Month: November 2003

343GS.com has put up the third episode of Echofournineteen – this one called ‘April Cruel’. (Check the Downloads section.) I’m not sure I get it… Thanks to Madda Cheeb for the heads-up.

The Best of The Best competition took place last night (it ended up being a ‘Best of HBO’ contest, in the end), and according to stan, the winner is synide. Details are in the forum post – full stats, comments, you name it. Congrats, synide!

I keep forgetting to write it up… but here you go. Ciarán Walsh has spent a chunk of time overhauling the search mechanism of our Forum archives; the new version of the search now relies on MySQL, rather than perl, and so can handle MUCH bigger searches. All posts not on the current forum are…

nukedude finally compiled a bunch of footage from the Pillar of Art showing/lanfest last summer in New York City; it’s about 10 minutes worth of commentary, gameplay, and artwork from the Selkirk Gallery in lower Manhattan. The movie is in WMP9 format, and weighs in at 32.8 mb. nukedude is hosting it, but if things…

Stuntmutt is sucking up yet ANOTHER Sunday slot with one of his Sunday One One Se7en strips. Apologies to the Guest strip submitters who have to wait LONGER now. (Luckily, anyone who CAN’T wait can still tell us to add their strip to the new One One Se7en Archive, opening tomorrow…)

Rockin’. FormerCide discovered a bitmap of a mystery woman on the level Boarding Action (PC version), when he was messing around in the game’s resources. (BOLL posted the pic, because FormerCide wasn’t sure if it was kosher to do so, and BOLL figured he was 5000 miles from Bungie headquarters and was immune to death…

GLADIATRRR3000 has put together a funny little Flash animation, called 343 Guilty Stick. It weighs in at 2.4 mb. Enjoy!

Ownt put up a review of Halo PC yesterday. They liked it quite a lot (gave it an Uber Ownage award). Repetitive levels in single player and some clipping bugs in MP brought its score down to 90. (There are also 44 highly compressed images, mostly of the levels Halo and TImberland.) Thanks, Blue’s News…

Today’s Guest One One Se7en is the last in a series of spoofs of RvB. (For what it’s worth, this is the sort of strip that will be added to the One One Se7en Archive automatically, once it opens on Monday.) This one shows the danger of spinoffs – to the ORIGINAL. And remember -…

Cool. Macsoft has put up a full webpage for Mac Halo – a sign that release really isn’t very far away. Release date: December 11, 2003. A week later than originally suggested… but coming from the producer, it’s a pretty reliable date. (I’m tickled that we got one of the circle links at the top…)…

Halo Babies has been updated – there’s a new strip that looks at situations explainable by network problems… or extreme inexperience. (You have to decide for yourself which is which as you play.) There are also some new AIM icons. Check it out!

Blade writes that halo.leetgamers.org is up once more. Newest content is a review of Xbox Halo.

Just got notification from the Bungie Store that my recent order (the two 5-piece mini action figure sets) has shipped. Jackals, Marines, and MCs… on the way!

Thanks to everyone who wrote to remind us of the official price drop on the Xbox version of Halo. The subject first came up a couple of weeks ago on our forum, in connection with all the November 15 rumors; because it didn’t seem new to me, I neglected to mention the press release. However,…

Konrad9 popped into our forum to mention that Halo: First Strike has appeared on some store shelves already (he bought, and read, a copy yesterday from the Strand bookstore in New York). A couple of weeks early… but hey, you don’t see ME complaining!

gwdpto, known online as HBO-Kingpin, has put together a group of talented Halo PC players and one kickass moviemaker (Dan Chosich, of 2070Wired Films), and released a movie called ‘The Void’. On the surface, it’s just a bunch of guys screwing around on Gephyrophobia. gwdpto is proud of the fact that it shows the ‘Longest…

goatrope and Devin Olsen have put together a little film showing some slick tricks that can be performed on Danger Canyon. It was originally released in WMP9 format, and hosted by nukedude (later mirrored by KP). We’ve also converted it to a QuickTime file, and hosted it locally. The WMP is 10.3 mb, the QuickTime…

One One Se7en addresses one of the major complaints critics have had about Halo gameplay. Not that the subject hasn’t been covered before… (Remember: if you’ve got a strip in the Guest queue for One One Se7en, now’s the chance to tell us if you’d rather it be displayed in the upcoming One One Se7en…

Halo: Resolution points out a danger with the turn-on-a-dime abilities of a Halo PC mouse…

Nick and leftfb show what might be the best use of the Gameboy Advance SP screen… ever. (Two small vids, linked in this post and this one; wmp9 format.)