Month: January 2005

Yesterday evening, Bungie posted its Weekly What’s Update – a recap of what’s considered cheating, some vague info about downloadable content, an explanation of why the Zombie gametype can’t be added to the Matchmaking playlists, a bunch of basic stuff… and proof that better graphic tools will NOT make you a better artist. Go read.…

There’s a new update over at Halogen, the Command & Conquer Halo mod; they’ve put up a nice textured version of the Scorpion tank. We heard from team leader Dispraiser about it… but first heads-up goes to Logical2u.

Dennis Powers writes to say the Halo CE Chronicles Episode 2, ‘The Key to Home’, has been posted at Halo Maps. 4:20, Flash movie format. You can get some really nice camera angles out of Halo CE!

Eep – that last news post reminded me I forgot to post today’s One One Se7en. Hmm… maybe that was a GOOD thing.

Today’s Ctrl+Alt+Del news post is a tribute to Bungie… and to Halo in particular. A nice read. Check it out. Thanks, Bonekin.

We got an answer, of sorts, from Joe Staten regarding the titles used on the ‘Hall of Murals’ images we posted a couple of days ago. Not definitive by any means… but you take what you can get sometimes. (See the page for details.)

Remember how Bungie was gonna challenge EGM to a rematch, to try and regain their honor after the Humpday Challenge shellacking they took? Well, according to EGM Shoe’s blog, it happened… on Tuesday. Three games. EGM came out on top for the first two, lost the third. Stats, commentary, and a tiny bit of trashtalking…

Cody Miller has posted a number of his speedruns over at archive.org (home of the Wayback Machine, and a pretty darned respectable video game film collection) – you can find links to them in this forum post. (The Outskirts and Cairo Station runs were already posted in our news a couple of months ago -…

Yahoo’s Buzz Log noted that folks are doing quite a lot of searching for game cheats… and Halo 2 is 4th on the list of games currently being scanned. Don’t folks know there ARE no cheats? Thanks, Nathan Riggle.

John Rivas also points out a Christian-perspective review over at Plugged In Online. (It’s linked off the right side of the front page at the moment, the title is “‘Halo 2’: Save the World; Lose Your Soul?” – but it opens in a popup window; the full URL to the article, missing site navigation, is…

Tons of articles today are looking at Microsoft’s bottom line, and how it was bolstered by Halo 2. The LA Times has a piece showing that Halo 2’s $300 million in revenue helped the entertainment division post a gain instead of a loss. (Total sales were $10.8 billion for the year; $1.4 billion of that…

New Halo Babies comic is up – a wry look at a contentious issue. Good stuff.

goweb reminded me that I neglected to post a note about a cool prize won by Flashman in a contest over at Xbox Resource. Very nice… he’s not TOUCHING the wrapping on that!

I’m definitely behind on news… yesterday was a pretty rough day for me. MrJukes updated his website again; Jump Session #5 has been posted. Between Jump Tactics, synide’s Lockout tips, and this vid, you should be able to jump through Lockout like a master now! (This vid also contains Waterworks and Zanzibar footage… and an…

Wonga. Another ‘Work at Bungie’ article is up – this one covering Marty O’Donnell, Audio Artiste Extraordinaire (yeah, I’ve used something like that before… Hi, Matt!). Frankie asks Marty lots of questions, gets a few answers. Go read!

Today’s Calvin and Halo shows me what I missed in grade school… I guess it’s just as well.

Hehe – looks like the Bungie Boyz managed to find a team they could beat. This week’s Halo Humpday Challenge was against Tips & Tricks Magazine… and the final score was 3-0, Bungie. (The first two games were relatively close, however.) You gotta wonder a little about the fable… go read.

WhitebeardedGnu pointed out that G4TechTV’s X-Play had their ‘Best of 2004’ episode on last night (next showing is today, 4pm ET/1pm PT). Halo 2 was nominated for Best Shooter and Best Game of 2004; it lost the Shooter award to Half-Life 2, but won the Best Game award. Nice!

Gamespot readers were asked to pick the best commercials of 2004 – results came out today. According to this Business Wire article, the Halo 2 ad from last fall was the overall Commercial of the Year. Kudos to ICDedPpl, who found it at Yahoo Finance before Google found the Business Wire article.

In early December, SEspider kicked off a Miniature Halo art contest – deadline was January 31. He’s just extended it a month, because there haven’t been that many entries. Go check out the rules, and the prizes, and get to work!