Month: June 2005

Ben Ritter (aka BitMaP) posted a spoof CNN article yesterday – pretty funny jabs at both EA and Bungie. (GameJunkieJim also reposted it over at Bungie.net.) Give it a read!

Aaron Beierle has written a review of Halo 2 for CurrentFilm.com – plot gets a 9/10, the DVD gets 9.5/10, Sound gets 10/10 (go, Marty and co!). Check it out.

Whoa. Very cool. For anyone who didn’t buy Sanctuary and Turf when they came out – it seems they’re available now, for free, in the Content Download section of XBL. Go get ’em! Thanks, Echohammer419.

Stuntmutt continues to take shots at his HBO Helljumper buddies (or maybe himself, hard to tell) in today’s One One Se7en.

Fifteen new stories in the Fan Fiction section today – looks like writers were also busy this weekend! (And I’m happy to see the page is now working correctly… story processing is much easier on the new system, so I’m a happy camper.)

Looks like someone’s been busy this weekend; many, many people who’ve been cheating using modded maps are now banned from Halo 2 Matchmaking. A recent example can be found in this forum post by pwn4ge, a member of the PraetoriaGuard clan – they were cheated in a Containment game (they even filmed it – I’m…

Another great writeup over at MLGPro.com – thanks to 3Suns for the heads-up. Sounds like a pretty amazing tourney!

Stephen Loftus brings us yet another analysis piece – this time by way of his connections with ONI. It’s a look at Covenant Weaponry, as found in Halo. It contains a wealth of information, including physical parameters, weapon strengths, and general mechanics. Check it out!

retsamolah has put together a fun montage – mostly it’s to show KP jumping off various walkways on Lockout, I think (after taking slight damage from rets, so that rets gets the kill), but it’s fun to watch. We’re not hosting it – KP is, over at spartans.bungie.org. 49.2 mb, QuickTime format, nice matching of…

There’s a fun article over at Yes Weekly, a Greensboro, NC news magazine – it looks at a local gaming center, and extrapolates to how gaming in general has evolved and grown over the years. Halo 2 plays a pretty prominent role in the writeup. Thanks to demus, who pointed this out in our forum.

docpan dropped by our forum with an offer; he’s got a 6-foot-tall Master Chief figure he needs to sell, and he figured he’d offer it to hardcore fans before putting it up on eBay. If you’re interested, stop by the thread, and see what’s what!

Merecatfish points out that The Halo 2 Conversion Map Team (CMT for short) has released Coagulation, their version of the Halo 2 map for Halo CE – there’s a thread devoted to the subject over at the Gearbox forums. There’s a video, created by KOD_Legend, showing you what it looks like (65 mb, WMP9 format,…

I haven’t highlighted a forum post from Matt Soell in quite some time – partly because he hasn’t been around (in a posting sense) for a while, but also because he no longer works for Bungie. However, he posted a note this evening that is worth a read by anyone interested in the marketing side…

Apologies for the delay in this news; I’ve been unavailable for updates most of today. MLG St. Louis is fully underway now (day one is actually past), and there’s a ton of content available at MLGPro.com. You can watch today’s matches on their Video On Demand service – there’s a writeup of the FFA Finals…

N1NJ4 writes to point out that the HBO Forerunners website is up and running, with tons of fun content for you. There’s a clan blog (interesting idea, with a half-dozen entries already, mostly decent reads), various art and video tidbits, and a trailer for the upcoming clan vid, “Forerunner Chronicles” (24.3 mb, WMP9 format, 1:31…

kr4zed submitted a montage vid to our Movie Peer Review Rating System – and the reviewers liked the timing, and the video effects. (They would have been happy with more spectacular gameplay – but apparently it was good enough to pass even with this gripe.) It’s available in WMP9 format (36.6 mb) or QuickTime format…

Alan James sent in some new pics of his Master Chief suit in progress; he’s got leg pieces and gloves started. Check ’em out!

Almost a month ago, (GT))Juggler posted a teaser for ‘No Scope King’, a vid he was putting together that collected no-scope snipes from various games. Last night, this movie was released, and promoted on halo2forum.com. (Bandwidth is being provided – in its entirety – by Mythica; the halo2forum thread is just an announcement.) Unless you…

Mintz08 continues his PSP-ready conversions – this time with the 3D Terminal screenshots released yesterday. I’m still having trouble understanding the draw, but there it is for anyone who wants it.

Diss3nt has written up a blog entry with his thoughts about Halo 3. It’s a little bit schizophrenic (after ranting about how Halo 2 got too much advertising, and how that detrimentally affected the fanbase, he complains that wants to see more promotional focus on the storyline – it was too neglected in the Halo…