Year: 2004

There’s a short interview with Nathaniel, one of the owners of EP Game Servers, over at BlamDink.co.uk. He takes a decidedly Gearbox-centric view of the development situation for Halo Custom Edition and Halo PC – that is, Gearbox is doing everything they can to help the fans, and the only roadblock is the big bad…

There’s a new article over at Xbox.com about 10 fans who won all three Halo novels (two of them signed by the author). You can read their explanations about why they wanted the books. Thanks, Littlebigman.

Today’s IGN Countdown article gives you 5 excuses to try with your significant other in order to garner some screentime on November 9. I can’t see any of them working, unless your significant other has the intellect of a small fern.

New comics up – there’s a wordless (but not even remotely hard-to-understand) strip over at Halo Babies… and a look at the MC’s improvements over at Master Chief and Cortana. And yesterday, there was a continuation of the Joe and Monkey strip we mentioned recently – with another new one today. (We’re definitely getting away…

Just a reminder, since it rolled off the front page so quickly – there’s a great new interview of Marty O’Donnell in our Miscellaneous section. If you haven’t read it yet – go do so!

Thanks to the very large number of people who wrote in to tell us that OXM has published their Halo 2 review and rated the game a 9.7- the highest score the magazine has ever given out. As usual, we’ll post scans in a month, once the magazine is no longer for sale.

Marty O’Donnell is probably the most interviewed employee of Bungie Studios – whether it’s because he loves to talk, or because his expertise outstrips the rest of the team, I couldn’t say. Most of the time, though, the questions fall into a relatively narrow range… everyone asks the same sorts of things. Nico Audy-Rowland, the…

Today’s Calvin and Halo shows what happens when you let a single event take over your life. Not that it’s a bad thing, mind you…

This should have gone up over a week ago – but things have really been a little crazy around here. Last month’s Edge Magazine had a gorgeous 8-page spread on Halo 2 (Plus the front and back covers, the inside cover, and the Enter editorial column) – we’ve finally put it online in our Press…

Tony Albert sent along a kind note with a description of some new music of his: I’ve been a lurker of the forums and news pages for a couple of years now, and although my involvement in the community is non-existent, my admiration for the creativity surrounding Halo is immense. That said, I wanted throw…

Mhaddy from the Junkyard writes to point out yet ANOTHER Homefront update on the Junkyard forums. (These guys are stepping up the pace.) There are 12 new screenshots of single player mode (which is just multiplayer mode – with up to 63 bots). There will be another update on Friday, with a release date announcement.

Speaking of repurposing assets… I wasn’t going to mention this right away, because I was hoping for a reply from the website owners first… but the number of emails we’re getting from viewers makes it hard to wait. Over on the Mountain Dew/Slurpee Halo 2 page, there’s a new download – they’re calling it the…

A number of people have written us about ‘new screenshots’ at Gamespy.com – these are neither new, nor screenshots. They simply extracted a bunch of the artwork from the newly remodeled halo2.com. Oh, yeah – and then they put their own watermark on it.

Okay, I wasn’t going to post this, because it’s clear that the folks at nilerogers.com WANT you to watch the flash animations that go with the music… but for a lot of you, that’s a less than perfect solution; the animation doesn’t preload, it streams… which means if your internet connection isn’t suitably fast, you…

Another IGN Countdown article – this one is a short summary of Ivory Tower, one of the multiplayer maps that beta testers got their hands on. Read it for a summary and a couple of basic gameplay mode ideas.

Well, it took longer than any of us expected – but you can now grab ‘Heart is a Lonely Hunter’ in one fell 203 mb swoop. If you don’t know what this movie is, here’s the first news post I made about it. We’ll continue releasing chapters for folks who don’t want the whole thing…

IGN continues their Countdown to Halo 2 series with a showdown – Halo 2 vs Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Yeah. Thanks, Creaper609. Update: In a twist that’s vaguely surreal, it looks like GTA: SA has ALSO been pirated and released to the net, before official publication. The Gamespot article is eerily similar to the…

A few days ago, we mentioned that Ms Man had made it to the bottom of Truth and Reconciliation – at the time, there were only photos and a short, hard-to-understand vid. At this point, there’s a full 12 minute, 42 mb WMP9, showing the whole level, with step-by-step instructions. It’s really impressive. I don’t…

The World Cyber Games website is streaming video from many of the Halo matches in this year’s tournament – you can find them on this page. Registration (free) is required to watch. Thanks, Bagre.

Over at nilerogers.com, there’s a new snippet available from the Halo 2 soundtrack – this one is Odyssey 1st Movement, from Incubus. Looks like the web team there has learned their lesson – figuring out the direct URL to the mp3 isn’t as easy as it’s been in the past… and it’s doubtful that this…