Year: 2004

Catching up on email – sorry folks. Several people wrote in (or posted on our forum) about the Gamespy Grudge match going on right now; Halo Warthog vs U.S. M1A1 Abrams tank. The tank is kicking butt right now… but maybe that’s as it should be? (Grudge match is down at the bottom of the…

The buzz around Halo sites this morning (besides the egg on my face) is a mod being created by Mrs_Doublefire, over at the Gearbox Forums. The thread’s been going for quite some time… but recently, there have been some very impressive screenshots posted. An easy place to see them (without wading through dozens of forum…

So when Stuntmutt runs out of material, where does he go? Why, to the pros, of course! Read today’s One One Se7en. (The sound effects are what make it.)

Monday’s Halo: Resolution dealt with lag. Did you think, given the subject, that the jokes would end quickly? Think again.

To the folks who’ve been sending us mail, asking us when (or even if) they’re going to get their prizes for the Great Halo Scavenger Hunt – they should be on their way. Ciarán Walsh just got his – and he lives in Ireland. SketchFactor apologized a few days ago for the delay – better…

Some pretty negative responses to my wording of the Xbox Addict interview that didn’t happen – turns out Reclaimer posted an explanation of the situation (which I neglected to look for) on Monday night. It appears to have been a miscommunication – but the XBA forumgoers were pretty offended that I misjudged. Sorry about that.…

The puzzle team of Skavenger, BOLL, c0ld vengeance, and MorningStar have cooked up a new challenge for you. (It was first announced on our forum just before Christmas, although it doesn’t actually begin, for real, until January 15th.) It’s an email-based game for points and prizes; you sign up at the Yahoo Group halo_puzzles, and…

Interview news: in case you missed it, the call for interview questions (that we posted in good faith yesterday) was a load of hogwash; they’d never gotten any permission from anyone at Bungie to do anything LIKE what they said they were planning. I guess the ploy worked, however, insofar as they were probably looking…

Wonga. Ed Fries, Microsoft’s VP of Game Publishing, and a huge Xbox promoter (and Halo advocate) from the very start, resigned today. What will this mean for Microsoft in general, and Bungie in specific, in the future? Too soon to tell… Thanks to Lophan for sending in the Bloomberg update. (I couldn’t find a web…

A note came in last week, just in time for me to read before leaving for San Francisco. I’d hoped it would make it into the next Miscellaneous Art update, which (I’d also hoped) would be coming soon. Well, it can STILL make it into the update, but that update isn’t coming right away, and…

Oh, my goodness. Somehow, I missed this the first time round, and so did everyone else here. Ouch. Blackstar put together a short (55 second, 6.7 mb) QuickTime MP4 vid using footage from a single cutscene in Halo and audio from The BBC’s version of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. It works beautifully. Thanks to…

And, of course, your daily dose of One One Se7en – today from rapture, who must be reading my email again.

Today we’ve got another Calvin and Halo for you – this one is Warbow’s, and it’s bringing back memories…

Synide has put together a rambling, 6+ minute long film showing… well, lots of stuff. It’s called ‘WTF LAG’, and even starts out showing a few clips explaining this expression in humorous fashion… but quickly moves on to gameplay tricks, funny situations, and downright awesome skillz on the battlefield. (There’s a 20 second segment where…

Mad Cow pointed out a thread over on the Gearbox forums; Hellface made it clear, a couple of days ago, that the Halo Editing Kit is still a little ways away. On the plus side, the delay is due in part to some ‘huge new features’ in the app itself… Okay, I’m sitting on my…

24 pieces for you in today’s Fan Fiction update; that’s what happens when I skip a day or two. Life Workin for HBO, Part Seven, by Hunter_Killer All Roads Lead To Sol…Just Make Sure To Bypass Mars: Chapter 19, by S7N ODST Marching Cadence, by Helljumper Marooned Chapter 12, by Steve Ollett Return to the…

GLADIATRRR3000 has created a new Halo Flash animation – you can find it on his Freewebs site. (Comments can be found in this forum thread.)

Frankie has posted a pretty jaw-dropping article over at Bungie.net on the Nightmare Armor guys – including a very first look at the Helmet (with glowing lights!). Wonga. I’m trying to figure out how many of my children I’d need to sell for the $4000 they’re asking…

Sharp eyes on sirBoB – he noticed an entry called ‘Halo MM Boxed Set’ on the Random House site. Due out September 2004, it’s likely all three Halo novels (price is about right for three mass-market paperbacks…), but we’ll know more when they post it.

Wolfy dropped off a note in our forum – Sector 7 is running a new version of its Halo Quiz; 45 questions about Halo. If you get stuck, there are a couple of answers (and hints to others) in the thread on our forum.