Month: May 2004

Halo: Resolution shows why practice is the thing.

Dolbex has updated the Halo50k3 site with two new photo albums; the first reproduces content that used to be on the Halo50k site (before it was unpleasantly squatted on by a porn site), the second contains almost 100 pics from the recent MLG Dallas Regional event. Pictures from Halo50k2 will be coming soon!

Paul Wisniewski posted a piece of music, ‘Run From Me’, created by his band, Four Years Gone, inspired by Halo. It’s amazing to see the breadth of styles that folks use to express their love of this game! Update: clarksbrother has provided a pair of mirrors for this, if you’re having trouble getting it from…

Dark Helmet got bored, and put together a short film showing two useful places to try some Shade jumping. (The 3.3 mb film is mirrored at Faulksoft.com, thanks you Yayap the grunt.) As DH says, it’s amazing to see how much air you can get with a single grenade…

Been a little while since we updated the Fan Fiction section – mostly, we were trying to make sure that Stuntmutt’s birthday present didn’t get buried. Check the section now – there are 23 stories added since Wednesday.

vector40 has written up a supplement to his ongoing Banshee discussion – this piece is called ‘Winning’. It’s quite long, and has very little to do with Banshees – it really is about winning – and losing. Worth a read, because it gets into some really pertinent discussions about what people do when you win,…

Hawk Entertainment has released new versions of Ice Fields: Episode One Part 1. (This was originally released a week ago – but some folks had trouble with the DivX version, Hawk had trouble with bandwidth, and the movie itself was smaller than they wanted. You now have three new options: A 640×480, 40 mb DivX…

Gamespy has posted an interview with Marc Tardif, Director of Marketing and 3rd Party Relations at Gearbox. There’s some good info on what Halo CE (Custom Edition, not Combat Evolved) really is, and how it will be supported.GameSpy: What’s the reason behind having a separate .exe for this update? Marc Tardif: The new software was…

A couple of fans have compiled all the questions and answers from the Gearbox Q&A thread into a single post, for easier reading. There’s an awful lot of info in there, so read carefully. This covers questions both about Halo Custom Edition and the Halo Editing Kit; they’re separated for ease of understanding.

So says slim.

Take the night off, miss fun stuff at Bungie.net. Frankie put up a great retrospective on the life of Marty O’Donnell, who turns 107 today. It’s an inspiring rags-to-riches tale – well, gassed-canaries-to-loafer-lightener tale, actually – that gives insight into the events that shaped the man who came up with such beautiful music for Halo.…

The Weekly Update this week is at Bungie’s own Underground; it’s relatively light, but still has some tasty morsels. Frankie’s description of ‘skimming close to wall surfaces, trying to beat the optical illusion a bump map creates’ is so close to how I felt about Halo it’s scary. (And this is HALO 2!) Go read.…