Year: 2004

Quick note – Mhaddy wanted to remind you that the Junkyard’s Poetry Contest (mentioned recently) is now open for entries.

Large art update over at Halo Babies – plus a movie. (Apologies to zero, the movie’s creator – he submitted the link to us a few days ago, but I let it slip.) I’m not sure I get it, entirely… it’s a whole bunch of Halo 2 clips strung together, but I was having trouble…

Gamespot is running a ‘Commercial Challenge’ – vote for the best commercials of 2004, win prizes. Halo 2’s TV spot is in the running. Thanks, Nathan.

Hehe – amidst all these doom-and-gloom articles about how Halo 2 will cause your child to become a Satanist, it’s nice to see that SOME places are still recommending it. People Magazine has a Top Ten Games to buy your kids for Christmas – and Halo 2 is #8. Thanks, Alexander.

Total Video Games, a UK gaming site, has an article up claiming that the first Downloadable Content Update for Halo 2 is coming soon. We haven’t seen this confirmed anywhere yet – so at this point, this is rumor – but it sure is INTERESTING rumor.

KP was just browsing through sketches made by Tim Buckley, of the webcomic Ctrl+Alt+Del… and ran across this very nice pencil drawing of the Master Chief, done in honor of Halo 2’s release. Coolness!

It’s the end of the month, and the end of our bandwidth; we’ve had a MOUNTAIN of movies submitted to us over the past 60 days or so, and I’ve been a bit lax at getting to them, partly for bandwidth reasons, partly because the flood of new Halo 2 content on the website has…

32 new Fan Fiction pieces written in the past 5 days – I guess the Thanksgiving holiday meant people had extra time on their hands. This section is an enigma to me… why is it, in the area of HBO where words are MOST important, that such a huge percentage of participants can’t be bothered…

Chris Butcher was interviewed by a hometown- er, home-country media outlet, the New Zealand Listener, about his current job at Bungie and how he got there. It’s a pretty nice piece – go read! Thanks, Frankie.

There’s a news post over at Bungie.net talking about an upcoming purge of the Stats database; if there are particular games you want to keep track of, you need to grab the info now, before it’s gone. More details can be found in the post.

There are a whole bunch of new solutions for displaying Bungie.net stats on your website currently in development… but most of them are either not out yet, or not for public use. Jay Roberts found a site that converts RSS to Javascript, allowing easy inclusion with very little effort. He put up an example including…

Cavmn pointed out a Halo tourney being held at a chain of paintball centers in northern Massachusetts/southern New Hampshire. 1v1 this Saturday, December 4, with a $5 entry fee and a first prize valued at $500. Phone numbers can be found on the info page.

Randall Glass, a cornerstone of the Halo online community since his release of the Warthog Jump video in early 2002, has written a frank and honest review of Halo 2 – campaign, multiplayer, and the Limited Edition DVD. There are some really, really good points in there. (There are also some major spoilers; don’t read…

Almost 2 years ago, Racing Champions Ertl (the parent company of Joyride Studios) announced that they’d be creating Halo action figures – and the first thought from Stuntmutt was ‘we need Halo-based Twisted Toyfare Theatre!’ (There’s a link in that post if you’ve never heard of this.) Sometimes these things take a little while. Toyfare…

Today’s One One Se7en points out the danger of humor in the wrong situation.

Gyser points out a new Little Gamers webcomic with Halo 2 content. Spoilers, I suppose. (Hardly, because the joke is pretty well-known at this point.)

The Cyber Gaming Network has reviewed Halo 2 – they gave it a 5/5 – though they’re still waiting for Halo 3. Thanks, Jarrett Lantz.

About a week ago, Justin Long sent us a link from Xbox.com – TriXie intereviewed crew116, a Microsoft-based Halo clan that did extensive beta-testing of Halo 2 multiplayer. We forgot to post it. The interview itself focuses on the guys in the clan, their likes and dislikes – but there’s also a Tips and Tricks…

the DJ points out that CAL (The CyberAthlete Amateur League) has picked up Halo 2, starting in January. There’s no news yet – but the Halo 2 Division exists. More details to come!