My Halo News.com

The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

Year: 2004

  • Teamwork, by Halo.Fropco

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    Louis Wu
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    Halo.Fropco has put up an article about teamwork, and how important it can be. Much of it is common sense… but as my youngest is so fond of saying, common sense isn’t really all that common. Give it a read!

  • HiRes Halo 2 at GamersGallery

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    Louis Wu
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    GamersGallery.com has put up 16 super-high-resolution versions of the early Halo 2 shots; swing by and pick up 3000-pixel-wide versions today. Glad to see those promo calendars are going to good use!

  • Take This Cron Job And Shove It

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    dmjossel

    Earlier this week, I began migrating all of the sites hosted by Synfibers that were using the PHP-based CMS called Drupal from version 4.2 (and one site that was hosted on a modified 4.0 installation) to the latest and greatest edition, 4.3.2. For the most part, the process was pretty painless. Unlike some previous upgrades,…

  • The Covenant will NOT get you out of homework.

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    Louis Wu
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    Today’s Calvin and Halo gives you one more reason to be mad at Bungie. They just don’t make reality like they used to…

  • Guest Strip Line

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    Louis Wu
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    Today’s Guest One One Se7en comes from GLADIATRRR3000, and looks at… the Guest Strip Line. Having been to DisneyWorld in the past couple of months, I totally sympathize. (The irony here is that this strip was submitted in… let’s see… 2002.)

  • RvB on TechTV

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    Louis Wu
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    The Red vs Blue guys are going to be interviewed on Unscrewed (on TechTV) this evening (Tuesday), at 11:30 pm Eastern. If you don’t have the Red vs Blue DVD, you can see some outtakes linked to that story writeup. Thanks to Gutupio for the heads-up.

  • Hi, I’m Isbe ‘Uwudee… who are you?

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    Louis Wu
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    A week or so ago, in a lighthearted forum thread, Wado SG pointed out a silly little app that would give you your very own Bond Girl name. Stuntmutt was entranced. Unfortunately, he’s an artist and a comedian, not a programmer. Hmm. Let’s try that again. Unfortunately, he’s not a programmer. There we go. Anyway,…

  • Beavis 117

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    Louis Wu
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    One One Se7en sinks to new lows. Is it possible?

  • Not As Futuristic As You Thought

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    Louis Wu
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    Good to know (thanks to today’s Halo: Resolution) that some institutions are still around, 500 years down the road…

  • Monday Reading

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    Louis Wu
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    Went the weekend without putting up any Fan Fiction updates… now there are 21 pieces for you. Athenians-II Chapter 6: Battle for M-2568 Part 1, by ZackDark On The Run: The complete Sam’s Flashback Chapter part 1 of 2, by BloodBlade Galaxy 08 – Part Nine – Preservation, by Jillybean Neverland: The Rescue, by SOS.Odin…

  • Hail to 117

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    Louis Wu
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    Last week, we posted about a work-in-progress, a musical tribute to Halo (and to its music’s creator, Marty O’Donnell), from Mothergoat. Last night, he uploaded the final product. ‘Hail 117 Anthem’ is just over 5 minutes long, 4.7 mb big, and beautiful. If you like the work – his band, Windsor Medium, has a website…

  • Marty to speak at GDC

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    Louis Wu
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    Marty O’Donnell will be talking again the Game Developers Conference this year – the session title is ‘The State of Non-Linear Audio for Interactive Media’. As of now, it seems he’s the only Bungie employee on the speaker list… but who knows, that might change. Thanks to thunderhawk555 for pointing it out.

  • The Psyjnir Music Library opens its doors

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    Louis Wu
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    We got a press release from Jester – a new website, Music.Psyjnir.Org (MPO) is now open to the public.Music.Psyjnir.Org (MPO) was built to serve the community as a central library for all Bungie fan music, conversion and scenario music, and any other morsels of audio goodness. And after seven weeks in development, it is now…

  • Nobody Likes a Smart-Ass

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    Louis Wu
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    A new EchoFourNineteen up at 343GS.com… can’t say I fully get it, though. (Check the Downloads section.) Thanks to IXIGhandiIXI for the heads-up.

  • Frankie Say Relapse

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    Louis Wu
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    Okay, last week, Stuntmutt had funny, topical Sunday One One Se7en that was linked to the Weekly Update Frankie had written the week before. I screwed up and forgot to post it. We’re not a pair to waste humor, though (God knows there’s little enough of it to go around), so we’ve edited the text…

  • It’s a day for modeling

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    Louis Wu
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    bentllama, Bungie animator and pancake lover, spent a bunch of time being helpful today. He pointed out a few things about Wraith’s Assault Boat – and then he pointed out a link to a thread on the CGTalk forum, with some really good advice for up-and-coming modelers (and even those who’ve been around a while).…

  • Randy Pitchford expresses Frustration

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    Louis Wu
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    Wow. Randy Pitchford posted a note on the Gearbox forums a couple of days ago – he lays the blame for any delays on release of Halo PC content (new shaders, the Halo Editing Kit, bug fixes, and so on) completely at the feet of “Bungie/MGS”. Homelan has asked for an official response from Microsoft…

  • Corn, Corn, and more Corn

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    Louis Wu
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    It’s the Se7enth of the month, so it’s time for the One One Se7en Archive update… this time, it’s light; we have only 17 strips for you. Submitters Stuntmutt and BOLL hog the spotlight; 4 each, accounting for nearly half the total. (BOLL’s are animated, though – I think he’s got the edge.)

  • Project Halo posts Weekly Update

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    Louis Wu
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    SanchezTheLlama posts a weekly status report about Project Halo: Webwar Evolved on our forum. Pistol pics, music, and some progress items. Check it out!

  • Halo links

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    Louis Wu
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    Lots of built-up Halo links out there – sorry for the delay. (No, these aren’t on the Links page yet – please don’t write, asking me to get to that. It’s a time thing. It’ll happen – someday.) Halo Central (general Halo site) Operation: Halo (general Halo site) Polish Halo Center (Polish Halo Site) HaloSverige.nu…