Month: February 2005

The Halo CE Chronicles continues over at Halo Maps, with Episode 5 – ‘Thy Pain be Mine’. Definitely a different view of human-Covenant interactions… this ain’t your standard Spartan. Flash format, 6:16, 7 mb.

Wow. Webshift (the original webmaster for the Nightmare Armor website, but someone who left the team a ways back) is selling his personal Master Chief full body armor on eBay. Starting bid is $2000 (less than half the price a set would have cost you direct from Nightmare Armor, even if they HADN’T stopped selling…

The Weekly What’s Update has been posted at Bungie.net. Summary: Downloadable content is coming, cheating fixes are coming, you can be banned for being stupid on the b.net forums, and they can’t answer the questions they want to answer. If you are one of those people who don’t want to read an update that basically…

MLGPro.com has released its Aftermath video from MLG DC. (synide says it’s lame, but I think he’s biased.) It’s about 4 and a half minutes long, and will give you a taste of what MLG’s tournaments are like. WMP9 is 34 mb, QuickTime is 33 mb. If you’re a Video on Demand subscriber at MLG,…

lAbsolutel pointed out that his speed run of the level The Arbiter has been posted at High Speed Halo; quality’s not great, but you can certainly see the action. While you’re there, check out Flechette’s amazing Uprising run; 2:25 from opening to closing cutscene. Wow!

We recently got a rather odd submission – Zytz grabbed a copy of Cortana’s Core, a recently added desktop image created by Demonic Spartan, and altered the hue – a dozen times. All 13 images are in his Cortana’s Core Mod Package (3.5 mb, zipped); the idea is that you use them as rotating desktops.…

Hehe – today’s One One Se7en was originally scheduled to be a Wednesday strip, so that it could properly whinge about the Legendary Walkthrough chapter that had been released the day before. We did some shuffling recently, and I guess I screwed up. Pretend it’s Wednesday. In fact, pretend it’s Wednesday a few weeks ago,…

Fan Fiction gets another 15 pieces today. Go read.

NJHalo.com is hosting a $1000 Halo 2 tourney ($30 entry per person for 4v4 gaming) tomorrow (Saturday, Feb 19) in Dover, NJ. Check their post on our forum or their website for more details.

Sniper 058 put together a six minute tribute to the Arbiter – mostly Legendary gameplay (the final scene was done in Heroic, because he didn’t want the movie to last all night), interspersed with (nicely) overdubbed cutscene footage. Available in WMP9 (16.9 mb) and QuickTime (19.9 mb) formats. I probably shouldn’t need to say this…

Xbox Solution has reviewed Halo 2 – they gave it a 9.7/10. Took ’em this long because they couldn’t put the controller down long enough to write.

There’s an interview with StK, the top team on the Halo professional circuit right now, over at MLGPro.com. It’s a pretty interesting read; they discuss how Halo 2 is different than Halo was, in terms of team competition, and what you need to do to be on top. It’s all about teamwork and positioning -…

New Halo Babies strip today – it’s Friday. I gotta say – Baby Arbiter rocks. Go check out the new elite concept art, as well (link is in the same post).

The Halo Humpday Challenge this week was between Bungie and the Pooflingers. Looks like it was ugly all ’round. Poor Frankie. Go read the details… thanks, Skedar.

Littlebigman found pics of the next couple of series of Halo 2 action figures at figures.com – they’re shots taken of displays for Toy Fair 2005, opening this Sunday in New York City. The Arbiter looks pretty cool!

Alan James has undertaken another fan-created Master Chief suit creation project – we’ve put the first 10 photos he’s sent us up, and will add to the page as he progresses. Nice beginning!

Logical2u pointed out that Derelict Studios has updated their Halogen website again – this time with pics of a Longsword, the Hammerhead (a heavy transport vehicle), and some player characters (spartans and other UNSC soldiers). Getting there!

Interesting – JSatt has created an Access database to organize your Halo 2 Custom Gametypes. You can grab a copy off his website. I don’t have a copy of Microsoft Access, so I have no way to test this… but it looks useful for those who maintain a large collection of custom gametypes and want…

The Codex, a machinima series started a few weeks ago, released episode 2 last night. Currently available as QuickTime only (but with DivX and WMP9 coming soon), this episode continues the storyline of a Covenant invasion of Earth, aimed at recovering an ancient Forerunner artifact. As with previous releases from this team, this vid shows…

Wow – Microsoft is recalling 14 million Xbox power cords because of potential burns and carpet scorching. If you’re in the US, and your Xbox was manufactured before October 23, 2003, or you’re in Continental Europe and your Xbox was manufactured before January 13, 2004, you’re eligible for a free, new cord. Read this CNN…