Month: August 2005

Dennis Powers wrote to point out that The Halo CE Chronicles Episode 16, Harmony, has been released – the action heats up, and a long-time plot mystery has been cleared up. Go watch! WMP9 (25.4 mb), QuickTIme (29.9 mb), and streaming Flash (9 mb) formats.

Paradox pointed out that there’s a new community bar for Halo – it allows searching with Seeker and HaloWiki. (It also pulls in the HBO RSS feed…) Give it a look! Requires Firefox and Windows.

Thanks to DSmooth, who pointed out Episode 7 of 2old2type, 2old2play.com’s bi-weekly podcast. This one is about an hour long, weighs in at 28 mb in mp3 format, and covers their recent lanfest, as well as upcoming stuff and other stuff. And stuff. (They’re also finally on iTunes, so you can subscribe from there.) Go…

Been out all day… get ready for a flood of news! We’ll get started with the funnies… ÜberChief posted Episode 16 of his Resolute comic – a perfect example of how unstressed people can be until THEIR stuff gets trashed.

Stuntmutt puts forth an alternate speculation for why a couple of the Halo 2 characters ended up working together in today’s One One Se7en.

HollywoodHalo’s Update 7 passed our MPRRS last night – go watch this for updates on sites like Bungie.net and High Impact Halo. The Pumpkin stuff is a little… odd. Go watch! Just over 30 mb, in either WMP9 or QuickTime formats.

A couple of days ago, Eisen Feuer posted a bunch of dialogue snippets to our forum – high-quality recordings of the various multiple-kill announcements in multiplayer. We’ve finally added them to our Dialogue Databank – one that doesn’t show up in that link is ‘Un-Freakin-Believable’ which was in the databank before, but in a much…

This Spartan Life is hosting a Halo competition on XBL today, at 1pm, EST (that’s a bit less than 5 hours from now). The winner will become a semi-regular character on the popular show, as Damian’s bodyguard. Competitors must be 18 or older, and clearly you must also have access to XBL (and a broadband…

The next episode of Nephrons (‘Nephrons – Minus Five’) has been released by ChairLeg Productions – and it’s passed our Movie Peer Review Rating System. You can grab it in PSP-friendly form (368×208, 16.2 mb, MP4 encoding), directly from their site… or in PC-friendly form (standard 640×480 formats) from us; WMP9 format is 44.3 mb,…

The HaloCE community continues advancing the product – Wave of Lag points out a thread on the Gearbox forum where The Ghost demos the first cutscene in the Maw, completely rendered in HaloCE. (HaloCE was released as multiplayer-only; there was no explicit support for campaign play. That didn’t stop these guys, though.) Looks like custom…

Broken Console has posted Episode 3 of The Squadron – it’s called ‘Dinosaurs and Clones’. Pretty nice work, overall! You can grab a WMP9 version (22.6 mb) at their site… and we’re hosting a QuickTime version (21.6 mb) for them (because AnubisUK disappeared before he could get it linked on his own site). Comments can…

1Up has posted a review of the Multiplayer Map Pack. Well, it’s more than that, really – it’s an 11-page-long strategy guide, with general gameplay tips, weapon respawn times, video clips, map-specific strategies… pretty impressive across the board. Thanks to Sabata for the heads-up on our forum.

Voting is now open to the public in the third annual “Rockets on Prisoner” awards – swing by the site, and vote for your favorite films of the past year! Thanks to That Weasel for all his hard work in making this happen.

Very nice – oil writes to point out that his stat tracking site has been updated; you should go visit! I checked it out, and it calculates a LOT of stuff. Comments can go in this forum post by DRT 117.

Overswarm is back from summer break, with a bunch of new goodies for you in the Not So Common Sense Strategy Guide; if you head to the Articles and Extras section, you’ll find two new pieces – one points out some of the LESS-desirable playstyles out there (try not to fall into one of these…

Another piece of Halowiki news… LegendaryMark has written up a useful article discussing how to make the most of a matchmade team, especially bigger ones. Sometimes the most frustrating thing is getting people to pay attention to you… this might help. Go read it!

Many people wrote in with news of Halo references in the movie 40 Year Old Virgin… I’m not sure that’s a good thing or a bad one. I think Reinhard Mazariegos might have been first.

Wow. PEZ has adapted an existing script for Firefox that, when installed in your browser, will add links to any bungie.org or bungie.net page that contains keywords with corresponding pages on the Halowiki.net website. If this doesn’t make a lot of sense, go read the page he’s put up about it. I just installed the…

There’s a writeup of a custom gametype called ‘Snowball’ over at Geezer Gamers; it’s a little like Zombies, but not really. The thing that makes it… well, odd is the requirement of teabagging your opponent. (You have to.) It’s a funny writeup for a somewhat unique gametype – go check it out! (Thanks again, 3Suns.)

Dyslexia has written up a post-mortem of the MLG Las Vegas event – it’s a fun read. Oh, the mixing of gambling and pro Halo… thanks, 3Suns.