Year: 2003

Whoa. I almost missed this… it seems that Gearbox has fixed (or is fixing) many of the glitches folks have discovered in multiplayer Halo… but it’s unclear to me how many of these will affect some of the more enjoyable exploits in the single-player game, as well. (I fully understand the need to close some…

Mythica continues to crank out gigabytes for you folks… so what the heck, let’s add to the load. This one’s called Fight Until We Learn To Love, and it was created by LeadHead. It’s gameplay mixed with cutscenes, set to pretty appropriate music, with some nice timing. 3 minutes long, 18.8 mb big, QuickTime format.…

Dust and Echoes: Adult Detroit League is hosting a 2 vs 2 tournament in Plymouth, MI on July 26th. If you’re in the area, you might just want to jump in! Cost is $20/team, winnings get split 50/50 between the winning team and the League fund. Check out the page for more details!

Gamespot has posted a massive video interview with Gearbox’s Randy Pitchford and Bungie’s Michel Bastien for Complete members… 6 minutes of discussions about how Halo PC rocks. (I was amused by Bastien’s comment that the new multiplayer maps ‘leverage some of the environments in the single player maps’ – Death Island takes huge chunks of…

Doug Radcliffe, the author of the upcoming Official Halo PC Strategy Guide, has returned to our forum, and this time, he’s soliciting game tips from veteran gamers – so if you’ve got some good stuff… send it to him! (He prefers email, since he’ll be checking it more often, but you can reply to this…

Seventeen more dialogue snippets for the Dialogue Databank, including the first batch of Crewmen lines. Check ’em out!

Gamespot has put up a Halo PC preview, with 11 new screens (heavy on the Banshees in multiplayer) – this game is looking mighty impressive! Go read the details. Thanks to KP on our forum, and an anonymous emailer for the heads-up.

The Cananimators, the two Canadian animators on the Halo 2 dev team, have decided that they really don’t have enough to do, so they’ve set up a new feature; Ask the Cananimators. It’s a database where you can ask these guys whatever you want. (There are some rules at the bottom of the news article…

Eight stories for you in the Fan Fiction section today: Master Gunnery Sergeant Chapter 1, by Chief-117 Thrill of the Hunt, by Gasmask Project: Shadow Spartan, Chapter 3, by Agent Shade New strength (Halo 2: Chapter 7), by Shadowrunner Oblivion Chapter 3, by Reclaimer Lament of Innocence, by Nike The Fallen: Chapter 3 Section 3…

There are ANOTHER 10 entries in the Dialogue Databank – the good news is, these are all relatively unique and hard to hear… the bad news is, since it’s the second DD update today, there’s no easy way to show you just these 10. You’ll have to comb through the 60+ entries for the day…

Another film for you – we haven’t seen this style in quite some time, but I felt it was pretty well done. It’s called ‘Can’t Wait’, and it’s an adrenaline pumper for Halo 2. Made up of stills and clips from existing movies, it’s cut together pretty nicely. (It fills its small niche pretty full,…

IGN has posted 11 new Halo PC screens (mostly multiplayer) – they’re only 800×600, but they’re still beautiful. (Nobody over there has Dave Candland’s setup skills, though…) They’re available to everyone – check ’em out! Thanks to strato99l for the first heads-up. Update: There’s an article that goes with these, available to all. Thanks to…

More mirrors: Blade, of Ice Team, has mirrored the three FTC vids (already mirrored by Mythica a couple of days ago and That Weasel more recently):FTC Vid 1FTC Vid 2FTC Vid 3If you need descriptions, follow the Mythica mirror link for more info. Remember, these are in .avi format, DivX5-encoded. New mirrors rock – they…

Halogamers has put up the character intro for their Sidewinder Saga series – go visit their movies section. It’s in two flavors (640×480 QT, 14 mb and 320×240 QT, 4 mb), so both broadband and dialup folks should be able to see this. As described on their front page, Sidewinder Saga is filled with guys…

Not to be outdone, IGN has put up a Halo PC preview as well. It’s not 5 small clips – it’s one mongo one, and it’s only available to insiders. It comes in two flavors (400×300 QT, 84 mb and 320×240 QT, 55 mb), and it’s 5:29 long. It’s not all multiplayer footage – it’s…

More Winning Isn’t Everything news: The mirror that Blade put up earlier has been yanked (because of a directory name change) – it should be back up by tomorrow. Newly online is a copy at That Weasel Television (who points out that he’s also got the three FTC vids we posted a little bit ago).…

Another new job opening at Bungie… this time it’s Editor for Bungie.net. (Man, if they weren’t in Washington…) Can you write? Do you have a passion for Bungie games? There might be a place for you! (Thanks to SketchFactor for the heads-up.)

DOH! Probably pays to actually have your email client running – Slashdot posted a note about (among other things) Winning isn’t Everything, but luckily, included a BitTorrent mirror for it, so Mythica didn’t get hammered. if you haven’t downloaded WIE yet, and you’d rather use BitTorrent, head on over to GameTab and grab a copy!

The Dialogue Databank is up over 350 snippets – we’ve already got stuff I’ve never heard in-game. (Have you heard Sarge saying this?) Browse away! (I’m beginning to realize that ‘5000 snippets’ counts some things 6 or 7 times – both Sergeants and all the marines (plus, in some cases, the crewmen) have their own…

Gamespot has put up 5 new Halo PC clips – but all are behind the Gamespot Complete wall. If you don’t pay, you don’t play. (I no longer have a Gamespot Complete membership, so I can’t even describe them to you.) Thanks to strato99l for the heads-up.