Year: 2004

Hehe – sometimes a free planet ain’t all you bargained for. Check out today’s Calvin and Halo.

Not willing to be left behind (SpikeTV, IGN, and Gamespot all announced stuff earlier this week), Gamespy has put up THIER 2004 Game of the Year sections. Halo 2 won several awards: Xbox Game of the Year, Xbox Shooter of the Year, Best Use of Xbox Live, and Best and Worst Ending in an Xbox…

There’s a new interview with Chris Butcher over at How Stuff Works – this one focuses on Halo Networking. It’s a fascinating read – if you’re interested in the workings of Halo vs Halo 2. Thanks, Target4Hire.

Interesting. Uriel has put out a call to modders for a Halo project involving Nexus: The Jupiter Incident. Go read his post for more info.

I’ve turned off the poll we started last week (Which map would you like to see return for Halo 2?) – the results are still up, and it’s clear that the two favorite choices were Hang ’em High and Sidewinder, but it’s also clear that almost EVERY map in Halo had its proponents. Please be…

Stuntmutt looks at one of the pitfalls of clan play on XBL in today’s One One Se7en. If that doesn’t give you enough of your recommended daily allowance of corn, you should stop by his blog – he’s posted 20 guest strips that have been sent in to us over the past 8 months or…

Deimos, over at Subnova, wrote a nice little app that allows you to get MSN Messenger Alerts via IRC. This is relevant to this community because you can, for example, sign up for XBox Live Alerts, which will tell you when your friends sign on, or when you receive a game invite… and you can…

An interview with Tyson Green, aka Ferrex, was published in February’s Electronic Gaming Magazine – and is now available on 1UP.com. It’s a fantastic read, even if Tyson misattributes the Warthog Jump vid to Frogblast, instead of Randy Glass. Tons of “why did you do it this way?” questions – with real answers. Go read!…

Wow, I guess it’s Awards time. As many people might remember, last night was the broadcast of SpikeTV’s Video Game Awards 2004 – Halo 2 was up for a bunch of stuff, but GTA: San Andreas took most of it home. Jason Jones won Designer of the Year for the game, and Halo 2 won…

ZATZAi has posted a new contest over at High Impact Halo – decorate a tree on Coagulation, win a hat. (There are really specific rules for decorations – read the post.)

Xerxes writes to point out that he’s begun transcribing the Halo 2 levels – in German. You’ll find the first five levels – on normal difficulty – at Halo Orbit.

20 new pieces for you in the Fan Fiction section today. Lots of words. Read some.

Mr. Jukes has updated his Trick Jumping Guide with a 22.5 mb WMP9 video covering Headlong. Nice work!

Nate sent along a soundfile of the Egg grunt on The Great Journey. (If this means nothing to you, you’ll need to wait for the Eggs page to go up.) We’ve added the entry to the Halo 2 Dialogue Databank.

Weird. The Game with Fame promotion (play over XBL with famous people; previous participants include Willis McGahee and Ben Burnley) continues – with the band Chevelle. Sign up on this page; grand prize winner will get an Xbox and the chance to play Chevelle online on December 20. 100 runner-ups will also get to play…

Last night, we mentioned a new machinima series, Stryke Force. Within a couple of hours, it was dead in the water, a victim of enthusiastic downloaders. Episode One was interesting, and deserves to be seen… so we’re helping out. You can find the original WMP9 version (20.4 mb) at both mythica.org and bungie.org, and a…

Calvin brings up a pretty good point in today’s Calvin and Halo. Food for thought…

ars technica has reviewed Halo (in general, they stay away from console games). They liked it. Quite a lot. Except the ending. They also liked the Plantronics headset. Thanks, Drake213.