Month: April 2005

Michael Smith is selling some promotional Halo schwag he’s collected, on eBay.co.uk. First two items up are a Halo PC Oversized Promo Box (Currently at £5) and a Master Chief resin sculpture (33 cm, or 13″), currently at £45. Forum thread is here. Check ’em out!

Pizack points out an article he helped write at Everything2.com, a wiki-like site with tidbits about… oh, lots of things. This particular article is about Halo 2. (First half contains spoilers.)

Interesting post went up yesterday at the Halo Story Page. I didn’t notice until I was berated by Ciarán on the forum. Go read… funky stuff.

William Vitka’s latest Gamecore article on CBSNews.com looks at the idea of a Halo movie… from the standpoint of someone who’s worried about the ‘mogulization’ of video games (more and more games being made by fewer and fewer developers, with big-budget sequels getting the nod over edgy indie releases). Will the ‘right’ people be able…

Bryn Casey, who posts online as ofthehi77, has created quite a bit of traditional-media art focused on Halo over the past couple of years. We liked it enough that we decided to put up a gallery page for him; he’ll be adding to it over time. Most of these pieces have been seen, either posted…

Broadcast Gamer, run by longtime Bungie community member MC Wilson, aka Nijhazer, has an audio interview with our own Claude Errera covering a wide range of Bungie (and Bungie.Org)-related topics, including the upcoming Halo 2 content, eternally lingering Marathon fan projects, sneaky Russians single-handedly reverse engineering older Bungie games, and an old Bungie.Org friend, Pierre.…

Luke Timmins, a programmer on Halo 2, will be speaking at the University of Utah on April 21 (admission is free). Full details can be found at Voodoo Extreme (thanks, orion 12).

3Suns points out the latest Top Ten Bestselling PC Games list at Evil Avatar… it’s amazing that Halo is still on it. (At number 7, no less!) Doom 3 (released August 2004) is no longer there… Half-Life 2 (released mid-November 2004) is number 6. In fact, with the exception of an $11 Sims expansion pack,…

Lachdannan received a really cool gift from his girlfriend for his birthday… the forum crowd thinks he should marry her!

Comics around the net today:After War 17 has been posted at Black Art Studios – The Chief and Sarge go out on a limb.Uber-Chief 69 has put up a website for Resolute – there are now 5 episodes of this sprite-based comic. (He announced it on our forum, as well.)Mr Kippling has blogged his Bye-stander…

Nirvana has posted a number of movie mirrors – you can find the link in this forum post. Always nice to have more bandwidth!

High Impact Halo is a year old today! Amazing how a small site devoted to the vids of a single person has grown into the most comprehensive Halo tricking site on the internet, in one short year. Congrats, guys! (Ducain started a thread here – go spank him.)

Motherstooth has started a new machinima series… it’s called Miranda, and it focuses on your favorite female Halo 2 UNSC Captain. Episode One introduces her in a way you’ve never seen… she really IS pretty tough. Check it out! WMP9 format, 9.6 mb, hosted by That Weasel Television. Update: There’s a QuickTime version up now,…

Lots of College Humor links today… folks went searching. (First off: that GTA vid we mentioned yesterday can be found at its home site, as well – thanks, Austin Wilkinson. And while we’re on the subject of GTA remakes… Fbu pointed out that he made his own version a couple of months ago, on KoTHalo.com.)…

Mercury points out another entry in his Halo blog – a discussion of the downloadable content coming soon, and a look at how these things get promoted. Go read!

Among the concerts presented this summer at the Hollywood Bowl, one strikes a chord here. “Video Games Live,” featuring music from a variety of different games including Halo, is scheduled for July 6th. Sycophantic Marty fans eagerly await word on whether he will be conducting/playing/singing at the event. You can check out the Video Games…

If you’re interested in helping out a biology student, go read this forum post – Kyle Schouviller is trying to build a dataset that will show which color provides the best camoflauge. I think he’s got his work cut out for him (and then some)… but you gotta give him credit – he’s trying to…

A new piece from Craig Mullins today – a spectacular Mullins-esque rendition of the Master Chief. So few strokes… so much detail! Thanks, KP. (It’s the last image on the page, if you’re having trouble finding it.)

This is just… odd.

Vic points out that the 2v2 tournament in New York we mentioned recently is happening this weekend – free Red Bull! Check the post, and check the site.