Month: January 2004

Oops – forgot to post yesterday’s Halo: Resolution. Too much to do! Wait… maybe I’m just lagging…

Wow. Rapture posted a screen from a Halo PC game last Friday… this was about 5 hours in. That’s a LOT of kills.

There’s an interesting article on software piracy (and how it relates to Mac gaming) over on Yahoo news today. Peter Tamte participated in a round-table discussion on piracy, and reiterated that in the month since Mac Halo’s release, more people have stolen it than bought it. “From what we’ve been able to extrapolate, the lost…

Yesterday, we mentioned that Circuit City is selling Halo for $19.99. kapowaz pointed out that Tesco, in Great Britain, has made it available for £19.99, as well; still more than the US price, but a significant markdown from its normal rate in GB. Never been a better time to buy Halo – on EITHER side…

We’ve added last Friday’s Bungie Update (originally at Subnova) to our Frankie’s Bungie Updates database. There’s a small note over at Subnova explaining the problems this weekend; it was a hardware problem, not a network or software one. Here’s hoping it doesn’t happen again!

Rampancy.net has put up the second part of its ‘High Ping Bastard’s Guide to Halo’ – this one focuses on Weapons. Again, there is information in here of value even to those on fast connections; lag in Halo PC is an unfortunate fact of life, and while it’s worse for dialup (or faraway) visitors, it’s…

So the buildup to One One Se7en number 117 has been pretty big; last week’s (Stuntmutt-drawn) strips have all been teasers for it. Several people on our forum speculated that it would be tied, somehow, to the Plinth of Art announcement we made yesterday… but it was noted that main strips don’t come out on…

SESpider has sent along Page 13 of his Miniature Halo comic. Way cool the way weather in the comic tracks weather in the US in the present day…

Wow. XLNC continues to make hudless screens – and this time, they’re from a pretty amazing vantagepoint. Check ’em out on our forum!

In December, Halo’s price dropped to $29.99 – and a lot got sold. Konrad9 mentions that Circuit City is now selling them for $20 – might be a good time to buy! (It’s unknown how long this price will last.)

Yesterday, we posted the movie Cheers, a stock Halo music vid with decent timing. Almost a thousand of you have grabbed a copy, and we haven’t gotten any death threats or hatemail about it… so we’re going to continue with the plan; today, we’ve got a pair of these for you. They’re both put together…

Stuntmutt weighs in with his own thoughts about the Plinth contest in today’s One One Se7en. I’m gonna let the strip speak for itself. Update: Oops; in the translation from Stuntmutt’s submitted strip to what appeared on the page, a (rather critical) piece got missed. My bad. Fixed, now.

Homefront, the Battleground 1942 Halo mod, has posted a big patch; it includes bug fixes, a new pistol model, a new map, and new controls for the dropships. Read the details at their site, or download the patch from FilePlanet. (It’s 11.3 mb.)

SanchezTheLlama posted a status update for Project Halo, a Halo-like game under development. Lots of pics of early models…

On December 6, 2003, we announced the Plinth of Art – a contest for the rest of us, conceived of by Stuntmutt as a way to promote his One One Se7en strip in an ostensibly more elegant manner. On January 17, 2004, the contest ended – and today, we bring you the results. Congratulations to…

EDBIS.com has previewed Halo 2; some questionable statements, but a preview is a preview. Info seems to come from a combination of online movies and print articles. Thanks to Battleground: Halo for the heads-up.

Narcogen, over at Rampancy.net, has begun a series of articles dedicated to helping those with less-than-stellar net connections still have fun playing Halo. The first installment of the High Ping Bastard’s Guide to Halo, focusing on vehicles, is up now. This is worth a read, even if your connection is good; all of us have…

Last night, Frankie posted the Weekly Bungie Update over at Subnova. The idea of the updates, beyond bringing a few morsels of Halo 2 goodness to the masses, is to introduce those very same masses to the various sites in the Halo universe. Lots of traffic is directed to the site by an update, and…

There’ve been a number of movie submissions recently that have gone back to the roots of Halo fan movies; gameplay (or sometimes just cutscene action) set to music. Normally, these would simply be passed over; they don’t meet our movie posting guidelines, the concept isn’t original, and (in most cases), the music is either poorly…

Today’s Guest One One Se7en comes from Owen Walsh… and it’s just disturbing.