Month: March 2005

After a sizeable stretch without submissions, the Halo 2 Dialogue Databank grows by 22 snippets, from three separate submitters. Captain Spark found a fantastic whiney grunt (forum thread is here), thesaelens tossed us another group of grunt quotes, and Icy Guy sent along the beginnings of our Halo 2 Multiplayer category. Check ’em out! Update:…

The Codex Series has released episode 4 – the humans have figured out how they might use the Codex to their advantage, at least in the short term. This one sets up action for the future, more than anything else. Go visit the site! (Apologies for my statement in an older Codex-related news post that…

Tricky points out an episode of Caffeine Online with Halo relevance. Title is appropriate.

The art continues to pour out of the Halo Babies community – tons of good stuff in today’s update. (My favorite has to be the CyberJackal pic – but check ’em ALL out!) Thanks, mrsmiley.

The Bafta Interactive Entertainment Awards were held yesterday and today in London – and Halo 2 went home with the Best Xbox Game award. In every other category for which it had been nominated, however (Action/Adventure, Online & Multiplayer, and Animation), it was beaten out by Half-Life 2. Ouch! Thanks to ICDedPpl, who saw it…

Afterwar 15 has been posted at Black Arts Studios – with some extra dialogue to explain what accidentally got left out of episode 12. Thanks, Kevin.

Included with the Limited Edition of Halo 2 was a booklet titled, “Conversations From The Universe,” detailing a few choice bits of interactions between various entities within the Halo universe. A number of folks have mentioned this booklet, and some of the information it contained, in forum posts over the last few months. Over at…

Not long ago, ipushmycar announced the release of BOTD2: Biohazard, a followup video to Beach of the Dead. (The trailer was released in mid-January, to rave reviews and heavy anticipation.) Beach of the Dead 2 does a fantastic job of telling a classic zombie tale with no dialogue at all (beyond the narrator’s voiceover at…

The actual strip in todays’ One One Se7en is quite funny – but the title pun makes me want to tear my eyes out and beat Stuntmutt with them.

You might remember a movie called Tainted Love – 12 minutes of Halo 2 gameplay, presented in Widescreen format. The Tainted One wasn’t satisfied with just presenting this to you in a web-sized box; he decided that folks should be able to see this in full wide-screen, DVD-quality goodness. To that end, he created a…

A couple of weeks ago, Phoenix_9286 posted a link to the start of his new ‘comic’ (I’m not sure it can be called that; it’s more of a storyboard tale, or something – he creates it by combining in-game screenshots and comic-style dialogue balloons). I forgot to mention it – but recently, he posted a…

Stephen Loftus continues his in-depth analyses of the structural underpinnnings of the Halo universe – tonight, we have a treatise on how he’s determined sizes of various objects and creatures. A good read, with great graphics. Check out his Halo Scale Comparison!

Mike Miller’s Legendary Walkthrough grows by another chapter – Delta Halo is now posted. Sixteen vids will help you get through this gorgeous level in style. (Be sure to check the main page, as well; there are a few updates, most notably the Sword Flying information added yesterday.) Mike’s not sure whether he’ll make the…

A couple of years ago, folks sat down and timed the respawn intervals between various weapons and items on various multiplayer maps in the original Halo. We posted the findings in our Miscellaneous section. Now, MurderDog and some friends have done the same work for all the Halo 2 maps; for folks wondering how long…

Alan James continues his work on a Master Chief suit – the main body piece begins to be formed. You’ll find the progress shown on his suit page.

Fans ROCK. An anonymous one just sent me one of the coolest Halo gifts I’ve ever received – a Nightmare Armor helmet (shot 1 | shot 2). It’s stuff like this that will finally get me to build a Halo display area in my office, I think. My week just got better.

Saint has updated the Library with all of the I Love Bees wav files. If you’ve never listened to these, and never felt like looking for them, they’re nicely organized in one place. (Hint for folks announcing stuff on our forum – you’ll get more readers if you actually provide a LINK to the new…

Jump Tactics has announced a Jump Tournament – show off the best jumping skills, win stuff like controllers, T-Shirts, video hosting. You can read all the details at HALOChat, or on our forum. Competition starts in less than three weeks – get practicing!

Wow, cool. OxYgEn, over at the Gearbox forums, has announced a new Halo CE map based on (of all things) a piece of Tina Leyk artwork. Check out the starting phases of Installation 07. Thanks, MasterGrief.

Brian Jarrard, aka SketchFactor, is still in Asia on a promotional tour for Halo 2 – he recently gave an interview to the DigiTimes.com, in Taiwan. It’s a general piece, introducing Taiwanese readers to the phenomenon that is Halo 2. Nice little sketch of Sketch, though!