Year: 2004

Saint has put forth a plea for proof-reading and general checking on the soon-to-open Library, an encyclopedia of Halo knowledge housed at psyjnir.org. Give it a read, send him feedback!

Saw this last night, accidentally closed the window, forgot to go back. rapture points out a thread on the Gearbox forums about a new fan-written application that parses Halo CE dedicated server logs. It’s not all that useful as is – but the potential is enormous. Check it out! (Unfortunately, Gearbox’s forums are down at…

We’ve added last Friday’s Weekly Update to our archive – don’t forget that search option! Say you noticed that one of the tidbits this week mentioned ‘Greg’s cool animation system’, and you wondered, ‘who’s Greg, anyway?’ Well, a quick search for ‘Greg’ makes it clear that we’re talking about Greg Snook, and your Bungie Stalking…

The BBC News site has put up a story about E3, and what to expect this year; Halo 2 features prominently in the section titled ‘Game delays’. (Yeah, we know – it hasn’t been delayed.) Margaret Robertson, Games Editor at Edge magazine, is quoted as saying that Halo 2 can still match the splash it…

One One Se7en checks out Halo Babies’ downloadable backgrounds – and finds that it can’t compete. (On a slightly different note, I realized that I totally missed May 7th, and the latest Archive posting – and nobody told me. I’m pretty sure there are a couple of queued strips; I’ll see if I can find…

… Master Chief’s Suit Isn’t Flammable. Halo: Resolution shows that big guns beat Flaming Ninjas every time.

rockslider points out a new humorous fanfic series he’s hosting on his own site; episode 1 of Frontline with Suzie is called ‘Just call me Angry’ and features an interview with an Elite. Check it out!

One of the utilities distributed with Halo CE is Tool.exe, a small app that converts data exported from outside apps (3ds max, for example) to a format that the Halo CE tools can work with. It’s command-line driven, though, and some modders are already getting into making it more friendly/useful to the novice. BOLL has…

Homelan Fed talked to Gearbox’s Marc Tardif yesterday about Halo Custom Edition and the Halo Editing Kit. There’s some really odd info in there – this answer, for example, caught my eye:HomeLAN – Why was the decision made to not include the single player maps in HaloCE?Marc Tardif – The primary reason was the massive…

A new map has been floating around the various Halo boards; it’s called Casualty Gorge, and it was designed by Baka, of The Imperium. It’s available from the Imperium, or from Halomods, in this thread – it’s a bit over 7 mb. It’s quite small, and the inside areas are REALLY dark… but it’s nicely…

15 pieces in the Fan Fiction section today – this will be the last post on this holiday Sunday. (Yeah, Mother’s Day is a Hallmark Holiday… but it’s also a chance to show mothers – mine as well as my kids’ – how much they mean to the people around them.) To the guy submitting…

In honor of Mother’s Day, Red vs Blue has put together a new Public Service Announcement, available to all, with hints and advice about this heartwarming holiday. Check it out! (First heads-up goes to Pballwizard.)

Gamespot has a poll on its front page: Which game are you most looking forward to seeing at E3? Halo 2 is currently leading with 29% of almost 8500 votes (nearest competitor at this point is Half-Life 2, with 16%). Go vote! Thanks to Carlo Zottmann for the heads-up.

At the end of August, Penny Arcade is hosting the Omegathon – a two-day, 6-round gaming competition to win an enormous, $15,000 gaming collection. Round 2 is Halo. If you think you can go head-to-head against the best, sign up for the Penny Arcade Expo. Thanks to 3Suns for noticing.

New contest over at Battleground: Halo; write a haiku poem about Halo 2, win MLG goodies. Not bad! Full details are available on their contest page.

New stop-action movie from Team Scoog – 117 Rumble. Pretty nicely done! 53 seconds, 3.7 mb, WMP9 format. Check it out!

Dolbex, the new web guy for Major League Gaming, writes to point out Midwest Madness, a tournament in Chicago on June 19th and 20th. Check out the website for details about registration, hotels, and the like. Lookin’ good!

May’s Computer Gaming World has not only a unique RvB vid, as we mentioned yesterday, but an article on the Red vs Blue team itself. There’s also a sidebar about the Nightmare Armor team. Thanks to Deimosâ„¢ for the heads-up, over on Subnova.

This was released last week – but we didn’t have the bandwidth for it. Spotcheck did another speedrun on an as-yet-unshown level, Keyes. It’s still on Halo PC and the difficulty isn’t Legendary – but if you’re looking to run Keyes in our Going Nowhere Fast contest, this vid might show you some useful shortcuts.…

The Bungie Weekly Update has been posted over at Battleground: Halo, amidst flames from site staff and requests for geriatric porn. There’s quite a bit more info than there’s been in the past few weeks; some of it is just E3 expectation comments from the team, but there’s lots of Halo 2 meat, as well.…