Month: January 2005

Gamestyle has put up a Halo 2 review – or at least the online portion of it. They gave it a 10/10. Thanks, Garry Webber.

A few days ago, we mentioned a ‘Halo 2 Montage’ by WaLKa – but the bandwidth ran out pretty quickly. A number of people on our forum were hoping someone would rehost this; we’re pretty tight on bandwidth this month, so we couldn’t put it up for you. However, the community has come to the…

Jillybean and mnemesis are both jumping all over the latest discussion popping up all over the place about Halo story snippets; you can find their latest thoughts on the Halo Story page. The Age of Speculation is upon us!

One of the tidbits that never made it into Halo 2 was a series of images created to show the progression of the Covenant civilization. A cutscene showing these images was included on the Limited Edition DVD – but Joe Staten explained that they were too info-heavy, and needed to be cut. 7he One did…

Over at MLGPro.com, synide has put together a Lockout/Colossus tips video – jumps, grabbing items through walls, general strategy. Definitely worth watching if you’re gonna be playing in a competition. It’s available via their Video On Demand service (for-pay on-demand streaming), or free, in rotation, on MLG-TV. Swing by and give it a look!

brokenwatch and UNEXPECTED62 have been working on a pretty cool ‘Halo 2 Advanced Stats’ page; drop in your gamertag, and get a WHOLE lot of info (over time). Because of the demand for this, if you add your tag today, it’ll be a day or so before you show up on their pages. After that,…

A few weeks ago, we mentioned that Marty O’Donnell and Jay Weinland would be speaking at the Game Developer’s Conference this year. Yesterday, Cybrfrk tipped us off that Chris Butcher and Bart House would also be there; their talk is called ‘Recreating the LAN Party Online: The Networking and Social Infrastructure of Halo 2’. A…

Major Nelson’s blog contains an interesting tidbit today; The Mystery Gamer will be playing Halo 2 this evening, after 7 pm ET. If you get in a game with them, and win… you get a T-shirt. More info (or not) can be found in the blog post. Thanks, Cybrfrk.

Littlebigman found a page containing large pics of all of the Halo 2 Series 3 action figures, and prototypes of a couple of the Series 4 figures. (The Ranger Elite looks pretty cool!) He also notes that the page labels Tartarus’ hammer as ‘The Fist of Rukt’ – as far as I know, that name…

A quick reminder; if you are headed for MLG DC this weekend, and you haven’t registered yet… deadline is tonight at midnight, no exceptions. They don’t have your money by today, you don’t play this weekend. Details on the Registration page at MLGPro.com.

Things you always wondered about prophets… or maybe not. In today’s One One Se7en.

12 new pieces for you in the Fan Fiction section today… go read!

TricKy passed on a couple of links for us last night… the Swedish gaming site NordicGamers.se posted their ‘Best of 2004’ article, and Halo picked up Best Soundtrack, but lost Best Action Game to Half-Life 2, and came in third for Game of the Year (behind Rome: Total War and Half-Life 2). Master Chief also…

replay put together a pretty long theory about where Delta Halo might be – an interesting read. For what it’s worth…the ‘Halo Activation Radius’ graphic he doesn’t know who to attribute to was created by PD, and has been in our Miscellaneous section for almost 3 years now.

Devin Olsen wondered if it was just that time of the month for Skill videos… it’s a bit late to be adding his entry to that post, but then, he calls his ‘Not a Skill Video’ anyway. 2:37, 7.4 mb. I liked the Zanzibar sword-carrier beatdown, myself. Update: Bonekin decided to get in on the…

Yesterday, Bungie posted a new Cheating FAQ, a collection of information about what constitutes cheating, what doesn’t, and what happens to cheaters. If you’re at all curious about whether that trick you’re exploiting will get you into trouble in the long run, or whether the team that just beat you by stealing the flag from…

As a cap to a truly spectacular day, content-wise, we’d like to offer you a few gorgeous images. Swing by our Craig Mullins Halo gallery for a full version of the Arbiter and Master Chief image used in today’s Sneaking wallpaper from Bungie. (There’s a more recent version of this image – one that has…

Three brand-new wallpapers have been released on Bungie.net – and man… there’s some classy stuff there. Mister Chief, in a classic WinXP setting… Delta Halo, in all its glory… and a recently-leaked Craig Mullins piece, reworked by Shishka for your screen. (There’s some good background in Sketch’s writeup about this piece.) Go look, go download,…

Mike Miller has come to be known as a pretty amazing campaign player; if you don’t know the name, you haven’t been reading our news. The man has graciously agreed to share his knowledge and skills with the Halo community; we will gradually be releasing a Legendary Walkthrough of Halo 2, created by Mike. It…

Hehe – over on the Marty Army forum at Bungie.net, Marty posted the following suggestion (you have to be a member of the Marty Army to be able to see this):The Marty Army members should all demand to see the video of Frankie attempting to “sing” Billie Jean. Talk about price.FugitiveSoldier has put up a…