Month: April 2005

TheDaringDuke put together a short vid on Banshee piggybacking, and boosting techniques. I’ve seen Banshee riding before… but the barrel rolls and boosting were new for me, and the presentation makes it easy to emulate. Worth a look!

Damian has sent along a midi file of the Halo theme… 8k.

As many noticed over the last few days, Bungie.net has been in a variable state of down-ness… they went offline for maintenance on Monday, came back Tuesday, but the forums were still down. Achronos pointed out (both on our forum and on Bungie.net) that things went back to normal last evening. Once again, he blames…

Looks like the HBO Clan members haven’t quite forgiven Stuntmutt for last week’s April Fools joke… as seen in today’s One One Se7en.

Jack Bauer points out a HaloCE map he’s working – The Pillar of Autumn, in space. The beta (as seen in the screenshots in the Gearbox Forums thread) look great!

LeaveMeAlone117 found a trailer for Grand Theft Auto: Headlong, a remake of the GTA: SA commercial in the Halo engine. 8.1 mb, WMP9 format. ObWarning: College Humor (the site that the video is hosted on) is not safe for work.

Hehe. In mid-March, we put up a copy of a Halo 2 vid telling the story of Wonderboy, Tenacious D’s mythical hero. It was the second Wonderboy vid we’d posted; the first went up in mid-2003. Now, there’s a third. Team Legacy Productions has put together their OWN version… timing’s quite nice. You can grab…

A lot of people have sent this one in, but we were all too busy at the lanparty to handle it- Last Friday, Xbox.com posted an interview with Microsoft Game Studios head Shane Kim. In this interview, he drops a number of hints about Microsoft’s plans for the next-generation Xbox, in particular this one: Xbox.com:…

It must be spring – Finn has taken off his snowshoes and put away his anorak and come out from his igloo in the far north of Canada just long enough to sort through the forum for the choicest Halo Story-related tidbits to add to the Halo Story page. Don’t expect him to stick around,…

So it looks like somehow, I missed the REAL strip last Friday at Halo Babies – I only noticed the April Fool’s strip. Ouch. Go back and check it out, if you missed it too… it’s pretty funny!

Gravemind might be the single most difficult level in Halo 2 – which is one of the reasons it took Mike Miller two weeks to churn out the Gravemind chapter of his Legendary Walkthrough. His hard work will make it much easier for you, however; he’s created a monster piece, with 20 individual video clips…

A number of snippets were submitted to the Dialogue Databank this weekend; Mr Fiddle pointed out a clip originally posted on the High Impact Halo forums, showing Herbie (an invincible grunt – do a search at HIH for more details) singing a hilarious rendition of the Beatle’s ‘Something’ (IWHBYD skull required) – we’ve included the…

Trevor points out that teamdirtytricks.net now has seven downloadable jumping vids – go check ’em out!

A week ago, Bonekin visited our forum with a link to a hilarious sendup of a Christina Aguilera song, called ‘Beautiful Needler’. Took a little while to track down the author… but today, unableelephant found the Gamespot journal of Archie Gates, the song’s creator – and it turns out there isn’t just one, but TWO…

The Fan Fiction section went offline for a couple of weeks on March 21, due to server connection issues. It came back up last Thursday – and today, finally, I’ve cleared the queue of submitted stories for the last few days. 23 new pieces, some quite good. Go read.

Another Resurrection writeup – this one from retsamolah. Comes with some fun pics, and a movie that starts with a pretty cool intro, will make you queasy with the b-roll gamplay footage, and ends with the unveiling of the Mullins print these guys got for me. Amazing stuff. (There’s another movie mirror from prometheus, if…

We got another montage from FuzzySmurf – this one’s called Forfeit. Once again, we’re providing a BitTorrent link for it (as we did for his last montage) – this is a relatively painless way for us to host montages, so I’m far more flexible about them. Composition is nice, quality is quite high. 56.5 mb,…

A new Ogre Montage went up last Friday – you can find it at Combovideos.com. There’s a sizeable thread over at MLGPro.com about it. Thanks to STB on our own forum for the heads-up. 55.1 mb, almost 12 minutes long, WMP9 format. These guys are unreal… I just spent a weekend playing with a group…

What happens when you mix Homestarrunner, Snoop Dogg, and Halo? You get more Halo rap. Seems to be the thing these days. Fo shizzle. (Created by Bomberman21 and TheSizzler82 for their clan, Fahordlingrads.)

Wow. Amazon.com is selling the Halo 2 Limited Edition (well, actually Tiger Direct is, THROUGH Amazon) for $35 plus shipping. What a deal! Thanks, Joystiq.