Year: 2004

Markus Tacker lets us know about a Halo 2 launch promotion in Frankfurt, Germany:this morning I noticed a black Poster on a wall in the subway station Hauptwache showing the Master Chief and the headline “Are you ready to save the world?” (in german). On the bottom there were snippets to be ripped of (similar…

According to the Seattle Times, Halo 2 has presold more than 1 million copies at this stage, making it the highest presale in the history of video games. (I’ve heard higher numbers – but they probably did more homework than I did.) It’s the leader in a blockbuster season for Xbox, according to Andrew Jenkins,…

Major Nelson, the marketing guy at Xbox who gets such cool stuff, has gotten hold of (and taken pictures of) a limited-edition Halo 2 Kubrick T-shirt. It’s pretty cool. I’d wear one. (No, I don’t think you can buy one.) Thanks, A B.

CNN has put up a story on the World Cyber Games that kicked off yesterday in San Francisco. Halo takes up the last few paragraphs. (With almost $40,000 in cash and prizes on the line for the top 8 competitors in Halo, this is another of the biggies. If the same people who win this…

The 2004 Season Championship for Major League Gaming will be held in New York City on October 23rd and 24th – and details can be found over at MLGPro.com. There is $50,000 in prize money on the line, with the vast majority of that going for Halo. (Quick addition makes it look like $40,000 is…

haloTV is into week 3 of their Plantronics Halo 2 headset giveaway, with 6 more headsets to go out. The response has been tremendous – so they’re giving you chances to win that aren’t just ‘put your hat in the ring and pray’ (though that option is still there). Make the coolest haloTV wallpaper, or…

Calvin and Halo speculates on a pretty nice way to go out…

Dark Helmet has put forth the question – what are some of the best Halo tricks ever? Ducain stepped up to the plate with an entire section of the High Impact Halo forums devoted to the issue. Nominate your choices, and then come back and vote! Rules are here. Thanks, ash.

Bluestone has posted a new Flash movie called ‘Capture the Flag’ – it’s under 2 mb, and hosted at both 343GS and Newgrounds. Nice animation. (Apologies – he sent me mail about this on Saturday, but it got buried in the flood.)

Over the past few weeks, Compassghost has been posting pretty cool artwork for a Flash movie he’s working on. I haven’t added these to the Misc Art section because there are just too many of them; I considered offering him space for a separate page, but someone else did that and he said he wasn’t…

Geez – you go a weekend without posting any Fan Fiction updates, you suddenly have 23 pieces to deal with. Lots of poetry this time around.

On Saturday afternoon, Recoil brought a new product to our attention – the SmartJoy FRAG, an adaptor that allows you to connect PS/2 mice and keyboards to your Xbox. (We were sort of busy Saturday, and didn’t get to this right away.) Folks on many forums are up in arms about this, talking about how…

Ross Mills found a listing on Amazon.com for a Halo 2 Wall Calendar for 2005… except that it’s not available. Huh? (Details list a publication date of July 1, 2004. Bravardo (the publisher) doesn’t seem to have a website.) Curious… Update: Mike Scott says the listed ISBN number is invalid – did this EVER exist?…

Boxer reminded me a couple of hours ago that today’s Adventures in Disaster has been posted. Gotta watch them coordinates…

Narcogen, over at Rampancy.net, points out a tutorial showing how to use HexEdit, HMT, and some plugins to increase the speed of your Warthog. Since it’s posted on the MacDev site, I’d assume this works on Mac Halo. (You’ll need to register on MacDev to be able to read this.)

Major Nelson, Director of Programming for Xbox Live, has posted a picture on his blog of a metallic, embossed Halo 2 poster – looks pretty wild! Thanks to Anim8rJB for the heads-up. (Major Nelson also has pics of the final packaging of the Plantronics headset.)

Major League Gaming has launched MLG-TV, a free version of their for-pay Video on Demand. There are several vids up now, including shakeycam video from the San Fran tourney, and the LA Paintball Aftermath. Quality is quite good, especially considering what you’re paying for it (NOTHING). check it out! Thanks, Dolbex.

Some of the zanzibar-based movies showed a new (for Halo 2) gametype called Assault – not to be confused with the Assault variant of CTF. A description of the gametype can be found in the Halo.fr writeup that went online a couple of weeks ago. A potential conversation between teammates DURING this gametype can be…

Boatloads of new fan-created artwork showed up this weekend at Halo Babies. We already mentioned the Tina Leyk piece – but there’s much, much more. Go see.

Piggyback Interactive, a highly-respected UK-based strategy guide publisher, held a contest for game store managers recently, asking for the best reply to “Why should I buy the Halo 2 guide with the game?” The winners were announced today – they’re all fine reasons to buy a strategy guide. (Me, personally, I’m holding off until I’ve…