Year: 2004
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Why let Bungie make all the money?
ThinkGeek is gettin’ in on the Halo Lovin’ action – they’re selling a plain black T-shirt with ‘Master Chief’ (in a pseudo-Halo font) on it. It ain’t cheap, neither. Thanks, Jonas.
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Time\’s Top 10 for the year
A week ago, Time Magazine published their list of Top 10 Games for 2004 – Halo was Number 7. Thanks to Excalibur for the magazine scans; you’ll find the article in our Press Scans section.
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shunji 2004-12-04 08:09:40
Two interesting things happened at work today:1. Everyone was surprised when I answered a phone and politely told the person he had the wrong number.2. I get to give a talk at GDC next year.Hmm… well, they were interesting to me.
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shunji 2004-12-04 07:09:40
Two interesting things happened at work today:1. Everyone was surprised when I answered a phone and politely told the person he had the wrong number.2. I get to give a talk at GDC next year.Hmm… well, they were interesting to me.
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Weekly What\’s Update
After taking a week off for Thanksgiving, Frankie is back with another Weekly What’s Update, a service in which Bungie answers questions posed by Halo 2 fans during the course of the week. One question asks about non-flaming ninjas – you can create your own using our new Multiplayer Emblem Generator (if you don’t like…
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Multiplayer Emblem Generator
BOLL recently sent us a web-based interface for experimenting with the emblems you can choose for your XBL Halo 2 profile – and Bungie kindly allowed us to post it for you to use. (We needed to ask, since the image generated actually comes from their servers.) Go ahead and experiment – build your best…
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More Talk
Captain Spark has posted another 33 dialogue snippets on his website. This is the third such release – if you missed the first two, don’t worry, we’ll be posting them soon in the upcoming Halo 2 Dialogue Databank. (These 33 will be available for the next week or so on CS’s website.)
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1UP\’s Best of 2004
1Up.com has begun collecting data for their Best Games of 2004 Awards – head over and vote. Halo 2 is up for Best Shooter, Best Online/Multiplayer, and Game of the Year. Thanks, Frankie.
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Halo CE Movie Contest
Gearbox Software, EPG Servers, and Halo Maps have teamed up to present a pretty nice contest; create a 90 second video on the theme ‘Play Halo CE’, and win free dedicated server hosting for Halo CE and Gearbox schwag. The full details can be found over at the Halo Maps website. You’ve got December 31…
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He\’s behind You, Idiot.
New guest strip over at Halo Babies – done by Bluestone, of 343GS. Hehe – I’ve seen this a few times myself…
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Friday\’s Reading
18 new pieces for you today in the Fan Fiction section – quite a few of them are poems. Interesting shift…
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\’Tis the season…
Gamespy published its 2004 Holiday Guide – and of course, Halo 2 is among its recommendations. “Great Gift For: Xbox owner who loved the first one, loves shooters, or breathes.” Sounds about right. Thanks, HaloPlanet.
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Brutemaster.
Another Brute joke in today’s One One Se7en. Or maybe it’s not a joke… it would explain a lot of things…
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Paper before pixel
Bentllama has updated his blog with some fascinating sketches – early work he did to teach himself how Elites moved. You want to see where an animator starts? Check this stuff out.
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Game of the Month
Lothar Hex points out that Gamespy has named Halo 2 its Game of the Month for November 2004. It beats out Half-Life 2, Metroid Prime 2, and Metal Gear Solid 3 for that title. Nice!
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Mac OSX Halo 2 Icons
Edwin Davis has created a series of Halo 2 icons for Mac OSX – use these to spruce up folders and disks. You can grab them off our server, in .sit format (900k), or you can visit Edwin’s site and grab them in about a million different formats (from photoshop files to .icns resources and…
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Net News Roundup
Articles around the net:VNUnet.com – more on Microsoft and modded boxes The Gateway – Halo review (no score, but very positive, except for the ending)Eurogamer – Multiplayer review – 9/10 (lost points for lack of coop) The Scotsman – Multiplayer saves Halo (thanks, kinggun)
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Dolls vs Doodz
This week’s Halo Humpday Challenge pitted the Bungie Frag Doodz against girl gamers the Frag Dolls – a team of talented women who’ve shown themselves to be pretty deadly on the virtual battlefield. The game writeup was great… but the Frag Doodz website had me confused. (The Gamertags listed don’t match the people pictured, for…
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Round and round and round she goes…
A few days ago, we opened a new section devoted to BOLL’s panoramic shots of Halo 2. Thanks to BOLL’s industriousness, we not only have a new set of 15 images for you, but the entire set of images (Halo AND Halo 2) are now displayed by the same system. You can easily jump back…
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5 million copies.
The traditionally insane ‘biggest shopping day of the year’, the day after Thanksgiving, helped push Halo 2 over the 5 million mark in sales in less than 2 and a half weeks. You can read the press release for more details. Thanks, Dolbex.