Year: 2004

Summer’s over… and Warbow is back! Calvin and Halo returns to its normal Tuesday/Thursday rotation – Warbow (as always) handles Tuesdays, and Blackstar (as always) handles Thursday. Today’s episode – an object lesson in why armor is a good thing.

Because of the messed-up weekend, the Fan Fiction section has built up a bit of backlog; there are 18 new pieces there today. Sorry about the flood.

Interesting… there’s an article in Wired about Japan, and the scene for gamers with a Macintosh (it’s nearly nonexistent). Looks like Microsoft is planning to change that – they’re rolling out a whole series of popular Mac games, and calling it the Microsoft Mac Games Collection. First game on the block? Halo. It was released…

Eep – I forgot to post this yesterday. Captain Spark made another ‘revenge on Marines’ movie; I’m not sure if his original link is still live, but funkmon has mirrored the small (1.4 mb) file (and upped its framerate a bit). I also made a QT version of it – same size. Those poor marines…

TheManRoom continues with their coverage of the assets in Halo 2, this time with a summary of the (known) weapons. Take a look.

A new Adventures in Disaster went live yesterday at akba.info, but word came too late to make yesterday’s news. So here it is. Poor Master Chief – sometimes he can’t catch a break.

~-Darkhalo1326-~ wrote to point out that the two main interfaces for modded Xbox Halo, NMP and CXE, have worked together to create HMPi, a program which allows you to install both NMP v2 and CXE simultaneously. It looks like there’s more info (and download links) at Halomods. (If you don’t know how to mod your…

Looks like bentllama updated his blog this weekend… and what was he doing all last week? Playing Halo 2 campaign mode. From the sounds of it, he’s been having fun… (and he’s also been enjoying Fable.) Thanks, clarksbrother.

Dolbex sent this yesterday, but yesterday was a mess. This weekend, at the MLG Los Angeles tournament, MLG will be giving away 10 Plantronics headsets to winners of various Halo events. Go read about it!

rockslider has updated his Rockslide Megabattle page with information on using a stolen banshee in AotCR to fight huge battles. Check out the details!

Omniscient points out a New York Times article (free registration required) that looks at video game sequels as the cash cow of the video game industry – and holds Halo up as one of a very limited number of popular, original games. The article is a good read, explaining clearly WHY the industry is broken…

w00t! You like the look of those Plantronics Halo 2 headsets coming out soon, but think $50 is too much for a headset? Get on over to haloTV – they’re giving away over 100 of ’em; 6 per week until November 13. What are you waiting for? GO!

Alex Cross mentions that the Marty O’Donnell interview that appeared for a short time last week on 1Up.com is now back. Go read it – it’s a fascinating look at how much work has been put into making your audio experience with Halo 2 be better than you could have imagined.

In the ‘it’s totally a rumor, but MAN wouldn’t it be cool’ category, CubanB points out a thread on the TeamXbox forums in which a Gamestop store manager reports info from an annual meeting he recently attended. At this meeting, the Microsoft rep apparently claimed that 2-player online co-op would be in Halo 2. Again…

On Saturday, Ducain released a video showing how he blasted himself from the bottom of the maproom shaft in Silent Cartographer all the way back up to the platform you come in on. (The vid is WMP9, 4:11 long, 8.2 mb large.) Amazing. Before I got a chance to mention it in the news, our…

What would Monday be without a shot from Stuntmutt? Today’s target: um… MC, I guess. For your daily dose of puns, read One One Se7en.

Goatrope has posted a new vid – Silent Cartographer, Legendary, Single Player, 0 shots, 0 deaths. All kills are using grenades, melees, and vehicles. Video is a DivX-encoded .avi, 6:22 long, 16.1 mb large. Download links (and a codec link, if you need it) are in the forum post. This was originally posted on the…

UNEXPECTED62 sent along a few pictures of his Halo2-customized hub – I’ve picked a decent representative one (26k). Nice work!

pimpmeister, from HaloNorge, points out new Halo 2 footage being offered by a Norwegian site. He hasn’t seen it yet (nor have I), because it’s a pay-to-register site, and only registered members can view it. I’m sure that Cameron Payne, Bungie’s marketing guru, is tickled to be referred to in the article as ‘the boss…

Bungie has summarized the Q&A session from last Friday in a new top story at Bungie.net (including a couple of questions not answered the first time around). When there’s a free moment this week, I’ll add this to the Weekly Updates archive, but for now, go read for new tidbits. (Far too many people sent…