Year: 2003

Hehe – Konrad9 points out a pair of print articles mentioning Halo; one is in Ladies’ Home Journal, and discusses the damage games do to kids, and the other is in Popular Science (or Mechanics – he’s not sure), and looks at LCD screens for consoles (so that you can ‘take Halo on the road’).…

Four new reviews today, listed once again by Blue’s News. We’ve got The Armchair Empire, PC Gameworld, Gamehelper, and VideoGamesLife. Grades ranged from a low of 7/10 (Gamehelper) to a high of 94 (VideoGamesLife). Check ’em out.

Well, the last round of clues about the Great Halo Scavenger Hunt helped another person across the finish line… but there are still 2 dozen prizes to be won. Let’s look at Trinkets again – I pointed one out that was purely text-based, but some are buried in images. (No, you don’t have to break…

You may have noticed the link to the Halo PC Dedicated Server at the top of our index page. Over the past month, this has proven to be a very popular server (the biggest complaint is that it’s almost always full). Partly, this is due to the fact that it’s fast, with minimal lag -…

One One Se7en hits the venerable age of 77 strips today – but it’s pretty clear the MC hasn’t learned much in that time. (I guess he DID make it where he was trying to go – but then, he does that every day, these days, so…)

Today’s Halo: Resolution takes potshots at an American landmark… seems to me, though, that the jab would be better applied about 375 miles south. Hmm…

Okay, so a week or so ago, Ash posted a quick note about getting two hogs out the back of the Maw. What did he mean? Well, he meant taking a pair of hogs past the Longsword that normally finishes the level… and pulling a double Thelma and Louise out the back entrance. Well, he…

So you wanna know what it’s like being an animator for Bungie? You wanna find out how to break into the industry? You wanna know how to build a gingerbread house using canadian bacon instead of gingerbread? Read Nathan ‘bentllama’ Walpole’s interview over at DPerry.com. It’s awesome. (Okay, so it won’t tell you anything about…

NVIDIA has finally released non-beta versions of its release 50 drivers (52.16, to be precise). Performance in Halo PC improves by up to 58%, according to the official press release. Thanks, botman on our forum and Sean Johnson via email. This release is for Win2K/WinXP only.

Rapture mentioned on our forum that he and Diesel, from The Hushed Casket, won the SeeMePlayMe online tourney we pointed out yesterday. He also gave SeeMePlayMe some major props – he’s looking for more folks to join him there for rockin’ Halo fun. Check ’em out!

Paul Ryan points out two Halo reviews at Ace Games – an Xbox review that escaped us whenever it was published (they gave it a 10/10), and a new PC review (it got 8/10). They weren’t written by the same reviewer, but it’s interesting to see them side by side.

Aaron Claussen steps out of today’s One One Se7en guest strip to look at the phenomenon from the outside.

11 Fan Fiction pieces today. The Point of No Return [H&R 16], by Jillybean Halo 2: The New Front (Chapter 2) , by System Failure Appocalypse-Sector 2, by FF Echo Marooned, Chapter 3, by Steve Ollett Derailed Part 10, by Dispraiser Earth’s Fate: Chapter 1, by Sergeant B Evanangel (Part Three), by Jinkaiden-XI Plasma Burns…

Three new reviews today, courtesy of Blue’s News (and Ash) – GameAxis, Gaming Age, and GameSpot AU. The first has something of a twisted view on the history of the game, but they loved playing it. The other two had the standard complaints (repetitive levels, steep system requrements, no coop).

Team Sexy has added some extra films for their registered users; visit the forum, follow the Extras thread at the top. There’s an alternate ending for their Red vs Who movie, as well as outtakes (both in Quicktime and DivX). There’s also a slick desktop and an audio track for an upcoming film. Thanks to…

Benny, over at XboxOttawa, has created another intstallment of Madda Cheeb, a Flash-based vehicle for his trash-talking action figure. It weighs in at 1.6 mb, and though it’s not a substitute for the long-awaited FTC 9 (coming, they say!), it is pretty funny, and very nicely made.

Framerate writes to say that a mod of Blood Gulch he’s created is now available on FilePlanet; it’s a hexedited version of the map allowing the LAAG to fire plasma blasts and the pistol to shoot rockets. (At 13.7 mb, one wonders why folks don’t just download the 46Kb BG Edit from Clan AKA to…

Dolbex, the mastermind behind Halo50K and a classy guy in his own right, has opened CarnageReport.com, a site devoted to tracking stats on Halo PC. Read the official press release, or just explore the site. Cool idea!

Thanks to Wheeler, who pointed out that the Halo: First Strike page at Random House has been updated – there’s a quick summary of the plot (including some pretty massive spoilers, if you haven’t finished Halo yet, and even if you have). Check it out – unless you’d rather wait until December.

SMPM-Albert writes to say that a new version of the SeeMePlayMe client will be out soon (possibly tomorrow) with a bunch of new features. Their next tournament is this evening, at 7 pm Central Standard Time – so go and play!