dock Command. (Totally unrelated to each other – just starting out at the same general time.) I feel like I’m back in 1999, with Halo sites popping up at the rate of 5+/week…

Whoa, cool. If you have a modded Xbox, bump a hunter, pick up an invisibility powerup, then re-bump your MC character… now you can fight an INVISIBLE hunter. (Check out the CamoJackal, too… his shield vanishes completely until you hit it.)

Took a little while… but we finally got around to adding the 6 new batches of screenshots found on the web over the past few weeks. You’ll find them in our Screenshots database (new material begins on July 9).

Episode 14 of Red vs Blue has been posted for Sponsors. (Everyone else needs to wait a couple of days.) Apologies for the delay in posting this… it took MUCH longer than usual to watch, because I kept having to go back and replay the parts I’d missed because I was laughing too loudly to…

mrsmiley points out that a new comic is up at Halobabies.net. It’s pretty funny, even. 🙂 (Apparently, if you’re young, you might not get it – read the forum thread for explanations.)

And ANOTHER new site – Halo Universe (nice design), in Germany. Check it out!

XboxOttawa.ca, the home of Fire Team Charlie, is back online, at a new host – details at their website. New vid coming soon, they hope. Thanks to Blade for the heads-up. (Don’t forget to stop by Blade’s Team Ice site if you wanna help with their bandwidth overload.)

Another Halo site – Halo Information, says Shadow. Check it out. Update: apparently, the site is already down for bandwidth overage. The forum is still open, however.

Gamespotting has an editorial from a PC gamer who has never really played Halo before (well, he dabbled a couple of times)… and his impression, after a 3-hour Halo PC fest, was that “everything just comes together so solidly that it’s a flat-out amazing game.” He makes the point, though, that his console-playing colleagues were…