Month: January 2004

Though we’d still love it if you used BitTorrent for your downloads, we’ve supplied the FTC team with a bunch of direct download links for FTC10. A pair of them are linked on their downloads page – go grab the 56 mb divx-encoded low-res avi (352×224), or a higher-quality-but-smaller QuickTime (400×260, 45 mb) from their…

gutupio pointed out new content (sponsors-only) at RedvsBlue.com. There’s a rejected version of the SpikeTV Video Game Awards trailer, and scripts for the first two Season 2 episodes. If you’ve tossed ’em a few bucks, jump on and grab this stuff!

Nice find by Mantis819 – Bungie has put up an official page about their HPC server hosting. (The servers aren’t new – just the credit to Homelan is.) What’s odd is that you can’t rent a server from Homelan directly! (Well, that’s not completely true. You can rent a 16-player Halo server from them for…

Wow, very cool. DocOctavius started with a shot from the Halo 2 announcement trailer… and morphed into the Nightmare Armor. Electronic to real, in 16 seconds. Movie link is in the forum post. (1.4 mb, quicktime format.)

Oops, careless – Homelan interviewed the leader of the Nightmare Armor team yesterday, and we forgot to post it! Some new pictures, and some tidbits that didn’t make it into the interview with Frankie at Bungie.net… worth a read! (Thanks to Battleground: Halo, where I saw this first.)

Evilburger has released the second of his ‘Subzero Rivalries’ comics; I’m a little worried about the mental health of at least one of the characters. He should be releasing one or two comics every other week – so we’ve added a link to the bottom of our Comics page, for easy access. Thanks to MarkHawk…

For Windows XP users with Radeon cards – Nick points out that ATI has released a new version of its Catalyst drivers (4.1) that fixes a couple of Halo PC bugs. Grab this if you’re affected!

The HBO-Subnova Halo PC server has been updated to 1.03 again – what this means is that the wild and whacky gametypes pioneered on the HBO-GameDaemons server (but not playable there now – it’s offline) can be enjoyed by Mac and PC users alike! Go shoot some people. (And don’t forget to let Deimos know…

On September 30, PC owners got the chance to play Halo on their computers. Mac users had to wait until December 12… but right at the time that Mac Halo was released, the PC version was PATCHED – and Mac and PC users couldn’t meet each other on the field of battle. It’s taken quite…

The long-awaited Episode 10 of Fire Team Charlie has been released. If you’re a member, you can grab the very large (95 mb) Hi-res version… but for everyone else, what you want is the low-res (320×240, DivX-encoded) version; it’s available right now as a BitTorrent seed, and should be available by tomorrow morning as a…

The Strong Than All gaming league has begun to talk Halo. Read an introductory blurb on our forum, or visit the site directly; If you’ve got a 5-man team, this might just be for you! Thanks to T3muJin for the heads-up.

If you feel like you’ve been left behind in terms of what’s known about Halo 2, head on over to Battleground: Halo; Banshee Ace has writted the first part of a series of articles spelling out where we are.

One One Se7en looks ahead… let’s hope we make it.

Halo: Resolution has finally gotten away from the lag gag… oh, wait, no, it hasn’t.

The Stop-motion vid we mentioned yesterday has been updated quite a bit; it’s still short, but now it’s a complete fight. (Still only 640K.) Very nice work! (Read about the new version, or comment on it, in this thread.)

DocOctavious created a pretty nice stop-motion film, MC against a covenant. (A MUCH smaller – but equivalent quality – version can be found in this post.) It’s really nice to see the Action figures being used so much!

A few days ago, SEspider popped on to our forum to mention a comic he’s been creating for a couple of months now, using Halo action figures. I thought they were great, but I was afraid of posting the link on the front page; they were being hosted on a Geocities site. I wrote to…

Recently, we mentioned an Xbox Halo mod that gave players big heads… nukedude points out that he’s modified it for every map for Halo PC. Now everyone can join in! Update: Oops, MT pointed out that he, also, posted a ppf for Bighead in the original Halomods thread. You have multiple ways of getting this…

I’m pretty amused by the fact that we had two entries for the Plinth of Art contest submitted under the wire this evening… and both are Jackson Pollock jokes. I’m gonna have to find out if the guy was perpetually late or something. In any case, the contest is now closed. Over the next few…

Woohoo! Bungie’s Annual Winter Pentathlon is coming around this Friday… they’re looking for predictions. Games on the agenda this year are Halo 2, Mario Kart Double Dash, Top Spin, Eye Toy, and Pictionary. The teams, as they have been for a few years, are The Grizzled Ancients, Old School, Middle School, and Newbies. Swing on…