Year: 2004

Halo50k3 kicks off today in Atlanta – more than 60 teams competing for their share of more than $10,000 in prize money. HaloTV will be filming the most exciting parts (though the streams will probably be coming from the mlgpro.com website). Good luck to everyone there! Update: Halo503 is live. New pics, live video, and…

Eleven new stories posted in the Fan Fiction section, including new Enkidu Contest Collection entries. On the front of comments, and how to deal with them, Wado has suggested setting up a new forum for Fan Fiction writers here at HBO – plans are underway. In the meantime (or possibly just as a replacement), a…

This week the Bungie Weekly Update can be found on Bungie’s own Underground forum – improved graphics, squashed bugs, content completion, and icons… it’s all there. Go read.

This was finished a little while ago… but I’ve been dealing with the nightmare that is the HBO forum for a while, and couldn’t post. I’d love to be able to offer a massive QuickTime version of the trailer to match the obscene WMP9 copies Microsoft released today… but I can’t find any tools that…

Normally, I’d just tack this on to the other comic roundup… but there’s been a lot of news since then, and folks might not look down there. Sector 7 has posted another episode of Marines. You gotta hope they’re not really that dumb…

The really odd thing folks have noticed about the Halo 2 ad looks to be an easter egg or viral marketing ploy of some sort. At the very end of the video, the tiny URL underneath the Xbox logo changes, for a frame or two, from www.xbox.com to www.ilovebees.com. On the surface, this looks like…

As many people have figured out, super-high-resolution versions of the Halo 2 movie ad are now popping up all over the net. litereddonut points out a Fileplanet link, Adam Pavlacka (online content producer for GamePro.com) points out a pair of versions – a 1920×1080 (yes, again, the aspect ratio is off), 5.1 surround sound version…

Tocki writes to point out that Halo Orbit is hosting a hi-res version of the trailer (9.8 mb, 640×480 (yeah, that’s not the right aspect ratio), WMP9 format) that they found at MyXbox.at. QuickTime coming soon… Update: Here’s a 640×360 (aspect-corrected) QuickTime version (and a mirror), 5.8 mb. There MIGHT be higher-res versions coming later……

In an interview at Inside Mac Games, Al Schilling, product manager at MacSoft, takes a break from talking about Close Combat to mention that they’ve done some testing on the latest build of Halo under MacOSX v10.3.4, and haven’t found it to be slower than performance under 10.3.3. (Some forums have seen reports from people…

No, no, I was right… it’s Movie Day. Hehe – if you wondered why folks thinking about entering High Impact Halo’s The 3 Towers competition were happy to hear that Dark Helmet was a judge, and couldn’t compete… watch this video (15.3 mb, WMV format) showing how it’s done, with s7yle. (For you WMP-haters out…

Maybe it’s not Movie Day at HBO, maybe it’s Comic Day. We’ve got a bunch to tell you about. Mr Smiley mentions a new webcomic, The Grunt Brigade, that he found a few days ago – but it’s now on a bigger pipe, so you might actually be able to see the strips this time.…

I think it’s gonna be Movie Day here at HBO. There are quite a number of new films, available at other websites, ready for your downloading pleasure. RaiL sends word of a video he’s made of his clan (Clan IP) showing off their Blood Gulch Multiplayer skillz – you can find a link to the…

One of the most hotly-anticipated Halo Custom Edition maps to date, New Mombasa from Mrs Doublefire and crew, is now available for download. It’s 9.6 mb of HaloCE goodness, and there are currently 8 EP Gamers servers running this map. (In fact, there are over 30 different servers hosting this map already, with two of…

The next level in the Going Nowhere Fast competition, Two Betrayals, is now available for download via BitTorrent. Taylor Jones spends a relatively quick 25 minutes whipping through this level – his handling of a rocket launcher is a joy to watch. He gets a vehicle through the broken door in an amazingly no-fuss manner……

][-][awaiian pig whipped up another 5 Red vs Blue ‘Set Pieces’, after the great response he got to his first set. These are bigger, by request. Update: The variants on Megabattles just keep coming. Valence tries out an animated one.

Slothboy posts his non-winning pics in the Mountain Dew contest (and a link to a thread on Bungie.net that has pics of the winning entries)… all I can say is, these guys drank a LOT of Dew.

Dan Chosich reminds everyone that today is the last day folks are able to submit content to the Fan Art section of the Making of Halo DVD. If you have content you want the team to consider, send it today or you’re out of the running!

ShotgunGoBOOM found a Flash video called ‘Halo Delight’ on Flashplayer.com. MC gets down to the 80’s hiphop sounds of the Sugar Hill Gang. Surreal.

Update on yesterday’s elite skin, from Xavier – he’s found a way to make ALL Spec-Ops Elites black (some were coming out with a blue layer over the skin); the downside is that it changes the blue of the regular Blue Elite. Information and the new ppf can be found on the Halo: Modding Evolved…