Year: 2003

Game On Entertainment is hosting a 4v4 tournament with a $100/team entry fee and a $2000 purse; it’s taking place in Chicago, on November 8. Check the website for full details. Thanks to Battleground: Halo for the heads-up.

There’s an article on the BBC News website called ‘PC bugs undermine Halo shooter’ which laments the problems in Halo PC. Most of the complaints have been heard before (high requirements, weaker weapons), but a couple are new – including one rather surprising one:But the most serious problem comes with the multi-player option. The computer…

One One Se7en speculates about weapons that ALMOST made it. ALMOST.

So what happens when a warthog meets a civilian car? Halo: Resolution checks it out. Ouch!

In all the hubbub about Halo PC (its release, the setup of online servers for it, my wasting of several hours a day playing it) and the Great Halo Scavenger Hunt, a few user submission sections have been neglected for a bit. We’ve got 9 items in the Miscellaneous Art section, ranging from comics (4…

24 Fan Fiction pieces for you today – busy weekend for the writers. The legend of the gold master chief, by Jmotoblaze Battleground Earth, Part One, by Hunter_Killer Chapter Seven: Rise of the Phoenix, by Blue Jaguar The Fall of Fate: Invasion, Part Three(13), by ‘Nosolee Homeworlds XVIII, by Mainevent Battle for the Norah: Part…

As usual, BOLL rocks. HHHT, the Helpful Halo Hacking Tool, provides an easy way to apply ppf files to modify maps (and lets you backup your originals, in case you forget!). Screenshot here, to show you the interface. Hacking was never easier.

Hmm. Shadow Claw sends word that his 7th Column chapter, Born to Frag, is hosting a contest; send in a funny, eight-lined Halo and Halloween-related poem by October 31, and you could win some schwag. First prize is a pair of speakers, second prize is The Sims Livin’ Large, 3rd is $20, and fourth is…

Wraith has discovered that the flamethrower IS available on a couple of Campaign levels in Halo PC; he’s taken a few screenshots on the Library, and created ppfs for both the Library and Keyes, the two levels he found it on. You can see the screens in this forum post, or download a zip file…

Chelsea’s beginning to make grunting noises…

Today’s Guest One One Se7en comes from Spooky Donkey, and looks at potential jobs for the MC. And while we’re discussing One One Se7en, congratulations to IXIGhandiIXI, who found the One One Se7en easter egg which has been hidden in the section (in plain sight) for over a month now. The rest of you are…

Enemy Down, a UK-based ladder site for Counter-Strike and Day of Defeat, has added Halo to their list of supported games. There are new CTF and Slayer ladders. If you’re a UK Halo player, stop by and sign up, and climb the multiplayer ranks!

BGT writes to point out the Home Front mod for Battlefield 1942. (We’ve mentioned it a couple of times in the past few months.) Front and center on their website is a new map of the city of Côte d’Azur on Sigma Octanus IV. (It features prominently in the Fall of Reach book.) Nice looking…

disturbedroach, from Halo Center, wrote to say that they’ve set up their site to allow user-uploaded maps to be added to the database; if you have a modded map that you want available to the community, visit Halo Center and upload it!

Couple of new Halo reviews for you; Tom’s Hardware (thanks, Mondo-77 and JP) and Eurogamer (thanks, Blues News, via ash) both looked at the game. Tom’s LOVED It. “I would mention major drawbacks of this game, but there’s one problem: I haven’t been able to find any.” It’s an interesting review, because it focuses on…

Clan AKA has created a tool that can modify the Blood Gulch map to change projectiles (tank shells can be replaced with needles, for example, or vice versa). At the moment, it doesn’t do anything else, but they’re coming out with new versions every day, and they should have a final with in a week…

Nick the Roadie points out that Cyberjocks (near Buffalo, NY) is having another Halo tourney, coming up on October 18. Same rules as the last one we mentioned.

Small note for uploaders: there are a number of folks who’ve uploaded mods of existing maps to us, all (at this stage) involving simple hex editing of the mapfile to change weapons, or effects. It’s great that folks are modding Halo PC before the official tools even get released… but we’re having trouble justifying the…

First easter egg in Halo PC – confirmed. ‘halo fan’ sent in this image he captured while using the ‘walk on walls’ mod. Remember that the designer of Timberland is David Mertz – and his response to this discovery was amusement:Hehe, it was a matter of time before someone found it, its hard because you…

c0ld vengeance played a little bit of Gephyrophobia before writing today’s Guest One One Se7en strip. I know exactly how he feels.