Month: August 2003

Very nice Randy Pitchford interview at Belgian Webgaming Forever (there’s a Dutch version too). Great overview of where he came from, and what drives him to make outstanding games. Thanks to ash for pointing it out.

Did you ever wish you could make the Warthog go faster? Check out BOLL’s MonsterHog, and see why that might not be the best thing… faster speed, yeah, but much harder to control.

Beginning to scrape the sleep out of my eyes – last night ended at 3:30, and started at… hmm, about 9 pm the night before. Decent lanfest, except for melting the wiring in my garage… There’s quite a bit of stuff to get to, but it’s going to take most of the day to get…

So here I sit, surrounded by snoring lumps, trying to wake up the overnight guests for the Summer Slaying lanfest starting in about an hour… updates will be pretty sparse today. On the bright side, though, there’ll be a LOT of Halo playing.

Today’s Guest One One Se7en was drawn by Andrew Katz, and attempts to match Stuntmutt’s style pretty closely. (It also tips a hat to RvB.) Check it out!

Woohoo! A new Halo Babies has been posted (#6) over at Halobabies.net. Check out what happens when you try warthog jumping with water balloons… thanks to the heads-up from mrsmiley in our forum.

Gearbox has swapped out its dogfight-on-Death-Island screen that was posted this morning with a much wilder (and never seen before) shot of Banshees dogfighting on Gephyrophobia. WAY cool. (Hmm… wonder if the comment I made earlier had anything to do with this…?) Kudos to Fein for noticing. Update: Hehe – rule number one: never let…

As mentioned by Sketch in the Halo PC Weekly Update, the Multiplayer section of Microsoft’s Halo PC site has been updated with 5 new screens of Gephyrophobia. One thing I noted to a few people was my impression that the bases in Gephyrophobia have an Unreal Tournament feel to them… lots of pillars and ramps.…

The second Halo PC Weekly update was posted a couple of hours ago on B.net… Michel Bastien, having taken up residence in a refrigerator in the back rooms of Gearbox’s Plano offices, sent in an exciting report describing… well, mostly playing a lot of Halo. Tough life the guy’s got!

Just a heads-up… The Red vs Blue team had a hard drive failure last night, and the current work is (at the moment) unreachable. They’ve got hopes for it, and in any case it’s only the most recent work; all past episodes are doubly backed up on DVD. To tide over Sponsors, there’s a trailer…

We just got word of a new Halo movie, made by Stephen of MXB, showing off some hacking stuff. (Mostly projectile switching, but also some vehicle spawning, and the like.) It’s all based in Blood Gulch. It’s 6:26 long, in WMP7 format, and weighs in at a tad over 10 mb. It’s hosted by MXB.

4 new themes have been added to the 7th Column roster – you can make your Chapter over in one of three Halo-related themes (Shotguns is pretty cool), or (my favorite) a 7th Column theme known as Euphoria Station. SketchFactor also managed to slip in the information that there are two new members of the…

9 stories in the Fan Fiction section today: Swamps, Marshes & Keyes [H&R 2], by Jillybean Anathema – Chapter 3, by Bloodcider Halo: White Battleground (Trailer/UPDATED), by ShadowWolf Forsythe The Rise and Fall of the Flood chapter 6, by BlackValkyire The Lost Colony Part One: Severed Contact, by xitWOUND117 Operation Rubicon, Part 1, by Jim…

A couple more mirrors for the Fanstock screenies – Sector 7 has put them up, and so has Tec[H]noGeeK. They’re spreading… this is a good thing, for bandwidth reasons.

Gearbox has put up a new screenshot on their Halo Project Page for your viewing pleasure… some banshee dogfighting goodness. (It’s a bit like this shot, posted by Gamespot about a month ago… except bigger. And better framed.) Thanks to illuminati`FoOKz for the heads-up on our forum.

Hehe… Hamid Djangi points out a Suzuki concept car that sort of resembles… a Grunt? Bizarre.

Whoa. Has it really been that long? Stuntmutt’s One One Se7en celebrates a milestone, of sorts – episode 50 is posted today. Say hello to his little friends…

Check this out – Wraith has added another (the last?) vehicle to the list of pilotable craft. (The Longsword is still a holdout, but I’m doubting there’s a real model of it in the game… well, maybe in the final cutscene.) Original movie is his – I just made it small. Too bad its gun…

lol – I BET they didn’t get Bungie’s permission for this one. (If you can’t see it, it’s because they yanked it – drop us an email.) Thanks to WortroW for the heads-up.

Pyxl writes that the Master Chief action figure is beginning to show up in some locations. “Some stores in West Virginia had them as of yesterday and those of us with ‘Suncoast Video’ stores will probably see them at the end of this week or early next.” No word on other action figures, or the…