Year: 2004

It’s day four of Gamespy’s weeklong Halo 2 coverage, and today they’ve got an interview with Bungie’s resident maestro, Marty O’Donnell. Thanks to John Rivas for the heads-up.

IGN’s newest Halo 2 Countdown article looks at timezones, and how they affect who plays when. Plus some gratuitous prurient picture captions.

There’s a new series of commercials running on G4TV – promoting November 9 as Halo 2 Day at G4. They’re commercials, so I’m guessing they won’t mind the extra exposure… and the ad itself was put together by Red vs Blue, so I’m guessing the Halo community will enjoy them. ZiplocBodyBag and Cybrfrk captured and…

Jordan Montreuil (and half a dozen other people) pointed out a blurb from Gabe in today’s Penny Arcade news about some ads PA made for Microsoft about Halo 2. He couldn’t actually find the ads (and neither could I) – but keep an eye open for them!

Couple of giveaways to mention: Xboxcheats.com is giving away a copy of Halo 2 every day of November after November 9th (thanks, gizmoe)… and 92.3 KROCK (out of New York) is celebrating Halo 2 Week by giving away Halo 2. Details are in this news item, with online entry info here (thanks, Dan Chosich).

Major Nelson put up a small bit about the winners of the Halo 2 Backstage Pass competition – including a nice shot of the Halo 2-branded stretch Hummer used to haul them around. Looks like they’ll be having some fun tomorrow! Thanks, Cybrfrk.

Yesterday, Ding mentioned the John Stewart Halo plug – thanks to Jakedagreat, we’ve got a 1.9 mb QuickTime clip of the action. Check it out!

A number of people have pointed out this website, tied somehow to the Desktop Master Chief. (I at first believed that the music videos were totally fan-created – I still think they’re pretty amateurish, personally, but this seems to be an official site, so what do I know?) Some interesting stuff there, in any case.

Spud from Haloplanet wants to remind anyone who is jonesing for some Halo 2 discussion that they’ve been doing a hell of a job keeping their forums leak-free, and are justifiably proud of their efforts. If you’ve been looking for a place to discuss the Halo universe, but don’t want to get spoiled, give them…

James Swinbanks writes from Australia to let us know that there’s an online Halo 2 article at the Sydney Morning Herald site. He also wants to let us know that the Australian OXM has a big 13-page article on the game, and that it received (what else?) a 10/10. 🙂 Thanks, James!

Mid33 sends word that Spike TV will be featuring Halo 2 today on this week’s Ultimate Gamer, and that they’ve got a teaser of the show online. It’s footage that’s been mostly seen before, but that shouldn’t stop you. Go to it!

Once again, Adam Daniel has extracted the latest four images from the nilerodgers.com Listening Station interface. You can grab them here, here, here, and here. Don’t let that stop you from visiting Nile’s site, though.

More new stuff at the Bungie Store for you. Looks like a white Halo 2 logo tee and a new mad cool brain sponge. Check it out! Update: There’s also a Dry Tech jersey. Woo woo.

As mentioned frequently, the Art sections here (Miscellaneous Art and Wallpaper) have been neglected for too long – it’s been almost a month since we added any new desktops. Unfortunately, one of the oldest items in the queue was a Halloween-themed image… apologies. The first 10 are up right now in the Wallpaper section, with…

deftangel found a page on the Samsung (UK) website offering Halo 2 downloads for Samsung mobile phone users. If you’ve got one… go look!

Hellion points out that the third movement of Incubus’ Odyssey has now been posted to the nilerogers.com website. The snippet itself is 1.9 mb, 2:00 long. Go listen! (And keep your eyes open – there are still 6 tracks on the album that have not been added to the Listening Station.)

Wow. I stopped by misterchief.com today, just to see how things were going – I’m pretty amazed by the fan art this site is attracting. If you haven’t visited… go. It’s funny stuff.

pushbak has created a new vid – it’s called ‘Valor’, and it’s basically a promo for a video he’s planning to make for Halo 2. The look and feel are strongly reminiscent of some of Dan Chosich’s work – nice editing, overall. It’s 17 mb, QuickTime format, and it’s available at files2.bungie.org.

TK421 mentions that there’s a short article about video games (with a focus on Halo and Halo 2) in the November 8 issue of Time Magazine (page 116). It claims that games are striving for more emotional involvement. If we can get a scan, we’ll post it next week. Update: Lojack found an online version…