Month: July 2005

Sixteen new pieces available in the Fan Fiction section today – get to reading!

corpseguy posted a few shots of a helmet he’s made for Halloween this year – looking pretty nice!

Generally, we stay away from net polls nowadays – they don’t really tell you anything except which game has a fan community more willing to vote in polls. Sometimes, though… they’re fun. In an article about the top 100 all time classic computer games, Yahoo Games UK is asking for your favorite game of all…

Newfive has posted a short guide to Halo 2 Custom Edition, the recently released (and these days almost-daily-augmented) HaloCE project. The guide comes with nice pics, links to all relevant material, and answers to basic questions – check it out!

Dennis Powers writes to point out that GearboxGameZone has mirrored The Squadron videos, and has added over 20 new Halo vids in the past two days, including most of the videos available on the “This Spartan Life” website (and a bunch that aren’t – there are now WMP9-encoded versions of the first 5 episodes). Go…

Looks like the Halo Babies team has taken a page from the Bungie playbook and is challenging other Halo community teams to Xbox Live duels. There’s a writeup from Dark Halo posted over at the Halo Babies website, detailing a recent match between the HBN crew and the Marty Army – looks like this series…

Last fall, we mentioned ‘There’s Something about Halo’, a Flash vid over at Newgrounds – now, the team behind it has a preview of TSAH2 online (click the floating ‘TSAH2’ thing). That’s some weird dancing… thanks, Tactic.

The MPRRS continues to process submitted movies – The Squadron is a machinima series from the folks at Broken Console. Episode One is nearly 12 minutes long, and introduces the main characters and the storyline. Reviewers liked the humor and the flow. Check it out! WMP9 format (26.4 mb) or QuickTime format (26.7 mb).

Conner Reeves is selling a Frankie-signed Halo 2 poster on eBay – starting bid is just under $15, and there are 4 days left in the auction. Here’s your chance for a personal Mister Chief on your wall!

WHAM! Gaming (a subsection of the CANOE network) reviewed the Multiplayer Map Pack last week – they liked most of the maps, but had problems with Gemini, Terminal, and Warlock. Issues aside, the collection earned a 9.5/10 from them. Thanks, Anton P. Nym.

Okay, this isn’t Halo-related in the slightest, I don’t think – but it DOES hold some interest for those of you who follow Bungie, the company, and the people that (used to) work for it. According to USA Today, there’s a new reality TV show coming soon – Xquest will be brought to you by…

The Academy of Machinima Arts & Sciences (AMAS) issued a press release and call for entries for this year’s Machinima Film Festival – submissions began to be accepted a week ago, with a final deadline of October 6. Get cracking! (This press release was originally posted on their website on July 11, but we just…

In an effort to help the free-market economy keep the money flowing, Bungie has updated their Store with some new merchandise. A carabiner keychain, and four new shirts. Of particular note is a very old-school Marathon shirt, faithfully re-created by Shishka. Nice. Check it all out!

The ‘Video Games are Evil’ concept has blown up again in recent weeks, spurred primarily by the release of the Hot Coffee mod for Grand Theft Auto (google it if you don’t know what it is) – and the whole ‘Violence in Video Games’ controversy has been reopened because of it. I haven’t written much…

A couple of days ago, we mentioned that the Halogen website would be posting lots of new info over the next couple of weeks – the updates started today; there’s a new website online, Flash-based, and though it’s not finished yet, I guess they’ll be adding to it as time goes on. (It’s actually quite…

Z, from Halo2Forum.com, dropped us a note about a couple of montages they’re hosting – Hellzfire’s First Montage is 56 mb, WMP9 format, and full of sticks and noscope snipes. Titan VIII’s 3rd Montage is 95.7 mb, WMP9 format, and of course has its share of sticks and snipes, but seems to focus on the…

jezek, of Haloz Productions, submitted a video called ‘Fire Coming out of a Monkey’s Head’, which tells the story of the Gorillaz song using the Halo engine. The MPRRS reviewers liked it (though a few thought it didn’t have enough action in it – I think we’re getting jaded) – it’s nicely laid out. Give…

Wow. As we mentioned a couple of weeks ago, Bungie was up for 7 honors this year in G4TV’s G-Phoria awards – the ceremony took place last night (though it won’t be aired for another couple of weeks), and Bungie swept all 7 of those categories! Nice! Gamespot’s got an article with more details -…

MLGPro.com will be ramping up the coverage, both written and via their Video on Demand service, for this weekend’s Halo Nationals 2 event in Philadelphia. You can read all the details on this page – but remember, Video on Demand is only available to Windows XP users. Thanks, 3Suns.