Year: 2004

A quick update on the free file hosting service being offered by Brian Towne… the list of sites that can use the service has grown considerably – and a check of the bandwidth usage for the box tells me that there’s an added bonus that I hadn’t expected. Over the years, I’ve gotten pretty stingy…

Getting started late today – apologies. Looks like Halo 2 fever has gotten people thinking about what has brought them here (or, I guess, to ANY Halo site) – there are a couple of threads today on our forum that look at various aspects of this game’s effect on us. Neo-genesis asks “Why are you…

Narcogen, over at Rampancy.net, noticed a new update to the blog of Mat Noguchi, ToolMaster for the Halo 2 team. (I think I heard someone shortening that a bit, at one point…) Sounds like they’re really winding down – we’re close to the Gold announcement! An interesting ‘bit of trivia’, as well: “Legendary is hard.…

Looks like Levels4you.com posted a Halo Character Model pack for Unreal Tournament 2k4 last week. Thanks, Hawk7886, for .

A couple of weeks ago, Frankie confirmed to Gamespy that there would be no low-gravity levels in Halo 2 multiplayer. Looks like someone forgot to tell One One Se7en…

Hehe – this is sort of funny. IGN Xbox is running a poll… “Most Anticipated Xbox game besides Halo 2?” If you can’t beat ’em, rule ’em out. 🙂 Thanks, Pete.

E1337 points out a page at Xboxyde with a couple of vids on it; the first is simply a re-encode of a video we mentioned from them last week (if you didn’t get it then, it might be worth grabbing now), the second is a 16 mb, 4:19 long WMP9 showing more Zanzibar gameplay from…

12 new pieces for you in the Fan Fiction section today – poems, songs, stories. Go read.

Back in July, we mentioned a teaser for a movie called ‘Halo Revolutions’ – it was footage of Legend, one of the best German Halo players out there, sniping… well, everyone. The full movie has now been released; it’s a 124 mb download (the .rar compression knocked 35 mb off the full size of the…

Victor Andersson has translated the Super Play article (a Swedish magazine) we added to our Press Scans area a couple of months ago – for those of you who don’t read Swedish, you can now see the text that goes with the pretty pictures! Thanks, Victor.

Boxer points out that Adventures in Disaster finally has its own website, with text and everything! Go check out the comic listing; there’s a new episode for today (Episode #13), though it looks like the MC isn’t too happy about it…

The final event of Major League Gaming’s 2004 season is going to be the Championship Invitational – head over to MLGPro.com to read the overview of the event. It’s being moved from Las Vegas (where it was originally planned to be) to New York City, on the weekend of October 23 and 24. The entire…

Sanjuro Tsubaki, who works at 7-Eleven, was kind enough to grab all three Halo2-themed Slurpee cups (we mentioned them Monday) and snap a couple of pictures. Side one (144k)… and side two (143k). To those offended by the cheapening of the Master Chief – live with it, this is popularity in the US.

Hehe – the power of fan outrage. The banner on the top of Sumthing’s main page has changed; all the band names have been removed. (Again, I’ve linked a local copy, in case of more changes.) Note – I don’t think this means that the involvement of those bands has been terminated – I think…

A sizeable update to the Halo Story Page today, from Finn – everything from potential story spoilers for Halo 2 (don’t worry, you have plenty of warning, you can read this update safely) to speculation about meteors. Go see what you can find!

Once again clearing out the queue (except for some DeviantArt pieces I can’t add without the authors’ permission), we’ve got 8 more pieces for you in the Miscellaneous Art Section. Some pretty nice stuff today!

Bah. Last week’s Bungie Update, originally posted at Subnova, has now been added to our Weekly Update Archive – at the cost of a bit of downtime. Watch for those infinite loops when you’re coding, folks!

Took a few days, but we’ve finally added the 1600×1200 versions of last week’s TGS screenshots that Bungie posted on Friday to our Screenshots database. Dang, that game is looking fine.