Year: 2004

Arkangel06 got a chance to play the E3 build of Zanzibar, as well as Waterworks and Lockout from the beta; he’s written up his impressions in a long post on our forum. Give it a read!

GhaleonbEB found some nice pics taken at the Tokyo Game Show yesterday; they were linked to on the Gaming Age forums, but they were actually posted on the Japanese site Impress. Great, high-quality shots of Frankie playing Ascension (the new map depicted in yesterday’s screenshots), which show clearly the HUD as it stands in this…

Goatrope continues his quest to blow people away in Vidmaster style… he’s completed 343 Guilty Spark, Legendary Difficulty, taking zero shots, and dying zero times. The movie is 11:44 long, in DivX-encoded AVI format, and 32.6 mb large. Nice humility, even. All I can say is… wow. (I’m really, really impressed that he didn’t instinctively…

Konrad, a regular at HBO Junkies’ lanfests, has recreated some memorable scenes from events held here over the years, in Megabattle style. (If you’ve forgotten – or never learned – what a Megabattle pic is all about, just search our news.) Now, you might not have any real context for the moments themselves (most people…

Brian Towne, of Mythica.org, has made an astoudingly generous offer tonight; if you have a file that you need hosted – an image, a small movie (under 8 mb), whatever – that you want to post on either our forums or the High Impact Halo forums… just upload them onto his new server. There are…

When the two new screens were released today, there was a bit of talk on our forum about how cool it was that the scope on the sniper showed what you were looking at. BOLL, never one to leave you feeling like you were missing something, decided to give you a chance to try it…

David Bikki points out a couple of pages of pictures at eToychest; the first page has as its last image a nice pic of the Halo 2 booth, and the second page has as its FIRST shot an adorable closeup of a chibi Master Chief. Check ’em out!

Everyone’s favorite cue ball has been interviewed over at TeamXbox; Frankie holds forth on online multiplay, decals, and what Bungie ISN’T talking about. (They’re still not talking about it – he’s just reiterating that. That is… oh, never mind. Just go read it.) Thanks, GhaleonEB.

SketchFactor has put up the two new screens released recently, over on Bungie.net… maybe a bit later than, say, us… but their versions are bigger. Go grab the 1600×1200 lovin’ over at B.net. (They DO have watermarks, though. Ha.)

This week’s update DID happen after all… Sketch has posted it for Frankie (who’s in Tokyo, enjoying… something) over at Subnova. It’s the last few tidbits, it seems… plus some fun coverage of the Tokyo Game Show. And some of the worst Mister Chief art to date. Go read. Update: Apparently, in the 2 hours…

Just in time for THIS week’s Update (if there is, in fact, an update this week), we’ve finally managed to put LAST week’s update into the Weekly Update archive. Wow – it makes the ‘all updates’ list pretty large! (If all you want is to read a specific update, you should use the date links…

IGN Editor Chris Carle got to play some Zanzibar CTF at the Tokyo Game Show, and wrote up his experiences on IGN Xbox. Nothing horribly new – it’s the same build folks have been writing about all summer – but it’s nicely written, and it’s always fun to see what others have to say. Thanks,…

Thanks to Microsoft, we can bring you high-res, unwatermarked versions of the two new screens that showed up first on Xboxworld this morning. 1280×960, baby! Go get ’em in our Screenshots section.

Gamespot has put up 5 new movies – they’re all a minute long, except for one, which is 22 seconds. They all show gameplay on Zanzibar, collected at the Tokyo Game Show today, they were all filmed with a camcorder pointed at the screen, and none of them have sound. For Gamespot complete members, they’re…

Not available in the US yet, it seems… but in Germany, you can order Halo 2 bundled with the Xbox Live Starter Kit, for just €70.99. (The Starter Kit on its own is €48.99, which means if you need both, you’re getting Halo 2 for €22, a significant discount off its €48.99 standalone price.) Thanks,…

The multipage article on machinima (with a focus on FTC) that appeared in yesterday’s Ottawa Citizen is now online, for folks with a subscription to the paper. If you DON’T have a subscription, SquattingBear4ever sent in a huge (2685×1684, 815K) scan of the article. It’s a great read.

serpx points out the official Halo 2 site in Australia, which has quite a bit more content than the US site. Unfortunately, for most of it, you need to register… and to register, you have to have a geographic address somewhere in Australia. I suppose I understand the theory behind this… but since this content…

This was probably a bit more relevant last week, when our forum was full of complaints about the changes to the pistol in Halo 2… but hey, there are STILL threads today about it, so go read One One Se7en and realize that it’s only a game.