Year: 2004

Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving… or if you’re outside the US, you did something else involving far too much food. We’ve just said goodbye to our guests, and I’m sitting down to take a look through today’s mail. We’ve got a very nice new film from Jon Oakes – he melded video footage…

Yay… finally. I’ve made a dent on the Miscellaneous Art queue! There’s still plenty more to post, but I’ve posted 30 pieces today; I’m giving thanks to the artists who’ve waited so long to see their work posted. And that will pretty much do it for the day… time to start cooking turkey, and waiting…

Calvin and Halo take off on a new series of comics today – thanks, Blackstar!

We’d received mail last week from some people that were having trouble hosting Major Clan matches on Xbox Live, even though they knew they had enough bandwidth to handle the job. Chris Butcher wrote out an explanation for the trouble recently, and posted it on Bungie.net – it seems that your ability to host clan…

In honor of Thanksgiving, Frankie has recycled the Halo 2 informational article originally posted on November 8, over at Bungie.net. I didn’t keep a local copy of the first version, so it’s hard to tell what, if anything, has changed… but at the very least, there are now nice graphics for the main sections. If…

eek has offered mirrors for both of Dave Galindo’s (Chubigan’s) videos from yesterday – he’s got the QuickTime versions of the Halo Sights Tour and ‘In the Front Lines’ up on The Nothing. Thanks!

We mentioned on November 4 that Halo had secured a spot on the Walk of Game, a new video game landmark in San Francisco. It took until yesterday for the inductees to be officially announced, however. Halo owns one of the four Favorite Game/Character spots. Thanks, pimpmeister.

Web comics for you today:MacHall takes a shot at the Halo 2 ending (Clearly, if you haven’t finished, this could be considered spoiler material) – Ian’s also put up a great new desktop image using Heltana, his anime version of your favorite onboard AI. Thanks to many – Jon was first.The most recent Carzorthade (November…

Wow – I wish I had one of these in my town. Rampancy.net mentioned an article about a state-of-the-art gaming center in rural New Hampshire… it just opened, and Halo 2 is one of the games it offers. And wow, what a center. Here’s hoping for a successful expansion!

Yesterday, Ducain pointed out a post on the High Impact Halo forum; it was made by Chubigans, and had links to a pair of movies. The newest one looked at Halo 2 combat from the viewpoint of your Marine buddies, the older one just checked out some of the cool scenery you run into throughout…

Hehe – Stuntmutt bemoans the audio shortcomings of Halo 2 in this blog entry – thanks, Rampancy.net.

John Kirkpatrick entered a Halloween contest at a local nightclub – his Master Chief costume won him some cash. Nice!

Dinky points out an article at Gamespy that looks at the ‘Top 10 First-Person Melee Weapons’ – the Plasma Sword from Halo 2 is number 6. Update: 7he One { Ryan R } points out that he noted this article on our forum about a week ago – oops…

omnistegan points out yet another morning news special on the horrible effects of violent videogames on our youth. This one was CTV AM, a national morning show in Canada, and it interviewed the director of Minnesota-based National Institute for Media and the Family, who issued their 9th annual video game report card today. Once again,…

Robb Hutzal points out a tournament in Calgary, Canada, to benefit the Calgary Children’s Hospital; registration is $60 per 4-player team, gameplay will take place on January 28/29, 2005, and there’s $5000 in cash and prizes on the line. More details can be found at the Maasai Clan website. While you’re there, Robb suggests you…

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Sometimes, though, 3 pictures can be worth one word. Take One One Se7en, for example. (I leave the word choice up to you.)

Yesterday, SketchFactor posted a note on the Bungie.net forums detailing changes that are being made to the Xbox Live Matchmaking Playlist – it looks like (if all goes well) these changes will occur shortly after the Thanksgiving break (meaning next week, for folks not familiar with US holidays). Some good info in there! Thanks, SYSTEMS.

Having trouble with that second hangar bay on Cairo Station on Legendary? Mike Miller has summarized some of the existing resources out there to help you through, as well as adding 3 of his own movies. Amazing to watch, they show me how far behind the curve I really am, reflex-wise… but that’s okay, because…

cuc pointed out a series of articles written by David Thomas, a journalist with the Denver post – all are well-written, but 3 are very similar to hundreds of other articles that we’ve mentioned. One is different – it’s the article cuc mentioned first, and it takes a rather more thoughtful approach to Halo 2…

If you need a cheap copy of Halo 2, and you live in the US, you’ve got a shot on eBay; SYSTEMS pointed out an auction where someone tried it for 10 minutes (it was a gift) and put it on the shelf. Starting bid is $30, Buy it Now price is $40, and the…