Month: August 2003

Today’s Guest One One Se7en comes from Mikey Cd – it seems he has a bone to pick with BOLL. Poor MC…

Many Halo Xbox players who’ve had a chance to try out Halo PC (including me) have commented that the pistol seems to be toned down; it’s not the dominating weapon it is for Xbox players. Dave Mertz chimed in to a thread on the topic over at the Gearbox Forums with a definitive statement: “The…

Hot on the heels of the Wallpaper update, we’ve cleared out the Miscellaneous Art queue as well. There’s a pretty wide range of stuff; comics, some very cool stylized logos, a beautiful pic of a machete-wielding MC, and a bunch of other stuff. Visit the Miscellaneous Art section for all the goodies!

TruthandReconciliation.com has posted a new movie – it’s called ‘Master Chief Casting Call’, and it’s about a couple of guys trying to cast a new Master Chief. They don’t have a lot of luck… It’s available from the site in two formats: WMP9 (18 mb) and MPEG (35 mb). It’s 7:30 long. Go take a…

Wow. It’s been 11 days since we’ve updated our art sections. We’ve received 11 desktop images in that time for the Wallpaper section. Sorry for the delay! Update: Make that 10. We’ve yanked one because it’s a tweaked version of an existing wallpaper – the author went to the trouble of asking the original creator…

Benny, from XboxOttawa.ca, lets us know that not only is the site back up and running (it has been for a few days now), but all the FTC vids are available there again (in both DivX and QT formats). They’re working on the next episode… but if you missed any of the first six, stop…

Mrguy writes to point out that there’s some Halo artwork at this website – and if you visit the site’s console gaming section, you’ll find some lan party pics. Check ’em out!

According to Marc, of Halo Universe, Halo has pulled down yet another award: this time, the VUD (German Entertainment Softwaer Association) has given Halo Best Xbox Game for the Games Awards for Interactive Achievement 2003. Not bad, given that it was released over a year ago in Germany!

No Fan Fiction posted this weekend, due to too much Halo playing – here are the 19 stories that WEREN’T deleted: The Longsword[H & R 3], by Jillybean Soldiers of Heaven: Chapter 1, by Sergeant B Private Johnson, by Roo The Lost Colony Part Two: Orders, by xitWOUND117 White Tiger is under attack!:A Marine’s tale…

Missed it last night – but it looks like Blackstar has put up a short video clip giving a taste of some of the gameplay at the Summer Slaying event on Saturday. (Handheld video, really dark space – and at the time it was filmed, only one of the two projectors in the garage (there…

A bunch of Halo-related artwork over at Elfwood, including this comic, an interesting concept piece, a grunt, and a spoiler for those still waiting for Halo PC. (hehe) Thanks to Hamid Djangi for the heads-up.

Tec[H]noGeeK has mirrored last week’s MXB movie – there are boatloads of OTHER files at his site, too, you just need to register to see them. (It’s free – he asks this so he can keep track of downloads.)

A new Halo site – R Gamer – has come online. The content is filling out… go take a look!

I missed it yesterday, because we were pretty busy cleaning up… but Red vs Blue managed to resurrect the lost Public Service Announcement #3 from the failed hard drive, and it’s now available to everyone (sponsors and regular visitors alike). It’s pretty damn funny, on several levels. I nearly spit out coffee at the thought…

Tycho, from Unreal Ops (an Unreal fansite), came along on the Halo PC Fanstock event last week. He’s posted his own impressions of the game (as well as three new screenshots, snapped from a beta build we were given) over at the Unreal Ops site. A nicely non-Halo perspective… go read it!

Ever since E3, I’ve been wondering how easy that Ghost hijacking trick’s gonna be. Seems Stuntmutt’s been wondering, too… check out today’s One One Se7en.

What happens when you drive your warthog too fast? Why, the wheels catch on fire, of course. (DivX and QuickTime formats, 15-18 mb.) Blood Gulch looks amazingly bleak… and the weapons mods are pretty hilarious. BOLL continues to turn out seriously entertaining hacking vids.

Blackstar has put up a nice little photo gallery of yesterday’s Summer Slaying lanfest here at HBO HQ. This screen says an awful lot about the skill of Geeoff; give him a pistol, you die. That simple. (I’m having trouble figuring out why SAAACK is 12th, though… I’m not 100% sure what they were playing…

A word puzzle was posted on our forum a few hours ago. It’s not clear that the solution has been found yet, though folks have made quite a bit of progress… there some interesting stuff waiting for the first 3 correct answers, so give it a shot!

Exogenesis dropped off a report from the Penny Arcade Game Day at Lanwerx yesterday. Sounds like it was a fun time! Update: there’s a report from Randy Glass, too, on his Warthog Jump site. (News for August 24, in case it’s scrolled down…) Turns out MANY of the replies in thread are from folks who…