Year: 2004

Xbox.com is offering a desktop Master Chief for users of Windows PCs – a 2 mb download that puts a semi-active MC on your desktop. He’s there to pass you new info about Halo 2, as it’s released… I guess he’s sort of cute. More info can be found on the Xbox.com page, or in…

Just a word of advice for young kids out there: there’s nothing that sets off parental radar faster than the technique in today’s Calvin and Halo. NOTHING. (Now, if Calvin tried, instead, to sell his dad on the Co-op gameplay as a father-son bonding technique…)

5 new pieces for you in the Fan Fiction section today. (I’d expected more, given the outage this weekend… but I’m not complaining.) Mostly chapters, and one poem.

I hate these things… but I hate the flood of email worse. Go vote in the GameFAQs Character Battle today; the Master Chief is up against Frog, from Chrono Trigger, and he’s currently losing. If you go, though, maybe the flood of emails will stop. Thanks!

Another international sighting – the Master Chief appeared in a shop in Sweden today. (Is it just me, or does it look like an Elite is trying to fit into the MC’s armor?) Thanks, pmzukan.

DOH! We don’t even have a real One One Se7en strip for you today… but Stuntmutt couldn’t step away from the spotlight. Oh, no, not him…

Jophis points out that his band made a punk song called ‘Why’d he snipe me?’, available for download at their website. Halo inspires…

Bah. I hate forgetting things. The Bungie Weekly Updates database is up-to-date; the most recent update was added this morning. Sorry for the delay.

Blade points out that the Halo 2 Cover Design contest he’s been running are closing tomorrow at midnight. If you’re interested in entering, now’s the time. (We mentioned this contest when it started.)

Nightmare Armor has posted a video containing footage from DragonCon 2004, held last weekend in Atlanta. 8 Spartans were on hand, along with Cortana. The music, as well as some of the taunting, is PG-rated… but it’s a pretty fun view of a series of Spartans wandering around, getting in fights with Imperial Stormtroopers, and…

Boxer points out that Episode 8 of Adventures in Disaster is now up at akba.info. Another look at your allies. Sort of.

Continuing his ‘I want to be in the news every day’ streak, Stuntmutt whips out a new One One Se7en for you. No, those aren’t bees.

Apologies to all the folks waiting in the Links queue – I’m not sure what happened, but it’s been over a week since I’ve approved any of them. I’ve cleared the queue at this point, though. Check out the Links page for a bunch of new sites!

Yesterday, we released a short vid showing Mike Miller clearing the Belly of the Beast fight on Truth and Reconciliation without firing a shot – on Legendary. You might remember ‘Legend’, Mike’s last video, showing some pretty slick Legendary gameplay. Well… he’s followed it up with a sequel. Legend 2 is 7:36 long, 28.6 mb…

bobindashadows has managed to convert the New Mombasa Classic map (originally for Halo CE) to work with Mac Halo. (There’s also an updated tool for installing custom maps available.) You can’t actually play on Halo CE servers (Mac Halo can’t see them) – but you CAN play the map itself, with other Mac users. Really…

The Halo PC 1.05 patch, which closes a potential security hole and fixes Halo PC to work with XP’s Service Pack 2, is now accessible via the Auto-Update feature (it will be downloaded automatically the next time you connect to the server list from within the Halo PC application), or you can grab it from…

Ducain, following up on his previous ‘get a warthog with a live marine across the Silent Cartographer shaft’ trick, has gotten the warthog BACK across the shaft (without killing the live marine). Vid is 8.6 mb, WMP9 format. Nice toss!

I’d hoped to find time to recode the Fan Fiction section for a new server – it hasn’t happened yet. We’ve therefore brought the original back online, for this section alone. We should be fine for a while. There are 8 new pieces for you there – go read!

Thanks to broony, who sent in a scan of a 4-page interview with Max Hoberman, Bungie’s Multiplayer Lead for Halo 2, published in last month’s Xbox World magazine in the UK. It mostly discusses Zanzibar… with some fun tidbits of other areas thrown in. Go read it in our Press Scans section.

Age points out that the Fire Team Charlie boyz have put out another vid; FTC13b is members-only, but it’s 8:16 of hilarity, absolutely worth the 65 mb download. It’s currently available in Divx-encoded AVI format, but they’ll have a QuickTime version available later today.