Year: 2005

Poor Master Chief… he NEVER gets no respect. Go check out Halo Babies today.

The Containment video we mentioned earlier is now available, in both high and low resolution, to everyone (not just sponsors) over at Red vs Blue – in WMP9 format. To ease the pain for folks looking for QuickTime, we’re hosting both high res (30.6 mb) and low res (10.8 mb) versions – if you need…

There are two new videos up at Red vs Blue – both are for sponsors right now, but at least SOME of the versions will be available to the general public later this evening. There’s a second new map walkthrough – this one covers Containment. Hi and lo-res WMP9s again (we’ll be posting QT versions…

This week’s Halo Humpday Challenge, against the Red vs Blue boys, is up at Bungie.net – it shows off Bungie’s latest winning technique; invite in a group of people and make them play you on maps they’ve never seen before, but that you’ve been testing for 5 months! The results are pretty predictable. Thanks, Eric.

A couple of tournaments have been brought to our attention in the last few days – sorry for the timelag in posting them. The UGA Halo Club is hosting a Halo 2 tourney Athens, GA on April 24 – admission is free, top prize is $100. More details can be found in this news post…

Overswarm has added an ‘Aiming and Maneuvering’ page to his Not So Common Sense Strategy Guide – go read it for some tips that will make your shots more accurate!

Karri Scott, of Aspyr, wanted to make sure we noticed the interview with Matt Soell over at IGN – it’s a pretty in-depth look at Wideload’s upcoming Stubbs the Zombie game, including a discussion about what was added to the base Halo engine to make it work in this context, where the music is coming…

A couple of interesting entries in Eric Trautmann’s weblog – thanks for notice goes to Rampancy.net. Trautmann’s ‘The Art of Halo’ made the Locus best-selling Gaming-Related Books list this month – it joins all three Halo novels on the top-5 list. (Locus is a big science fiction/fantasy mag.) And Ross Mills asked 5 questions which…

Captain Spark did some character swapping with the original Halo – he wanted to see how well Elites could drive warthogs. The answer seems to be ‘about as well as a 16-year-old American Male’.

Rampancy.net has put up another in its series of Halo 2 Impressions – sistimatic takes a close look at Quarantine Zone. There are some things that bother him – but there are also things that bring him back to the high points of the first Halo. Go see if you agree.

Significant confusion has arisen about the Battle Rifle’s accuracy, following the release of Oranjoose’s video showing its new non-existent bullet spread. According to Achronos, over on the Bungie.net forums, it’s not so much that the Battle Rifle was changed by the Auto-Update – it’s that a bug that affected the accuracy of headshot weapons was…

Red vs Blue’s Burnie Burns has put together walkthroughs for the four new maps coming out on Monday; they’ll be releasing 1 per day for the next four days. Tonight’s release is Warlock; you can find both high-res (19.9 mb) and low-res (5.9 mb) WMP9 versions in their video archive (the hi-res versions are for…

Another dozen (well, almost) vids of the upcoming Halo 2 maps have been posted at Gamespy – these are the complementary files to IGN’s offerings a couple of nights ago. (If you look at filenames, IGN got the evens, Gamespy got the odds.) Go grab ’em in the flavor of your choice – unlike IGN’s,…

Got a movie, want it hosted by us, but can’t get past the MPRRS? Stuntmutt can help with today’s One One Se7en.

Looks like Brian Jarrard was pretty busy this past week – in addition to the interview vid at Gamespot we mentioned a couple of days ago, and the one at IGN that was findable (but not explicitly mentioned in our news), there’s a THIRD interview about the new material, this time over at 1UP.com. (This…

Dyslexia, over at MLGPro.com, has posted an article evaluating the changes to online play due to the Auto-Update – it’s a pretty in-depth read, and while it’s slanted a bit to the viewpoint of the changes and how they affect MLG players, there’s plenty of general info for less competitive folks. A very nice overview.…

Looks like the Spectator Chasecam we mentioned a few days ago has been perfected, and released – if you want to play with it, go grab it off the Gearbox forum! Thanks, MasterGrief.

This raised goosebumps on my arms. Here’s hoping it wasn’t faked.

Bungie has posted very large versions of many of the new screenshots released recently – the smallest is 960×720, the largest 1920×1768. As SketchFactor put it, if you haven’t seen them or you want to see them in a larger format or with a less obtrusive watermark, they’ve got you covered. Go download!

A relatively abrasive summary of the new Auto-Update has been posted at Stage Select. Funny, unless you get annoyed with the unrelenting sarcasm.