Month: July 2004

WOW. Xavier, a newcomer to HBO, pointed out a new skin he created, based on some fantastic Tina Leyk artwork, posted at HaloMC.com. (There was some trouble earlier getting to that forum, so if you can’t see his post, he started from this picture, and ended up with this guy (a second pic is here).…

Looks like the Bravo network is picking up One One Se7en next season.

Halo: Resolution posts the second half of its farewell teaser… the marines get a language lesson from a Cov Elite.

TotalVideoGames.com has a story today that Microsoft Game Studios has just confirmed that the Limited Edition version of Halo 2 WILL be sold in Europe. Given that Bungie confirmed this very fact 2 months ago, I’m struck by the alacrity of the Microsoft marketing juggernaut…

Today is the 5th anniversary of the MacWorld Trailer, the day that Halo was introduced to the world (and the planet reverberated with the clang of dropping jaws). And yesterday was, incidentally, the 5th anniversary of this domain name (halo.bungie.org) – the website had been up at that point for almost two months, but it…

29 new pieces have been added to the Fan Fiction section today. It looked far worse when I stopped by to approve stories – but after I deleted 19 of the 20 copies of Elitehunter676’s submission, things weren’t quite so bad. (I can only hope it was a fit of epilepsy that caused him to…

Cody Miller, who took first place on Truth and Reconciliation, also aced the Library for our Going Nowhere Fast contest. Beating his nearest competitor by 5 minutes (and the third place finisher by almost 25 minutes), he raced through this level of relentless destruction almost without stopping. The video is 153 mb large, and available…

Tina Leyk got stuck without power this afternoon – so she sat down with her Prisma pencils (and a pen) and sketched out a gorgeous Spec-Ops Elite. Check him out on her Fan Art page!

Betcha thought I forgot Calvin and Halo, didn’tcha? Calvin sort of wishes his mom forgot HIM…

On Sunday, Stuntmutt submitted a pretty funny One One Se7en for c0ld vengeance; today, he’s made good on the promise of that strip. Whatever else you might say about him… he follows through.

Dispraiser has posted Weekly Update 3 for Halogen, the C&C Generals total conversion, over on the Junkyard forums. New renders, discussion of vehicles, and a units list… give it a read!

MLGPro.com has interviewed Zyos, one of the top pro Halo gamers on the scene right now, about what it’s like to be a pro gamer. In addition, if you live in the Atlanta area, you can stop by the Lennox Mall Gamestop between 5 and 7 pm this Friday, and maybe get the chance to…

Walshicus has updated his Halo Stellar Cartography submission to include data about every star on the map. Simply click on the map thumbnail to get started exploring. This, I think, is beginning to qualify as an obsession.

That Weasel Television, in conjunction with Mother’s Tooth and HaloRules.com, is launching its first all original, all exclusive, Halo series called “Grunts Are People Too!!!” Original music, grunty action, dead grunts. What more could you want? (Some episodes don’t seem to be uploaded yet, but give it time.)

Hmm. Looks like I forgot to update the Weekly Bungie Updates archive last week – but it’s now up-to-date. An awful lot of content in these past two updates… things are really coming along. See, for example, the progress on the lightmap farm – back in february, it was just getting built – now it’s…

Ducain has announced a new contest – The Three Towers. Put stuff on the Blue Beam towers, win cool schwag. How great is that?

If today’s One One Se7en makes no sense, you’re not reading Bungie’s Top Stories closely enough.

The cast Halo: Resolution are getting out… maybe.

Stefander points out the latest Zanzibar weekly update, over at Halomods – the energy sword is really coming along, and some other guns are being modeled. Take a look!

Cyber Gaming Network has posted a Halo 2 preview; it’s a solid read, combining info from the E3 demo and recent press without going TOO far out on the speculation limb. (It’s an update of a much shorter preview they wrote after E3 2003; the URL hasn’t changed.) Give it a read…