Month: June 2004

Kikizo Games has put over 5 hours of video from E3 online (including about 20 minutes of Halo 2-related footage). Most of it has already been available from other sources for a while now – but there IS a new file; the 68 mb, 640×480 shakeycam version of the Press briefing, filmed off a Widescreen…

Oddworld18 points out a new map designed by Baka – it’s called Frost, and it’s really quite nice. There’s a thread about it on the Gearbox forums, and it can be downloaded from The Imperium Software. Also, we got mail from Fatch about a new release he’s created, called Cover Canyon II – an open…

Wow. Vram has posted a note on the Gearbox forums – grab a pair of dll files from the Halo CE distribution and replace the corresponding files in the Halo PC distribution… and the ‘Crash on Map Change’ bug will disappear. (This will NOT let you play Halo CE maps in Halo PC – it…

Gustav Larimore writes that he’s released a new movie on Effervescing Blue Productions. It’s called EBP Warthog Jumping – and that’s just what you get. 4 minutes of it, in fact. All on Silent Cartographer, all in the same stretch of beach. (Different viewpoints, though.) WMP9 format, 40 mb. The beginning gave me flashbacks to…

Rampancy.net has put up part 2 of it’s Halo: Combat Retrospective piece; this one focuses on Artificial Intelligence. It’s an interesting overview of Bungie’s approach to enemy responsiveness. Go read!

Musical Humor in today’s One One Se7en. Well… musical SOMETHING.

Light Fan Fiction update for you today – just 9 stories, including Sterfrye36’s rewrite of his first series in honor of his one-year anniversary on the site. Go read!

Has Halo: Resolution been confusing you recently? Fuzzy helps out today.

That Weasel writes that That Weasel Television is running a new poll – ‘My favorite part of E3 2004 was…’ Swing on by and vote!

We got word last night that the [-GTC-] CTF3 Downloads page was inaccessible due to bandwidth overages; it’s up and running now, but the likelihood is, it’ll go down again today. Because of that, we’ve mirrored the page here (minus a java applet and a very large animated gif) – if you can’t get to…

[-GTC-] has put up the third in their series of CTF Tactics movies; this one focuses on grenade-assisted flag caps, though it shows a pretty slick technique for long-distance flag-shooting on Battle Creek. These are in some cases team-only techniques; the flag carrier ends up dying, so if there’s not a teammate to finish the…

A couple of weeks ago, we mentioned that the 2D sidescroller, Halo: Blood Covenant, had a downloadable demo to play – but their bandwidth ran out pretty quickly, and a lot of people missed it. I grabbed a copy – but I couldn’t get it to run properly on my Radeon 9600 (the screen was…

Hogmasta Chocobo writes to point out a movie of his hosted at GameTrailers – it’s called Colorblind, and is available in streaming .mov format (or downloadable .mov and .wmv formats). It’s gameplay, set to music. There’s a forum thread on our forum if you want to leave him feedback.

Carnage sends word that UXB Internet has put up a web-based Halo server database; they check several hundred servers each day for uptime, as well as provide a real-time stats page for each server. Currently, it supports Halo PC and Halo CE, though CE servers aren’t yet collected automatically. If your server isn’t listed, you…

CheatCodes.com went to E3 – and posted their discussion of the Halo 2 material on Friday. Bunch of nice photos of the widescreen plasma screen they played on. Thanks, Cortanas_Brother.

Rampancy.net has posted a transcription of the music from the Halo 2 announcement trailer, courtesy of Poop Scoop. 2.5 mb, due to the 8 pages of hi-res jpegs – and there’s also a Finale Notepad file containing the whole score. Nice!

The Bungie Weekly Updates database has been brought up-to-date, this time on time. Scary… we’re on time with something? Ouch.

Calvin and Halo reveals secrets behind the publicity business…

Got a note from Tina Leyk – she’s put up a bunch of new Halo-related artwork at her Angels of Iron website (which is sporting a new design, btw). We’ve mirrored it all here, to take the bandwidth hit off her – and added an extra tidbit. If you visit the Art of Tina Leyk…

Ducain continues his pattern of taking a known glitch (in this case, two known glitches) and making it his own; he’s combined his discovery of partial immunity during warthog jumps (you’re invincible for the short time you’re actually ENTERING a vehicle – or during the time the engine THINKS you’re entering a vehicle) with some…