Year: 2004

Wow… Red vs Blue has been nominated for a 2004 Webby Award in Humor – winners will be announced on May 12. This was pointed out on our forum, by iBob… but I didn’t notice it until Narcogen posted it on Rampancy.net. Looks like I’m getting behind on my forum reading…

Parents – they have ears in the back of their heads. Or the sides, or something. Somewhere. Stop reading this, go look at Calvin and Halo. Thank you.

I guess people have been saving up… only one day since the last Fan Fiction update, and there are 26 submissions – AFTER the deletions I had to make. Sergeant Vick: Part 2, by Helljumper Halo Heaven: Chapters 3 & 4: The Story of the Surviving Spartan IIs, by Justin Harrison, Halo Heaven Halo Training:…

There’s a new remix of the Halo title theme posted over at Overclocked Remix; it’s 4:06 long, and 5.6 mb large. Worth a listen! Thanks to ARUCKSHA for the heads-up.

Ducain has put together a small movie – 3 minutes, 7.8 mb, WMP9 format – showing some fun glitches; a Banshee stuck in the walls in AotCR, some shade-bumping, more security shaft jumping, and a Turret ride. As Ducain says, another trick vid to burn away three minutes of your life!

Just a quick heads-up; if you missed the interviews with Brian Jarrard and Tom Gioconda over at Xbox.com yesterday (because I was an idiot and announced them moments before they went offline for the Tsunami update), Xbox.com is back up, and the interviews are readable again.

Psyrixx has put up a basic replacement to our HBO-XBL Gamertag database over at The Psyjnir Complex; it contains only your real name, your gamertag, and a handle – not HBO-specific, but any online handle you use, I suppose. (No listing of games, but then, it was the difficulty in maintaining that listing that put…

SancheztheLlama writes to point out Nerdstock 2004, a Halo tournament taking place near Chicago on June 26th. Details, including cost and basic prize info, can be found on the web page.

Stuntmutt points out that there are pics of the Series 5 action figures over at ToyWiz.com – at least two are new to me. The Gold Elite has a new head design, and the Silver MC with a purple shotgun looks positively Barbie-like. (The red grunt is also mislabeled as orange – the orange grunt…

DrPeggs pointed out a collection of jokes told using Halo action figures – entertaining stuff. Take a look!

One One Se7en asks a question that’s puzzled me since I first started playing Halo…

Man… it’s getting worse and worse. Halo: Resolution points out some nasty injuries I seem to have sustained a couple of weeks ago. Sounds painful…

Very cool – The Toronto Star has put Red vs Blue on their front page (following the lead of the Wall Street Journal, recently). It’s also on their website, right now. It’s a pretty nicely written article, even. (Would have been nice if they’d gotten Jason Saldana’s last name right, but…) Give it a read!…

broony points out that not only did SketchFactor talk to Xbox.com… Tom Gioconda, aka Achronos, did, too. He discusses the growth of the team, the advantages of the new site over the old, and talks a little about how the site will be used in the future. He can’t get into details… but it’s clear…

Nice find by gd – Xbox.com has interviewed Brian Jarrard (aka SketchFactor) about the new Bungie.net. Brian discusses where he thinks the community is going, and how Bungie can help it get there. Give it a read!

Yippee – halosn.bungie.org is back online – many, many thanks to Deimosâ„¢ for making this happen! This machine takes a hefty load off HBO prime and halosm… but the most noticeable change is going to be that the Fan Fiction section is back up. In fact, there were 20 pieces waiting in the queue, submitted…

The Wallpaper queue, as well, was way, way behind. I didn’t do any sorting on this; right now, I’m posting the oldest 20 desktops that made our basic guidelines. (I tossed a couple that were simply too basic to warrant addition – sorry folks.) These 20 are now available in the Wallpaper section. Some are…

I’d like to preface this post with a huge thank-you to the folks who have submitted content to us and have waited patiently for it to appear; the past couple of months have been pretty rough in that respect. Today marks the beginning of a turning point, I hope… I’m hoping to have the Miscellaneous…

Today’s Calvin and Halo explains why mothers should never be allowed on the point team of an invasion force. You can’t have them sending the soldiers to their rooms…