Month: May 2004

A new map has been floating around the various Halo boards; it’s called Casualty Gorge, and it was designed by Baka, of The Imperium. It’s available from the Imperium, or from Halomods, in this thread – it’s a bit over 7 mb. It’s quite small, and the inside areas are REALLY dark… but it’s nicely…

15 pieces in the Fan Fiction section today – this will be the last post on this holiday Sunday. (Yeah, Mother’s Day is a Hallmark Holiday… but it’s also a chance to show mothers – mine as well as my kids’ – how much they mean to the people around them.) To the guy submitting…

In honor of Mother’s Day, Red vs Blue has put together a new Public Service Announcement, available to all, with hints and advice about this heartwarming holiday. Check it out! (First heads-up goes to Pballwizard.)

Gamespot has a poll on its front page: Which game are you most looking forward to seeing at E3? Halo 2 is currently leading with 29% of almost 8500 votes (nearest competitor at this point is Half-Life 2, with 16%). Go vote! Thanks to Carlo Zottmann for the heads-up.

At the end of August, Penny Arcade is hosting the Omegathon – a two-day, 6-round gaming competition to win an enormous, $15,000 gaming collection. Round 2 is Halo. If you think you can go head-to-head against the best, sign up for the Penny Arcade Expo. Thanks to 3Suns for noticing.

New contest over at Battleground: Halo; write a haiku poem about Halo 2, win MLG goodies. Not bad! Full details are available on their contest page.

New stop-action movie from Team Scoog – 117 Rumble. Pretty nicely done! 53 seconds, 3.7 mb, WMP9 format. Check it out!

Dolbex, the new web guy for Major League Gaming, writes to point out Midwest Madness, a tournament in Chicago on June 19th and 20th. Check out the website for details about registration, hotels, and the like. Lookin’ good!

May’s Computer Gaming World has not only a unique RvB vid, as we mentioned yesterday, but an article on the Red vs Blue team itself. There’s also a sidebar about the Nightmare Armor team. Thanks to Deimosâ„¢ for the heads-up, over on Subnova.

This was released last week – but we didn’t have the bandwidth for it. Spotcheck did another speedrun on an as-yet-unshown level, Keyes. It’s still on Halo PC and the difficulty isn’t Legendary – but if you’re looking to run Keyes in our Going Nowhere Fast contest, this vid might show you some useful shortcuts.…

The Bungie Weekly Update has been posted over at Battleground: Halo, amidst flames from site staff and requests for geriatric porn. There’s quite a bit more info than there’s been in the past few weeks; some of it is just E3 expectation comments from the team, but there’s lots of Halo 2 meat, as well.…

Big update on music.psyjnir.org today; the new Halo material includes a pair of Red vs Blue pieces by Grasshopper – including one done specifically for an episode that only appeared on a CGW magazine CD. First we’ve heard of that! Check out these bits, and many more, on MPO!

Lophan points out an E3 teaser article on CNN.com – and dang if that pic doesn’t look familiar! Ooh…next week can’t come fast enough. Update: dang, this is the CNN article mentioned by GhaleonEB on our forum two days ago… I’m slipping. Thanks, Dean. (You still suck.)

Wow. Interesting if true – but as of now unconfirmed. GamesRadar is reporting that Halo 2 will be playable at E3 – a two-level demo. There’ll also be boatloads of new media. Droolin’ already… thanks, Milamber!

Rampancy.net found ANOTHER Alex Seropian interview – that guy must be hoarse by now. R.net snagged the two most quoteworthy lines in the interview, but there IS a tidbit unmentioned – we’ve known from previous interviews that Wideload’s first game will be based on the Halo engine, and we know it won’t be a first-person-shooter……

Darksage has posted 17 pics of the tutorial level he made using the HEK. It contains what Gearbox suggested – and a little bit more. He points out that HUDless pics are easy now; just enable Devmode, execute ‘show_hud 0’, and then ‘cheat_all_weapons’ and pick up a gravity rifle. Voila – no more HUD. He’d…

Eep – Battleground: Halo started its own comic a few days ago, and I missed it. Check out the lives of the BGH staffers… or something.

Red vs Blue has posted Episode 33, ‘An Audience of Dumb’, for sponsors; it’s rather large. (78.7 mb large, in QuickTime – it’s 7:45 long.) Some weird twists… and the nastiest Mexican Sasquatch music this side of Oaxaca. Thanks go to KP for noticing.

And rounding out the day’s comics, Tina Leyk takes a shot at what is probably Cortana’s stupidest piece of dialogue in the entire game, in a new Fur-Lo comic. (If it’s hard to find on the page, here’s a direct link, maybe it’ll get me to finish coding the search stuff.)

Stuntmutt, unwilling to let the MC go an entire week without corn, explains those curled-up grunts in today’s One One Se7en.