Month: July 2004

MASSIVE update this week, on our very own forum – comments from team members who talk a lot, from members who have been conspicuously quiet for months, from weirdos you really didn’t NEED to hear from. (Oh, wait, that’s just Frankie. Who else would draw a speedo on the OUTSIDE of a suit of armor?…

One One Se7en predicts another CENSORED experience with tonight’s Weekly Update. No crystal ball needed there…

Oops – it’s been such a busy news day that regular features have slipped off the radar. Today’s Halo: Resolution makes you wonder how Keyes got to be bossman.

Holy Last Minute Coolness, Batman! Bungie and Mountain Dew have teamed up for a fantastic contest; submit the winning photo showing you and your friends playing Halo and drinking Mountain Dew, in the next 5 days, and you could find yourself at Bungie Headquarters for a promotional photo shoot and a Halo 2 LAN party.…

SketchFactor has posted a note over on Bungie.net that artists and content creators might want to look at. The filmmaker behind the upcoming ‘Making of Halo 2’ documentary is calling for images and movies of fan-created artwork that MIGHT be included on the DVD in a Fan Art showcase. (Be aware that anything already on…

Red vs Blue episode 38, ‘K.I.T. B.F.F.’, is out now for sponsors (thanks, Brad and others). It’s thirteen and a half minutes of hilarity – a truly fitting end to the season. We need the narrator guy from Soap to put together the summary for next season… because, man, it gets messy. (It’s huge -…

You gotta love stuff like this. wopkins made a vid of the Master Chief breakdancing. (Guy’s pretty coordinated, you ask me. YOU try that in battle armor.) He explains how in this post. The movie’s quite small (1.6 mb, WMP9 format), and I’ve added a QuickTime version for those that need it (same size).

Gamespy has posted part 2 of its ‘Halo 2 – Everything We Know!’ article, with three more pages on dual-wielding and jacking, and destructible environments. (We mentioned Part 1 – the first 4 pages of the article – yesterday.) This one sticks to Halo 2 info, and consequently has less faulty Halo 1 info.

Whoa – this comes as news to me… VoodooExtreme is reporting that Microsoft has put out a press release announcing a UK release date for Halo 2 of November 11 – two days past the US date. This directly contradicts the Halo 2 FAQ at Bungie.net, which states clearly “Halo 2 will be released in…

In the past month or two, we’ve started seeing pictures of a maskless grunt… and suddenly, the lovable creature we all knew and loved (albeit to kill, more often than not) was suddenly the stuff of nightmares. I no longer wanted a Grunt plushy. Tina Leyk has restored my faith in the cuddlyness of grunts…

New Halo Babies comic up. Nautical theme. Avast.

As promised, the second Going Nowhere Fast video is now available for download, via BitTorrent. (Once again, if you don’t have BitTorrent, the client can be downloaded here.) gwdpto runs through the second level of the game in 15:29 – and while his technique for zipping through the 3 Marine rescue missions at the end…

You know… these Calvin and Halo comics were funnier before I had kids.

It needs a total overhaul… but all I had time for was a bandaid or two. Our Frequently Asked Questions section has been brought up to date, at least the most-asked questions page. The rest is on The List.

Mothergoat has whipped up a preview video for his map, Decoy. (We mentioned this map a few days ago.) The movie, a 20.5 mb WMP9 file, is 3:03 of fun gameplay along with descriptions of the modded weapons. Definitely worth watching. Rated R, for r0X0rs. (If you haven’t downloaded the map yet, you can grab…

Madrox posted a fun little vid called ‘Under the Glass’, showing some nice vehicle-jamming on AotCR. It’s 4.2 mb, in WMP9 format, and I’ve tossed a QuickTime version up (3.7 mb) for folks who like that better.

Dolbex writes to point out that MLG and HaloTV are teaming up to bring Halo50k3 to your home, in realtime… assuming you’re one of the lucky 100 (or however many they decide they can handle) connections. Read more details at the MLG site!

gwdpto copied and pasted every single frame from the recently-released 3D screenshot… and discovered that there are exactly 117 of them. Will those guys NEVER stop? (We won’t discuss the absolute insanity in copying and pasting 117 frames of a movie, just to count them…) Update: False alarm. Seems gwdpto can’t count. 2 and 2…

Yesterday was Bungie Day, as we mentioned – and Bungie celebrated with a whole passel of news posts. The only Halo-related ones were already covered here… but the others are fun reading for anyone interested in the company. Frankie posted about a new poll – judge the Bungie guys’ cars; there’s a contest in the…