Year: 2004

Big update on music.psyjnir.org today; the new Halo material includes a pair of Red vs Blue pieces by Grasshopper – including one done specifically for an episode that only appeared on a CGW magazine CD. First we’ve heard of that! Check out these bits, and many more, on MPO!

Lophan points out an E3 teaser article on CNN.com – and dang if that pic doesn’t look familiar! Ooh…next week can’t come fast enough. Update: dang, this is the CNN article mentioned by GhaleonEB on our forum two days ago… I’m slipping. Thanks, Dean. (You still suck.)

Wow. Interesting if true – but as of now unconfirmed. GamesRadar is reporting that Halo 2 will be playable at E3 – a two-level demo. There’ll also be boatloads of new media. Droolin’ already… thanks, Milamber!

Rampancy.net found ANOTHER Alex Seropian interview – that guy must be hoarse by now. R.net snagged the two most quoteworthy lines in the interview, but there IS a tidbit unmentioned – we’ve known from previous interviews that Wideload’s first game will be based on the Halo engine, and we know it won’t be a first-person-shooter……

Darksage has posted 17 pics of the tutorial level he made using the HEK. It contains what Gearbox suggested – and a little bit more. He points out that HUDless pics are easy now; just enable Devmode, execute ‘show_hud 0’, and then ‘cheat_all_weapons’ and pick up a gravity rifle. Voila – no more HUD. He’d…

Eep – Battleground: Halo started its own comic a few days ago, and I missed it. Check out the lives of the BGH staffers… or something.

Red vs Blue has posted Episode 33, ‘An Audience of Dumb’, for sponsors; it’s rather large. (78.7 mb large, in QuickTime – it’s 7:45 long.) Some weird twists… and the nastiest Mexican Sasquatch music this side of Oaxaca. Thanks go to KP for noticing.

And rounding out the day’s comics, Tina Leyk takes a shot at what is probably Cortana’s stupidest piece of dialogue in the entire game, in a new Fur-Lo comic. (If it’s hard to find on the page, here’s a direct link, maybe it’ll get me to finish coding the search stuff.)

Stuntmutt, unwilling to let the MC go an entire week without corn, explains those curled-up grunts in today’s One One Se7en.

Nineteen pieces in the Fan Fiction update today; more than a couple are poems, and six are part of a series. See what you can get through before the next one!

I hear today’s Halo: Resolution is based on a true story.

Halo Babies gets onto a real plot – look out!

k, l, m – airline or mysterious writing?

Doug Zartman, the very first paid Bungie employee, spent some time chatting with Frankie before he left to join Alex Seropian and crew over at Wideload Games… and man, did he give up some choice Bungie tidbits. Though I think the origin of the Bungie name was going a bit too far… now the cops…

Ever wonder where Bungie came up with the idea for the 7th Column community site? Well, Frankie sat down with the primary stooge- erm, mastermind, Max Hoberman, and got the lowdown, which he then wrote up into a story for Bungie.net. Then he attached a great interview with Miguel Chavez, Bungie’s Number One Fan and…

Darksage has written a quick review of the HEK over at Halo-Source; certainly wins the ‘first out of the gate’ award. Take a look. Update: Seems it’s been moved – you can find it here, now.

New Subzero Rivalries comic over at Evilburger.net – thanks to MarkHawk for the heads-up.

Wonga. See what happens when Bungie yanks their unofficial RSS feed? Lazy bums like me miss important updates. Yesterday, Roger Wolfson, Bungie’s test lead for Halo PC, posted a nice FAQ in the Maw forum related to Halo CE and where it fits in the grand scheme of things. It spells out who’s responsible for…

Calvin points out one of the downsides to playing your kid in Halo in today’s Calvin and Halo.

Sep7imus noticed an article in today’s Wall Street Journal on the video game industry – and it features Halo 2 prominently. We don’t have a copy of this, and it’s not online yet, but if you see the WSJ, look for it!