Year: 2004

The Cyberathlete Extreme Summer Championships 2005 will be taking place in Grapevine, Texas (near Dallas/Fort Worth) from July 6-10, 2005. Over $200,000 in cash and prizes will be on the line (and presumably, some form of Halo gameplay will be involved.) More details are ‘coming soon’. Visiting the website will allow you to register, make…

Today’s Halo Around the Net:The New Hampshire (UNH Student Newspaper) – Halo 2 addiction The Desert Sun (Palm Springs,CA) – Halo 2 on a big screen rocks Joystiq – another Flash Stats aggregator. Thanks, ICDedPpl. GameIndustry.biz – Halo 2 leads sales for November, but GTA San Andreas leads for the year. Washington Post – the…

VerdaFolio pointed out that the HaloMods crowd has already figured out how to hack Halo 2 to increase the field of view. (Keep in mind that hacked Xboxes are banned for life from XBL, so a box with this hack will NOT be showing up in your latest Rumble Pit game.) Still – pretty impressive,…

Not only is the new One One Se7en posted (though some of you might have trouble seeing the humor – it might be too soon), but it looks like Stuntmutt has ALSO done today’s Guest Strip over at Halo Babies. (That one, too, has the potential to ruffle a few feathers. Most likely the same…

gwdpto, a longtime member of the Halo community (though one pretty disappointed with Halo 2), has put a bunch of his Halo paraphenalia up for auction at eBay. If you’re looking for cardboard cutouts, or action figures, or a signed copy of the Season 1 RvB DVD… check out this forum post.

Ouch. Bungie took on the staff of the Official Xbox Magazine for this week’s Halo Humpday Challenge – all I can say is, it’s a good thing the Bungie.net forum mods kicked their butts, or they’d think they were unstoppable. Frankie says be sure to stop by the front page for the… um, interesting GIF…

foxygrandpa117 and friends put together a tricks video (WMP9 format, 10:56 long, 26 mb) showing some random gameplay in Halo, plus stuff like sword-flying and glitching in Halo 2. It’s being hosted by Toby Dillman, who says bandwidth is unmetered… so go ahead and grab a copy. (I’ve only seen about half of it, so…

So it looks like Frankie interviewed Jamie Tisdale, a founder of a group known as the Geezer Gamers, folks in their 30’s (or higher) who play Halo (and other games) for fun, rather than stats. Good writeup, except for the gratuitous shot at the end. I think Frankie’s jealous that I have more hair than…

Calvin is willing to hand over the planet for WHAT? Go read Calvin and Halo to find out.

When you’re out of time for a birthday card, do what Jillybean and her sister did… crib. Mum will love it.

A few articles around the net today:Winston-Salem Journal – Halo 2 is better with friends Biloxi Sun Herald – Multiplayer makes Halo 2 shine St. Joseph’s College Observer – an article written just before release, celebrating the idea (thanks, Admiral Death)

Narcogen reminded us that he recently posted a Halo 2 Story Summary at Rampancy.net; it’s not a walkthrough, but it WILL spoil the story for you if you haven’t finished the game yet. If you’re looking for an overview, though – go to it.

Inside Mac Games put up a note a couple of days ago about Mac Halo, and its parity with the PC version. Macsoft is aware that the PC update in November broke parity, and they hope to have a replacement soon. Thanks, Mig.

GruntKilla points out an article at 1UP.com that looks at the road that lead up to Halo 2 – Bungie’s History. For folks not steeped in the lore, it’s a decent read.

Yesterday, IGN posted a post-mortem, of sorts, on Halo 2. They received a ton of reader feedback. Today, they’ve posted some of that. Long read, lots of opinions. Again – beware of spoilers.

Interesting – Icons, a show on G4TechTV, will be airing a show on Bungie, tomorrow night at 10:30 Eastern (7:30 Pacific). Hopefully, someone can record this… thanks, Shorty.

Finn, one half of our Halo Story Page team and a pillar of Team 7hr33, has posted his own musings about Halo 2 (with input from the rest of Team 7hr33). He struggled with the effort to cover the points he considered important without dragging the overall tone down too much – you decide how…

Last month, Mike Chambers, Product Manager over at Macromedia, held a contest to build a Flash app for displaying Halo 2 stats, based on Bungie.net RSS feeds. The contest ended a few days ago – today, Mike posted a list of all the entrants. The winners are coming soon – but check out the entire…

Hehe – Fever Dream, a webcomic at Keenspace, looks at what doesn’t translate from in-game to real life. Thanks, Quackmoo guy.

Ouch. Penny Arcade mentioned that a piece of artwork donated to their upcoming Child’s Play charity auction was Halo-related… to be specific, it’s a wonderful depiction of Melissa, the Operator from the I Love Bees game. If you couldn’t make it to the auction, this image was available for sale on the creator’s website. Unfortunately,…