Year: 2004

It needs a total overhaul… but all I had time for was a bandaid or two. Our Frequently Asked Questions section has been brought up to date, at least the most-asked questions page. The rest is on The List.

Mothergoat has whipped up a preview video for his map, Decoy. (We mentioned this map a few days ago.) The movie, a 20.5 mb WMP9 file, is 3:03 of fun gameplay along with descriptions of the modded weapons. Definitely worth watching. Rated R, for r0X0rs. (If you haven’t downloaded the map yet, you can grab…

Madrox posted a fun little vid called ‘Under the Glass’, showing some nice vehicle-jamming on AotCR. It’s 4.2 mb, in WMP9 format, and I’ve tossed a QuickTime version up (3.7 mb) for folks who like that better.

Dolbex writes to point out that MLG and HaloTV are teaming up to bring Halo50k3 to your home, in realtime… assuming you’re one of the lucky 100 (or however many they decide they can handle) connections. Read more details at the MLG site!

gwdpto copied and pasted every single frame from the recently-released 3D screenshot… and discovered that there are exactly 117 of them. Will those guys NEVER stop? (We won’t discuss the absolute insanity in copying and pasting 117 frames of a movie, just to count them…) Update: False alarm. Seems gwdpto can’t count. 2 and 2…

Yesterday was Bungie Day, as we mentioned – and Bungie celebrated with a whole passel of news posts. The only Halo-related ones were already covered here… but the others are fun reading for anyone interested in the company. Frankie posted about a new poll – judge the Bungie guys’ cars; there’s a contest in the…

Gamespy has posted a new article on Halo 2 – it’s an overview of the weapons and vehicles we know about. Some of the info is questionable (in describing how the new Ghost takes location-specific damage, the article suggested that you could explode a ghost in Halo 1 multiplayer, ‘rendering it unusable for anyone who…

Interesting – zoe, the artist responsible for several of Bungie’s coolest wallpaper creations, is asking for fan input on her next creation. She’s got a quickpoll up in her Seventh Column chapter, asking ‘Which paint job would you most like to see in a 3d render of Master Chief for a desktop wallpaper?’ (Choices range…

I’d leave this until the morning, because I’m beat… but it’s pretty time-sensitive; there were only 500 to begin with, and 150 are already snapped up. ecost.com is offering the Limited Edition version of Halo 2 for $42.99 – awesome price! Thanks to bentllama, who took time out of his busy pancake-filled schedule to shoot…

Holy moley. Bungie has released another 3D screenshot… and this one has a fourth dimension… time. Rotate it, you change the angle of view… but you also change the action. (They blew up a warthog, but good.) I’m way behind on Bungie news today… but this is one you gotta view now. Two versions, 2…

Eep – a few weeks ago, we got word from Strato about a website devoted to a Marathon Total Conversion – Halo to Marathon. I didn’t want to flood their server, so I wrote to ask about it. Word came back that it should be fine – but the whole issue got buried under other…

Following a decades-long – well, maybe decade-long… okay a few years’ – tradition, July 7 is once again Bungie Day, a day to bask in the glory of upcoming world domination. SketchFactor has posted a happy little Flash card from MrSmiley commemorating the occasion. Watch it, then go play some Bungie games. Like Halo, maybe.

One One Se7en looks at one of the real downsides of a space elevator (a construct designed to move materials from a planet surface into space, mechanically – there has been speculation that one of these will exist in Halo). I’d recommend making sure your speakers are on… and that you’re using a browser OTHER…

Halo: Resolution looks at a tried and true institution… no matter how high-tech it gets, some things never change.

The technique pioneered by n00bles continues to inspire; J has posted a pair of screens – quite nice! Check ’em out. Update: and ANOTHER one, from n00bles again! This one is from Claustrophobia, a CE-only level. I’ve got to grab that…

As promised, we’ve put the first winning run from the Going Nowhere Fast contest online. Condorman dashed his way through the Pillar of Autumn in 6 minutes and 8 seconds in Legendary… it’s amazing to watch. It’s a 480×360 QuickTime movie that weighs in at a bit over 47 mb, and we’re serving it via…

Heh – pretty cool! Veegie and Madrox have begun work on a dual-wielding mod for Halo – there are a couple of short movies available in the Halomods thread (wmp9 format). This looks like it’ll be a lot of fun! It’s not clear from the thread or either movie whether this is Halo CE or…

Several Halo-related mods have put out Weekly Updates recently; you’ll find new content for Grand Theft Auto :: Codename Halo (a Halo CE mod), Homefront (a Battlefield: Vietnam mod), and Zanzibar (a Halo CE mod) at the respective links. Thanks to all who wrote in.

Piles of new fan artwork at Halo Babies – go take a look! Thanks to Big-Ern, of HaloPlanet, for the heads-up.