Year: 2004

If you ever wondered why the Master Chief has so much trouble winning those GameFAQs polls… check out their current poll. The question is ‘Do you plan to buy Halo 2?’ – and right now, the winning answer is ‘No, I don’t have an Xbox’ (36%) followed by ‘No, I don’t want it’ (23%). Not…

Payoff! The Dialogue Databank, an underused but rich resource of HBO, has been ported to a far more robust backend; you shouldn’t run into any more problems using it. (Hehe – famous last words.) Extra bonus – it’s much faster now.

Quick Note – updates will be sparse today; work is continuing behind the scenes, and on real-life (non-computer-related projects) on this grey Sunday. Apologies. If you’ve sent content that hasn’t been posted, please be patient – we’ll almost certainly get to it eventually.

Been a little while since we managed a Fan Fiction update – there are 18 new stories waiting for you in there. Go see what you can find!

Foxygrandpa, Silverspoon, and Ms. Man have made it to the top of Boarding Action. There’s a bit of extra hardware involved – some sort of box that allows control of multiple players. There’s a video – 32 mb, WMP9 format – showing the details. All this and more can be found in the forum thread…

The Major League Gaming Championships kicked off today – and coverage has begun over at the MLGPro.com website. It will continue throughout the day and tomorrow – check back! Thanks, Dolbex.

Wolfy writes to point out a new episode of Marines at Sector 7 Halo. I dunno… the problem here seems like it will resolve itself, pretty quickly…

This came in yesterday, but I managed to overlook it. The Home Front team has posted another update on the Junkyard forums – screenshots of a redone map, and a fixed release date (next Friday, actually). Go read. Thanks, Mhaddy.

IGN’s Halo 2 Countdown article today is ‘Five Ways to Prepare Yourself for Halo 2’. I’m sort of glad none of them involve vaseline.

Finalcutmac points out that there’s a video link for the MTV vid we mentioned yesterday, right on the MTV page that contains the story. (Look in the right navbar for ‘Audio & Video’.) Unfortunately, they actively weed out Mac users – something I find pretty dang annoying. I therefore extracted the url to the actual…

If you’re a registered member (free) of RedvsBlue.com, you can grab Episode 40 from their forum. 7:22 long, ranging from 31 to 48 mb, depending on version. I gotta say… it’s gettin’ weird. Thanks to Ross Mills for the heads-up.

Apologies for the delay – I promised last week that we’d continue releasing segments of ‘My Heart is a Lonely Hunter’ every few days, and it’s been almost a week. I realize that more than 1500 of you have grabbed the entire movie via BitTorrent in the last couple of days… but many are still…

Wonga. Amazing as it sounds, Frankie is STILL continuing with the Bungie Weekly Updates – this one is at Subnova. New TV spots coming next week, a sick SketchFactor, and a guest Mister Chief rendering by BOLL. Go read! (And Sketch – here’s hoping you get better!) Thanks to Eric Biro, who let us know…

Another one from Hikaru-119; he’s uploaded the French commercial mentioned earlier to Brian Towne’s public service server – you can grab it from there. 2.2 mb, MPEG1 format.

I didn’t really think this was news, since it existed in Germany a month ago – but loads upon loads of people are writing to us about it, so… looks like as of today, Microsoft has OFFICIALLY announced the Limited Edition Halo 2 Xbox Live Starter Kit in Europe – it comes with a copy…

nilerogers.com continues its posting spree, with another snippet from the Halo 2 Soundtrack – this one is called Earth City, and is 2:40 long. The flash art is quite nice, but if you’re on a low-bandwidth connection, the direct link to the snippet is here. Lots of heads-ups from fans, looks like the earliest one…

Stuntmutt feeds off a great scene in Aliens for today’s One One Se7en – looks like MC ain’t no Bishop.

Two new video clips for you today, around the web; Xbox Central is hosting an MTV news clip showing the ‘Halo 2 Council’ (celebrities getting special Halo 2 goodies) and the Pelican case’d Xbox/screen that’s among their loot: 8 mb, WMP9 format (thanks, Ben Bayes), and there’s a higher-res version of the leaked EB Games…

Ryan McCaffrey, from OXM, stopped by the TeamXbox forums to answer specific, non-spoiling questions about OXM’s review of Halo 2, out now to subscribers in the December issue of the magazine (and on newsstand shelves on November 2). As of right now, there aren’t a lot of answers, but there sure are a lot of…

IGN has reviewed the SmartJoy FRAG device, the mouse/keyboard combination for the Xbox. Overall, they liked it, though they said it worked better with some games than with others. Halo was near the top of the list of ‘good’ games. Thanks, Joe Larson.