Month: February 2004

Oops – another lost one. Last week, we mentioned a comic that had been started (but never finished) by elmatto. It was hosted on Freewebs, though, and bandwidth ran out soon after we mentioned it. We’ve put up a local copy of the strips themselves, with the permission of the artist – if you didn’t…

Looks like we managed to miss last week’s EchoFourNineteen at 343GS.com – it, too, is taking shots at multiplayer lag. (Check the Downloads section.)

This was noticed on our forum on Monday… and posted on Bungie.net yesterday, but I guess I just forgot to put it up. The Bungie Store is selling a new Grunt t-shirt; it’s a nice grey (though I’d LOVE to see it in a long-sleeved version).

CENOBITE has popped up in our news before – he’s released Halo-related Tribes skins, and submitted a pretty interesting piece to the Pillar of Art contest last year. He’s back – with a COMPLETE set of Halo skins for Tribes 2. You can see pieces of the skins in this forum thread at the Skinners…

3Suns points out a writeup of last week’s Halo 2 announcement and new screenshot over at Computer and Video Games – there’s no information there that hasn’t been covered on a few dozen sites by now, but the last paragraph is interesting:[…] Bungie has also dipped into its vault and pulled out the first ever…

The Junkyard has turned the Spotlight on Robert Sogomonian, better known as Psyrixx, of Psyjnir.org. Swing by to read what makes this guy tick. (Be aware that although it looks like psyjnir.org is finally coming back online, most of the internal links aren’t working at the moment.)

There wasn’t any Fan Fiction updating this weekend… so we’re back up to older numbers. 22 pieces for you today: Prophecy, by Daan Timmer( I’m Dutch) Too Close To Home Chapter 1, by phil451 The Second Ring (Part 4), by Jason Desecrating Providence (Chapter 1), by Marty Neu Haven: Chapter Two, by Blue Jaguar Super…

Blackstar points out that the March 2004 issue of MacAddict magazine contains a nice review of Mac Halo. It got 5 bullets (‘Awesome’ – I miss the Max days of ‘Freakin’ Awesome’, but what can you do?) and does something very few other reviews have done – it adds spoiler-laden pics and descriptions of the…

Today’s Calvin and Halo is from Warbow – and I’m tempted to get away from this computer and go outside. Really.

Today’s Guest One One Se7en comes from SHARPE – and looks at hardware incompatibilities. If you ask me, them Covenant are pretty silly…

Dan Chosich has updated his Tetraboxing reminiscences with a writeup, to accompany his movie. Looks like today’s Dan’s birthday, too – Happy Birthday, Dan! Update: Blood, as well, has updated his content – there’s now a text writeup to go with his pictures on Bloodgulch.com.

The Cyberathlete Professional League is threatening to cancel the Halo portion of its Extreme World Championships 2004, to be held this summer in Texas. Angel Munoz, president of the league, sent out an email to registrants warning that if registration didn’t pick up by Friday, February 13, they would cancel the $50,000 Halo tournament. The…

tsudico points out that Red vs Blue is on Pulse on G4TV this week. Next air date is today, 2 pm.

Yesterday afternoon, Frankie posted a writeup of the Bungie Pentathlon, an event that takes place annually and pits the employees against one another in mortal combat, divided among seniority lines. Frank brings his own inimitable style to the writeup, but fails to obscure the fact that his team (the Newbies) got soundly thrashed by everyone…

Our Halo Story Page wizards got the pair of Erics, Nylund and Trautmann, to sit down and answer a few questions about the Halo backstory. (I’m pretty sure their methods involved duct tape and a cattle prod.) The result can be found in our Miscellaneous section, to be filed one day on the Interviews page.

Hehe – people are STILL going where nobody’s gone before. Ducain jumped into our forum with a pictorial explanation of a climb he did on Silent Cartographer. I’ve never seen pics of anyone getting up to that particular spot before. Glad to see folks are STILL exploring!

Still catching up… Nick posted a link to a movie of a Pelican in Death Island (Halo PC) a couple of days ago. Looks pretty neat – you can jump in through the front, but vehicles bounce off. Seems like a pretty gnarly assault vehicle; no offensive weapons, but imagine flying 6 or 7 teammates…

Mooreburg found a rather strange report – apparently, according to the Palestinian Media Watch organization, the Palestinian Authority is using Halo’s theme in a video aimed at promoting the Palestinian cause. Microsoft has made a statement that the use of the music was wholly unsanctioned. If you decide to participate in the forum thread on…

More Tetraboxing material: Dan Chosich has posted a 25 mb QuickTime movie about his experience (a bit over 2 minutes, movies and photos combined), and Dolbex has posted his own writeup of the trip (Georgia to Connecticut and back in 60 hours – with a LOT of Halo in the middle!) on the Been Mawed…