Month: May 2004

Lots of new shirts available at Red vs Blue and its affiliated w00twear site; a new Doc shirt, a special edition Sarge shirt, and a Purple Octopus shirt. Visit RvB for all the details! Thanks to The Salmon Sausage for the heads-up.

One One Se7en solves a mystery that nobody even realized needed solving. Can you ask for anything more?

Halo: Resolution continues the encounter between MC and Bill Gates. Billy’s secrets… revealed?

Bah. Another missed email. Bongo wrote up a summary of the E3 demo over at Sector 7 yesterday, based on the released movies. Go read again.

Curll posted a note yesterday on xblGamers explaining the Clan pricing rumor (it was a psych/marketing class project, apparently) – I missed the email until just now. Go read.

Sanchez the Llama reminds us that Nerdstock 2004, a Halo Xbox tourney near Chicago, is coming up fast (June 26) – if you’re in driving distance, sign up and go play!

Looks like we missed a contest due to the E3 flood; SEspider is offering some cool Halo 2 action figures (when they come out) to the person who can make a Pelican jump with grenades. Details are in this forum post (with an adjustment of the due date in this post). Give it a shot!

Inspired by the Halo 2 multiplayer action at E3, Silverbrin has reworked ‘Under Cover of Night’ from the Halo soundtrack; you can find the results at music.psyjnir.org (6.6 mb, mp3 format). This version contains no audio from the original. Comments can go in this forum thread!

E3 caused the Fan Fiction section to be neglected – after weeding out the duplicates, the unreasonable entries, and combining a couple of insanely short chapters into a single entry (next time I just delete ’em; you can upload ’em again if you can’t follow the rules), we’re STILL left with 38 new pieces. Go…

A few days ago, Tina Leyk updated her Furnation site with a new Hunter sketch; we’ve finally gotten around to adding it to our collection here. (It’s at the end of the Unfinished Artwork section.) Thanks to Zeta for first pointing it out. (Tina created the artwork for a shirt worn by a number of…

Frankie has written up his account of the Bungie Fanfest last Thursday – and with the possible exception of seriously slandering yours truly (there was no intentional theft involved – REALLY), it’s a great writeup. Especially the mini-interview with ExcreBex. Go read it!

Subnova has posted their E3 2004 report. There’s over 100 pictures and a long section of Halo 2, so check it out!

Ducain found a really odd glitch on the level Halo; he bumped his way into the Blue Beam tower, landed in a small enclosed space… and then got hurt as though he was falling, over and over, until he died. Weirdness!

We’ve added last week’s Weekly Bungie Update to our Archives; apologies to all who thought it was fake, because of the combination of an early post, a different style (Frankie was tired), and a lack of a post on B.net (the server there was acting up, apparently). It really was real. We’ve also, very belatedly,…

Today’s Calvin and Halo sums up my biggest problem in grade school.

I was tempted to leave the entire Enkidu post-mortem in the forum; putting it on the front page seems to rile people up too much. However, there was a great post by Anton P. Nym (the author) last night – worth a read. (Mig’s followup is ALSO worth a read.)

Oh, man… just what we need, a suggestion on CNN.com that there might be a Halo movie in the future.Soon, more blockbuster game franchises, such as “Halo” and “Doom,” are expected to become the basis of movies.Don’t forget, Bungie has said that the likelihood of a Halo movie is really, really, slim. Something to do…

Large Unit has written up a FAQ about what is known (and not yet known) about Halo 2, based on the playable content from E3. Check it out at Halo50k3.

Last week, we posted a note about a streaming live interview with Pete Parsons; if you missed it, Team Xbox (who was present and part of the interview team) has it up for download on their site. It’s available in two 17 mb parts (or you can stream it from their servers). WMP9 format. While…

Boxer has posted a new Halo-related .comic at Subnova – even other game denizens had trouble getting in to the press briefings. Ouch!