Year: 2004

Not One One Se7en, clearly. Of course, I think Stuntmutt’s been talking to Emily Litella again…

Halo: Resolution gets a visit from some bigwigs today.

Wow. Iron Forge, one of the early names in the Halo mod scene, has written a rather thought-provoking rant on the modding scene. It’s amazing how the patterns never change; everything he describes as being wrong with the current Halo modding community – it was wrong with the Marathon modding community some years ago. (I’m…

Ducain posted a new vid showing how to get to the balcony at the end of the Maw. 9.5 mb, WMP9 format. Looks like fun. 🙂

IGN put up a ’10 Best Xbox Games’ article… and surprise, surprise, Halo came away with the top spot. Thanks to Maxmidget for the heads-up.

Another couple of single-to-multiplayer conversions over at Halomods; both are based on AotCR. You can find links and pics in this forum thread (it’s an HBO thread).

New content at Halo Babies – there’s a new strip (not surprising, it’s Friday), and Gruntsbane has decided to release some background images he uses for his strips; you can make your own guest strips much more easily now. Check it out!

Somehow, I managed to miss a new Sponsors-only movie at Red vs Blue – Tax Day Tips. The advice might be solid… but implementation might be… risky. (This is NOT this week’s movie, which will be out later today for sponsors, and Sunday for the general public.) Check the Sponsors page for details.

Jake ‘Evergreen98’ Billo has put up his second of 3 articles on Xbox Live over at the Junkyard, and once again has managed to fit enough Halo content in to garner a mention here. This one looks at why Microsoft really, really wants you to subscribe, and how it’s using games like Halo 2 to…

We got mail from PalaNIN stating that Halo Online, a general Halo site, is in danger of going under for financial reasons; the webmaster, PTM, is asking for help. Read the news post for 4.15.2004 for full details.

SplitboXer writes to let us know about a design contest for a new website banner for the XBConnect site. Prize for the best entry will be a a USB 2.0 external NEC DVD burner (DVD-R/+R CD-R). Not too shabby! Details in this forum thread (registration required).

Apologies to Blackstar; anyone who visited the Calvin and Halo page on Thursday would have found that a new comic was posted… but the news post never got put up. So here it is now, better late than never, right? Calvin demonstrates the absolute joy that can be found in playing the bad guy…

Once again, being out all day during the inaugural week of the new Bungie.net’s unveiling means a bunch of news went unreported. Let’s see… there’s a new outtake from David Scully, voice of Sargeant Johnson, and man, it’s just a little bit out there. Okay, a LOT out there. (Absolutely worth the 1.2 mb download.)…

DOH! Halo Orbit, A German Halo fansite, published their own analysis of the third multiplayer Halo 2 shot yesterday… and I never got back to it. 🙁 Sorry about that! If you read German, check it out!

A few days ago, WhatTheDilly-O mentioned a sighting of Halo in Mad Magazine. (There’s your credit, bub.) Normally, we don’t post scans from mags that are still on the stands – but Madda Cheeb found an online version put up by Mad themselves; who am I to argue? Check it out. (it’s pretty funny…)

SexyJosh released another Halo-related song, this one based on the concept of ‘Flaming Ninjas’. At this point, it’s a members-only download from his website… PG rating for language.

CENOBITE points out that the new Game Informer (out to subscribers now, should be on store shelves soon) contains a 10-page article on Halo 2, filled with new info and screenshots. Keep your eyes peeled!

Nothing ever goes as planned – but we’ve finally (FINALLY) finished tallying up the results from the Win A Date With One One Seven contest. The five lucky winners of the Halo 2 Calendars are: Taylor Cartwright, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Aaron Bayley, Sandbach, Cheshire, England Austin Drake, Maize, KS Ryan Luevanos, La Jolla, CA Jeffrey…

Note to self: Don’t ever take the afternoon off when Bungie.net is updating. My inbox is FLOODED – literally flooded – with news of a gorgeous new ODST render and a new 343GS-based Wallpaper over at the brand-spankin’-new Bungie.net. If you haven’t already, go grab these. (The 1600×1200 version of the wallpaper is big enough…

Holy moley – when was the last time that Halo: Resolution and One One Se7en covered the same topic on the same day (from different viewpoints, of course)? And what makes it even MORE bizarre… is that it wasn’t planned.