Year: 2004

A brand-new cut from the Halo 2 soundtrack, by Breaking Benjamin, has been released on nilerodgers.com. Thanks go to WRATHofGOD, of halo-zone.com, for the heads-up. It’s still not clear how (or if) this is actually used in-game. Update: Although we’ve known about the 2-volume soundtrack, today it’s been officially announced by Sumthing Else Music Works.…

Missed this yesterday – there was a story at TeamXbox about Team Compete, a group which is firing up a couple of leagues for Halo 2 competitive play. There’s an Open League, free to everyone with a XBL account, that will have a $2500 cach prize purse for their inaugural season… and a Pro League,…

BOLL went to the trouble of importing a Halo 2 MC from Singapore – then he took it outside, and had a photo shoot. Luckily, there are no bikini shots.

Today’s One One Se7en was inspired by a forum conversation with Dave Candland, interface designer for the Halo 2 HUD. Poor MC…

We’ll start you off this Monday morning with 11 new pieces in the Fan Fiction section. Read with your coffee…

Couple of notes from Jonah yesterday – lots of stuff slipping through the cracks. First was an interview with Matt Leto, better known in the Halo community as Zyos, over at Gamespot. There’s a video interview that goes with it; streaming for the masses, 52.3 mb of QuickTime goodness for Complete members. Cool fact -…

Ms Man has once again shown that there’s more to Halo than you knew. This time, he managed to get a Banshee outside AotCR. Completely outside the level. To the point where you’re looking at the map – as an enclosed space. And you’re not in it. The video is 4:36 long, and 16 mb…

DocOctavius stopped by the forum to point out the new Yayap.com Halo CE dedicated server, running ‘most of the best Halo CE maps in various gametypes’. The entire map collection can be downloaded from the website – if you haven’t played many of the Halo CE custom maps, here’s a chance to see a whole…

If you’re Canadian, go visit your local Blockbuster video; i fyou pre-purchase Halo 2 or Halo 2 LE before November 9th, you’re entered to win one of four life-sized Master Chief statues. Details on this Promotions page. (I could find no similar page for US-based Blockbusters.) Thanks, D_BRINGER.

Yaksha points out Sponsors vs Freeloaders Episode 2: Freeloaders Strike Back, a movie parodying the relationship between Red vs Blue sponsors and those who want hi-res versions of the videos without paying for them. It’s 9 minutes long, 12.7 mb large, in WMP9 format. There’s some explanation of what this is about (and links to…

Rocketwidget pointed out a couple of new images; one is a small screenshot that can be seen on the EB Games page devoted to Halo 2 LE (it’s a shot of the MC boarding a ghost being driven by a White Elite), and the second is over at GameWallpapers.com; it’s an ‘Exclusive for Registered Users’…

Thanks a million to SketchFactor, who managed to find the pictures of last year’s finalists for the Bungie.net Halo-ween contest (the inspiration for our very own 343 Guilt O’ Lantern contest). You can see these – and maybe get some ideas – in our Guilt O’ Lantern section.

There’s a new video from Ms Man – a whole series of funky glitches and tricks. 12:44 long, 14 mb, WMP9 format. Some really cool stuff in there. You can find a link to it in this forum post – if bandwidth runs out, drop us a note, we’ll put up a copy.

The big news this weekend was a leaked commercial shown at an annual meeting of EB Games Store Managers, and filmed on the sly by one of the participants. Quality is AWFUL, but the content has been enough to galvanize Halo (and general Xbox) forums all over the web. It’s clearly not out there with…

Dang. Fury Three has updated his around-the-net collection of Halo Lego links – there’s a lot of stuff out there! Check ’em out.

Blackstar noticed that his local EB Games was on the list of stores planning to open at midnight on the 9th – but calling the store itself gave him a different answer. Contacting EB Games directly yielded the info that stores can decide whether or not they’ll be open; your best bet is to call…

IGN has decided to prepare for Halo 2 by posting Halo 2 content every day until release. The first article is ‘Ten Things To Do While Waiting for Halo 2’. It’s pretty much as silly as it sounds. (There’s also an article about the Halo 2 soundtrack, but most of it is the explanation Marty…

ZigZag Master points out that The Art of Halo entry at Random House has been updated; the cover is up, and a description of the contents is now available. It should be out in the next 4 weeks or so.

The dirtyJ (among other people) passed along info about HaloImpulse, a new Halo CE website. There’s lots of content – but what attracted my attention was an interview with Randy Pitchford. Once again, Mr. Pitchford explains where Gearbox sits with regard to support of Halo PC and Halo CE, and where he thinks the games…

To the four thousand people who sent us email about the Slurpee Prophet voice not actually being a prophet… yep, it’s true. Whoever built that site actually took their audio content from OUR Dialogue Databank – that ‘Prophet’ clip is actually a Jackal, slowed down and reversed, and it was submitted by Patrick Naedele back…