Year: 2003

Been a long time in the queue – but there are 30 new snippets in the Dialogue Databank, all from Captain Spark. Some real classics this time around! (There are still several dozen queued snippets – at this point, all Elites. Coming soon, I hope.)

Seven new screens over at Bungie.net – they were all taken by beta testers, and the filenames include the submitter. Most should be familiar to you, if you’ve been around here for any length of time. These are the top 7 screens of a much larger pool submitted to Bungie during the beta test, and…

HardOCP’s alter-ego site Hypothermia is giving away 10 copies of Halo PC; three are autographed by the entire Gearbox team. All 10 will be given away, 1 per day. There’s a pretty funny story that goes with the acquisition of the ten copies on the site… check it out. Thanks to Carlo Zottman for the…

The Academy of Machinima Arts and Sciences announced the nominees for the 2003 Machinima Awards in New York today. Winners will be announced on October 25, at the American Museum of the Moving Image. Red vs Blue was nominated for an astounding number of categories, includingBest PictureBest DirectionBest Virtual PerformanceBest WritingBest EditingBest Independent FilmIn addition,…

Wow. It looks like folks have pretty much given up on the Great Halo Scavenger Hunt… and that makes me sad. There’s a post on our forum that MIGHT summarize what the problem is – but I know that the puzzle is solveable, since several people have solved it already. So here’s the deal: we’re…

Stuntmutt looks at the human side of the Master Chief in today’s One One Se7en.

Today’s Halo: Resolution shows the agressive side of Cortana. Ouch.

20 stories for you in the Fan Fiction section today: The 7th Column: Revelations, by Mainevent Charge of the Grunt Brigade – Part Three: Second, by Walker Calling(1), by Frensa Geran Marooned – Chapter 2, by Steve Ollett The final war: Chapter one: The forming of an alliance, by Awacar Jaffa Part 2, by Neal…

Marty O’Donnell recently chatted with Music 4 Games about the recording sessions produced so far for Halo 2 – it’s an interesting read. There’s a pretty intriguing bit at the end, too…”All this music has been mixed in Surround Sound and will be released as part of a bonus DVD that will come free with…

Bloodgulch.com is hosting the Halo Fall Brawl, on Sunday, November 2, at 11:30. It takes place in Riverside, Rhode Island (just east of Providence), and costs $80/team to get in. Prizes aren’t listed yet, but they’ll include cash and schwag from Alienware, NVIDIA, Bawls, Dominos, Dunkin’ Donuts… check it out.

Coming in November, from Joyride – 3″ action figures, in 2-piece sets (jackal and MC, or red/blue MCs) and 5-piece sets (5 different-colored MCs, or MC, pair of marines, pair of jackals). It’s almost time for battles! Thanks to krapshmeer for the heads-up.

New Halo site out there: Halo City. info comes from programerz, a source of lots and lots of good info at the Gearbox forums… site gets thumbs-up from forum regular gwdpto. Clans who sign up today get access to a free Teamspeak server (for voice chat over IP).

Boxer is apparently looking for ways to rationalize his awful rocket-launching skills in online Halo PC play. To this end, he’s even created a comic over at Subnova, going so far as to blame his uber-n00bishness as ‘lag’. Pfft. (Okay, okay… it really IS a problem sometimes. But geez… did he leave himself wide open,…

Whoa – very cool. 1UP put up a new feature called ’50 to Watch’, a group of people they believe ‘will help define gaming the most in the next 12 months’. They’re (mostly) in alphabetical order, so the list isn’t ranked, per se… but one of the 50 (Number 17, in fact) is Jaime Griesemer,…

Got a note from the folks at SeeMePlayMe, a gaming/chat solution which now covers Halo (along with other games). Pretty cool stuff; The software is free (though there are advantages to subscribing), and one of the new features with respect to Halo is that you can set up your own dedicated server for free. You…

A few new reviews for you: Gamezilla says ‘buy it’, even though they were unhappy with the repetitive level design and steep system requirements, Jolt.co.uk gave it a 93% for fun factor, and Gamer’s Pulse gave it an Editor’s Choice Award although they were unhappy with performance issues. Thanks to Blue’s News and Shacknews, via…

Today’s Guest One One Se7en is from b.org’s own CYBRFRK, who looks at the newest weapon in the Halo arsenal. Yup… nasty toy.

Coolness! HA|aD Monkey submitted a slick little app to the Junkyard which, once installed, allows you to connect to Halo servers via a halo://your.address.here link. Handy! (Requires Windows XP/2000)

Another ladder site for Halo PC, again in Europe: ClanBase has added a pair of CTF ladders (CTF Europe and CTF 2on2 Europe). They’ll add a Slayer ladder as soon as at least 10 clans ask for it. ClanBase supports more than 2 dozen games, so their comments about Halo instant popularity being rare carry…