Year: 2005

The movies continue today… this one comes from Lt Tuma, who’s shown his ability to put existing clips together in the past. He calls this one ‘Halo 3 Trailer’ – the majority is already-released footage, but it is interspersed with plenty of well-chosen recorded pieces, and the audio is FANTASTIC. To me, this is a…

Rockslider has worked out reproducible ‘Elite Fireworks’ for the original Halo – this has been seen before, but now there’s a recipe. Fun stuff!

Eep – dontcha hate it when you set something up to make things easier and faster, and it works, and you STILL screw up? On April 20, The7ftman submitted “Star Wars Episode VII The Final Battle”, a trailer for an upcoming movie his clan is working on, to the Movie Peer Review Rating System. 9…

As expected, Red vs Blue has released both a high-res and a low-res version of their Sanctuary Walkthrough for the public, in WMP9 format – we’ve also put up a high-res (12.3 mb) and a low-res (3.2 mb) version in QuickTime. Enjoy.

Ender Illes also attended Luke Timmins’ presentation at the University of Utah, and wrote up a bit more detailed synopsis on our forum. Sounds like a great talk from Luke, and thanks to Ender for the detailed info (at least as much as he was comfortable sharing)! 😉

Over at Red vs Blue, you’ll find (if you’re a sponsor) high and low-res WMP9 versions of their Sanctuary walkthrough. I’d guess later tonight, or maybe tomorrow morning, these will be available to the masses. We’ll have QuickTime versions up sometime tomorrow morning, as well. (No time to work on ’em tonight, sorry.)

The Weekly What’s Update is up over at Bungie.net – info about the upcoming maps, info about why you got banned from XBL this week, info about the leaderboards reset. And oh, yeah, a Mister Chief drawing that makes Leonardo cry. (And I don’t mean the ninja turtle.)

Ooh… cool. Promotheus just pointed out that the new maps are visible on Bungie.net’s stats page, in all their multi-view splendor; you just need to find someone who’s been playing them. Like, say… Shishka. Visit his stats page, click on any game tied to a new map, and bring up the Game Viewer… you’ll see…

{SS}Zag1 attended Luke Timmins’ talk at the University of Utah last night – and posted a brief summary on our forum. Sounds like it would have been a nice thing to see!

Last month’s OXM cover disc contained a pretty entertaining Mockumentary about Conker, the squirrel star of Conker’s Bad Fur Day and and the new Conker, Live and Reloaded. There’s a cameo by Marty O’Donnell, and some other Halo-related content. If you don’t get the magazine, though, you can still watch the movie – it’s up…

Shishka has posted yet another 3D screenshot over at Bungie.net – this one is on Turf. Shishka manages to win a Pyrrhic victory by nuking EVERYONE – but oh, it’s so beautiful. (He also made a new forum avatar that would drive me out of my mind, if I read the bungie.net forums for any…

The Stryke Force team has put up Episode 5: “Guerillas in the Midst”. Twists, turns, and an executioner I’d love to hire. They’ve got the original WMP9 up on their Videos page, and it’s been mirrored at HaloMachinima.com (thanks, trigger119). I’ve also converted it to QuickTime, and made both versions available here: WMP9 (25.9 mb,…

Today’s One One Se7en shows why mixing games can be a hassle.

Whee! Once I deleted 19 of the 20 submitted copies of maxx’s Warrior’s Fate chapter, the Fan Fiction queue had just 14 entries in it – which have now been processed. Go read (and be happy you don’t need to read Warrior’s Fate 20 times).

neXtournaments is hosting another Halo 2 online tourney – 2v2, May 7 and 8, $5/person to enter, with cash prizes to the top teams. More details at neXtournaments.

Stubbs the Zombie, Wideload’s Halo-engined brainfest, has a new website – flashy, and full of nice pictures (and downloads). Go look!

Remember that crazy Elite driver yesterday? Captain Spark followed the guy some more – he gets some mad air in this one. 7.6 mb or so (depending on flavor). He makes me laugh.

Halo mentions a Halo-related roller coaster in development for Roller Coaster Tycoon 3. Details (and a link) are in the forum post. Halo – it’s everywhere!

There’ve been a couple of small updates to the Halo Story page in the last day or two – and Jilly suggests that there’s more to come. Should we trust her, or is she just stalling?

Dennis Powers writes to point out that Halomaps.org has moved, and split, and grown, and all sorts of things. The old address works – but it now brings you to the Halo CE website, haloce.gearboxgamezone.com. All movies have been split off (except for map demo movies) and are hosted at movies.gearboxgamezone.com. This covers not only…