Month: November 2004

Bungie has acknowledged a few of the outstanding problems with Halo 2 – widescreen HUD display, long wait times for matchmade games on live, and “dirty disc” problems – and has said they’re working on solutions. More when we know about it!

Today’s One One Se7en says hi to old friends.

Will Henderson points out that there’s a remixed version of Breaking Benjamin’s Blow Me Away on their website. It’s Flash-only; the music is actually embedded in a .swf file, so slow connections might have a problem.

Mechroneal points out that he, too, won a cool thingy at his local EB Games on Monday night. He says a writeup’s coming soon.

clarksbrother points out that the I Love Bees DVD torrent that has been mentioned in our news a couple of times (and which has moved at least once) now has official sanction from the folks who MADE the DVD:We know that it was hard (if not impossible) for many of you to get to the…

Is this gonna be a habit? (I hope not…) Daily article roundup: Movies: A bunch of people have already released vids for Halo 2 – we’ve held off until today posting them so people wouldn’t feel tempted too early. nukedude put together a multiplayer montage, with a couple of tiny bits from single player. Minor…

Well… the HBO forum, after 4 weeks of downtime, is now back online. Didn’t take long for regulars to notice (2 minutes, it looks like) – I’m not sure what that means for my day. For everyone’s sanity – story discussion is permitted, but PLEASE – be considerate, and mark posts with an *SP* tag…

Apologies. The plan was to reopen the HBO forum this evening – but I can’t be around to supervise it, and I’m a little afraid of the starting explosion. We’re going to hold off until tomorrow morning (Eastern time). You should spend the interim period playing Halo 2, soldier!

Blackstar sent along a Calvin and Halo that probably resonates with a goodly number of you…

MovieMaker5087 went to a Halo 2 event at his local Circuit City – and won a pretty cool raffle prize. As he pointed out, one of these went on eBay recently for over $2000…

Hehe – went to read the MS press release on GameInfoWire this morning… and was pretty amused by the advertising choices. Realize that all the black text (headline included) is part of the actual press release – GameInfoWire inserted a text ad in the middle (the red text near the top – ‘Shop for…’). Bizarre…

LBM points out that Joyride has updated their website with a finished picture of the Drone action figure. Should be available in January.

A bunch of people pointed out a new Halo 2 video in Flash format over at Newgrounds – looks like Spartan39 was first. It’s all of Halo – as we hope it wasn’t for you.

Article roundup – again. I’m leaving out the huge number of stories about how Halo grossed $125M its first day, because, heck, we put up the press release already. Reviews Canada.com – 4/4 Seattle Post-Intelligencer – 3.5/4 Richmond Times-Dispatch – 4/? Halo Source – 89/100 Computer and Video Games – no number score (thanks, 3Suns)…

We got a note from William Vitka – who’s started a new column about gaming at CBSNews.com. His choice for topic for his first column? Guess. Feel the love. Gamers are on the move! [Note – CBSNews.com seems to have moved this article – the original URL points to a piece on LEGO Star Wars.…

ARGN.com (the website that hosts Unfiction, the forum where most of the interesting discussion about the ILoveBees phenomenon took place) has an article about a phone-in chat with the ILoveBees actors this coming Saturday, at noon pacific time. The access number is 1-404-920-6610, the code you need to punch in to join the conference is…

Whoa. New article at Bungie.net – the Halo Humpday Challenge. Simply put, Bungie is taking on one group per week in a 3-game, knockdown, dragout fight, winner walks away with bragging rights. First on the chopping block – IGN.com. They… well, go read. Who’s it gonna be next week? You’ll have to wait and see!

Yesterday, Peter Moore blithely predicted that Halo 2 would have a $100 million day. He was wrong. They sold 2.4 million units in 24 hours, racking up $125 million. Moore is now estimating that it was the biggest launch of any entertainment product in retail history. You can read the official press release for more…

mnemesis has resurrected the Acronym issue, now that Halo 2 has been released. If you don’t know what this means, read his article at our sister site Bungie Sightings. If you DO know what this means, read it as well… and add your comments. We need brains! (Mmmm… brains… oh, wait, that’s Wideload. Never mind.)

In the downtime yesterday, Red vs Blue released Episode 42 (30-50 mb or so), which was odd… and today, they’ve released Episode 43, which is HUGE (90-100 mb, depending on flavor, for more than 10 minutes of video), which incorporates both the Halo 2 engine… and the product of mind-altering drugs. (I’m not sure what…