Year: 2004

It’s been a long time coming… but over on the Red vs Blue website, you can finally buy Trocadero’s debut CD – with all the music from the Red vs Blue series, plus a bunch of new tracks. You can listen to samples on Trocadero’s website, or just head over to the RvB store and…

IGN put up their own Hands-On Halo 2 article based on gameplay at the Game Stars Live event happening right now in London; they weren’t nearly as negative as our forum-goers, but it sounds like they had pretty much the same experience. Interesting that this is one of the first public showings of Halo 2…

Pete Parsons talked to GameDaily about Bungie’s feelings about Halo 2, and where he thinks the game industry is going. An uplifting read. Thanks, Dr. Nick, for the heads-up.

Hehe – Ross Mills just got back from Gamestars Live… and it sounds like there were some organizational issues. Pretty odd… in all the hands-on reports from all the various sites hosting Halo 2 gameplay that we’ve seen, this is the first really negative one – and it comes from a pretty hardcore Halo fan.…

Hmm… I hadn’t realized that the release date for Halo 2 in Japan hadn’t been finalized yet… but no matter, according to IGN, it will go on sale there on November 11, just like most of Europe. One more country heard from…

Webshift points out that if anyone’s in the Atlanta area this weekend, they should seriously consider stopping by Dragon*Con, a huge SciFi/Fantasy convention taking place from September 3-6. Nightmare Armor will be out in force, with 8 different Master Chiefs (all different colors) on the show floor. Folks have been pretty unhappy that the Nightmare…

TeamXbox posted the official Press Release for the Plantronics Halo 2 headset a bit over a week ago; they knew, at the time, that it had been leaked a little early, and that they might have to pull it. Looks like Plantronics has let it go, and the official PR release has hit the newswire…

Man… I go a couple of days with no Fan Fiction update, and there are 18 stories waiting for me. No WONDER that server is having troubles. 🙁 Go read.

Boxer points out that the next Adventures in Disaster comic is up at akba.info – Episode 6 might give you a different outlook on Halo multiplayer.

Four tricks movies showed up on our forum in the last day or so; pretty wide range of size and interest. First post was from foxygrandpa117; he posted about a pair of vids a clanmember of his, wOot, made. The first shows a coop pair riding the initial pelican in AotCR down to the bottom…

Joshua Pettigrew has created a few bizarre widgets for Konfabulator, a MacOSX interface enhancer. (If you’re not using MacOSX, these are useless to you.) Drop them on your desktop, click on them, they spit out random dialogue from the game. if this sounds like something that interests you, go grab ’em. (Forum thread is here,…

Looks like the Sydney Roosters, on track for the National Rugby League finals in Australia, have pulled Halo’s Master Chief on board for some coaching help. Read all the details on the Australian Xbox.com site. Thanks to David the Great for pointing this out – and to the Aussies in this forum thread, who noticed…

Looks like Dr. Nick found that Canada.com article as well, but he went one step further, and found THIS article on the Canadian contingent on the same site. It’s a good read, even if they DO call Anim8rJB and bentllama the ‘Canimators’… and it looks like Sep7imus has taken issue with a couple of other……

Nice image by opticalneuralinterface over at DeviantArt – someone else who shares Tina Leyk’s twin passions for Halo and the Xenomorphs. A browse through his gallery turns up this Halo 2 image (and lots of other fun stuff). Thanks to Mr. Cynical for pointing it out.

We’ve got another 10 desktops for you today in the Wallpaper Section – and a quick note. Some of the subsections of our site are hosted on a machine that’s having more and more trouble keeping up with the traffic; we’re doing everything we can to migrate away from this. In the meantime, though, if…

TalkXbox was another site with a reporter at last weekend’s PAX event in Seattle – you can read their writeup, and view lots and lots of pics, on their website. Thanks, Jman.

Canada.com, the web version of Canada’s National Post, has a two-page article on Halo 2, and contains what I think is the first legitimate webview of the new Covenant beam rifle (as well as a not-very-clear pic of the Scorpion tank). It’s a pretty good read…

Normally, I wouldn’t put this on the front page… but it’s the best way of making sure everyone who needs to see this will. The next HBO Junkies lanfest has been scheduled for October 2, 2004; details (and instructions that EVERYONE WHO WANTS TO ATTEND MUST FOLLOW) can be found on the HBO Junkie’s Events…

Equally as surely, we’re working our way through the Miscellaneous Art backlog – another ten pieces have been posted today. We’re still in July, as far as submissions go… but that won’t be for much longer.

Dolbex, synide, and Jason of MLG put together an 8-minute long retrospective of the MLG-Seattle Halo 2 experience; you’ve already seen the in-game footage, this will give you some flavor of the event itself. 26.9 mb, QuickTime format; we’ve put copies up on both files2.bungie.org and mythica.org.