Month: August 2004

New Subzero Rivalries today – I’ve seen this happen in real games. Thanks, MarkHawk.

NorthHammer has created a really long (9:45) tribute to Halo 2, using existing footage and some inspiring music. It’s 24.9 mb (so that it fits into his 25 mb Comcast space, in WMP9 format.

Art Vandelay has pointed out a picture of the upcoming Xbox Live Halo 2 headset mentioned last week by NuclearWinter – he snagged it off the Gamestop product page. Snazzy-looking headset… but $50 seems a bit steep, you ask me.

Monday, Boxer launched Adventures in Disaster, a Halo comic hosted by akba. Today, Episode 2, ‘It’s all about range…’ has been posted. Check it out!

Stefander points out that Halo 2 will be playable at Power Unlimited’s Gameplay event in Utrecht, the Netherlands, on September 11 and 12. The website is all in dutch, but if you’re in the area, this is another opportunity for gameplay!

Periodically, Frankie mentions the Lightmap farm used for renders during development – today’s One One Se7en shows Stuntmutt’s take on the whole thing.

Motherstooth made an HBO tribute – we’re touched. 1.9 mb, WMP9 format. Here’s a QT version, if you need it (2.2 mb).

Later than usual, but the Weekly Bungie Update Archive has been incremented with last Friday’s scribblings. Did you know that this was the first time pocky has been mentioned in the update? Are you surprised? That Snook, he’s an odd one…

9 new stories added to the Fan Fiction section – might have been more, but a couple of folks thought that no punctuation at all was a good thing. Enjoy.

Dan Mitteer found a new Halo 2 ad in October’s Gamepro mag; it follows the trend of the first Halo 2 print ad, except the picture is better and they moved away from the Halo font. You’ll find small versions that Dan posted in this post, and larger ones in this post.

There’s a Halo tournament in Eastpoint, Michigan, on August 15; 2-man teams, entrance fee is $40/team, top prize is $120. Information can be found on this website.

Once again, though a few days ago, Roger Wilco took some fun motion capture footage, and applied the Master Chief skin to it. As he says, this one definitely needs sound. (1.1 mb, QuickTime format.)

The next big MLG tournament (after Seattle, at the end of this month) will be in San Francisco, on September 11/12… and the San Francisco subsite just went live at MLGPro.com. Go check it out! (I couldn’t find any info on registration fees or prize values… but I’m sure they’re coming.) Thanks, Dolbex.

Recently, a whole passel of press hung out at Bungie and played some Halo 2 multiplayer. The first magazine with this information is already on newsstands… in Germany. According to Tempus Fugit, Xbox Zone has a solid hands-on Halo 2 article in the latest issue (out to subscribers now, on newsstand shelves later this week),…

Last week, Bill Daiber, one of the Mountain Dew contest winners, wrote up some of his experience at Bungie’s offices, with respect to Halo 2 gameplay. He’d left some of the writeup out, however – it was vacation time. We’ve posted it now. Vehicles, Sound, Glitches – go read about it! (Notice the ‘already fixed’…

The Junkyard has posted an article on the realism of Halo, and how this affects gameplay, in which an 8-year veteran of the US Marine Corps gives his opinions about some of the choices made in the game. Interesting concept…

Pwned.

Boxer has started a new comic, called Aventures in Disaster. The first episode, ‘Location, Location, Location’ is hosted by akba. Boxer says there’ll be new strips every Monday and Wednesday.

G4techTV posted a 5-part article last week on The Top Ten Games of G-Phoria, and Part 4 covered halo 2 (the number 2 game in the list, following only Doom 3). Thanks, WhiteRaBbit.

Today’s One One Se7en looks at one of the new Halo 2 multiplayer features… with a rather cynical eye.