Month: May 2004

Darksage has added both an audio transcript and a play-by-play descriptive transcript of the E3 2004 demo footage to the Halo Source Knowledge Base. If you had trouble hearing what you were looking at, or don’t have the bandwidth to download the movies, go check this out!

Reiyou has been working on a Halo RPG for a long time; it’s losely based on the d20 system. He’s finally put up a website about it. Go check it out!

This looks pretty plausible. It’s nice when FedEx is more efficient then expected, don’t ya think? 🙂

Another Direct Feed movie – pretty good quality. This one’s from Gametrailers.com – thanks, Boneho Chane. WMP9, 14.3 mb. Update: And another from Gamershell – 13.8 mb (zipped – same 14.3 mb unzipped; it’s probably the same film), HUGE pipe. Also WMP9. Thanks, Recoil.

Thanks to the IRC channel, which stumbled across another free Shakeycam version of the E3 demo footage, this time hosted by Game Informer Magazine. It’s 105 mb large, in MPEG format. Quality is quite good, though the flash photography is a little distracting.

Gholsbane, operator of our sister site Myth.bungie.org, took a look at the new Halo 2 stuff and noticed something few who hadn’t followed Bungie before Halo would- there’s something in one of the screenshots that we may have seen a long time ago. More details can be found here.

So if you’re poor, and you don’t have a Gamespot or IGN subscription, you’re limited in your choices for video downloads of the E3 demo. Really the only game in town is the TeamXbox vid – and that’s sort of small, and it’s in pieces. Well, mrsmiley put them all together, and did some nice…

Deimos Fawkes remembered to go looking for the good stuff; the Xbox Press page has a zipped archive of 7 of the recent screenshots (everything at Bungie.net, except the ODST shot), in a 3.7 mb package. Why would you want this? Oh, because they’re 2560×1920 pixels… with no watermarks, maybe?

Mirrors have been popping up for the one free version of the demo footage – the stuff put up by TeamXbox. Blackstar has mirrored all four pieces on his server, Xbox4uweb (in Germany) has stitched them together and posted the 42 mb result (registration required), and Halo Orbit (also in Germany) has posted all four.…

Our very own Louis Wu has been interviewed by xbox.com. This is a fun little read for those of you who want a glimpse into the life of HBO. My favorite part is at the end, where Louis exaggerates his sleeping schedule. Honestly, who could possibly believe he sleeps that much? Kudos go to Tempus…

Calvin and Halo should have been posted yesterday. Or last week. Not my fault. Really.

On January 30, c0ld vengeance started a contest to pick the Halo 2 release date; the first poster with the correct date would win a copy of Halo 2. Looks like that lucky winner is JPJ007… congrats! (Thanks, Gutupio, for doing the legwork.)

ajenteks points out another IGN Insider download; the entire E3 Demo, in one chunk (212 mb in QuickTime, 92 mb in WMP9). This is very similar to the Gamespot vid (i’d say quality is a little higher; the image is brighter). They’ve come a long way since last year’s shakeycam capture! (This is listed as…

The Gamespy crew managed to actually PLAY Halo 2 a few days ago (rather than just watch it), and have written up a Hands-On article. It’s a good read; it comes from folks familiar with Halo, but not immersed in Halo 2 – folks just like you and me. Go read! (Thanks, fludblud.)

It’s up around the net by now, but for completeness’ sake, here’s the Limited Edition Halo 2 press release sent to websites several hours ago.

Once again, webmasters have neglected to account for nosy viewers. If you look through the new Halo 2 screenshots at Halo2.com, you’ll find that they BEGIN at image02.jpg. Like any good Bungie fan, Mr. Zarquon substituted image01.jpg into the URL… and found a ninth, unlinked Screenshot. (We’ve archived a copy here, in case it gets…

daedalus found a new blog update by Mat Noguchi, the Angry Zen Master, discussing the tools released with the Halo Editing Kit (tools he created, not incidentally), and hinting that he might post some hints or tricks in the future. We definitely wouldn’t argue…

As many have already noticed (and as could probably be guessed, by many hardcore fans), Microsoft scooped up the Halo2.com domain – and has used it to launch a new Flash-based promo site. There isn’t much info there that isn’t elsewhere, as well – but there’s plenty of room for expansion!

The saturation coverage continues; Gamespot has a 235 mb version of the Halo 2 demo from the Press Conference available for Gamespot Complete members. (They’ve also put up their own ‘Impressions’ article.) IGN has put up a 340 mb WMV raw feed of the entire conference itself (minus a 5 minute parody show that MS…