Year: 2004

mecka wrote to say that he works for a company that is putting up large Halo 2 posters in public transport shelters across Melbourne, Australia – and he snapped a pic (164K) of one of these babies before pasting it up. It’s about 1.8 m (6 feet) tall. Pretty!

There’s a Dutch site that’s hosting some sort of game awards, and Halo 2 is up for ‘New Hit Award’. The whole site is in Dutch, and I don’t really know what happens with the winners, but wouter van der fluit is pretty insistent that we post this. If you’re Dutch, and can translate/give us…

Sean Kelly pointed out a new clip on the MTV website promoting this week’s Making of Halo 2 video (showtimes are here). Once again, it’s XP/IE only. Some websites suck.

The Melbourne (Australia) Herald Sun had a short article on Pete Parsons, the ‘man behind Halo 2’ (that’s a direct quote) and a previous Melbourne resident. There’s a followup next week. Pooston sent us a digital photo of the article (229K).

A few days ago we mentioned a page on the I Love Bees website that discussed a closed invite to a ‘training session’ in 4 large cities – as of last night, that invite has been opened to several hundred people per city. Go visit the page, and if you’re in the area, follow the…

Mostly working on pumpkin stuff today (the number of entries nearly doubled overnight), but there’s other Halo news. In an attempt to staunch the flood of emails about the new Official Halo Soundtrack clip over at nilerogers.com, I’ll post that now. It’s called ‘Heretic, Hero’, and the snippet is 1.1 mb (1:10 long). As always,…

To all the people who send mail to us: READ THIS. A week ago, Count Zero posted a note stating that he was going to stop reading and answering mail until after Halo 2’s release, to avoid spoilers. The rest of the crew has pretty much decided the same thing. Since that point, HBO has…

Quick note, before heading to dinner – Homefront has finally been released. If you own Battlefield: Vietnam… go grab it. Thanks to lots of people, but Zavaro was first.

Major Nelson, the Xbox marketing guy, has a blog entry up from yesterday about a gathering of ‘the most influential fansites from across Europe’ – he’s talking Xbox fansites, now. They got lots of cool treats… but the last might have been the best:To cap off the day, we held the very first European Halo…

Just got finished organizing the entries so far for the 343 Guilt O’ Lantern contest – I have to say, I’m really impressed. There are currently 37 entries… and some are AMAZING. The contest is still open for another 36 hours or so; at Midnight EST tomorrow night, we close the doors to entries. Then,…

Very nice – BOLL extracted one of the more interesting pictures from the Halo 2 Montage now available at Halo2.com (it’s PC-only, to save you a download if you’re on a Mac). Now, if you’re one of the people who felt that the mere existence of a creature not present in the first Halo should…

Another review comes back perfect – this one is OXM UK’s Halo 2 review, another 10/10. So far, of the OXMs, only OXM US has rated Halo 2 less than perfect… Thanks, Andy C.

A couple of Halo community regulars have pulled screenshots out of the hi-res 60-second commercial – you can find rapture’s faves over at cookedgamers.net and BOLL’s picks on 7708.net. Speculation will have to be amongst friends, or on other forums – ours is still offline, for another week and a half. Sorry!

Bah. You might have noticed that there’s been an absurd amount of news recently – and sometimes, things fall through the cracks. Yesterday’s One One Seven is one of those things. It’s posted now… sorry. (Hmm… upon reflection… maybe you’d have been better off spared that particular pun…)

Tina Leyk dropped by last night with another incredible piece of artwork – this one’s called ‘Close Call’ – she says it started out as a random doodle (unrelated to Halo), ended up as that. You can find it on her art collection page here (last picture). All I can say is… wow.

Two new IGN articles for you today – a VERY high score in a Japanese Xbox magazine for Halo 2, and a ridiculously high-end version of a Halo 2 readiness guide (this one might be Insider-only, I’m not sure). $640,195 – plus tax. Plus the game. Wonga.

We finally got an official announcement from Aspyr about Wideload’s new Halo-engine-based game, Stubbs the Zombie. The press release can be found here, and you should visit the game’s official website for more info.

Gruntkilla found a new Halo 2 writeup over at Canada.com – sounds like they had fun playing it. (He also mentions a contest being run by their Montreal broadcast station – if you live in Quebec, you can enter to win a free Xbox with a copy of Halo 2 by sending your mailing address,…

Adam Daniel extracted the new screenshot snippets from the nilerogers.com Listening Station interface (we mentioned them yesterday – you can see them here, here, here, and here. He also composited them into one image, if you’d rather grab that. Thanks, Adam!

Owm points out that Halo2.com has been updated again – the previously off-limits sections (password-protected) are now open. You can find screensavers (mac and pc), a short (15-second) new promo movie (wmp9 format), and more. Go look! (Scroll around the middle ring until you see the prophets – they’re behind that.)