Year: 2004

Okay, here’s a hint for you younger fans; if you’re gonna do something really stupid, don’t advertise. Today’s safety message illustrated by Calvin and Halo.

Monty Oum points out some Halo-related artwork he’s done over at DeviantArt – nice style!

Now THIS is bizarre. Sumthing Distribution, the folks who distributed the Special Edition Halo Soundtrack, have a new banner at the top of their main page. (I’ve linked to a local copy in case it goes away.) According to the banner, the Official Halo 2 Soundtrack will feature original music by Nile Rodgers, Incubus, Hoobastank,…

TeamXbox puts up their Top Ten Games of Fall 2004… and the number one spot is taken by – oh, you know. (Pico’s Fight Club response is pretty close to what I thought when reading the notice from daedalus.)

Nice pickup by op_ivy, who found the first notice on the Gaming-Age forums; on the back page of the October 2004 Xbox Live calendar in the November issue of the Official Xbox Magazine (between pages 24 and 25) is a note in the ‘What’s Happenin’ With Xbox’ section:Halo 2 Collector Cups: Now available at 7-Eleven…

Dave Candland, long-absent (presumably due to his work overload) from our forum, popped in today to explain his rationale for the location of the shield meter in the Halo 2 HUD. (You can see what it looks like in some of the pictures recently posted by the Japanese site Impress, like the one referenced in…

Mothergoat wrote to point out that Windsor Medium, the band he’s been a part of for some time, has broken up – and the website (which has housed all his Halo-related creations for the past 8 months or so) is gone. We’re unwilling to let this content simply disappear, so it’s all been mirrored on…

7he One has finally taken pictures of his handmade plasma pistol. Looks like it would work nicely for real-life melee attacks…

Not too long ago, Frankie mentioned in a Bungie Weekly Update that it was pretty cool to watch the evolution of the city bus as the Halo 2 artwork progressed. Stuntmutt, in today’s One One Se7en, takes this evolution to its logical conclusion.

Mad Cow points out that he’s started work on his own Master Chief suit for Halloween this year. Geez… that reminds me that I’ve got a BOATLOAD of new pics to post on Chris Bryan’s ongoing project page… soon, I hope.

Ain Soph Aur noticed a tiny mention of Halo 2 (‘a must-have game’) in the October issue of Playboy Magazine. We probably won’t be bringing you scans of this.

mrsmiley writes to point out a couple of fan strips and a whole lot of fan artwork over at Halo Babies; go see what you can find.

Looks like a LOT of movies were released yesterday; I’m gonna combine ’em all in one post for efficiency’s sake.Boneho Chane and Lockpicker made a movie with action figures (not stop-action) called ‘Chicken on Fire Episode 1’ – 15 mb, QuickTime format.toyoungtodie posted a vid called ‘Halo 2 Remix’ on the High Impact Halo forums;…

Wow. I’m not sure how… but it looks like Xboxyde has gotten hold of (a mediocre version of) the very first E3/Zanzibar vid released. This is the vid that the 20 seconds of hi-res gameplay was cut from during E3 itself. This one’s only 320×240, and a bit dark and blurry… but it’s 20 minutes…

11 new stories for you in the Fan Fiction section today… go read!

Recoil found a really nice closeup of the Kubrick Master Chief (from the Tokyo Game Show) on this Italian site. I want one!

Hehe – Devin Olsen decided to try to cross the Shaft gap… without a warthog, and with only two grenades. Oh, yeah… and a Hunter. He made it. Watch the vid and smile. (3.9 mb, WMP9 format, hosting courtesy of Brian’s new Mythica Uploads server. Which, btw, rocks, and now works with b.net forums and…

IGN has put up 4 new vids containing shakeycam (but very high-quality shakeycam) footage of Zanzibar gameplay at the Tokyo Game Show. These show better gameplay than the rather lame Warthog driving footage they posted yesterday. In actuality, there are really only 3 new clips; those marked ‘3’ and ‘4’ are the same clip. (It…

Nice pickup by nash–housewares… in the final TGS picture displayed by Impress, Frankie is playing split-screen… but the screen is split side-to-side, rather than up-and-down! I missed this entirely, but it’s going to come as a welcome change to widescreen tv owners.

Interesting. There’s a forum thread over at Bungie.net in which a fan visited the website of the company that does the sculpture for the Halo 2 action figures for Joyride. In the Halo 2 section, he found a new, never-before-seen creature… is this a mistake? Did the sculpting company put up something they shouldn’t have…