Month: August 2003

Bummer. MIssed this yesterday – thanks to Blade for the heads-up. Sidewinder Saga, an ongoing story from Halogamers.com in the genre started by Red vs Blue (but with a different focus), has closed its doors. Dave writes that he’s just bored with Halo. And so it goes…

You folks might remember Chris Bryan. He makes some kickass Halo-related stuff (both in traditional and digital format)… well, he’s turned in another impressive tidbit. He’s not very happy with this one:I found this little test render here from the animation I did for class. Its really short, and the timing is bad.. I animated…

The hacking madness continues in our forum – welcome to all the new people; the forum has seen a quarter of a million pageviews in the past 24 hours, which is significantly above its normal traffic. If you’re interested in all the funkiness, stop on by and read a few threads. In the meantime, though,…

Okay, okay… due to some oddnesses, there are now THREE QuickTime versions of BOLL’s Happy Hacking video. There’s a 15.8 mb, 320×240 version – medium quality. There’s one that’s 18.3 mb, 320×240, high quality. And there’s one that’s 400×300, 26.9 mb, high quality. You can find The smallest one at C.O.E.R.C.E. and Team Ice, as…

I’ve run out of expletives. Check this thread. (There IS an Engineer model in the game… I’ll be damned.)

Okay, I lied – it’s ALMOST time for bed. First, a new Halo PC screenshot, straight out of Gearbox – the flamethrower. Wonga. (Thanks to KookyBastard for noticing.)

lol – he just won’t stop. When Halo first came out, one of the earliest disappointments was that there didn’t seem to be any way to get a flyable Banshee on the level Halo. You could (if you were lucky) knock an Elite pilot out of his craft… but you wouldn’t be able to get…

mrsmiley points out that the newest strip of Halo Babies is up over at Halobabies.net. #4 looks at what happens when marines get overexcited… this strip rocks.

Okay, so BOLL decided to run with the info he learned yesterday about hacking Halo… and created a 4:42 long look at some of the absurd (but oh-so-cool) things you can do now. Want a LAAG gun that shoots Master Chiefs? You got it. How about rapid-fire rockets? Heck… how about plasma grenades? This has…

Update on yesterday’s new screenshots at 3DCenter – according to SketchFactor, they were using a pre-beta build of the game (something that really should not be done when writing a review of a game about to be released, especially without explicitly announcing that’s what you’re doing). The lack of detail is NOT attributable to the…

Mhaddy points out that the Junkyard’s Spotlight series continues with a focus on Bluestone, webmaster of the new 343 Guilty Spark website. Swing on by and check out what makes him tick!

For folks looking for FTC vids, now that XboxOttawa.ca is offline, Team Ice has uploaded QuickTime versions of all 6 existing movies at this point, and will be adding new movies as they’re released. (They of course have the DivX versions as well.) Go get ’em!

Ouch! We missed a Bungie.net update – and one that’s important to a number of fans! Yesterday, SketchFactor posted a note about the availability of the upcoming Halo action figures – it contains a list of some of the major stores that will carry these. Check it out – the release date is drawing near!…

3DCenter, a German gaming site, put up a Halo PC preview last week; Kooky Bastard found it for us today. It contains 15 new screenshots (serious spoilers, for anyone keeping track), and shows what I think are the first shots we’ve seen that demonstrate how the graphics scale down on lower-end graphics cards. The shots…

Hehe – good thing that Warthog is indestructible… today’s One One Se7en is posted (on time!).

Once upon a time, there was a major Halo site known as Haloplayers. (They were big enough to be in the rotation for the original Halo Updates.) In early 2002, they went through some bizarre problems, and reemerged as Realhaloplayers.com. Again, they ran into trouble… but in late February, 2003, they came BACK online. And…

Red vs Blue has released Episode 15 for Sponsors – go grab your copy now. And don’t adjust your monitor when it starts… it’s supposed to be that way. If you’re not a sponsor, you’ll need to wait until Sunday…

Dolbex, from Halo50K, writes that the competition stats and over a hundred photographs taken during Halo50K2 last week are now posted. Go check out the action!

Beginning in a few hours (August 8, CST), The Master Chief will go up against Aeris in the GameFAQs Character Battle. You’ll have 24 hours to help MC defeat the Final Fantasy Flower Seller… go vote. (We’d credit this to someone, but we’ve been getting notes about this since MC defeated Golden Sun’s Felix, over…

Cybrfrk, recently back (and vibrantly bouncy) from a 2-month vacation (yeah, some of us have pretty cushy jobs), has posted a major update to his Faces of Bungie Webcam page, with 36 new (and unidentified) images. How about you visit, and point out some names for him?