Year: 2004

The ‘Loot points out a new Exclusive action figure at EBGames – the Cobalt Master Chief. No pics yet, but it’s shipping on July 13. They’re also taking pre-orders for the Halo 2 Brute and the Halo 2 Green Master Chief, both shipping on October 11, according to EB. Is your collection complete?

Alerus of the One South Clan, has submitted info about an app called ‘Halo Timer’ – it keeps track of spawn timings for the various items on multiplayer maps. (It’s currently missing Boarding Action and Chiron.) It requires MacOSX 10.3 to run. If you’re always missing that Rocket Launcher by THAT MUCH, grab this!

Calvin and Halo hits a half-century today – and in fitting tribute to 6-year-old humor, we have a… oh, go read it.

Apologies for the lack of news; I’ve been hard at work. First up: the Junkyard has interviewed the Halo Babies team; swing on by to read some interesting facts about how they came to team up and teasers of what’s to come!

In preparation for the upcoming release of the Halo Editing Kit, Cortana.org has opened their HEK Tutorial section. Get a taste of what modders will be able to do once they have the official tools.

Whoa. Just before leaving on a 2-week vacation, mnemesis updated the Halo Story page. Just a single item – but it DOES give some nice stuff to chew on. And no, he didn’t remember to tell anyone he’d done this. And no, nobody noticed (no email, no forum posts) in the 4 days since it…

We’ve added last Friday’s Bungie Weekly Update to our Archive; you can use it to learn that Frankie’s only mentioned Dave Candland twice since these started. Is this because Dave’s work is secret, or because Frankie doesn’t find User Interface progress very interesting, or because Dave spends most of his time surfing the net for…

Crispy Spartan points out another Weekly Update for First Strike. The majority of it discusses the new uncertainties introduced by the existence of Halo Custom Edition – more from the team when they know what they’re up against. There’s also a bit of infrmation about progress itself. Give it a read!

Today’s One One Se7en introduces that genuinely rare creature – the funny joke. Laugh at it – because you never know when you’re gonna see one of these again.

Halo: Resolution shows why practice is the thing.

Dolbex has updated the Halo50k3 site with two new photo albums; the first reproduces content that used to be on the Halo50k site (before it was unpleasantly squatted on by a porn site), the second contains almost 100 pics from the recent MLG Dallas Regional event. Pictures from Halo50k2 will be coming soon!

Paul Wisniewski posted a piece of music, ‘Run From Me’, created by his band, Four Years Gone, inspired by Halo. It’s amazing to see the breadth of styles that folks use to express their love of this game! Update: clarksbrother has provided a pair of mirrors for this, if you’re having trouble getting it from…

Dark Helmet got bored, and put together a short film showing two useful places to try some Shade jumping. (The 3.3 mb film is mirrored at Faulksoft.com, thanks you Yayap the grunt.) As DH says, it’s amazing to see how much air you can get with a single grenade…

Been a little while since we updated the Fan Fiction section – mostly, we were trying to make sure that Stuntmutt’s birthday present didn’t get buried. Check the section now – there are 23 stories added since Wednesday.

vector40 has written up a supplement to his ongoing Banshee discussion – this piece is called ‘Winning’. It’s quite long, and has very little to do with Banshees – it really is about winning – and losing. Worth a read, because it gets into some really pertinent discussions about what people do when you win,…

Hawk Entertainment has released new versions of Ice Fields: Episode One Part 1. (This was originally released a week ago – but some folks had trouble with the DivX version, Hawk had trouble with bandwidth, and the movie itself was smaller than they wanted. You now have three new options: A 640×480, 40 mb DivX…

Gamespy has posted an interview with Marc Tardif, Director of Marketing and 3rd Party Relations at Gearbox. There’s some good info on what Halo CE (Custom Edition, not Combat Evolved) really is, and how it will be supported.GameSpy: What’s the reason behind having a separate .exe for this update? Marc Tardif: The new software was…

A couple of fans have compiled all the questions and answers from the Gearbox Q&A thread into a single post, for easier reading. There’s an awful lot of info in there, so read carefully. This covers questions both about Halo Custom Edition and the Halo Editing Kit; they’re separated for ease of understanding.

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Take the night off, miss fun stuff at Bungie.net. Frankie put up a great retrospective on the life of Marty O’Donnell, who turns 107 today. It’s an inspiring rags-to-riches tale – well, gassed-canaries-to-loafer-lightener tale, actually – that gives insight into the events that shaped the man who came up with such beautiful music for Halo.…