Year: 2004

Rockslider posted a new Frontline with Suzie yesterday – this one has Suzie talking to the Flood. Weird – I didn’t know they COULD talk!

Ever wonder about the process it takes to go from an idea to a modeled animation in a game like Halo? Gamepro has put up a short article explaining the steps, from storyboard to finished product. Take a look!

This week’s update is over at the newly remodeled HaloPlanet – and there’s more and more censored stuff. (Some weird formatting, too.) Lots of cool tidbits that we CAN read, though, like 15,107 FINISHED LINES of combat dialogue… and female marines! Go read. Update: Weird formatting is fixed – thanks, Frankie!

Red vs Blue has decided to put off the release of Episode 38 (the final episode of Season 2) so that they can make it as polished as they want it to be. In its place, they’ve released a new Public Service announcement to celebrate the Fourth of July – and I gotta say, it…

n00bles, a member of Fungi (the group that made Fissure Fall), has been making a series of battle pictures over at the Gearbox forums – there are shots of Blood Gulch, Sidewinder, and Timberland, as well as custom maps like Fissure Falls. This post explains how he made them. Extremely cool! (Thanks to TURBO for…

Excalibur, Team Lead for Grand Theft Auto :: Codename Halo, wanted to point out that work has begun on this project to bring GTA to the Halo engine. The site is hosted by Grenadiac, of Halomods, and is a bit light on content so far – though there are some answers and a bunch of…

Dolbex points out a media blitz over at MLGPro.com. Photos from recent events (like a set from Midwest Mayhem last month) can be found in the MLG Gallery, and highlight games from MLG tourneys can be found in the Downloads section. Both of these sections require registration on the site before you have access to…

The New York Times has an article from yesterday about Internet TV – streaming video from established sources. The focus is on a guy who streams karaoke from a local bar… but a sidebar contains a ‘Streaming Sampler’ – video available online – and one of the three examples is Red vs Blue, which “places…

teamhalo has opened a Spotlight section – and the first interview is posted; kornman00 talks about reverse-engineering the HEK.

One One Se7en proves that Sarge will ALWAYS rock harder than MC.

A week ago, Ross Mills challenged our forum to come up with some Halo-related game crossovers – alter a picture of Halo by bringing in elements from another game. There were a number of entries – a couple quite funny – but BOLL, as usual, can’t be satisfied with a simple picture – he has…

Halo: Resolution shows that even if you have manpower, you still get nowhere without brains…

CYBRFRK points out the blog of Major Nelson, Director of Programming for Xbox Live – yesterday, he took some pics of a new statue that appeared in the lobby of his building. I supposed that means it’s okay for me to put up a pair of pics I took myself of this statue – at…

It’s Friday, so there’s a Halo Babies update… the new strip looks at the kindness of strangers (or of Bungie level designers, depending on your viewpoint), and Gruntsbane has posted a fantastic wallpaper based on some artwork he submitted to us a little bit ago. Go grab it!

Narcogen, at Rampancy.net, points out the next installment in Sparky’s Guides – this one is devoted to King of the Hill. Once again, it’s a solid read; there are general tips for the gametype, and then specific pointers for each multiplayer level. Check it out!

Wow – 3 days, 22 Fan Fiction pieces. That’s more than 7 a day… you should go read some.

Couple of tournaments for you, both sides of the Atlantic: first up, there’s a tourney in Tewksbury, MA, on July 10, with a $5 admission and a top prize of a $1350 Dye DM4 paintgun. (Thanks, Pepper4099.) Second, in London, on August 21, there’s the Elite Gaming Championships, with a £25 entrance fee and top…

Calvin and Halo steps back from comedy for some philosophy today.

Gamindustry.biz has a story about how this Christmas is going to be rough on gaming companies, because of the huge amount of competition. Halo 2 is one of the few titles listed as likely being immune to the loss of market share. Makes you wonder why some of these companies don’t hold off a couple…

Wow – SwampFox has managed to convert Singleplayer to Multiplayer (in this case, the Library) – on XBOX. If you have a modded box, go grab this now. (If you don’t, and want to know HOW to mod your box – go there now, anyway. HBO is not the site you want for Xbox moddding…