Month: July 2005

Adium is an Instant Message client for MacOSX – and Epyon has created a Dock Icon for it based on Halo 2. Nice work! You can add comments to this thread.

Infesord pointed out that he’s got a Weapons Respawn thread over at halo2sucks.com with more info than either our online version or the PDF that bluestrike2 put together – worth a look if you’re trying to make sure you’ve checked every angle. (Some of his data conflicts with the data here – users need to…

kons0uL pointed out an entry he made yesterday on his RSCR: Respod blog, which uses Friday’s Weekly What’s Update from Bungie as a jumping-off spot for a rant about matchmaking and community exclusions. He also started a thread on our forum, if you’d like to chime in.

Okay, that’s pretty much it for me today – I’m off to KP’s for a LANfest. No more online stuff today, I don’t think! He’s said that the KPcam will be on all day – though right now, all you get a view of is his deodorant. And maybe a wig? I can’t tell. Dang.…

Stephen Loftus has updated his Halo Scale Comparison article with some new Halo 2 data – there are a bunch of new vehicles added to the images (Covenant Assault Carrier, Scarab, Phantom, Seraph, ‘Creep’, and some drop pods), plus some weapons updates, with new silhouettes. Nice work – check out the article again!

Episode 16 of the Codex Series has been posted on their website – it focuses on the power struggle between the Praetor and the Cleric, and shows some great voice and camera work. The main QuickTime version has a problem – it will crash your player at around 5:08 – so get either the brightened…

The Weekly What’s Update is online at Bungie.net – and this week, it’s mostly being used as a blog by Frankie, to talk about cheaters, and what losers they are. A fine, fine read, with a 2-week window of time before some major changes go into effect… go read. Plus, there’s a great poster. (Lots…

Been a long time coming… but there’s finally a Halo Demo for the Macintosh. At the moment, you can grab a copy on MacGameFiles.com – thanks, Dark uk. (It’s up a little before MacSoft thought it would be up – we’ll have a copy online soon, as well, but for now, use the MacGameFiles link.)…

LiL Poison, the 7-year-old Halo pro who also plays as Baby OGRE 4, will be at a tournament at Giants Stadium on July 23 – a ‘Beat LiL Poison’ Challenge will be available for anyone who wants to go up against him. (The Halo tourney – actually a pair of them – will be managed…

Dennis Powers wrote to point out that Halo CE Chronicles 11 has been released – ‘Decision’ shows the Station AI in an uncomfortable situation. 7:36 long, 23-24 mb depending on flavor (QT or WMP9). You can grab the version of your choice at the Halo CE Chronicles website (or any of the other GearboxGameZone sites,…

Another large batch of very funny dialogue from Captain Spark today – as usual, grab it either in zip format from his website, or browse (or search) the indivdual snippets in our Dialogue Databank.

Yesterday, Patriarch917 posted a really funny parody on our forum – The Barenaked Ladies would be proud. (Or, I guess, I’d HOPE they were proud. He did a great job.) Go listen! 2mb, MP3 format.

Today’s One One Se7en looks at a common cheating technique – well, not REALLY common, not in THAT form, anyway.

Nirvana has now provided a low(er)-res QuickTime version of Halo 2: Road to Glory – 313, direct download. For lower-bandwidth folks, save yourself 100 mb!

Very nice. Prometheus has posted a Firefox plugin for Seeker, 3of9’s new Halo-specific search engine. If you use FIrefox, now you can Seek right from the search bar!

Another vid passed the MPRRS recently – Hogmasta’s Retox, a montage of Halo 1 footage cut sharply to a remix of Linkin Park’s Faint. Video quality leaves a bit to be desired, but it’s great to see older footage integrated so nicely with the music! It’s available in WMP9 (22.9 mb) or QuickTime (23.8 mb)…

Do you think you’ve got a way with words? Do you agree with the phrase ‘brevity is the soul of wit’? Are you a Halo fanatic who loves a challenge? Jillybean and Stuntmutt have teamed up to bring you a somewhat different bungie.org contest – 117 Words. Write a piece of Halo fan fiction that…

Fourteen new pieces for you in the Fan Fiction section today – get reading!

A press release on Gamesindustry.biz says that Battleground Zero has launched the National Halo 2 Tournament Contest – an XBL-based multi-game tourney. The Halo 2 rules page can be found on their site.

Halo Babies has posted a new comic (surprise, surprise, it’s Friday) – don’t you wish you had a button like that?