Month: October 2004

Wonga. Amazing as it sounds, Frankie is STILL continuing with the Bungie Weekly Updates – this one is at Subnova. New TV spots coming next week, a sick SketchFactor, and a guest Mister Chief rendering by BOLL. Go read! (And Sketch – here’s hoping you get better!) Thanks to Eric Biro, who let us know…

Another one from Hikaru-119; he’s uploaded the French commercial mentioned earlier to Brian Towne’s public service server – you can grab it from there. 2.2 mb, MPEG1 format.

I didn’t really think this was news, since it existed in Germany a month ago – but loads upon loads of people are writing to us about it, so… looks like as of today, Microsoft has OFFICIALLY announced the Limited Edition Halo 2 Xbox Live Starter Kit in Europe – it comes with a copy…

nilerogers.com continues its posting spree, with another snippet from the Halo 2 Soundtrack – this one is called Earth City, and is 2:40 long. The flash art is quite nice, but if you’re on a low-bandwidth connection, the direct link to the snippet is here. Lots of heads-ups from fans, looks like the earliest one…

Stuntmutt feeds off a great scene in Aliens for today’s One One Se7en – looks like MC ain’t no Bishop.

Two new video clips for you today, around the web; Xbox Central is hosting an MTV news clip showing the ‘Halo 2 Council’ (celebrities getting special Halo 2 goodies) and the Pelican case’d Xbox/screen that’s among their loot: 8 mb, WMP9 format (thanks, Ben Bayes), and there’s a higher-res version of the leaked EB Games…

Ryan McCaffrey, from OXM, stopped by the TeamXbox forums to answer specific, non-spoiling questions about OXM’s review of Halo 2, out now to subscribers in the December issue of the magazine (and on newsstand shelves on November 2). As of right now, there aren’t a lot of answers, but there sure are a lot of…

IGN has reviewed the SmartJoy FRAG device, the mouse/keyboard combination for the Xbox. Overall, they liked it, though they said it worked better with some games than with others. Halo was near the top of the list of ‘good’ games. Thanks, Joe Larson.

There’s a short interview with Nathaniel, one of the owners of EP Game Servers, over at BlamDink.co.uk. He takes a decidedly Gearbox-centric view of the development situation for Halo Custom Edition and Halo PC – that is, Gearbox is doing everything they can to help the fans, and the only roadblock is the big bad…

There’s a new article over at Xbox.com about 10 fans who won all three Halo novels (two of them signed by the author). You can read their explanations about why they wanted the books. Thanks, Littlebigman.

Today’s IGN Countdown article gives you 5 excuses to try with your significant other in order to garner some screentime on November 9. I can’t see any of them working, unless your significant other has the intellect of a small fern.

New comics up – there’s a wordless (but not even remotely hard-to-understand) strip over at Halo Babies… and a look at the MC’s improvements over at Master Chief and Cortana. And yesterday, there was a continuation of the Joe and Monkey strip we mentioned recently – with another new one today. (We’re definitely getting away…

Just a reminder, since it rolled off the front page so quickly – there’s a great new interview of Marty O’Donnell in our Miscellaneous section. If you haven’t read it yet – go do so!

Thanks to the very large number of people who wrote in to tell us that OXM has published their Halo 2 review and rated the game a 9.7- the highest score the magazine has ever given out. As usual, we’ll post scans in a month, once the magazine is no longer for sale.

Marty O’Donnell is probably the most interviewed employee of Bungie Studios – whether it’s because he loves to talk, or because his expertise outstrips the rest of the team, I couldn’t say. Most of the time, though, the questions fall into a relatively narrow range… everyone asks the same sorts of things. Nico Audy-Rowland, the…

Today’s Calvin and Halo shows what happens when you let a single event take over your life. Not that it’s a bad thing, mind you…

This should have gone up over a week ago – but things have really been a little crazy around here. Last month’s Edge Magazine had a gorgeous 8-page spread on Halo 2 (Plus the front and back covers, the inside cover, and the Enter editorial column) – we’ve finally put it online in our Press…

Tony Albert sent along a kind note with a description of some new music of his: I’ve been a lurker of the forums and news pages for a couple of years now, and although my involvement in the community is non-existent, my admiration for the creativity surrounding Halo is immense. That said, I wanted throw…

Mhaddy from the Junkyard writes to point out yet ANOTHER Homefront update on the Junkyard forums. (These guys are stepping up the pace.) There are 12 new screenshots of single player mode (which is just multiplayer mode – with up to 63 bots). There will be another update on Friday, with a release date announcement.

Speaking of repurposing assets… I wasn’t going to mention this right away, because I was hoping for a reply from the website owners first… but the number of emails we’re getting from viewers makes it hard to wait. Over on the Mountain Dew/Slurpee Halo 2 page, there’s a new download – they’re calling it the…