Year: 2004

Wow… very nice. If you visit nilerogers.com, you can listen to a 1:45 long snippet of the Halo Theme Mjolnir Mix – composed by Marty O’Donnell and Michael Salvatori, with guitars by Steve Vai. It rocks. Thanks, palatine. (The Flash popup that goes with the song is pretty nice, but if you’re having trouble with…

Gah. I wrote this up this morning – but forgot to post it. Credit goes to Rampancy.net, which is where I found it. Over on MTV.com, there’s a story about “the Halo 2 Council”, a group of ‘7’ (if you count each of three bands as ‘1’) who receive a specialized xbox/screen combination and a…

Yesterday, we pointed out a story on Xbox.com in which an editor of OXM stated that they’d have a world-exclusive pre-release Halo 2 review that covers Campaign play. We got word today from SketchFactor that yes, it’s true, they’re going to have the only published story with a street date before November 9 – but…

Stuntmutt’s taken his own (well, okay, someone else’s, repackaged) view of the entire leaked Halo 2 issue in a special Sunday One One Se7en.

Whoa. Ms Man has managed to get to the bottom of Truth and Reconciliation, winning c0ld’s contest and proving me a pessimist. Pictures will be up on his site later today, a movie tomorrow. Congratulations!

More mirrors for yesterday’s high-quality Heart is a Lonely Hunter release – Djof points out that it’s available on the Psyjnir.org Hotline server, and the DJ has put a copy up at HaloImpulse. Don’t miss this one! The next episode comes out in a couple of days. (While we’re mentioning HaloImpulse, they’ve also got the…

Dark Helmet, over at HaloPlanet, has set up the ‘favorite tricks’ votes – go and make your opinion known! There’s a Favorite Multiplayer Trick vote, a Favorite Coop Trick vote, and a Favorite Single-Player Trick vote. The choices you have are the ones nominated and seconded in the past two weeks on the High Impact…

A couple of people mentioned that Halo 2 was the subject of a story on 60 Minutes in Australia – apparently, it’s news because it’s looking like November 9 (and the days that follow) will ‘affect the industrialized world’ with the number of ‘sick’ days taken. The web release is here, and a transcript is…

Churchofhalo found a funny error message on the net – the images are busted, but the text is humorous.

Holy moley… in the last couple of days, a TON of tools for decoding the alien font used on halo2.com have come out – and now, you can find not one, but THREE different fonts available for writing your own messages on Wallpaper or whatever. We mentioned two tools yesterday – now there’s a third…

Wow. The email response to the closing of the forum has been surprising, to put it mildly. Folks writing to us have been overwhelmingly in favor of keeping the forum closed until November 9. However – I want to hear from the whole HBO community, not just those who bother to write emails. To that…

Every once in a while, a Halo movie comes along that’s head and shoulders above almost everything else out there. Great filmography, awesome sound, fantastic voice acting… if you look back on all of the Halo machinima creations that have been released (we’re not talking music videos now, or gameplay presentations), there are only a…

Recoil points out nice bonus deals from Canadian sellers, if you haven’t already ordered your copy of Halo 2. Best Buy is offering a free T – the Blue ‘2’ logo on the front, ‘Go Earth. 110904’ on the back. (This doesn’t seem to be available on the online store, and Recoil doesn’t say what…

There’s a note over on Xbox.com from the Assistant Editor of the Official Xbox Magazine talking about their next issue, and the massive Halo 2 article planned for it. The mag will be out on November 2, one week before the game is out, and will contain (it looks like) information about the entire Campaign…

Oh, man… in all the mess of yesterday, I managed to forget to post yesterday’s One One Se7en. That might have been a good thing… you decide. It’s up now.

IGN’s Halo 2 Countdown article for yesterday is called ‘Lockout’, and gives a couple of decent Multiplayer ideas for use on the map Lockout. Go read!

Very cool. Chappy has created a Konfabulator widget (138K) to ease translation of the code found on halo2.com. This requires Konfabulator, a MacOSX in-system javascript runtime engine that allows you to put cool functions on your desktop. This one is pretty useful, if you’re trying to decode a message; simply click the appropriate symbols, and…

While I took the night off, the Halo world went on – and Frankie posted another Bungie Weekly Update, this time over at Rampancy.net. He rants a bit about piracy, and then describes a weeklong Press event in San Francisco he just got back from, where journalists were allowed to play the game from start…

On Breaking Benjamin’s website there’s a mention of an upcoming MTV Making the Video Game: Halo 2 special, which they will be featured in. It’ll air on both MTV and MTV2 between November 5 and November 9 – a full list of showtimes can be found in the link above. Thanks, Ted Ruscha.

For folks working on the decoding of the various pages at halo2.com, there’s a great thread over at the Unfiction forums; you’ll find a really useful decoder based on shape, rather than alphabetical order. (If you want alphabetical order, there’s also this one, posted over in the Bungie.net forums – but the signal to noise…