Month: October 2004

New Countdown article at IGN – ‘Five Things to Expect from IGN’s Review’. Get prepared… or something.

New strip over at Halo Babies – philosophic, sort of. There’s also a gorgeous new wallpaper by Gruntsbane.

TeamXbox has posted a new Halo 2 wallpaper, based on Zoe’s fantastic parting gift, coupled with a screenshot. Lighting comes off as being a bit funny… but it’s nice. Thanks, Dirty Dozen.

International gaming press continues to rate Halo 2 quite highly – Official Australian Xbox Mag gave it a 10 (thanks Gossip and Pooston), Holland’s Power Unlimited gave it a 93% (they said it ‘wasn’t revolutionary’), and Belgium’s Gunk Magazine gave it a 95%. (Thanks, Herman Karper.)

Over the past few days, many, many people have sent us links to this forum post at Bungie.net. KilaOne suggests a Halo 2 movement – each person buying Halo 2 donates one dollar to the Make a Wish Foundation (he actually leaves the door open for a different charity). He contacted the Electronic Software Association…

Recoil points out a new set of Halo 2 figures previewed over at figures.com. They’ll be available at Musicland and Gamestop this December. Gorgeous!

Another launch party – this one in Helsinki, Finland. Details (for folks who can read Finnish) on this page. There’s gonna be an armored personnel carrier there? Wow. Thanks, Scanner Darkly.

Looks like Microsoft wasn’t thrilled with the negative press they got over the alleged price-fixing in the Netherlands yesterday; GCShop has gotten word that they’ll be getting at least SOME LE copies now. Thanks again to Elite TAR for the heads-up.

Heather Dawn sent along a couple of pictures of the Halloween costume her 9-year-old son created, painted, and worked to finish this year. (We’re going to have to open a costume section one of these days, I think.) There’s a front view and a side view – pretty darn impressive!

Yesterday, Matt Soell, once the community voice of Bungie, now an employee of Wideload, mentioned a segment on the Today Show that steamed him. I’d missed it – but it showed up on MSN.com (thanks, Ceiroh). To find it, you’ll need to be on a PC, and you’ll need to be using Internet Explorer. (I…

There are two new musical clips from the Halo 2 soundtrack at nilerogers.com – Ancient Machine (snippet is 53 seconds, 830k) and the Second movement of Incubus’ Odyssey (snippet is 1:16, 1.2 mb). The Listening Station on the site works quite well for broadband connections – easy to compare pieces. Plus, with these two new…

Aspyr has posted a press release for Stubbs the Zombie on their own site – now we know it’s a ‘stirring tale of one man’s hunger for love, justice…and brains.’ Publication date is summer 2005, on Xbox, PC, and Mac. There are plenty of other tasty tidbits in the press release – check it out!…

Wonga. SketchFactor posted a note today about a Bungie-sponsored fanfest in the Seattle area on November 8 – go read the details! Looks like it’ll be fun – more details coming!

Mat Noguchi is a master coder… but he’s as mean as the webmaster when he wants to be. Got a question about Halo code, and not afraid to get chewed out about it? Post it in this thread on the B.net forum, and see what you get back!

Again – rough night, more news in the morning… but some quick stuff to hold you over: Over on Bungie.net, they’re reminding you to keep voting for the MC in the Walk of Game poll. (We mentioned this several weeks ago, but apparently the MC is losing now. You can vote every day, but voting…

Wideload, Alex Seropian’s new company, has finally announced the name (and subject) of its first title, which will be made using the Halo engine: ‘Rebel Without a Pulse’, a ‘multi-format zombie action title’ to be published by Aspyr Media next year. There’s a press release at Yahoo News… except that Yahoo can’t seem to find…

Swirlfire noticed a couple of new items at the Bungie Store – an LED rechargable flashlight, and a lanyard. If you gotta have every tchotchke, go buy!

This came in yesterday, but I wasn’t around enough. Elite TAR sent us a link to a Dutch site with a rant about MS business practices – I’m basing this news post on his translation. Apparently, GCShop.nl is a student-run store which sells games at cost, in an attempt to give students an alternative to…

Calvin comes up with a novel way of passing the time until November 9 in today’s Calvin and Halo. Thank goodness the weather here doesn’t match his, though…

TeamXbox has posted a Top Ten Reasons why Halo 2 Will Live Up To the Hype article – there’s a good bit of meat there. Go check it out. Thanks, Mid33.