Month: November 2004

Zero, from Dark-Oni.com, dropped a note about a pretty bizarre movie he made. He says “This a little joke/experiment I was working with, it’s using some of the dialogue in cut scenes to make this funny techno beat, with cinematics.” I’m not sure I get it. Epileptics beware. Vid is 16.1 mb, WMP9 format, hosted…

Halo Babies has put up a guest strip created by BOLL – that guy is everywhere. The link in the news description is a bit funky – use this one instead.

Yet another comic tips a hat to Halo 2 – Aikida points out that blowing off your significant other for Halo 2 might not even be noticed. Thanks, BoinKlasik.

Speaking of overeating… Red vs Blue has posted a new Public Service Announcement; Indigestion 2004 is part political commentary, part cultural commentary, and all funny. Go watch! (Careful of the airsick bags…) First heads-up goes to Graham Cree.

Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving… or if you’re outside the US, you did something else involving far too much food. We’ve just said goodbye to our guests, and I’m sitting down to take a look through today’s mail. We’ve got a very nice new film from Jon Oakes – he melded video footage…

Yay… finally. I’ve made a dent on the Miscellaneous Art queue! There’s still plenty more to post, but I’ve posted 30 pieces today; I’m giving thanks to the artists who’ve waited so long to see their work posted. And that will pretty much do it for the day… time to start cooking turkey, and waiting…

Calvin and Halo take off on a new series of comics today – thanks, Blackstar!

We’d received mail last week from some people that were having trouble hosting Major Clan matches on Xbox Live, even though they knew they had enough bandwidth to handle the job. Chris Butcher wrote out an explanation for the trouble recently, and posted it on Bungie.net – it seems that your ability to host clan…

In honor of Thanksgiving, Frankie has recycled the Halo 2 informational article originally posted on November 8, over at Bungie.net. I didn’t keep a local copy of the first version, so it’s hard to tell what, if anything, has changed… but at the very least, there are now nice graphics for the main sections. If…

eek has offered mirrors for both of Dave Galindo’s (Chubigan’s) videos from yesterday – he’s got the QuickTime versions of the Halo Sights Tour and ‘In the Front Lines’ up on The Nothing. Thanks!

We mentioned on November 4 that Halo had secured a spot on the Walk of Game, a new video game landmark in San Francisco. It took until yesterday for the inductees to be officially announced, however. Halo owns one of the four Favorite Game/Character spots. Thanks, pimpmeister.

Web comics for you today:MacHall takes a shot at the Halo 2 ending (Clearly, if you haven’t finished, this could be considered spoiler material) – Ian’s also put up a great new desktop image using Heltana, his anime version of your favorite onboard AI. Thanks to many – Jon was first.The most recent Carzorthade (November…

Wow – I wish I had one of these in my town. Rampancy.net mentioned an article about a state-of-the-art gaming center in rural New Hampshire… it just opened, and Halo 2 is one of the games it offers. And wow, what a center. Here’s hoping for a successful expansion!

Yesterday, Ducain pointed out a post on the High Impact Halo forum; it was made by Chubigans, and had links to a pair of movies. The newest one looked at Halo 2 combat from the viewpoint of your Marine buddies, the older one just checked out some of the cool scenery you run into throughout…

Hehe – Stuntmutt bemoans the audio shortcomings of Halo 2 in this blog entry – thanks, Rampancy.net.

John Kirkpatrick entered a Halloween contest at a local nightclub – his Master Chief costume won him some cash. Nice!

Dinky points out an article at Gamespy that looks at the ‘Top 10 First-Person Melee Weapons’ – the Plasma Sword from Halo 2 is number 6. Update: 7he One { Ryan R } points out that he noted this article on our forum about a week ago – oops…

omnistegan points out yet another morning news special on the horrible effects of violent videogames on our youth. This one was CTV AM, a national morning show in Canada, and it interviewed the director of Minnesota-based National Institute for Media and the Family, who issued their 9th annual video game report card today. Once again,…

Robb Hutzal points out a tournament in Calgary, Canada, to benefit the Calgary Children’s Hospital; registration is $60 per 4-player team, gameplay will take place on January 28/29, 2005, and there’s $5000 in cash and prizes on the line. More details can be found at the Maasai Clan website. While you’re there, Robb suggests you…

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Sometimes, though, 3 pictures can be worth one word. Take One One Se7en, for example. (I leave the word choice up to you.)