Month: November 2004

Hellion points out that the third movement of Incubus’ Odyssey has now been posted to the nilerogers.com website. The snippet itself is 1.9 mb, 2:00 long. Go listen! (And keep your eyes open – there are still 6 tracks on the album that have not been added to the Listening Station.)

Wow. I stopped by misterchief.com today, just to see how things were going – I’m pretty amazed by the fan art this site is attracting. If you haven’t visited… go. It’s funny stuff.

pushbak has created a new vid – it’s called ‘Valor’, and it’s basically a promo for a video he’s planning to make for Halo 2. The look and feel are strongly reminiscent of some of Dan Chosich’s work – nice editing, overall. It’s 17 mb, QuickTime format, and it’s available at files2.bungie.org.

TK421 mentions that there’s a short article about video games (with a focus on Halo and Halo 2) in the November 8 issue of Time Magazine (page 116). It claims that games are striving for more emotional involvement. If we can get a scan, we’ll post it next week. Update: Lojack found an online version…

Ack! Yesterday, we got word from Andrew, of Fire Team Charlie, that FTC 15 had been released for members. Somehow, I totally spaced on it after replying to him. If you’re a member, go grab it now (80 mb, DivX-encoded AVI, with a QuickTime coming some time today or tonight). If you’re not… it should…

One One Se7en takes a look at the upgraded Cortana graphics. (No, not those bits, you sicko.)

NiceMissMayonnaise found an older Halo-based series at w00tness, the comic we mentioned yesterday. It starts on January 6 and runs for about a month and a half. (While we’re at it, the next panel of the CURRENT series is up.)

bourwa writes to say that Media Play (a chain of stores) is hosting some Halo 2 tournaments next weekend (Saturday the 13th). There doesn’t seem to be any info online, but if you live near a Media Play, it might be worth a call! (He’s a supervisor in a Michigan store, and they’re hosting one.)

The latest IGN Countdown 2 article tells you to go read a book while you wait. They even suggest one. Three, actually. Looks like Jason Ware beat Google this time around with the heads-up.

Eep, almost missed this – Dolbex pointed out an article at MLGPro.com mentioning that MLG has joined with ESPN in sponsoring the Cold Pizza contest tomorrow, in which 50 lucky winners will be playing Halo 2 live (on TV) in Times Square. Good luck, folks!

Matt Geuther, latex-mask-maker extrordinaire, was so impressed by the 2000+ hits he got to his already closed eBay auction (noted here the other day), that he went and set up auctions for another green helmet, a red one, and a blue one. Halloween may be a whole year away, but now’s the perfect time to…

Just a few minutes ago, during Jon Stewart’s LIVE Daily Show covering the USA Election Day shenanigans, when Jon turned to Rob Cordry to discuss some large projection screen graphics, Rob was actually playing HALO. And not as some anonymous ‘console shoot-em-up game’ but as the ACTUAL game of Halo. Jon surprises Rob and asks…

For day 3 of their weeklong Halo 2 coverage, Gamespy managed to wrangle an interview with Bungie’s Cinematic Director, Joe Staten. Lots of great, non-spoiler stuff in there. Go read! Thanks to John at Gamespy for the info.

Wow. If you live in the Seattle area, read this NOW. Major Nelson, the Xbox Marketing guy, has a free ticket (one ticket) for someone to play Halo all day Thursday. Winner to be picked at random tomorrow night (Wednesday, 3 November) from the folks who send in entries. Make sure you follow all the…

Someone sent in a note about a webcomic called w00tness – apparently, a Halo-based storyline is just starting. Nice artwork – keep your eyes open for the next pieces!

Hmm… looking over the two dozen news posts that went up recently, I realized that I’d managed to neglect yesterday’s Countdown to Halo 2 article from IGN. It was called ‘Five Other First-Person Shooters to Play While You Wait’ – and, well, yeah, that’s what it was. (Yes, Halo was number 1.)

TeamXbox is getting into the ‘what do do while you’re waiting’ game with an article entitled ‘Halo 2 Survival Guide’. You probably don’t have the time (or money) to complete EVERYTHING on the list at this late date… but hey, you might get some ideas. Credit to John Rivas for the heads-up.

Mat Noguchi answered a LOT of questions recently – some of his answers are even useful. (Most of them are entertaining, so it’s worth a read regardless.) Lots and lots of people sent in word about this, but Frankie beat you all. (Which, I suppose, is reasonable, given that he wrote it…)

Cary Trussler reminded us that in all the hoopla and hype in the buildup for Halo 2, we’ve forgotten to continue our piecewise release of the ‘Heart is a Lonely Hunter’ movie – Part 4 is now available at mythica.org and files.bungie.org. 38.7 mb, 5:35 long, QuickTime format. Search our news for more information about…

WRATHofGOD found a digital magazine called ‘Power Up’ at Xbox.com – it weighs in at a hefty 40 mb, but contains tons of info about Xbox Live, and some of the games you can play there. One of those (predictably) is Halo 2. Nice find!