Month: April 2004

NazdaH has sent along word of several movies in the past (here, here, and here) – but we didn’t host any of them, and they’re all offline now. This is too bad, because they show some pretty decent gameplay. Well, he’s sent us a new one, and I thought the sniping was pretty fun to…

A few days ago, Juggertrout posted a movie showing his speed run through AotCR in 7:19. His bandwidth has run out, however, and the movie was only available in WMP9 format in any case. We’ve tossed both the original WMP9 version (37.6 mb) as well as a Quicktime version (30.6 mb) up on Mythica.org (thanks,…

16 stories for you today in the Fan Fiction section: The Old Ways, by MT The Flood, by Keyes Casualties of War Part V, by Tom Murphy Chiefs Epic, by Andrew Hodgson Earth’s Wrath: Chapter 1 – Ruins of Earth, by Steven Carson (aka Ninja Steve) Halo: A Comedy 2 Part 2, by Tom Murphy…

Two and a half years ago, a thread started up on the gdalgorithms mailing list about some technical aspects of Halo. The original post looks at some of the achievements of Halo, and speculates how they came about – it’s really well-written, at least from this layman’s perspective. Some of the responses are just as…

Battleground: Halo has interviewed Mrs. Doublefire, a prominent figure in the Halo modding community. It’s an interesting glimpse into the life of someone addicted to modifying Halo. Give it a read!

MarkHawk has posted word that Ice Fields Episode 1, Part 1 has been posted. It’s 6:12 long, and ranges from 19.1 to 28.1 mb, depending on the quality you download. It’s got some truly awesome camera angles; they’ve done an incredible job of taking advantage of the HUDless interface. Go check this out! (There should…

Frankie has posted this week’s Bungie Update at Halo Center – and wow, they got a lot done this week. Animation info, some very cool tie-ins involving Lorraine, a HORRIBLE pun dragged out into an analogy, and some really cool censored info about… well, I’m not sure what. And oh, yeah, multiplayer coolness. Go read…

DOH! We got mail from Major League Gaming yesterday, reporting the results of its third major 2004 tourney, held last week in Dallas. I totally spaced on posting these. $15,000 was distributed amongst the winners, and the names, once again, are quite familiar…Halo Free For All: 1st Place: KillerN (Nick Urso, TX) 2nd Place:Zyos (Matt…

Fury Three has done a nice job of summarizing the Halo-based Lego models available for viewing at the Brickshelf website; he even went to the trouble of formatting his list to fit our template. Nice!

Red vs Blue Episode 31 (‘Room for Rent’) is now available on the Season 2 Sponsors forum at RvB. It’s gettin’ weird, folks. (I, for one, never wanted to see the inside of… oh, never mind. Go watch it.)

One One Se7en points out a common complaint among action figure collectors… Joyride, take heed.

Halo: Resolution comes up with what has to be the lamest reason ever to chase a bad guy. (Not that I’m sayin’ that, you know, Bungie employees are bad guys, or anything…)

Halo Babies has a couple of new items – there’s another strip, of course, since it’s Friday, and it’s a direct tribute to Red vs Blue, but there’s also a very cool desktop in a few sizes. (This has been in our artwork queue for a while now; apologies to Gruntsbane for taking so long…

Bungie has put up an article about ‘Dirty Halo Tricks’ – things you can do to win in Halo that might be on the far side of ethical. I’m really surprised that out-of-map stunts didn’t make anyone’s list… taking a ghost across the top of Sidewinder and invading the enemy base from above is definitely…

Adam Daniel dropped us a note in the forum that Halo garnered a special mention in today’s New York Times. In an article (free registration required) about the burgeoning business of game lounges, Halo is so popular that parents let their kids play the game even though it rated M for mature. As a parent…

W00T! New Fur-Lo artwork from Tina Leyk; there’s another regular strip, called ‘Mishaps With Grenades’ (third from bottom row, if the anchor doesn’t work well), which made me LAUGH (what an awesome Jackal!), and a great guest strip by Iatro, which captures the spirit of Fur-Lo quite nicely. Tina rawks.

Wolfy points out a new comic over at Sector 7 – The Marines. nice look!

Yesterday, Juggertrout posted a speed run through Assault on the Control Room – 7:19 from the time he got out of the pelican to the time he entered the final room. As far as I know, that’s a record, at this point… but there are a number of places (using his route) where seconds could…

As promised, we have another batch of 20 desktops for you today; 23, if you want to count the BOLL variants. (Even more if you count the SIZE variants… but BOLL’s are actually image variants.) Check ’em out in our Wallpaper section! There’s still more in the queue, both wallpaper and miscellaneous art… coming soon!

Wow… Red vs Blue has been nominated for a 2004 Webby Award in Humor – winners will be announced on May 12. This was pointed out on our forum, by iBob… but I didn’t notice it until Narcogen posted it on Rampancy.net. Looks like I’m getting behind on my forum reading…