Year: 2004

Hobbes takes a defensible stand in today’s Calvin and Halo.

SEspider wants to remind everyone that the Wallpaper contest he started a couple of weeks ago is ending this Saturday, July 10. If you’re planning on getting an entry in… now’s the time to do it! (The rules, once again, are here in our forum.)

Took us a while… but the first stage of the Going Nowhere Fast contest has been completed. We have a list of winners of each level run, and we’ll be contacting them invidivually about prizes. You can read a full status report on where we stand if you’re curious about what’s coming next. The first…

We recently discovered a glitch film in our uploads folder; it’s called ‘Blood Gulch Bash’, and it’s 4:36 worth of Blood Gulch tricks, some old, some less old, all crammed into an 18.1 mb package. It was made by Paul and KingHalo, over at Halo Secrets… and if you explore their site, you might find…

Last Friday’s Weekly Bungie Update has been added to our Updates Archive – i find it amazing that this is the first week in which Bacon is actually mentioned. Go figure.

One One Se7en checks out the ramifications of Halo 2 being a console title.

Halo: Resolution points out one of the lucky coincidences the Pillar of Autumn happened upon…

14 new Fan Fiction stories released this weekend… go check ’em out!

stan has announced a new contest – come up with a picture of his clan mascot, win free ice cream. Details in this forum post.

Ash and Doggie (his son) managed to entice the Gold Elite at the very end of Assault on the Control Room to follow them all the way back to the start of the level – amazing! Ducain did a fantastic job of condensing the experience down to a 3:37-long, 14.3 mb video (wmp9 format) -…

The Megabattle technique pioneered by n00bles last week has been played with by other fans – it looks like fun! BOLL got started recently (that’s a 299k JPEG – I’m guessing it’s only the beginning), and yesterday VALENCE posted some shots on our forum. If past experience is any indication, I’m guessing that a flood…

Hehe – Pico has found an egg in the recently-announced SP-to-MP conversion of AotCR, by nukedude… and while it was designed to be unattainable without cheating, nukedude has stated that there IS a way to get it (but he won’t tell anyone how). Can YOU find the way? Personally, I’m more interested in the concept…

Mothergoat has posted another pair of maps, with descriptions, for Halo CE. For the curious, there are also a few screenshots. Nice!

TeamXbox posted an interview with Andre Vrignaud, Technical Evangelist from the Xbox Live Platform Strategy Team, in which he discussed where he thought Xbox Live was going in the near future. Predictably, Halo 2 plays an important role in their plans. He’s pretty optimistic about the Live support the game will have, and about how…

There’s plenty of stuff backed up, stuff that should get posted… but I’d ask everyone to be patient, and wait a bit. Today I’m spending the day with my family, hanging out and barbecuing in the back yard. (Well, my sister’s back yard.) No Halo news – OMG! Enjoy July 4th, we’ll be back tomorrow!

SketchFactor has announced the winners (and not-so-winners) of the Bungie.net Avatar contest that’s been going on this past month. There’s some great stuff (and not so great stuff) to be seen – check it out! Thanks to Sep7imus for the heads-up.

Whoa, missed it. Mrs Doublefire updated his long-dormant New Mombasa thread on the Gearbox forum with seven new screens – take a look! (Thanks to HaloPlanet for noticing this.)

Joyride has updated its site again, with more pictures – the yellow civilian hog mentioned in its printed material now has some information – it’ll be limited to 2000 pieces, and will be available in October. Check the Halo 2 page, and click ‘Hog’. There are also pictures of the newest Battle-Damaged exclusives in the…

Ow. A note on our forum points out that Randy Pitchford has made an announcement on the Gearbox forum that there will be no Halo CE updates in the near future – work on the project was contingent on market penetration, and to date, Halo CE adoption has been disappointing. This is definitely a blow…

Yesterday, nukedude posted notice that his AotCR to multiplayer map release was out of beta and ready for final release. I visited the download page, but there were no screenshots – so I asked. nuke delivered. Check it out – this is a gorgeous map!