Month: April 2004

The Wideload press continues – IGN did an interview with Alex Seropian yesterday, as well. Some very interesting tidbits – check it out! Thanks to Bullseye, who pointed it out to Subnova.

Just a heads-up… Bungie will be picking its grand prize winner for the Launch Week Sweepstakes in about an hour; someone will win an all-expenses trip to Bungie Studios. It will be viewable, live, on the Webcams. (Thanks, Brad, for the reminder!) Update: Congrats to Steve 0, for winning the Grand Prize. (The originally listed…

There’s been some buzz in the Bungie community this morning about the announcement of Wideload, Alex Seropian’s new gaming company. We had a chance to chat with Alex this morning about where Wideload is, and where it might be going… if the idea of a new game based on the Halo engine, built by old-school…

Stuntmutt uses One One Se7en to take a shot that I’ve been taking for months on the IRC channel… trust that guy to recycle EVERYTHING.

I think Halo: Resolution is confused about this whole World Domination thing…

Starting today, individual stories will not be listed in Fan Fiction updates; we don’t do it for other sections, so it seems unreasonable to continue taking up such huge swaths of front-page real estate. That doesn’t mean you should stop reading, though – there are 17 new pieces for you today. Go get ’em!

Interesting-sounding article in the current Spin magazine (May 2004) – first person shooters and the controversy surrounding them. We can’t bring this to you in scanned format until it’s off the shelves – but go see what you can find on your local newsstand! Thanks, daedalus.

Crispy Spartan points out the latest (Number 8! The Highest Numbered Update Yet!) weekly update for First Strike, the Halo mod based on the book. General info, new maps, weapons designs… and a page on the team itself. Go check ’em out!

Wow. Grendiac and KaptainKommie have been working on a new tool called Sentinel – and it has some pretty cool features. It’s designed to help folks running modded maps on a server get the word out, so that people can play these maps. Another feature it has, however, will be of interest to many server…

The Fourth AGP tournament took place in Washington, DC this weekend; there was more than $10,000 on the line. Thanks to rapture for the heads-up, and some summarized results. Congrats to Walshy and the Dream Team!

Keen eyes among the hardcore Bungie fan community were aware that The Man, or I guess, the Ex-Man (heh), Alex Seropian was secretly planning to head up a new game company. He left Bungie back in 2002 and many of us wondered if he could really quit the gaming business after being in the thick…

Recently, there’s been a bunch of interest in speed runs through Halo – it’s been the subject of two movies and a host of forum threads in the past week. Well, now you can actually GAIN something from your interest – Bungie.org and Mythica.org (along with the nonexistent Ninjas On Fire site) have teamed up…

I’ve spent much of the day outside, doing household chores… I returned this evening to find… well, a rather strange incursion on the bungie.org servers. I’ve left it alone for the time being, because (so far) it seems harmless… but it might pay to keep your eyes on it. If it’s not one thing…

Lots of people have gotten to the bottom of the Security shaft in Silent Cartographer. (Okay, not lots. More than a few, though.) NOBODY, I think, has ever gotten back OUT – at least on an unmodded Xbox – until today. Nice job, Ducain!

Subzero Rivalries has gone Flash. Check out the trailer for this newly-remade comic; more strips coming soon. Thanks, MarkHawk.

Quick update – the space map mod we mentioned yesterday is now available for download; thanks, Xhzjang.

Richard ‘SESpider’ White has dropped into our forum with an explanation for the delay in new episodes of Miniature Halo. Swing by and give it a read if you’ve been wondering what happened!

Yesterday’s Weekly Update contained a comment that has set several Halo forums atwitter:[…] the way the Elites reload now is almost too much detail.Lest too many people assume this means that in Halo 2, Covenant weapons (which, for the most part, are NOT reloaded by Covenant in Halo) will require reloading, Frankie stepped into our…

A couple of new multiplayer maps for you guys, from the modding community: Reppyboyo points out a creation by Xhzjang which isn’t actually released yet, but should be soon – it’s a space map with a LOT of individual platforms. Also, DocOctavius points out his conversion of the Cryo Bay to a multiplayer map; there…