Year: 2004

A couple of weeks ago, we posted some MacOSX icons from Edwin Davis – he’s now created a version for Windows. (I haven’t compared them to the ones BOLL did back when we first posted these; if you’re interested, you’ll have to just grab them all.) They’re available from Edwin’s site, or from our server…

Today’s One One Se7en has spoilers, of a sort… If you don’t get it, you either haven’t played much of Halo 2’s campaign, or Stuntmutt’s just not funny. Hmm… on second thought…

Day 3 of Gamespot’s Best and Worst of 2004 was posted – the Dubious Honors. Halo 2 was eligible for only one of these – Biggest Disappointment. It was beaten, according to Gamespot, by Fable. Next up: Genre Awards. (Halo 2 is up for Best Shooter.)

3Suns pointed out that TalkXbox has been running a weekly column with Halo 2 strategies; there are 5, so far: Week 1: Ghost Rush – Warthog RunWeek 2:

A couple of days ago, DJ mentioned that Halo 2 has been picked up as an official game during the CPL Summer Event. I told him that we’d already mentioned that a week ago; he pointed out that it wasn’t until Friday that Halo 2 was added as an official tournament. I thought about how…

A quick note to the community in general; occasionally, someone will come up with a glitch that has the potential to be exploited in online play. Yesterday, this happened; we mentioned the ‘spectator mode’ Devin Olsen and friends managed to film. In that post, I said I wasn’t sure I could see how the glitch…

Wow. Devin Olsen posted a pair of vids last night that… well, go watch ’em. Bizarre multiplayer glitch leads to some really, really odd (but fun-to-watch) behavior. c0ld vengeance suggests this might have negative effects on gameplay – but I’m having trouble seeing how, at the moment. For now, it’s silly but fun. (WMP9 format;…

Last summer, the Barenaked Ladies were on tour, and before and during the show, they hosted a couple of unique Red vs Blue clips for the audience. Those clips are now available at Red vs Blue – for Sponsors only. If you’ve kicked in your $10, go grab ’em! They’re pretty funny. (Thanks, Ross Mills,…

The Hi-Res version of FTC 16 is now posted for sponsors, over at XboxOttawa.ca. It’s rather huge (almost 150 mb, in DivX format), and I’ve got a correspondingly huge QuickTime version in the works (should be up later today or tomorrow at the latest) – but man… it’s some awesome work. These guys get better…

Gamespot has kicked off its Best and Worst of 2004 – there’s a recap of the year (surprisingly, Halo 2’s $125 million first day didn’t make the list of notable events), and a bunch of Special Achievement awards. Halo 2 was up for Best Original Music, but lost; Best Sound Effects, but lost; Best Original…

HaloImpulse is giving away a bunch of stuff (though they’re not saying what, at the moment); Contriute $5 to the site, you’re entered to win. Interesting… thanks, DJ.

Couple of new reviews for Halo 2. Bytesector liked it quite a lot, and gave it a 97% (thanks, Woongsin Lee). Over at the Science Fiction Museum, Exogenesis compared Halo 2 to Half-Life 2. It’s an interesting comparison, touching on a lot of things that have been glossed over by others; worth a read. (Halo…

Zero Flaw has been working on O.N.I. Section Three for quite a long time – it’s starting to look fleshed out. Explore it for a look into (one fan’s view of) the Office of Naval Intelligence.

The Disembodied Brain reviewed Halo 2 – Halo 2 good, Halo 2 ending bad. (A bit more emphatic about that than many others.) Interesting comparison – Halo 2 is like Kill Bill, but before you find out that it’s only the first half of a movie Tarantino needed to split. Thanks, ICDedPpl.

Just a quick note – I understand that the Fan Fiction section is unreachable. I don’t really know why. (Deimos, who manages that particular server, is unreachable as well.) Hold tight, and it’ll be available again as soon as possible.

Amazing as it sounds, I’ve managed to clear out the Wallpaper queue (yeah, for a day or two, maybe). There are 11 new images up for your perusal in the Wallpaper section.

turel did some work with Warhammer40k figures, and came up with another couple of Halo figures. (Halo spoilers, for anyone keeping track.) If you like these, be sure to check out Frankie G.’s collection from a few months back.

Bungie’s Weekly What’s Update has been Updated. Good stuff – cheaters are being banned (and a forum has been set up to make reporting them easier), plus gamertag linking help, obnoxious teasing about downloadable maps, and information on how to submit future questions to What’s Updates. And oh, yeah… the Most Horrible Mister Chief Ever.…

I’m getting very, very close to clearing out the Miscellaneous Art queue. The current batch is 17 images – including some spectacular pieces. Some have been seen before – some are new. New stuff that blew me away – pieces by Michael Coffing, Delta Hills by Paul Davies, and Jason Borne’s Master Chief. (I’m not…

And… a UK tourney, too. Vagusnet.com is hosting an online Halo 2 tourney, starting in about a month, open to all residents of the UK. More details can be found on their web page. Thanks, GameSHOUT.