Year: 2004

That Weasel Television, in conjunction with Mother’s Tooth and HaloRules.com, is launching its first all original, all exclusive, Halo series called “Grunts Are People Too!!!” Original music, grunty action, dead grunts. What more could you want? (Some episodes don’t seem to be uploaded yet, but give it time.)

Hmm. Looks like I forgot to update the Weekly Bungie Updates archive last week – but it’s now up-to-date. An awful lot of content in these past two updates… things are really coming along. See, for example, the progress on the lightmap farm – back in february, it was just getting built – now it’s…

Ducain has announced a new contest – The Three Towers. Put stuff on the Blue Beam towers, win cool schwag. How great is that?

If today’s One One Se7en makes no sense, you’re not reading Bungie’s Top Stories closely enough.

The cast Halo: Resolution are getting out… maybe.

Stefander points out the latest Zanzibar weekly update, over at Halomods – the energy sword is really coming along, and some other guns are being modeled. Take a look!

Cyber Gaming Network has posted a Halo 2 preview; it’s a solid read, combining info from the E3 demo and recent press without going TOO far out on the speculation limb. (It’s an update of a much shorter preview they wrote after E3 2003; the URL hasn’t changed.) Give it a read…

aiMutation is a Windows program for modifying the appearance of the AOL Instant Messenger. Recently, a new skin was released with a Halo theme. Thanks to Baldev Patel for the heads-up.

Many of you probably saw threads on various Halo or Xbox forums this weekend about leaked beta screenshots. Bungie has yet to make a public announcement about this (it’s unlikely that they ever will, actually), but there are many clues that suggest that these aren’t fakes; that they did, in fact, come from a beta…

Massive content update over at Halo Babies – new fan art, a new fan STRIP section, and some credit stuff. w00t!

Brand-new layout at XboxOttawa… and with it comes a new Flash game called Melee Combat. It’s a bit hard on your keyboard… Go play. Thanks, Mantis819.

Dark Helmet posted a small video showing his own Marine Launching techniques yesterday, on the High Impact Halo forums – he shows that Marines take no fall damage, no matter HOW FAR they fall (or what hits them)… but more importantly, he’s invented a new sport – Halo Trap, using marines as the pidgeons. Hmm……

A full-blown website devoted to Mac Halo development has been opened – it existed, in a much simpler and less interactive form, on HaloMods, but it now has a site of its own, and a much more extensive layout. If you’re a Mac user interested in modding Halo, check it out! (Thanks, Nick.)

c0ld vengeance, with a little help from his friends, has put together a series of Mosaic pictures – 5 can be found in this forum post, and one more in this followup. The software used to make these is linked from here. Intriguing views…

It’s Monday, so there’s lots of action on the Going Nowhere Fast front. The sixth level run – 343 Guilty Spark – is now available for download via BitTorrent, to begin with. It’s a 58 mb file; 7:41 to dash from the Pelican dropoff to the final pickup spot, and the first use of the…

c0ld vengeance has apparently made his opinion about the 2-day European delay for Halo 2 known… and today’s One One Se7en addresses his concerns. Sort of.

Ten new stories for you in the Fan Fiction section… and a special-case instruction. Wado SG asked me how folks could submit their entries to the now-defunct Enkidu Fan Fiction contest and have them all be grouped together; I suggested using the Series Title field. Wado reminded me that this is normally tied to the…

Sector Seven Halo has put up another installment of its Marines comic. I’m not sure I get it…

The whole MegaBattle concept is being expanded over at the Gearbox Forums – check the top several threads for fantastic examples. A new technique, documented in this thread by king_nothing, allows for some incredible vehicle-in-air shots with multiple players inside. Again – this technique REQUIRES Halo Custom Edition; the detachable camera is not available in…

I’ve run across a really nice Halo Custom Edition map in the last couple of days – this is absolutely worth your time if you’ve got HCE. (If you DON’T have HCE, and you’re using a PC, you really need to ask yourself why not… it’s free, the massive download is a one-time deal (an…