Month: August 2004

Whoa. Bentllama adds his name to the (relatively small) group of Halo dev team members with public weblogs. Check out Bentllama.com for his first news post today. Thanks, evilSnip3r.

Microsoft has released the final box art for the European edition of Halo 2 – and I gotta say, it’s pretty nice. You can see pictures of it over at TeamXbox (including a hi-res, 1314×1866 version). Thanks, Carlo.

Merecatfish, of CustomEdition.org, has interviewed Zaskoda, the new Community Manager at Gearbox Software. Zaskoda believes that due to disorganization in the community, and the gearing up for Halo 2, that fewer and fewer people will play Halo Custom Edition, and that it’s unlikely that Gearbox will issue new patches for the game. This is really…

ON-X made a panoramic shot of Autumn Slay, a relatively new map by akmassassin. Nice views! If you want the map itself, you can see pictures of it at Halomods, or download it from Halo World.

scottisonfire pointed out a thread at halomods containing a useless but entertaining trick – a couple of guys lined up 50 hogs in a row, and fired a rocket through the window gaps of all 50. The rocket was slowed down enough that an obvserver, riding along on a ghost, could follow it. The biggest…

Mondo J. Gecko points out some DeviantArt he created – an extreme makeover for One One Se7en’s MC. I think Cortana might take him a bit more seriously…

There’s a little less than two weeks remaining in High Impact Halo’s Three Towers contest – be the one with the most stuff on top of the beam towers, and win cool schwag! Go reaquaint yourself with the rules, make sure you understand the point system, and get your entry in before September 1!

It’s interesting, sometimes, to look at the differences in gaming markets around the world. In the west, almost every ‘Most Wanted’ list of upcoming games has Halo 2 at the very top – first or second position. North America, Europe, Australia… they’re all waiting for this shooter with barely contained excitement. In Japan, however, it’s…

That Weasel writes to point out that the next installment in ‘Grunts are People Too!!!’ has been posted. It’s called ‘P S Who?’, and it takes a LOT of shots – literally – at the PS2. Available in both WMP9 format (4.1 mb) and QuickTime format (7.2 mb).

There’s a spectacular new wallpaper creation by Zoe, Bungie’s Contract Artist whose time is wrapping up, over in the Bungie.net Wallpaper section. The story of how it came to be (and how it’s NOT a Halo 2 screenshot, but a concept art piece created by Zoe’s masterful hand) can be found on the B.net front…

Roger Wilco shouldn’t get a second front-page mention in a single day… but this is just not right. It behooves EVERYONE to make sure that nobody wearing MC’s armor EVER does this.

Roger Wilco continues in the MoCap vein, showing exactly what you SHOULDN’T do with your sniper rifle. Some of these REALLY need a soundtrack.

Today’s One One Se7en points out a potential problem with a metallic armor system in Halo 2…

Ten pieces added to the Fan Fiction section – there’s always something to read…

Hawaiian Pig continues his RvB Set Pieces series with Installment IV – Requests. He’s been combining the MegaBattle Picture technique (using the development camera in HaloCE to put multiple characters in the same scene) with the popular machinima series to create scenes from Red vs Blue, in high resolution, as they might look from a…

NBC Giga, a German media site, has got a poll running for the latest Giga awards. One of the categories is ‘Please Release’ – and Halo 2 is on the list. Winners will be announced next week at the G|C Games Convention in Leipzig. Go vote! (The site is in German, but it’s not hard…

Boxer points out a new .comic at Subnova – things we have to look forward to in Halo 2. Oh, yeah.

Tocki, of Halo Orbit (one of the largest European Halo sites), points out a new design for their main site and their forums. He wants you to visit!

nexus points out a one-day 2v2 tourney in Wayne, New Jersey (about 15 miles northwest of NYC), at CyberConXion, on August 21; $15 to get in ($20 at the door), prizes are 50% of entry cash plus other stuff. Give it a look!

(GT)Juggler put together a nice reminiscence of the Dead Babies lanfest held in Connecticut recently; it’s 4:15 long, 32 mb big, in QT format. You can grab copies from either Mythica.org or files.bungie.org. For the record – though my name appears on a number of scoring screens, I wasn’t present… though the video makes me…