Year: 2004

Xbox LIve France has a preview of Halo 2, written up during the European tour last month. It’s in French (naturally), but there are plenty of pretty pictures (mostly on the last page, unless you’re a REALLY big fan of Cam Payne). Thanks to caudronix for pointing this out.

No Hables is getting in on the vidmaster action; he’s posted a movie in which he runs through 343 Guilty Spark, using zero bullets… and only ONE grenade. On Legendary. Movie is 12:15 long, 31.2 mb large, in WMP9 format. It’s got a couple of double-take moments. If he runs out of bandwidth, let us…

Frankie has posted an update (kinda) on Bungie.net; the game is done, as far as Bungie’s concerned, but it’s out for Certification. However, there’s plenty of reading material; info about making clans, how busy Frankie is (in between getting his butt kicked by Mat Noguchi – or wait, was that just ‘kicked out of the…

Man, it took a while… but it’s done, and it’s pretty. mnemesis has unveiled the Halo Story Timeline (to date) – including information from Microsoft, the books, and the game (though the actual GAME timeline for Halo is NOT included). If you’re curious about backstory events, this is the place to look!

Halo and Master Chief have been nominated to get a star in the San Francisco Metreon’s ‘Walk of Game’. If you want to help, you have to register (email address needed); you can vote once per day through October 31. At the moment, Master Chief and Halo are far and away the top picks for…

Ah, phooey. Two days ago, synide sent along a link to this week’s Plantronics Headset giveaway at haloTV – there’s even an extra set (on top of the normal 6) up for grabs. Sorry about the delay. (I was reminded when I saw a news post about this on the HaloPlanet front page.) Go win…

Not very long ago, in our forum, Skeletor posted a link to some new artwork by Craig Mullins. I ended up having to yank the link, because the work wasn’t actually supposed to be seen by the Halo community quite yet… but in the communications I had with Craig about that piece, a number of…

Stuntmutt takes a look at the new shield/health system again in today’s One One Se7en. You gotta love helpful AIs…

Uncle Mato has kindly donated some Halo gear to the 343 Guilt O’ Lantern loot pot; we’ve upped the second prize collection to include an S-type controller, and added a third prize. More goodies for everyone!

7 new pieces for you in the Fan Fiction section today – more poetry than anything else (including some haikus – whoa, does that bring back memories!). Go see.

Plenty of new content over at Halo Babies – a new strip, of course (it is Friday), plus new concept art, and a nod to MC and Cortana, another comic strip that’s recently come back online.

Looks like there was ANOTHER Xbox.com article I missed last month – this one is called One Chief to Rule Them All, and it looks at what makes Halo stand alone in the field of Xbox titles. Not a bad read, overall.

GhaleonEB posted a link containing a list of all the EB Games stores (sorted by state) that will be open at midnight on November 9 to sell Halo 2. If you want to be sure you get started playing at the earliest possible moment… check this list for a store near you.

Ms. Man created a collection of multiplayer trick movies, back in the day. (None of them, for some reason, are in our Movies database… I’m not sure why.) His website went offline, and the vids were gone… until now. Ducain points out a post on the High Impact Halo forum containing a list of all…

There’s a new article on Halo 2 in the BBC’s Technology section today; most of the info is well-known to hardcore Halo fans, but it’s pretty fun to see such an in-depth article in a mainstream news source such as the BBC. They look at what is known about single-player (not much), how multiplayer has…

Recently, a new website put together by the Red vs Blue team went live – The Strangerhood is a new machinima series that uses the Sims 2 engine for storymaking. This is totally unrelated to Halo – except that a team that came together to make Halo-based movies originally is making this. An astounding number…

Man, I don’t know how I missed this one… except maybe because I wanted to. Xbox.com posted an article in their Lifestyle section a few weeks ago that looked at who should be cast in what role if anyone ever made a Halo movie (which, I hasten to say before the next sentence break, they’re…

Xbox.com has posted answers to last week’s Xbox Question of the Week, which was “What would you do for a sneak peek at Halo 2?” After reading the replies they got, I’m thinking that most of the people who answered have also made it into our mailbag…

Want a cookie? Calvin and Halo shows you the bar; raise it for results.

An astoundingly generous fan – who wishes to remain anonymous – has donated some pretty cool schwag for use in a new Bungie.org contest; we’re proud to announce 343 Guilt O’ Lantern, a pumpkin-carving contest. Last year, Bungie hosted their own, and it was pretty successful – our fan wanted to see it happen again,…