Year: 2004

Ghôlsbane was sifting through some Bungie employee data, and ran across David Joost’s website; David was Director of Sales at Bungie before the Microsoft buyout. The top news post (obviously written last fall sometime) discusses the long, strange trip Dave’s been on, with respect to Halo sales. Interesting tidbits…

Catching up on older news… MeatSaw points out that he’s sponsoring a poster design contest over at the Gearbox forums; the person with the best Halo-related poster design wins that design printed on 11×14 (or larger) poster paper. It’s just for fun – so go check it out! (Contest ends on February 26.)

More lanfest pics from the Offensive Tetraboxing event this weekend here at HBO: Konrad9 put up a bunch, (GT)Juggler put up some at Halo GT (including a couple of Konrad’s shots), Blood put up about 50 shots at Bloodgulch.com, and Have Blue posted his own set (including some early pics of my vandalized car -…

We didn’t get a chance to post this on Friday, as we normally do – but Red vs Blue posted a new Public Service Announcement this week, in lieu of episode 23. It’s out for everybody now – for sponsors in Hi-res (as it has been since Friday), and for casual visitors in 320×240. Go…

Quick update, since we missed one yesterday, and I’d hate for the Guest queue to grow TOO long… today’s Guest One One Se7en comes from Nukerman53, and is a takeoff of some very early Stuntmutt strips. Check it out!

There are going to be many, many updates about this fanfest – pictures, writeups, the works. I’m sure several of them have already been posted to our forum; I haven’t had time to find them yet. I did get a link from Brad Griswald, one of the participants yesterday; you can find it on his…

So here I sit, finishing up an interview with the Film Oasis guys, trying to figure out how far behind I really am because of yesterday’s Fanfest… Over the course of the next couple of days, I’ll do my best to catch up, but please be patient. Stuff isn’t gonna go up in the order…

Yeah, we had all sorts of plans; webcams from multiple places through the house, rotating Halo PC entrants, and on and on… everything fell by the wayside when the playing started. Offensive Tetraboxing kicked off last night; the first of almost 40 guests showed up a bit after midnight, and the first round of Halo…

This week’s Frankie’s Bungie Update is here at HBO – and contains some rather momentous news. A Halo 2 release timeframe has been set – for Fall, 2004. You’ll have to decide for yourself whether the relief at knowing overcomes the disappointment of having to wait another several months… (And congrats to those who procrastinated…

Sep7imus was the first to point out this news item on Truth and Reconciliation: Halo 2 will ship in Fall, 2004. The news item also includes a brand new multiplayer screenshot. Mmm, bumpmapping… (Note: A number of people have been confused by the title of this news item. The game is NOT named “Halo 2:…

Hehe – c0ld vengeance is offering to pre-order Halo 2 for one lucky forumgoer. Guess the release date, win the game. Read the rules in his forum post.

Narcogen has posted Part Three of the High Ping Bastard’s Guide to Halo over at Rampancy.net – this one looks at gametypes, and how high-ping players can benefit from certain strategies. An interesting read.

Hey – we stopped mentioning the incremental updates on the Halo Flash game under development over at 343GS.com some time ago… but the new features in it now merit another look. A Silent Cartographer-like intro, new sounds, plasma grenades… it’s getting there! (Check the Projects page.)

One One Se7en comes back to Linda – who might be dangerous with more than just a sniper rifle…

Halo: Resolution continues its Matrix-like theme… but the corn is coming.

Eight Fan Fiction pieces today: Scope (Prologue), by The Silver Spartan The dank, dank, swamp: a comedy poem, by crashedwarthog A Killing Glare (Part 1): Cadet 787, by MadJackal Neverland: Plans for an assault, by SOS.Odin Halo:Sgt.Johnson’s War Chapter 1:Earth , by Sgt.Johnson Forced Betrayal (Chapter 5: A New Ally), by CoLd BlooDed Getting to…

elmatto dropped by our forum to point out an old comic he started drawing about him and some friends playing Halo. It ends rather suddenly (he put it down to lack of interest), but the art style is pretty interesting to me.

Hijack found an interesting article about game marketing over at the Hollywood Reporter, via EvilAvatar.com. Beth Featherstone, Director of Marketing of Microsoft Games, talks about how much trouble it can be to market a game with no fixed release date, using Halo 2 as an example. (There are tidbits of nice info in there, too…

Recently, Nintendo cut the price on its Gamecube to $99 (making it cheaper, amusingly, than its Gameboy Advance SP product), in an attempt to regain market share. (It worked; Nintendo sold more Gamecubes in the US in 2003 than Microsoft sold Xboxes.) There’s an article on CNN Money today that suggests that MS might be…

Comics, Part II: Today’s Guest One One Se7en comes from Gram shows why taunting in multiplayer isn’t always a good idea.