Year: 2004

Interesting. One of the very first vids I saw in Halo 2 was someone exploiting the 6 plasma shields on Delta Halo for Tank Launching – park your tank on the shields, and if it’s well-placed, it flies nicely when the shields regenerate. There have been 2 or 3 vids circulating around the community, showing…

A couple of weeks ago, we mentioned Halo 2 Day on G4TechTV – a day devoted to Halo programming, coinciding with the release of the game. We forgot to go back and actually SUMMARIZE that content, after the fact – there’s quite a bit.Pretenders to the Halo Throne – games that didn’t quite measure upMasterpiece…

About a year and a half ago, BOLL started creating panoramic views of Halo, using custom-built software and some video-captured footage. He’s back… with his first set of Halo 2 Panoramas. At this point, he’s using a modded controller to make his life easier, and he’s put together a nice little flash interface for viewing…

Red Vs Blue has posted a couple of Sponsor-only videos; you can’t download them unless you’re a sponsor (though you CAN comment on them – beauty of the new website). You’ll find them linked off the Videos page. There’s the intro video to the Penny Arcade Expo last summer, and a test vid in which…

Red Leader points out that the newest episode of his ‘The Life’ comic centers around Halo 2. Sometimes, it’s not how strong you are… it’s your staying power.

Normally, we keep Bungie-related news that’s not Halo-based on its own subsection of Bungie.org… but I’m not sure where Hamish is right now, so I don’t know when this news will make it onto the front page of the PiD section. Several days ago, Robin Osborne alerted us to Pathways Redux, a (then) upcoming mod…

There’ve been a few articles posted in the past few days that have been passed over due to time constraints – here’s a list: Waterloo Cedar Falls (IA) Courier – Halo is taking over college campuses The Tennessean – kids say Halo is disappointing, but they keep playing CNN.com (review) – Halo 2 gets almost…

Ryan ‘Mhaddy’ Matthews, over at the Junkyard, has started up the ‘Write a Poem for Bungie’ contest – well, actually, it starts up on Monday. No Haiku, unfortunately… but pretty much everything else is fair game. Lots o’ schwag for prizes. Check it out!

Bah. I spent far too much of yesterday taking care of business – I missed the day’s One One Se7en. It was doubly relevant given the fact that Frankie skipped yesterday’s Weekly What’s Update because of the Thanksgiving weekend. Go read!

DocOctavius posted a new map he just finished for HaloCE; it’s called Red Feather Ranch, and it’s pretty gorgeous to look at. Really feels like the high hills of Colorado – as DocOc intended. The map’s quite large… but the two bases are actually pretty close together. I don’t know how it plays (haven’t had…

BOLL found an interesting feature on a later level – does this tell us anything about the origins of the Forerunner, or is this just a coincidence? (Again, spoiler issues for folks who haven’t gotten here yet, but the Forerunner were a big part of the original Halo, as well.)

I’m STILL not finished with the new HBO/HIH Tricks site (this holiday week threw a glitch in a lot of projects), but there was a vid posted to our forum this morning which is pretty cool, and worth seeing. Gil27 managed to film the handheld Scarab gun – a plasma rifle, hidden away on Metropolis,…

TeamXbox gave thanks for some Xbox-related stuff recently… Halo 2 Multiplayer made number one on the lsit of ten items. Nice! Thanks, Cybrfrk.

JesusLove submitted a fun little film showing a nice run of banshee boarding in single player. If you haven’t finished the Gas Giant section of the game, there are spoilers here. Otherwise, check this out; I tried it myself after watching this vid last night, and I must say, it’s pretty darned easy to fall…

The last time I posted a spoiler-marked news item, I received a TON of email from people who have not figured out how to get their browser to properly set a cookie to view spoilers. There seem to be two groups with the problem: folks running MacOSX 10.2, and folks running Windows while using some…

David “Chubigans” Galindo continues his cinematic style of video narrative with ‘The Arbiter’s Army’, a new piece putting the Spec-Ops Covenant forces fighting on Gas Giant and Delta Halo in a noble light. Really nice work! It’s available in WMP9 format (21.4 mb) at Mythica.org and bungie.org, or QuickTime format (17.5 mb) at Mythica.org and…

Zero, from Dark-Oni.com, dropped a note about a pretty bizarre movie he made. He says “This a little joke/experiment I was working with, it’s using some of the dialogue in cut scenes to make this funny techno beat, with cinematics.” I’m not sure I get it. Epileptics beware. Vid is 16.1 mb, WMP9 format, hosted…

Halo Babies has put up a guest strip created by BOLL – that guy is everywhere. The link in the news description is a bit funky – use this one instead.

Yet another comic tips a hat to Halo 2 – Aikida points out that blowing off your significant other for Halo 2 might not even be noticed. Thanks, BoinKlasik.

Speaking of overeating… Red vs Blue has posted a new Public Service Announcement; Indigestion 2004 is part political commentary, part cultural commentary, and all funny. Go watch! (Careful of the airsick bags…) First heads-up goes to Graham Cree.