Year: 2004

A couple of days ago, eddie m noticed a page at IGN that mentioned that a ‘formerly integral member of Bungie’s development team on Halo’ is now at work on EA’s Goldeneye II. He wondered if anyone knew who this was. According to this Gamespot article posted today (thanks, Ghôlsbane), that former Bungie employee is…

The dialogue man himself, Captain Spark, turned in a huge collection of Stacker quotes a couple of weeks ago. Using HaloPC, turning off extra sounds, and carefully planning who was onscreen during the filming allowed him to get pretty amazingly clean recordings of almost 200 new quotes, including some really funny ones I’ve never heard…

Today’s Calvin and Halo focuses on some little-known Covenant species…

I missed this, three days ago, when it went live, and I didn’t even pick up on the references when shunji alluded to it on IRC yesterday… but Rampancy.net noticed it, so I got it on the rebound. Mat Noguchi, tools/sound programmer for Halo and Halo 2, has written a technical, but understandable-to-the-layman, explanation of…

haloTV, in beta, goes live. A venture led by cookedGamers synide and rapture, haloTV will be broadcasting Halo movies in streaming format for those interested in a quick fix. You can watch existing movies, but the strength of the format will show in examples like today’s CAL Season 1 Finals (8:30 pm CST, which is…

SexyJosh points out a couple of writeups (and a movie) of some local Halo tournaments his group participated in; you can find the writeups, and a link to the movie (13.8 mb, 5:44 long, QuickTime format) on their site. Toys-R-Us tourney + Halo freaks = potential for Barbie abuse…

(GT)Juggler continues with the modding vids; Modtacular (GT video 8) is now up for download in the media section of Halo GT. Format is QuickTime MP4 – you’ll need the latest version of QuickTime to watch it. It contains clips of dozens of mods – everything from a Longsword on Blood Gulch to a maze-like…

The Cyberathlete Professional League is unhappy with Halo PC registrations for the Extreme World Championships this summer; they’ve set a deadline. If there aren’t 32 teams registered for the Halo PC Tournament by Monday, April 26, they will cut the cash prize in half, and teams that want to cancel their registrations will be offered…

Today’s One One Se7en might have some… problems. Apologies.

I’d tell you what Halo: Resolution was about today… but that would require that I understand it, first.

Looks like a big collection of Fan Fiction, doesn’t it? If Mark Lieberg actually compacted some of his work, it would only be 21. Something to think about… HALO 2 MINISERIES BOOK, by Delta Force Halo 2: Chapter 2 ; Part 1, by Mark Lieberg Halo 2 :Chapter 2 ; Part 2, by Mark Lieberg…

Steve Campbell and Tony ‘Octanus’ Poitra are the latest Halo-related additions to the Junkyard’s Spotlight collection. Steve brings his… interesting view of reality to his reminiscences of the early days in the Bungie community. Go read ’em both! Thanks to Mhaddy for the heads-up.

Wow. MonoxideC has finished his Halo PC AotCR Multiplayer conversion – you can download it from Halomods (7 mb). It replaces Derelict in the map rotation. Thanks to James for the heads-up.

Ducain has brought his own tricking site, High Impact Halo, online. A great place to go for nicely done movies! Check it out. (Comments can be put in this forum thread.)

Tournaments coming up soon: X Tournaments has a 3v3 tourney scheduled at 5 pm on Saturday, April 10; details can be found on the website. (There’s also a movie of a 2v2 tourney a week or two ago, for registered users.) Also, CJ (from the Enna Wars team) posted recently about a tournament in the…

Subzero Rivalries has put up another episode – Spring Break comes to Sidewinder. Thanks to MarkHawk for the heads-up.

Strato has posted a download link (and new pictures) of the finished UT2k4 Blood Gulch map we mentioned a few days ago. (It wasn’t finished then, and apparently shouldn’t have been posted.) Go grab a copy; there are three servers online running this map!

Alexander Valient found a new Halo-related comic by Andy Yuan. (We mentioned him last August, when an earlier comic was discovered at Elfwood.) Nice!

Red vs Blue has posted a bizarre collection of Sarge outtakes for Sponsors – 2:29 of surreal reminiscences and pretzel dips. Thanks to Ross Mills for noticing.

Back in mid-January, a puzzle was kicked off at Yahoo Groups by Skavenger, BOLL, c0ld vengeance, and MorningStar. We just received word from MorningStar that it’s come to a close… and the winners are ModdedCyborg, Sgt. Bigglesworth, and Gutupio, in that order. Congrats, guys!