Year: 2004

The latest Gamespotting column at Gamespot is about upcoming games… and it contains a poll – ‘Which upcoming game will be the greatest?’ At the moment, Halo 2 is in second place… behind Half-Life 2. Hmm… (Thanks to GruntKilla for the heads-up.)

We’ve added last Friday’s Weekly Bungie Update to our Update archive, and maybe made the archive a bit easier to use. I noticed that the full update list was getting a bit unwieldy (260k of text, plus pictures), so I uncovered a part of the search page that’s always been there, but not documented; you…

For far too long, the Movie Database has languished, victim of limited time and shifting priorities. Uriel offered to compile much of the data required to build this database, greatly reducing the amount of work needed to create updates; even WITH his help, it took much longer than it should have. However, we’ve passed the…

Today’s One One Se7en shows what a good headset can do to a polite individual… I suppose the real funny would be if that cord behind Cortana weren’t plugged into anything. Oh, wait…

The footage from the Leipzig Games Convention continues to appear… and disappear. The Game7 footage we mentioned on Saturday is offline already (they ran out of bandwidth, it appears), but there are new clips to fill the void. Nafe Rubeus found a thread on a clan forum with a link to a large (but EXTREMELY…

B Ball Master is embarrassingly insistent that we mention that Halo 2 will be playable next month at the Armageddon Pulp Culture Expo in Wellington, New Zealand. Under $15 NZ (per day) gets you into the event, taking place on September 25 and 26. Yet another venue for some Halo 2 lovin’ before November 9…

Oops – haven’t updated the Fan Fiction section since Thursday, so there are 20 new pieces for you to read… Gotta be careful about that. Go get ’em!

On August 2, we got word of a new Halo 2-branded headset, made by Plantronics, that would be coming out this fall. More details emerged a week later. Now, thanks to Team Xbox, we have official word, in the form of a Plantronics press release. Looks to be a classy piece of equipment!

Wow. Talk about dedication. [-TLG-]Madrox and Monoxide got a Hunter to the bottom of the pit in the middle of the underground cavern in AotCR. How’d they do it? They gave him a ride on a Banshee. Vid is 5.5 mb in WMP9 format, hosted by Madrox. I’ve put a QuickTime version up on files.bungie.org.…

Pballwizard points out a new update over at Homefront, the Battlefield: Vietnam mod. Map updates, mostly.

Carlo Zottman points out the blog of Boris Schneider-Johne, German Product Manager for the Xbox – he was at the German Games Convention yesterday, and got a pretty nice shot of the Master Chief doing “the hardest job of all time; handing out Halo 2 survival bags to journalists. Contents: energy drinks, deodorants and water…

Uriel points out that the Leipzig Games Convention website already has a Best of Show page up… and guess what took ‘Best Xbox Game’? Go on… guess.

Hehe – d3fault_dot_xbe has taken one of Roger Wilco’s concept models and begun to insert it into Halo CE. Nice! Heads-up goes to MasterGrief, who found it on the Gearbox forums. Remember – Roger Wilco created those models more than 2 years ago. Wonderful!

Wow. I’ve seen sleazy before, but this is pretty audacious. Some slimeball on eBay was selling a digital copy of Zoe’s farewell wallpaper; he removed Zoe’s signature from it (though not the bungie.net watermark), and was selling it (in DIGITAL FORM, it’s not even a print) as his own work. (He cancelled the auction this…

Art Vandelay found a nice thread over at the TeamXbox forums (though it would have been better if he’d actually added a link to the original information) – AcidSnow spent some of his precious playtime in a recent Halo 2 event TESTING the game, rather than just playing. Biggest tidbit: laying a plasma grenade on…

VALENCE has taken Adult Swim soundtracks and Halo CE video and put together a film called Aqua Chiefs Hunger Corps. Decide for yourself whether it works. Video is WMP9 format, 7 minutes long, 9 mb large, hosted by Halomods.

Trigun sends word that a new Halo on Vacation comic is up at The 7th Revolution. Maybe it’s me, but it seems like Halo: Resolution did that joke. A few times.

Dolbex writes from Downpour, the MLGPro tourney happening right now in Seattle. The big news? THey’re currently hosting the World’s First Public Halo 2 Tournament. That’s right – Halo 2 is there, and being played, for money, on the floor. Go read about it on MLGPro.com! If you have a Video On Demand subscription from…

Devin Olsen points out a movie he and Gil made that’s being hosted by Halomods – tricks and sniper kills. WMP format, just under 2 minutes, 9.3 mb. Take a look.

GhaleonEB pointed out an article in the New York Times (registration required – free) in which the Times suggested that there will be a $5.99 monthly fee to play in Halo 2 tournaments online. Before anyone grabs their pitchfork and heads for Redmond… there is no additional fee to play Halo online; what the NYT…