Year: 2004

Going Nowhere Fast winner Sean Oehrle’s run of Assault on the Control Room is now available for download via BitTorrent. It has been known for some time that by jumping off the first bridge, enemies for MOST of the level will not be spawned (because the trigger to spawn them has been bypassed) – Sean…

Apologies for the delay – the third release of the Going Nowhere Fast winning runs, Truth and Reconciliation, is now available via direct download. 850 people have already grabbed the vid via BitTorrent (along with 2000 copies of the Pillar of Autumn run and 1000 copies of the Halo run) – but I know there…

I’m headed up to see Blackstar pretty soon, so before I go, let me toss out today’s Calvin and Halo, his comment on some potential pitfalls in upcoming level design.

1up.com has added a new Halo 2 preview today – it looks somewhat familiar, but I can’t find a record of posting it before, so I’m crossing my fingers. Dan Hsu, of EGM, clearly liked the game. Thanks, Anton. (It’s also interesting that Halo AND Halo 2 are on the 1up.com Buzzometer – in 6th…

The Xtournaments Crew points out that they’ve added a Sniper Derby to their State vs State Nationals event in September. Your team’s best sniper will have 1 minute to shoot as many other sniper-equipped players as possible. The event is on Boarding Action, CTF settings (so that the sniper is one color, all targets are…

Today’s Applegeeks comic is Halo-related; it’s the second half of a story they started a couple of days ago. Thanks to Inky and Black Six for pointing it out.

Bungie has posted an article detailing two new figures out from Joyride this month, a Cobalt MC (different from the current Battle-Damage MC at GameStop), available at EB and an Active Camo Elite at Hollywood Video. Looks like Coviehunter made a minor notice of the Elite on our forum today.

Thanks to the very large number of people who pointed out that Halo 2 will be on display, and playable, at this year’s Penny Arcade Expo in late August. I wonder how many people have just changed their end-of-summer plans…

Over the years, we’ve reported a lot of Halo news. There are, in fact, as of this post, exactly 10,000 news posts in the database. It’s therefore somewhat appropriate that this post is devoted to a pair of comics that have been a staple of the site for the last couple of years – Halo:…

Andrew points out that FTC 13 is now available for direct download for the masses, if BitTorrent hasn’t been doing it for you.

Dolbex points out an audio interview with Strangepurple, the number 1 ranked player in the MLG league. He’s not actually playing right now… interesting. Go listen to why not on the MLG website.

He’s done it again… Ducain posted a teaser pic on our forum last night, asking folks if they could tell what made it special. Juggertrout pointed it out for folks who missed it, and this morning, Ducain posted video of how it was done. And I must say, it’s pretty impressive. (I’m shooting for the…

Didn’t quite get to this in time to add HBO’s voice to the mix… but it looks like it doesn’t matter that much. Strato mentioned that yesterday, GameFAQs posted a poll: ‘Which upcoming big-name Xbox sequel/spinoff are you most looking forward to?’ It’s over now… but Halo 2 ran away with this one, garnering 22,050…

Okay, last one of these for a while, unless some REALLY killer shots turn up. Falcon Zero posted another pair of shots, Konrad tried his hand on Infinity, and The Ghost reminisced about the way it USED to be. One of these days, we’ll have to set up a section for this kind of thing…

There’s a great interview with the people behind Major League Gaming over at Bungie.net – how they got started, where Halo fits in, where they’re going. If you’re at all interested in the competitive Halo scene, you should check this out. First heads-up goes to Kyrceck.

BOLL turned 22 today. How many people give YOU a present on THEIR birthday? BOLL gives you this cool wallpaper. Enjoy.

GNF Phase 4 The fourth winning run, goatrope’s amazing 4:18 dash through Silent Cartographer, is now available for download via BItTorrent. (Once again, for those without a BitTorrent client, they can be downloaded here.) The download is 33.6 mb – and the climb from the Silent Cartographer back up to the ‘Locked Door’ is one…

25 new Fan Fiction pieces submitted since the weekend. Go read ’em.

dwchief found a bunch of pics taken at E3 that (as far as I can tell) haven’t been mentioned on our forum before. I thought it would be more polite to link you to the original article; it’s in Japanese, but the pictures are all down at the bottom. Nice clear shots, for the most…

Falcon Zero has tried his hand at HUDless Megabattle pics… some really nice pieces in there. Check ’em out! Update: Hehe – nice one from Mothergoat, as well, using his home-brewed Decoy map.