Year: 2004

Miguel Chavez, the Number One Bungie Fan, sent along a picture (72k) of The Smallest Spartan, otherwise known as Rafi Chavez. I’m not really sure whose desk that is behind him, but I’m pretty sure you’ve seen it on the webcam at some point.

Dang, I said I was done talking about Zanzibar today… and then Stuntmutt had to go and cover it in One One Se7en. I wonder if there’s a coral reef? Update: Go load it again. Make sure your speakers are on. Yes, it’s true, I’m a moron.

This was released yesterday, but would have been completely buried… timboh56 created a trailer for a stop-motion picture he’s putting together, ‘Attack of the Giant Grunt’. It’s short – but it’s quite good, so we’ve mirrored both the original WMP9 version (721K) and a new QuickTime version (812K), so that you don’t have to hammer…

synide, from haloTV, wrote to say that [cG]rapture finished the first of the cookedGamers at Summer CPL 2004 videos, cG vs Strive/Reality. You can watch it over at haloTV.net. It’s about 20 minutes long, 720×480 format, and streamed straight to your desktop. It was filmed behind the cG team; you get the players’ reactions as…

Since the ilovebees phenomenon started back on July 23, I’ve been ambivalent about posting updates related to it; on the one hand, it’s clearly Halo2-related, so it falls within our purview… on the other hand, we’re just not equipped to handle a game of this magnitude. A few weeks ago, in response to forum flooding,…

Wow. I hate for the front page to be dominated by a single file – but I guess this one is pretty big. The MLG Zanzibar Halo 2 Mirror page now has quite a few direct download links, if you’ve had trouble with BitTorrent – and Two Degrees, another peer-to-peer sharing network which made its…

As of now, a bit over 8 hours after posting the first link, the BitTorrent network has served up over 5300 copies of the MLG Halo 2 gameplay video (almost 650 Gigabytes). You guys rock. 🙂 However, there are lots of people who can’t use BitTorrent – they’re on firewalled corporate networks, or family members…

Almost lost in the insane postage about Bees and discussions of BitTorrent, a post last night from Joshua Pettigrew pointed out a Konfabulator Widget he created to count down to the release of Halo 2. Konfabulator is a Javascript engine that runs on the MacOSX desktop – if you don’t have MacOSX, you don’t need…

In the past few days, many sites have put up shakeycam video of public Halo 2 play – and many sites have been shut down by the demand. The sad thing is… quality has been HORRIBLE on almost every single released movie. Demand is still huge, because people want to see how this game plays……

Alpha Base is launching (ugh) a new contest – it’s… omg, it’s a regular warthog jump contest. Launch a warthog as high and for as long as you can, win prizes. Man, i do NOT envy the judges of this thing… Go read the details over at their site. Heads-up goes to Verdafolio.

(GT)Juggler points out that he’s got tons of 2v2 footage on the HaloGT website (redesigned and overhauled, by the way); all the individual matches from the 2v2 mini-tournament that happened at the Dead Babies LANfest a few weeks ago are online on his media page. The 9 regular films have no sound (though they still…

Nil, building on some community speculation, finished off this picture of a new Halo 2 vehicle… but then confirmed that the MC could do worse. Thanks to Anton P. Nym for starting this whole mess.

MrSmiley mentions that Halo Babies has a Fan Strip up today, and wanted to point out that their Avatar contest (ending soon) is now open for voting to members of the site. Check it out!

Finn awakens from his motorcycle-induced slumber (wha?) to speculate about that which must not be named on our forum. Check the Story Page. And hold on to your hats. (Thanks to Milamber for noticing.)

Nafe Rubeus continues his quest for Zanzibar multiplayer footage, with another german website, die-klobrille.de. There are two links; the first is a 103 mb, 19-minute file that will make you nauseous if you watch the whole thing at a shot. (It starts with some footage of the Nightmare-Armor-clad MS rep on the show floor, and…

Boxer continues his Adventures in Disaster series with Episode 3, over at akba.info.

Grenadiac points out FANTASTIC news for the Mac community – bobindashadows has found a way to port Halo CE maps to the Mac. The system isn’t complete yet – it requires modifying the way bitmaps are stored, so they can be tacked on safely to the existing bitmaps.map file (so that multiple mods can coexist)…

Fluffy, over at HaloPlanet, points out (once again) that they’ve got an awesome, though underused, resource available to all Halo CE modders. They will host your map/mod/website, with unlimited bandwidth (and they mean it – they’ve got the MASSIVE pipes of Fileplanet to back them up), pre-built forums (and other systems), tech support, haloplanet emails,…

Wronchi put up a Flash animation at Newgrounds, dedicated to all those who found certain aspects of the Library… repetitive. It’s a bit over a meg, and nicely done. Thanks to Gil27 for pointing it out. (Obligatory Spoiler Warning, for those keeping track.)

nico, the guy behind Red vs Blue’s music, sent along a picture (74k) of his Powerbook, running Halo on the back deck of his family’s house in St. Barths, in the French West Indies, as the sun begins to set. I can’t think of a nicer place to kill Covenant…