Year: 2004

Heather Dawn sent along a couple of pictures of the Halloween costume her 9-year-old son created, painted, and worked to finish this year. (We’re going to have to open a costume section one of these days, I think.) There’s a front view and a side view – pretty darn impressive!

Yesterday, Matt Soell, once the community voice of Bungie, now an employee of Wideload, mentioned a segment on the Today Show that steamed him. I’d missed it – but it showed up on MSN.com (thanks, Ceiroh). To find it, you’ll need to be on a PC, and you’ll need to be using Internet Explorer. (I…

There are two new musical clips from the Halo 2 soundtrack at nilerogers.com – Ancient Machine (snippet is 53 seconds, 830k) and the Second movement of Incubus’ Odyssey (snippet is 1:16, 1.2 mb). The Listening Station on the site works quite well for broadband connections – easy to compare pieces. Plus, with these two new…

Aspyr has posted a press release for Stubbs the Zombie on their own site – now we know it’s a ‘stirring tale of one man’s hunger for love, justice…and brains.’ Publication date is summer 2005, on Xbox, PC, and Mac. There are plenty of other tasty tidbits in the press release – check it out!…

Wonga. SketchFactor posted a note today about a Bungie-sponsored fanfest in the Seattle area on November 8 – go read the details! Looks like it’ll be fun – more details coming!

Mat Noguchi is a master coder… but he’s as mean as the webmaster when he wants to be. Got a question about Halo code, and not afraid to get chewed out about it? Post it in this thread on the B.net forum, and see what you get back!

Again – rough night, more news in the morning… but some quick stuff to hold you over: Over on Bungie.net, they’re reminding you to keep voting for the MC in the Walk of Game poll. (We mentioned this several weeks ago, but apparently the MC is losing now. You can vote every day, but voting…

Wideload, Alex Seropian’s new company, has finally announced the name (and subject) of its first title, which will be made using the Halo engine: ‘Rebel Without a Pulse’, a ‘multi-format zombie action title’ to be published by Aspyr Media next year. There’s a press release at Yahoo News… except that Yahoo can’t seem to find…

Swirlfire noticed a couple of new items at the Bungie Store – an LED rechargable flashlight, and a lanyard. If you gotta have every tchotchke, go buy!

This came in yesterday, but I wasn’t around enough. Elite TAR sent us a link to a Dutch site with a rant about MS business practices – I’m basing this news post on his translation. Apparently, GCShop.nl is a student-run store which sells games at cost, in an attempt to give students an alternative to…

Calvin comes up with a novel way of passing the time until November 9 in today’s Calvin and Halo. Thank goodness the weather here doesn’t match his, though…

TeamXbox has posted a Top Ten Reasons why Halo 2 Will Live Up To the Hype article – there’s a good bit of meat there. Go check it out. Thanks, Mid33.

Eric “Moose” Policaro writes to say that he’s got a Halo 2 guide that includes all currently released or confirmed information on the game. Unfortunately, if you’re a Mac user, you’ll have real trouble reading the guide (your best bet is Internet Explorer, and even that’s borderline), and if you’re a PC user that doesn’t…

Thirteen new pieces for you (several poems and a parody song included) in the Fan Fiction section today. Go see what you can find.

This is just… odd. Thanks to Gossip, for finding the (in his words) “silliest cameo of a video game character.”

A long, interesting post from Randy Pitchford, over on the Gearbox forums. It was in reply to a pretty negative post that covered a lot of old ground – but the response itself does a better job of explaining why Halo PC ended up the way it did than a lot of responses in the…

Wow – almost 2 weeks before release, and some stores already have their copies of Halo 2 (with strict orders not to sell them before November 9, of course). Pics in this Teamxbox forum thread, heads-up goes to Rampancy.net.

Marc, from Halo Universe, writes to say that they’ve got a preview of “Erstschlag” (First Strike in German) up on their site – you can read the first chapter. You can also win 3 copies of the novel and 2 Halo 2 Plantronics headsets. Helps if you read German.

IVIr I3ob wrote to say he and a frind had made a Halo 2 SMG out of Home Depot paint sticks. New one for me…

Mothergoat writes to say that his contest to find the Biggest Halo Fan Ever has ended – won by Conrad Tobias. Visit this forum thread for some pictures that might… well, scare you. (I’m hoping he set a lot of this stuff up just for the contest…)