Year: 2004

The weekly update isn’t what folks expected – but it will be… just a few days later than we thought. Look for it on Monday. In the meantime, enjoy a rockin’ new screenshot and an entertaining explanation from Frankie on our forum.

MrFluffyPants has turned in a writeup of the Crisp Death lanfest last weekend – you can find it (with pictures and everything) over at the Junkyard. Extra bonus – no pics of me. 🙂

There’s more new wallpaper for you – this time, at the Win It Before You Can Buy It Halo 2 Sweepstakes page at Mountaindew.com. Hit the ‘Downloads’ link at the top of the page, you can grab shots of the Chief, Grunts, Prophets, and Elites – and when you drag them into the display box,…

Well, the Wallpaper section has now been moved over to nikon, as well; there are still a couple of minor display glitches, but nothing that will really affect your viewing pleasure. This means I can finally start clearing out some of the desktop images sent to us in the past couple of weeks; you’ll find…

Hehe – rule number one about trolling: know your audience. thunderhawk555 (who’s been around our forum for quite a while, but just today earned his Trolling stripes), posted a note purporting to contain information from the upcoming EGM issue (due out to subscribers soon, and on store shelves by the 14th or so). In it,…

Here’s one I’ve never seen before – a Halo fan has whipped up a watercolor (seems to be inspired by this screenshot), framed it, and put it up on eBay. Starting bid is £5. (The artist is in the UK.) Makes you wonder… you think Microsoft might step in at some point? Comments can be…

whoknew spent a couple of weeks modifying his Xbox – nice results!

Glorp. I already pointed out I can be careless with regular updates – I almost forgot today’s One One Se7en. Which would have been really sad, because this one is quite funny.

15 new pieces added to the Fan Fiction database today… see what you can find!

Mothergoat filled us in on the details of the contest mentioned earlier – write up the details of what makes you the biggest Halo fan ever, and you could end up in a big news story on Lawrence.com. The best writeup will winn a copy of Halo 2. Full details can be found on Mothergoat.net.

J.D. dropped us a note about a Halo 2 event being put on for a yearly supplier convention held by Best Buy in Orlando today. This, apparently, is using the final build of Halo 2, and is running on 4 Xboxes and 4 TVs, for 16-player action – 15 minute matches. Plantronics is there, as…

ITLB writes to point out a few snapshots of the Master Chief, captured at an NRL game in Homebush, Sydney. That guy gets around!

c0ld ‘Sisyphus’ vengeance has started a new contest; if you can get to the bottom of Truth and Reconciliation, on Xbox and with no modding, you can win a copy of the mosaic poster (97k) recently displayed at the Crisp Death lanfest here, plus a copy of Halo 2. Good luck!

Gah – two OTHER comic-related offerings today from around the web; Dork Tower mentions Halo (thanks, Brad) and there’s a new episode of Marines at Sector 7 (thanks, Wolfy). Go read!

A bunch of people sent us a Bungie.net webcam shot from last night – the first was this one, sent in by Cybrfrk. Looks like it passed certification, doesn’t it? (I’m guessing we’ll get the news sometime today, officially.) Update: looks like Cybr found it here. Sorry, Nil.

We got a couple of notes about Incubus yesterday – they’re another of the mainstream bands whose work is being used in Halo 2, you might remember. The first comes from uberblue, whose friend saw them in concert in Charlotte, NC a few days ago – apparently, they played the first 20 seconds or so…

It’s Friday, so there must be an update at Halo Babies. Wait, no, there are two… there’s a new strip, of course (I’m thinking that mrsmiley and Gruntsbane have forgotten that whole cutscene on the bridge), but there’s also a pretty nice new wallpaper done by nrek. Take a look!

Mothergoat writes to point out that mothergoat.net is finally open – all of his Halo-related videos and music (including the previously unreleased-by-itself piano portion of Hail 117 Anthem) are now available to download. Plus, he says there’s a Halo-related contest coming today! Keep your eyes open.

Gah. I got so busy I forgot to come back and post Blackstar’s Thursday offering for Calvin and Halo. I’m really sorry about that. Even more so because if you’re in school, you might have been able to use this today. Such is life sometimes.

Wonga. Get thee hence to MLGPro.com, and read the details about how you could get yourself into an elite group of 50 people who get the chance to play the final build (shipping version) of Halo 2 multiplayer – 5 days before the rest of the world. Before you get TOO excited: You must be…