Year: 2004

ShoTro points out a Halo Model Pack for Unreal Tournament 2004. It’s 70 mb; give it a look!

Blade has sent along the winning entries for his Halo 2 Cover Design Contest (last mentioned here). We’ve put them up for display, along with the scoring. You can follow the link to the original contest thread on Blade’s forum to see other entries. Again – we have nothing to do with this contest; contact…

Halo: Blood Covenant is a pretty slick Halo side-scrolling game that made its first appearance back in March. It was playable by June, in demo form. They’re back now, with a new contest; Face the Chief. They’re looking for the features of the man beneath the helmet; if you can provide them, you can win…

Tina Leyk continues to make Character Profile sheets for players; there are two new ones on her Fan Art page here. Dre’al looks like someone you DON’T wanna mess with… but Peeps, you could take home and feed Kibbles to. Well, except for the needler.

Noah Hofmann, aka Ultrash, has whipped up another remix of his older ‘Halo: The Resistance’ track; we mentioned it here. You can find the new piece (9.6 mb, 7:03 long) hosted on files.bungie.org. If you want to use this in a Halo-related project, simply contact Noah.

Boxer tells us that Adventures in Disaster Episode 9 is up over at akba.info… I think it has something to do with reflective fecal material. Give it a look.

Colin Tulloch is looking for developers to help him with a Halo RPG he’s been working on. Details can be found in this post (and some clarifications in this one). If this sounds interesting, drop him a line!

An anonymous person mentions a pong game he’s posted over at halomods – Pong Evolved. Energy swords and oddballs… and an extra dimension. If you have a PC, check it out!

pushbak, inspired by Mike Miller’s gunless Belly of the Beast performance, has submitted a new run through the Pillar of Autumn, doing the entire level on Legendary without firing a shot. (Lots and lots of grenades, and melee attacks… but not a single shot.) The movie is 8:03 long, and 28.1 mb large, in QuickTime…

EthanDM, of Halo World, posted a note last week on the Gearbox forums, attempting once again to get 1000 players on HaloCE at one time; if this can be accomplished, Randy Pitchford of Gearbox has pledged to update Halo CE with new features and bug fixes. The first day for this new push is today…

halochat noticed a contest mentioned over at Tru7h.org; Sign up at the Xbox Resource forums and you can enter to win a free copy of Halo 2, signed by Frankie. (It’s the PAL version, so if you’re in the US, there’s not a lot of point in your entering…)

tLove sent along an ad he scanned (750×1019, 302k)out of the latest issue of EGM; it contains shots of two of the winning teams of the Mountain Dew contest that took place in July, enjoying their time at Bungie Studios. Looks like fun!

Mogwong points out a Halo tourney in Wagga Wagga, Australia, on October 1. The ‘Chipps Dubbo 2004 Halo Memorial Tournament… OF DOOM!’ looks to be a night of fun; as far as I can tell, there’s no money on the line, just pride. Check out the web page, and if you’re in the area, go…

A new Halo art database has come online, and is beginning to receive content. Go check it out. (I remembered this because Hikaru-119 posted some pieces there recently.)

Blitzwolf found a guitar tab for the Halo theme at MXTabs.net. I couldn’t tell you what it sounds like – I don’t read this stuff – but if you do, go check it out.

Getting behind on those image queues again… here are 10 new desktops for you in our Wallpaper Section. I’m particularly fond of this one.

Five new pieces for you in the Fan Fiction section today. And you’re waiting for…? Go read.

Another hands-on article today, this time from GameInformer. Entertaining read. Thanks, chief sparten.

A bunch of guys pressed a suburban backyard and its contents (and one extra shoe) into service to bring you a live-action version of a Zanzibar netgame. I particularly liked the respawn sound effects. 17.1 mb, QuickTime format. Sorry about the quality; original film was recorded with a Hi8 camera, then digitized via a USB…

Browsing around the GameDaily site, I stumbled across three articles I hadn’t seen before (and hence hadn’t reported before) – some good reading inside. An In-Depth Review of Halo, written recently, looks back on the first version with an experienced eye. ‘Halo: The Best Moments’ gets a dozen fans from across the US to reminisce…