Year: 2004

Agony points out a poll on the World Cyber Games site, asking for suggestions for games to be played at WCG 2005. Halo 2 is one of the FPS choices. If you vote, you have to vote for two choices in every category – just a heads-up.

Sparkypinball has posted another in his series of Halo multiplayer guides – this one is for Team Slayer. Swing on by Rampancy.net and read it. (And thanks to Sparky for pointing it out on our forum.)

Homefront, the Battlefield: Vietnam mod, has posted another update; Phantoms, Pelicans, FRGs. Thanks, Pballwizard.

Not to be outdone in the tournament writeup arena, cooked Gamer rapture wrote up a description of cooked Gamers’ path through the recent CPL Extreme Halo Championships (they fought back to second place after losing their very first match). Go read, and turn as green with envy as the $11,500 check they’re holding up… We…

There is a MASSIVE writeup on last week’s Halo50k3 tournament in Atlanta over at Bungie.net, penned by Dolbex, the man who made it all happen. Give it a read. Good stuff.

Makes me sad that this has to be pointed out… but what’s got to be done has got to be done. Frankie jumped into a thread on Bungie.net’s Underground Forum to flatly deny that Halo 2, or a demo for Halo 2, or anything REMOTELY RELATED TO PLAYABLE CODE will be released on August 24.Halo…

Frankie finally weighs in in an attempt to quash an incredibly persistent rumor. Can we all stop posting this as a fact now? Thanks to Littlebigman for pointing this out.

Watching (and judging!) 8 hours of video was a non-trivial exercise… but we’ve done it. The judges’ votes for our Going Nowhere Fast contest have been tallied, and a winner has emerged. By a really narrow margin, goatrope’s Silent Cartographer run was edged out by Trefitch’s Maw run – and Tre will be able to…

Wow, very nice. Halo Universe has put up a new Halo 2 print ad (German) – it’s 1024×1494, 288K. (Thanks, Marc.) Beautiful! Can’t wait to see this one in US mags…

AngelicLionheart noticed an article on IGN PC about G-Phoria, G4TV’s Game of the Year show. In it is a mention of a playable Halo 2 demo (most likely the Zanzibar level shown at E3). AngelicLionheart wonders if we’ll see some footage of gameplay from someone there… To be complete, it should be noted that Frensa…

The Xtournaments Crew writes to say that registration has been left open a bit longer, because of a mistake last Saturday – and to point out that the Spokane, WA tourney location has moved. Details can be found on the Xtournaments website. (For those just joining us, Xtournaments is a multicity 4v4 national Halo tournament…

That Weasel points out that Episode 8 of ‘Grunts Are People Too!!!’ – The Good, The Bad, And The Chuckly – is now available for download from the GaPT website. 6.3 mb in WMP9 format, 11.8 mb in QuickTime-friendly .mp4 format, this one is an old-style western. Nice use of mods for interesting camera angles.

Red vs Blue has posted a fun film to pass the time until you get your Season 2 DVD (you DID order one, didn’t you?) – it was displayed a few weeks ago at Lincoln Center, during the ‘Wild Wild Web’ program, and now it’s available for the world. (This isn’t sponsors-only.) Check it out!…

Another 8 stories added to the Fan Fiction database – it’s looking like the new Fiction Comments setup is working. Lots of productive comments… keep it up!

A bunch of people noticed lots of activity on the Bungie Webcam last Friday and Saturday. Many, many people were playing Halo 2. (If you missed it, Tru7h Online was nice enough to archive it.) Well, the first writeup of this activity has appeared on 1UP.com; Che Chou, of Xbox Nation, has a nice update…

Konrad points out a pretty strange glitch that surfaced at the recent Dead Babies LANfest; the movie is truly crappy quality, and 7.4 mb in QuickTime format, but it shows KP racking up points in a slayer game by committing suicide. Can’t say that I’ve ever seen this before…

funkmon noticed a new Walkthrough of Halo on the Xbox.com Halo site – well, not new, exactly. The walkthrough itself (a 1.2 mb, 81-page PDF file) is dated October 18, 2001 – a month before the Xbox was released. Its inclusion on Xbox.com, however, dates back no more than a week or so. Interesting… (Don’t…

A few days ago, Nick pointed out that Microsoft had released DirectX 9.0c, the next generation of DirectX. The end-user runtime is not installed via the normal Windows Update interface; you have to download it yourself, and run the installer. You’ll be warned that it cannot be uninstalled, and that if you’re using Windows ME…

Last Friday’s unusual Weekly Bungie Update has now been archived in our database. I think all you can say about the usefulness of this is that our db is complete.

Stuntmutt shows where the new Halo 2 Elite troops come from in today’s One One Se7en. Personally, I’m starting to wonder about that boy – where DOES he get his inside info?