Year: 2004

The first recordings of the Halo 2 commercial that ran earlier today are starting to appear on the net. We’re still gathering mirrors, but it’s available for now from Mythica.org. This is, for the record, a direct-feed version of the video seen in the shakeycam EB “briefing” video from a few weeks back. Look for…

Mad Cow sent in pictures of the Master Chief costume he built for a costume contest – it took place last weekend, and he won first prize. (We mentioned this suit about a month ago.) You can see a few shots of his suit – here, here, and here. If you want to see it…

The DJ of HaloImpulse writes to say that HBO-originated visitors grabbing two large downloads have contributed to several hundred gigabytes of bandwidth eaten in a very short time… he wanted to make it clear that donations ARE accepted.

Many people wrote to point out that Bungie.net is considering shutting down their forums, as well, for the next two weeks; your vote counts. visit, vote.

A year ago, Chris Bryan began making a Master Chief wearable suit. (This was before anyone had ever heard of Nightmare Armor.) We followed his progress with pictures for several months… and then I began to get backlogged… and I stopped posting them. Chris didn’t stop sending them, though, or working on his suit -…

It’s official – multiscreen Coop is not part of Halo 2. IGN has confirmed this fact with Microsoft (and I’ve confirmed it with Bungie, as well). You can play Coop on a single screen – as you can in Halo – but one player per screen, whether via system link or XBL, is out. Sorry,…

A number of reports have come in about Halo 2 commercials showing up on normal US channels (a wide range of them). We don’t have any for download yet – but if anyone manages to save a good copy, let us know – we’re happy to host it.

Deimos Fawkes, of Subnova, has put together a techno tribute to I Love Bees – though non ILB-followers who enjoy techno should like it, too. MPEG-4 format, 4:42 long, 4.3 mb. It’s called ‘Parabolic Lemonade Failure’.

akba points out that after a long quiet spell, Adventures in Disaster is back – with a new strip by Boxer, celebrating a lanfest that happened here about 2 weeks ago. In fact, they’re SO back that they’ve invaded One One Se7en… or something.

Dennis McKnight sent along a small Java countdown to Halo 2; unzip this, change to the directory it’s in, and run either ‘javaw Countdown’ (if you’re on a Windows machine) or ‘java Countdown’ if you’re not. (Obviously, you must have Java installed on your machine.) It throws up a small window, minimizable, with the number…

I was cleaning out my inbox (in preparation for clearing out the art queues, once again woefully behind), and found a few images that don’t really have a place to go in our heirarchy, but are worth showing anyway. ragereset sent in a pair of photos (here and here) showing a bus he saw in…

Jonah points out that EBGames is now selling a pair of exclusive Halo 2 T-shirts. (I’m not sure about that ‘exclusive’ part – but they’re certainly selling them.)

Future Publishing is hosting the Golden Joystick Awards, an annual competition for fan opinion about video games (we mentioned them last month). Apparently, Halo 2 is currently leading GTA San Andreas in the only category it’s been nominated for (Most Wanted Game for Xmas 2004) – but a big push towards Playstation 2 owners is…

Mothergoat has just released what will be his last Halo song, for many reasons. We posted news about a teaser for it not too long ago… the full version of Death of Cortana is poignant, graceful, and beautiful. 3.8 mb mp3, hosted by Mothergoat (though we’ll step in if there’s a problem). Go listen. (And…

Missed this over the weekend… but Ms Man, in his quest to finish the unfinished in Halo before Halo 2 comes out (I just made that up, I don’t know if that’s really his goal), has blasted his way all the way from the bottom of Halo (the level)… to the top. Wow. Movie link,…

We don’t generally announce new websites on the front page any more, because there are so many of them these days that it would swamp our news… but this one is special. This came to my attention yesterday – and I must say, the concept rocks. Check out Misterchief.com… and let Mister Chief never die!

Halo Babies has posted a large art update, including artwork, desktops, and a fan strip. Go see what’s new.

Halo Universe (sporting a spiffy new design and a faster server) has an article up about the Plantronics Halo 2 headset. It’s in German, though. If it’s in your power, go read! Thanks, Marc.

I’ve received one too many messages of the form “I heard that [spoiler] is in Halo 2, is that true?”. To preserve my own enjoyment of the game, I’m going to have to stop reading my email folder entirely for two weeks. This means that a lot of messages are going to go unanswered; wallpaper…

Wow. Dunno how long this is gonna last… but Halo Impulse is offering a MASSIVE (1.3 GB) map pack, containing 264 individual Halo CE maps. Close to every map created to date, I think (minus a couple still in development). If you’ve got a really big pipe – go get it!