Month: November 2003

Bungie.net will be offline next week in order to update the site in a major way – read the details in this article. What this will eventually mean to you is a lot more Halo goodness, customized the way you like it… so get ready.

In what was a long-overdue overhaul, the HBO-GameDaemons dedicated server mapcycle has been radically rewritten. Several games that didn’t work were tweaked, others were removed altogether, and a few new ones were added. Chief among the additions are several gametypes developed by long-time Bungie fan (but only recently a Halo convert) Dispatcher – as far…

Undaunted by the dousing of the ‘Halo 2 is coming this week’ rumor, the gnomes have developed a NEW rumor – this time that ‘Halo 1.5’, a Live-enabled version of Xbox Halo, will be released by the end of the month. (Stories are on sites like GamesRadar UK and Eurogamer.) Evidence cited includes a new…

CobaltNova writes to point out the Week One Summary of the CobaltNova Halo League, with player stats and rankings. Check it out!

CPL has announced its Summer 2004 Extreme Championship, with a $70,000 Halo PC CPL-Assault tournament. Wow. 4000 players (it’s bring-your-own-computer), July 28th-August 1st in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Thanks to SketchFactor, over at Bungie.net, for pointing it out.

plumpy writes to point out the website for Clan Electrik, a Halo PC clan in Utah. Nice looking website (should have entered it in the CarnageReport contest) – check ’em out!

rapture saved you the trouble of reading the Gearbox forums by pulling out a raft of interesting tidbits posted by Gearbox employees; info about the next HPC patch, teasers about easter eggs, info about the editing tools… go look. Then thank rapture.

Today’s One One Se7en continue’s the thread started on Monday – how many shots do we need to take at Halo PC’s framerate, anyway? (I mean… it’s not like it’s a fast-moving target…) We’ve also added a Guest Queue approximate wait time, to let strip creators know what they’re in for when they submit a…

OMGWTF – 500 years in the future, and we’re STILL getting cold calls? Halo: Resolution looks at one possible solution.

Chase writes about a Halo Tournament in West Jordan, Utah, on February 6. It’s called the Blue Pheonix (no, I didn’t spell that wrong). It had a website… but it seems to be gone already. Now you know what I know.

Seven desktop images for you today on the Wallpaper page, clearing out the queue. Better than last time! A word of warning – a couple of these come dangerously close to failing to meet our image posting guidelines… please, if you’re submitting artwork, read the guidelines. Thanks!

241 new screenshots have been added to the Screenshots Database, covering all reviews listed to date and bringing us to the present. This brings the total number of Halo PC shots (1279) to within striking distance of all the Xbox Halo shots to date (1312) – wow.

Almost missed this – I’m WAY behind on mail. Jarvis Badgley subscribes to a monthly mailing list from Del Rey Books which keeps him informed of upcoming SF releases. In this month’s note:HALO FANS REJOICE! Del Rey has an agreement to produce THE ART OF HALO by Eric Trautmann, under the very successful Microsoft Xbox…

Couple of reviews in the past week – both courtesy of Blue’s News. Review Gamer mostly liked it (8.96/10); they felt a few parts were too linear. Gbase.ch (a Swiss site, in German) wrote a 3 page review, and eventually gave it an 85/100. (They gave it a perfect 10 on Controls.) Update: A few…

Well, doodoo. Somehow, I managed to miss the third and final installment of the Anime Reactor writeup that mehve put up at Bungie.net – it’s over a week old now. There’s a little bit of Halo information, and I’m gonna post this so that I can find it in six months… but if you’ve been…

Whoa. Totally missed this in time to warn you… but the deadline has passed for the Clan Website contest being run by Carnagereport.com (we mentioned it a couple of weeks ago). Judging is happening this week, and the results will be announced on Saturday, November 15. (Hey! Maybe THAT’S what all the rumors were about!)

Nick Danger pointed out a pretty funny movie over at Halomods – a 2D Halo scroller? Dunno if it’s real or not – but the vid’s definitely worth the download. (3.3 mb, AVI format.)

Halo web stuff again – apologies for letting this build up.Echo-413 (General Halo Guide site)Seraphim Clan (Halo PC clan)Art of Death clan (Halo PC clan)Nemex Clan (Halo PC clan)The Soviet Spartan, of Art of Death, wanted folks to know that he’s working on setting up allied and rival clans – he’d love to see clans…

So how much DOES the MC weigh? {SS}Zag1 looks at the issue in today’s guest One One Se7en. For future reference – this is a bad thing to do to a superior officer… ESPECIALLY on Veterans Day. (Thanks, to all the real-world soldiers out there.)

Absurd number of Fan Fiction bits, because I was off this weekend… Blue Squadron Chronicles, Part Five, by Hunter_Killer Blue Squadron Theme Song, by Hunter_Killer The 7th Column: First Strike, by Mainevent Derailed Final Part, by Dispraiser A John Before Halo: Part 15, by J-117 Shadow Ops II: Nowhere to Run, Chapter Four, by Nemesis…