Month: November 2004

Great new interview with Burnie, of the Red vs Blue team up at Bungie.net right now. There’s info about how far they’ve come, what’s planned in the future, and, of course, discussion of how much better than Gus Burnie really is. There’s also a brand-new movie (WMP format only, unfortunately). Go give it a read,…

Several people have pointed out to me that the fact that you could shoot grenades out of the air was posted in a Bungie Weekly Update. I went to our database and did a few searches – I tried ‘grenade’, and ‘shoot’, and ‘plasma’, but I couldn’t find it. I realized that our database was…

Nate Robinson pointed out an editorial cartoon he created for his university newspaper (The University of Washington Daily); I’m wondering if that’s Sep7imus’ door there… (Nah. He doesn’t teach at UW.) Love the priorities!

Halo 2 has set another sales record – 104,000 units in its first week of sales in Australia (beating GTA: San Andreas, which sold about half that its first weekend). This article at Aussie Xbox (thanks, Gossip) said the previous 1-week record was 68,000 units (but doesn’t say what game). However you slice it, Microsoft…

Part X, the final segment, of “As Real as a ‘Survivor’ Elimination”, the military analysis of Halo’s gameplay, has now been posted at the Junkyard. Sounds like they’re not completely done with the topic, though – there’s a ‘big announcement’ coming next week.

Stuntmutt has not one strip today, but TWO. There’s his regular One One Se7en, which continues the study of the Drone, but there’s also a Guest Halo Babies strip over at halobabies.net. Too many puns spoil the… something.

You can shoot grenades out of the air? As Neo would say… Whoa.

Quick netnews listing before I head out tonight…Reviews The Adrenaline Vault (5/5 – thanks, Target4Hire) Stuff (New Zealand) – No score, but ‘best game on the Xbox’ Articles The Economist – The Halo Effect (looking closely at hype claims – thanks, D. Nadal) Kansas CIty Star – Halo 2: The Real Deal (Halo lives up…

MereCatfish decided to write up his OWN Halo 2-buying experience. See how many times you ask the screen “what… are you an idiot?” (I think I got to 6.) (All in fun, Mere – but man, you DID do some silly things.)

Oddworld wrote an article on the amazing first-day success of Halo 2 for his school’s newspaper, the Carnegie-Mellon University Tartan (actually, for an included arts/style guide, Pillbox). We’ve put it online here so everyone can read it.

Last week, we pointed out a 12-page sampler of the Piggyback/Prima Strategy Guide (it’s the same book, on both sides of the Atlantic – the Piggyback team wrote this, Prima is marketing it in the US). Tonight, Frankie put up a note that includes direct download links for another few pages from Bungie, and a…

Cool new schwag at the Bungie Store – a signed, limited edition (500 total) mylar print of Lorraine McLees’ awesome Halo 2 MC; 8×10 for $25. Get yours today! (Thanks, Shishka.)

If you logged onto XBL today, and your clan status wasn’t anywhere to be seen, don’t panic. They’re working on it. No data is lost; you don’t need to rebuild your clan. Read Sketch’s note over on Bungie.net for more details.

Well, except for LYING about the score on the first game [Update: he fixed this], the writeup Frankie posted over on Bungie.net about the whupping we took last night at their hands is relatively accurate (if a bit depressing). Go read about it – but realize I’m not nearly as old as Frankie makes me…

Thursday isn’t quite over, as far as our news page goes… and Blackstar has squeaked in a new Calvin and Halo under the wire. I hope my kids aren’t as smart as Calvin…

Dolbex points out that MLGPro.com is collecting questions for Bungie about multiplayer. Time is of the essence; the list will be sent off in about 24 hours. If you’ve got a question – go ask!

Some folks have noticed I haven’t written a Halo 2 review yet. Some folks have wondered why. Part of the reason is that my only complete experience with the game was a marathon run-through in October – I had been given a single day to finish the campaign mode, and I wasn’t sure how long…

We’ve said, over and over again, that we’re in the process of building a rather feature-complete Halo 2 Tricks site, as a joint project with High Impact Halo. Because of that, until it’s actually finished, we’re generally sending folks to HIH with their tricks (anything collected there will be added to the new site once…

Ain’t It Cool News has yet another take on the ‘Halo as a movie’ rumor – this one dropping a whole bunch of big names in the movie biz. It’s STILL just a rumor… but there’s Ridley Scott’s name again… Thanks, Nicework.

Stuntmutt and c0ld vengeance braved the cold streets of London last week to get their hands on copies of Halo 2 (and some good curry). The writeup is quite well-done; if you’re not used to British slang, a couple of bits might have to be guessed at, but it’s not hard at all to put…