Month: July 2004

The New York Times has an article from yesterday about Internet TV – streaming video from established sources. The focus is on a guy who streams karaoke from a local bar… but a sidebar contains a ‘Streaming Sampler’ – video available online – and one of the three examples is Red vs Blue, which “places…

teamhalo has opened a Spotlight section – and the first interview is posted; kornman00 talks about reverse-engineering the HEK.

One One Se7en proves that Sarge will ALWAYS rock harder than MC.

A week ago, Ross Mills challenged our forum to come up with some Halo-related game crossovers – alter a picture of Halo by bringing in elements from another game. There were a number of entries – a couple quite funny – but BOLL, as usual, can’t be satisfied with a simple picture – he has…

Halo: Resolution shows that even if you have manpower, you still get nowhere without brains…

CYBRFRK points out the blog of Major Nelson, Director of Programming for Xbox Live – yesterday, he took some pics of a new statue that appeared in the lobby of his building. I supposed that means it’s okay for me to put up a pair of pics I took myself of this statue – at…

It’s Friday, so there’s a Halo Babies update… the new strip looks at the kindness of strangers (or of Bungie level designers, depending on your viewpoint), and Gruntsbane has posted a fantastic wallpaper based on some artwork he submitted to us a little bit ago. Go grab it!

Narcogen, at Rampancy.net, points out the next installment in Sparky’s Guides – this one is devoted to King of the Hill. Once again, it’s a solid read; there are general tips for the gametype, and then specific pointers for each multiplayer level. Check it out!

Wow – 3 days, 22 Fan Fiction pieces. That’s more than 7 a day… you should go read some.

Couple of tournaments for you, both sides of the Atlantic: first up, there’s a tourney in Tewksbury, MA, on July 10, with a $5 admission and a top prize of a $1350 Dye DM4 paintgun. (Thanks, Pepper4099.) Second, in London, on August 21, there’s the Elite Gaming Championships, with a £25 entrance fee and top…

Calvin and Halo steps back from comedy for some philosophy today.

Gamindustry.biz has a story about how this Christmas is going to be rough on gaming companies, because of the huge amount of competition. Halo 2 is one of the few titles listed as likely being immune to the loss of market share. Makes you wonder why some of these companies don’t hold off a couple…

Wow – SwampFox has managed to convert Singleplayer to Multiplayer (in this case, the Library) – on XBOX. If you have a modded box, go grab this now. (If you don’t, and want to know HOW to mod your box – go there now, anyway. HBO is not the site you want for Xbox moddding…

Weirdness. Carlo Zottman has discovered a German site that claims to be in negotiations for a Halo movie. Boll Kino-Beteiligungs-GmbH & Co. KG (no relation whatsoever to our resident Flash maniac) has a prospectus on their download page (everything is in German – no English anywhere) that lists, on page 29, movie licenses for existing…

It seems that some folks took our ‘Midnight July 1 2004’ deadline on the Going Nowhere Fast contest to mean LAST night at midnight. Sorry for any confusion this caused. As long as the entry reaches us before the END of July 1, we’ll accept it. (Two large videotapes came in yesterday, and haven’t been…

Nice find by munkeypantsman… in one of the new screens released yesterday, there’s a cowering grunt covering his face. What nobody else noticed (or at least nobody else MENTIONED) was that this grunt is NOT wearing his rebreather apparatus… but clearly, the shot was taken in an oxygen atmosphere (there’s a marine on the LAAG…

Hehe – TeamXbox is running a feature called ‘Top Ten Xbox Babes’… and Halo’s Cortana makes number 9. Not bad for a hologram! Thanks, daedalus.

Wow. Halo Boy has posted an entire collection of HUDless screenshots – and they’re very, very good. The entire set is hosted at Photobucket; if the bandwidth runs out because of this news post, drop us a line, we’ll see what we can do about mirroring the files.

Saint mentions that the Library has been updated with a bunch of new entries and screens. If you haven’t looked over this treasure-trove of Halo information, you really should – it’s chock-full of goodies.

w00t! Nesnora, a mod on the Red vs Blue forum and a spectacular artist, is creating 50 first-edition prints of her gorgeous Blood Gulch artwork (which was added to our Wallpaper section a couple of weeks ago). They will be signed and matted, with a pricetag of $30 (if purchased before July 6) or $50…