Year: 2004

Stuntmutt exploits a fellow Brit in today’s One One Se7en. Just a few more hours…

We’ve already received more than half-a-dozen egg reports, or Halo 2 tricks – here’s the policy on those. I haven’t figured out how we’re going to handle Halo 2 tricks yet – but we WILL start posting news about them beginning on Friday. (This way, the European contingent won’t be TEMPTED to look before they…

A few weeks ago, Ross Mills found a ‘Halo 2 Battle Guide’ on Amazon UK. There was almost no information. There’s now a cover photo and a synopsis – apparently, it will teach you not just to get through the room, but to be a better gamer. Still no word on when it will actually…

A large number of threads over at the Bungie.net and TeamXbox forums have sprung up in complaint at the way Widescreen mode works in Halo 2. Apparently, multiplayer, vertical-splitscreen mode is great… but in regular campaign mode, many parts of the HUD are offscreen to some degree. I don’t have time to check all the…

Interesting article (and interesting comments) over at Mat Noguchi’s blog; a look at why some gamers might not appreciate the checkpoint system. Thanks, Ross.

Btcc22, of TouringNet.co.uk, wrote to tell us that a Halo Tribute Video is online at his site. 61 mb, WMP9 format. 1:30 of screenshots, followed by 10+ minutes of single and multiplay footage.

Several people have sent in translations of the coded message in the ‘Conversations with the Universe’ booklet that comes with the Limited Edition of Halo 2. I’ve chosen KOPD’s version because it comes with a handy-dandy translator, and it’s already on the web… but thanks, too, to HeroicDarby and Ben Artes for sending in copies.…

Piggyback Interactive has put up a 12-page sampler of the Halo 2 Strategy Guide for download (3.8 mb, free registration required). There’s enough there to 1) spoil early levels for you, and 2) give you a decent sense of the quality of the guide. Some very nice work there! Thanks, Benn.

First off, let me get some of the press out of the way. There’s a LOT of it. (Surprise, surprise.) I’ve broken things into categories; I’m sure there’s stuff I missed, and I’m also sure that some things are duplicated (many articles are syndicated, and picked up by other sites; occasionally, they’re not properly marked,…

There is an astounding amount of Halo news built up in the past 18 hours – I’ll do my best to wade through it later this morning. Just wanted to throw a note up to say the site is still alive, and faring well for its short respite from the grind. 🙂 You folks have…

Okay, that’s it for today. As you may or may not have noticed, the Vote link for the 343 Guilt O’ Lantern is now offline – we’ll be announcing winners in the next day or two. News that comes in today may or may not get lost in the deluge – give us a couple…

Wow, has it really been almost a week since I posted a Fan Fiction update? Well, there are 27 new pieces in there for you to read… if you’re not too busy playing Halo 2, that is. Go get ’em!

Now THERE’S an appropriate Calvin and Halo. Thanks, Blackstar.

One more article for your perusal – Darren Waters of the BBC asks what made Halo so special? (It’s separated from the rest of the articles because 1) he told me about it after I’d posted the rest, and 2) mostly, he asked me.) Go read.

Hopsheda was one of the lucky ones to make it to yesterday’s Launch Fanfest put on by Bungie in Seattle – he sent along some pics of the T-shirt they were giving out (front, front closeup, back, back closeup). Ooh… how long till they show up on eBay?

Stormwraith pointed out that again, there is new content in the Bungie Store (and thanks to the folks who wrote in about the hats a few days ago – I never got around to posting that). New stuff to see:Legendary Hooded T-ShirtUNSCDF Marine Bucket HatHalo 2 CapGrunt Water BottleKeep looking, if you’ve got money to…

Speaking of Halo CE, MasterGrief pointed out a post on the Gearbox forums announcing the first Halo CE Single-Player map download. It’s a remake of Truth and Reconciliation – at least the ground part. (I didn’t have time to go farther than the bottom of the grav lift.) Lots of invisiElites, and you have a…