Month: November 2004

Morning articles:Wired – unsatisfying ending Mechroneal.com – Midnight Madness writeup Melbourne (Australia) Herald Sun – Halo 2 is worth the hype USA Today – Halo 2 highlights gap between old and young Electronic Toybox – Seattle Fanfest writeup Also, thegamecouch.com reviewed Halo 2… and liked it. (96/100.)

Eric ‘Siva’ Salzman, who’s posted some pretty nice desktops in our Wallpaper section, celebrated his wife’s birthday a few days ago with a Halo-themed cake (front and side views). (The X is for ‘extraordinaire’ – a fine epithet for a wife.) Siva says, “This is the first time I’ve tried to incorporate Halo into food…

Confused by the Halo 2 storyline? Can’t tell who’s on which side? Jillybean wrote a really short (less than 400 words) summary of events, pinning down the key story points. It should go without saying that this contains pretty major spoilers, and shouldn’t be read until you’re done with the game.

Bungie has also released a new Guide – this one is for Vehicles in Halo 2. It’s pretty much the vehicle pages out of the manual, with an added ‘Tips’ paragraph for each vehicle, explaining how best to use them (or fight them). I can’t even tell you who was first – my mailbox is…

Bungie has released the 1.06 update for HaloPC, which fixes a rare but nasty bug; the auto-updater won’t work for this, so visit the web page and follow the instructions. (There is also a download for the 1.06 Dedicated Server.) Ross Mills was first out of the gate with this.

Peter Marks pointed out that today’s Talk of the Nation program on National Public Radio contains a segment on video games, and how they’re evolving into an entertainment medium that’s not just for kids any more. The talk (not surprisingly) involves Halo 2 to a great degree. If you can’t find a station playing this…

Chipping away at the artwork backlog – another 10 desktops up today in the Wallpaper section (dating from early October). We’ll get there!

User Friendly’s comic today is Halo-related… and MAN, does that strike a chord. Thanks, E1337

Last week, Chris Bryan finished his labor of love – a self-made Master Chief suit, wearable and gorgeous! I didn’t get the pictures up when they came in; I’m sorry about that. They’re up now, though – go check out the last 3 steps! He did an amazing job.

We don’t normally post submitted press stuff as-is, but after looking over Grenadiac’s summary of Sentinel, there wasn’t anything I wanted to pull, so here’s the announcement in his words:After several months in development, Kaptain Kommie and Grenadiac have released Sentinel, an advanced server browser/manager for HaloPC and HaloCE. Some of its advanced features include:…

Nico, of Red vs Blue and Trocadero fame, was listening to his Myth II soundtrack… and suddenly recognized a riff. “I KNOW WHERE THE HALO THEME CAME FROM!” he yelled. Listen for yourself. This is a 24-second snippet (378K) from the Myth II Epilogue, a 4 and a half minute dirge that beautifully finishes the…

Our forum is flying past these days at the speed of light – it’s hard to keep up. (We’re still averaging over 1000 posts/day since we reopened.) A few random posts that were worth a quick mention: Hawaiian Pig points out another one of those ‘Which Character are You?’ games serpx points out an easy…

Shadow, of Sector 7 Halo, wrote up his Midnight Halo 2 experience – go read. Thanks, Wolfy.

Team Overkill sent in a forum thread from a Nintendo forum – you really gotta wonder about the people who take this stuff at face value. (This is being posted for its humor value, not to incite people to start a platform war – go look, laugh, leave. Try not to be annoying.)

There’s been a lot of talk about a ‘Halo 3’ around the net; Bungie denied that anything will be coming out on February 9th, but the stories continue. This month’s Game Informer has an article in their ‘Loose Talk’ (rumors) section claiming that Bungie is “already hard at work on the series’ third iteration on…

Several people have pointed out a page on the Japanese Xbox.com site that seems to be about the Halo 2 Kubrick figure; if anyone wants to summarize what the page is about, we’ll add it here. (Thanks, enigM@.) Update: Kaboris translated this nicely on our forum. (Thanks, Kaboris!) Apparently, it’s a contest open to anyone…

cptn mexico found an article that adds another player to the Game With Fame promotion (we posted the Willis McGahee press release last week) – guitarist Ben Burnley from Breaking Benjamin will be participating tomorrow night, 9 pm Eastern. Go play!

Last Thursday, BOLL sent us a note about a Halo review at Tom’s Hardware; they didn’t actually have the review up, they had a page that said ‘we’re not sleeping until this review is finished! Keep refreshing this page!’ Every day, I went back. Nothing. Finally, today, Zaknafein pointed out that they’d put a review…

h4l0m4st3r noticed a Halo 2 Challenge happening at 64 EB Games around the US on December 4th – you’re playing to win a new Dodge Dakota. njhalo pointed out a $1,000 New Jersey Halo/Halo 2 (and some other games) tourney in Dover, NJ. And Dry Ice sent word that the Worst Halo 2 tourney (we…

Gamespy pulled the Half-Life 2/Halo 2 grudge match off the front page yesterday, and at the time, Halo 2 was down by about 800 votes. I thought, okay, that’s the end of this one. BUT NO! They’ve LEFT IT RUNNING, and people still want us to tell you to vote again. Man. Will you guys…