Month: May 2005

In late January, Mike Miller began a Legendary Walkthrough of Halo 2, and for the next four months, he’d release a new level, once per week (or so), with hints, multiple plans of attack, and plenty of video examples, to help you get through what (at first) seemed nearly impossible. Today, that guide is finished;…

Drew Santorello and Mark Werner like to bring their virtual playthings to life; they sent in a few pics of weapons they’ve recreated in real life. Check ’em out!

The third movie to make it through the MPRRS today is the second episode of the Necrosis Clan’s eponymous series. You can grab it from their site (WMP9 format, 3.4 mb) or from ours (WMP9 format or a 4.8 mb QuickTime). Again, dialogue comes from the Dialogue Databank; it will be interesting to see how…

Another vid that made it through our rating system – Foilman’s ‘Final Pass’, a Halo PC montage. The man loves his rockets… This is available in WMP9 format (42.9 mb) or QuickTime format (34.4 mb). There are some rumblings on our forum this morning that the quality level of passed films is dropping a bit;…

The Movie Peer Review Rating System continues to evolve; we’ve begun to add tips for movie makers, and you can find them on the Submitter FAQ page. A recently-passed vid came from MereCatFish, a member of the HBO Helljumpers clan. It’s basically a collection of stuff that amused him in-game; some of it is great,…

B0ggyB sent us a note about his DeviantART site, which has a number of Halo-related items in its gallery:Arbiter sketch Elite model (made of blue tac) Drone variation Ze Arbiter Go check it out!

Area 54, a Halo CE map we mentioned a little bit ago, has been released. You can read about it over at HaloMods, grab a copy from Halo Universe. Thanks, MasterGrief.

To the 42 million people sending us links about the Xbox360 and its leaked specs… thanks, but we’re not an Xbox site, we’re a Halo site. And while it’s likely that one (or more) versions of Halo will eventually RUN on this hardware, we’re not the place to bring you information about its wireless capabilities,…

Video Gamers League has changed the rules for their tournaments; you can find the updated listing on the Rules page. (Check the Schedule page to see if one of the tourneys is near you.) Thanks, Jeff.

Still steamed about sniper jackals in Halo 2 campaign mode? Stuntmutt is, as evidenced by today’s One One Se7en.

w00tness has posted a new strip. Normally, Duo lets other people discover his work… but he was pretty proud of this one – so let him know what you think.

JSatt has released a standalone (Windows-based) app to organize your custom gametypes – it’s still in beta, but you can find more info and a download link in this forum post.

In the absense of any REAL information about a big-screen Halo movie (all the information ANYBODY has at this point was summed up in a February piece in Variety), How Stuff Works has posted ‘Halo: The Musical’, a short piece explaining what they DON’T want to see happen. It’s just like a million forum posts…

A few weeks ago, we mentioned some movies made by the Praetoria Guard, a Halo 2 clan. Recently, they submitted their work to the Movie Peer Review Rating Service – not for hosting, but to obtain feedback so that they could make their works better. All four submissions passed, with flying colors – reviewers were…

A new work from Stephen Loftus – he’s put the Halo Covenant Dropship under his microscope, and taken a close look at its capabilities, with plenty of cool in-game visuals. Give it a read! (There’s more stuff in the queue for today, but it’s gonna have to wait – it’s Mother’s Day, after all, so…

Bitter and dejected, Dev created a new comic strip to pour his unhappiness about Halo 2 into. The first few episodes aren’t very funny – but who knows, maybe it’ll get better?

Last Stand gets another episode – or at least another Informational Announcement. Get to know Inigo Montoya, up close and personal. Sort of.

Sixteen new pieces for you in the Fan Fiction section… they keep coming in! Go read.

Speaking of the MPRRS, two movies that have passed in the last couple of days are now ready for download. Spartan Smasher originally posted his Hpod Shuffle vid in our forum – when it passed our rating system, we put up another pair of links for it. (The originals, plus our mirrors – both WMP9…

Wow. The Movie Peer Review Rating System turns one month old today – and I think it’s surpassed our hopes for it already! In the past 30 days, our volunteer reviewers have rated 79 films, passing 21 of them – just over a quarter. That SERIOUSLY decreases the amount of watching I, personally, have to…