Year: 2004

We’ve compiled all the working links from this Gearbox forum thread and the lists at Cortana.org, and added in a few that we’ve found elsewhere, and created a Halo Custom Edition | Halo Editing Kit Mirrors page. We’ll do our best to keep this updated; if you run across a link to these files that…

SEspider noticed a Halo DesktopX Theme; if you have DesktopX, check this out!

One of the big ‘gotcha’s so far with the HEK is the lack of ability, out of the box, to export new data from 3ds max into a format that the HEK tools can read. The HEK comes with a version of the Blitzkrieg exporter (the file that does the translation work) that works with…

We received word today from Marc Tardif of Gearbox Software about the ability to distribute the HEK Tutorial. Some European sites were asking whether they were translatable, and others wanted to know whether the color scheme of the pages could be altered. (White on black can be hard on some eyes.) The answer to all…

Interesting – Kris Kristensen, the director/producer of a film called ‘Inheritance’, is appealing to the Halo fanbase for a show of support. It seems some distributors are reluctant to take this film, because there are no ‘stars’ – so Kristensen is asking that folks who know about Jen Taylor, the voice of Cortana and a…

Halo50k3 is ON, baby. Dolbex has posted an info page with hotel and registration info – go read it, and reserve your pillow-top mattresses with down pillows today!

Whoa. Dark Helmet got to the top of Halo – in time to see something you’re not supposed to see. Very short film – 11 seconds, 722 kb in WMP9 format, 547 kb in QuickTime format. The man’s on fire!

One One Se7en takes advantage of some cool Halo 2 stuff today.

… It’s Still The Worst Job On The Halo 2 Dev Team. Halo: Resolution takes a literal view of ad slogans.

24 pieces for you today in the Fan Fiction section – some standalone, a poem, some continuing series, some comedy… a little something for everyone. Go read!

Yesterday, Achronos posted a note on Bungie.net explaining that the site would be down for maintenance for a short time today (10-12 Pacific, or 5-7 pm UTC). He clarified the need for the downtime on our own forum last night. he’s hoping it will be less than an hour – the two hour window is…

At 9:50 pm Central last night, Cysco announced that Halo Custom Edition and the Halo Editing Kit were being released sooner than expected. There is a thread containing a list of mirrors for both items (they’re BIG), also on the Gearbox forums. First word here, both on our forum and via email, seems to be…

Sorry for the late entry, but way back early Sunday Daedalus alerted us to a new interview with Alex Seropian over at gamesindustry.biz.Good info and you get to see Alex wearing one of his funny hats. 🙂

So I’m lookin’ through the uploads folder, and there’s this huge movie, and the name rings a bell. Someone named Mike just sent an email about it. Half the guys I know are named Mike… could be anyone. So I grab it and I start watching it, right? And it’s a little slow… another black-and-white…

A quick note – in answer to the deluge of mail we’ve been getting about the Going Nowhere Fast contest; the reason there are no times listed is because nobody’s submitted any movies yet. However, that obviously wasn’t as clear to the world as it was to us… so I’ve added a Leaderboard to the…

Hehe – new Flash game from Z, of Xbox Ottawa; it’s called Banshee Chase, and it’s a top-down driving game (avoid the gravestones – yeah, I know they’re not gravestones). It’s tiny; we haven’t asked, but we’d be happy to host this. At the moment, though, you can find it at Newgrounds. Go play!

The Gimme Your Best Shot contest for best HUDless screenshot, over at Halo Zone, has been won – check their front page for the top dog and the runner-up. Thanks to XLNC for the heads-up.

A few weeks ago, Ducain posted a vid showing him getting up to the balcony in the Maw hangar, in coop, using a warthog for lift. Yesterday, Dark Helmet showed how to get up there in single player – using a shade turret. It’s 7.5 mb, in WMP9 format, and it’s been mirrored by Ducain…

Yesterday, Red Loser did a great job of summarizing the Enkidu saga to that point. Today, he updated to account for the newest terminal (first noticed, it seems, by anoncreativeguy). There’s plenty of Enkidu speculation spread throughout our forum, and other forums… but if you’re confused, this is a pretty good place to start.

Gearbox will be releasing Halo Custom Edition and the Halo Editing Kit very soon. In preparation for that event, Gearbox and Bungie released the HEK tutorial to a couple of websites so that fans could get a look at what they were up against, and maybe get started on external stuff. Unfortunately, the HTML of…